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...meeting was the first ever between a high-level U.S. official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela -- and it was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there...
...commitment to divestment, said Francis, is"more urgent now that Mandela has been released,"referring to last month's freeing ofanti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela...
...known for years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...
...cloud of the new celebrity journalism hangs now over even the most rarefied atmosphere in our profession, the New York Times. Forget how confused the Times was about what to do with the Trump story. In that same week the Times also found the need to review Nelson Mandela's performance. SOME FIND MANDELA'S VISION LIMITED, said the headline, four days after the man had emerged from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone, the obsession...
...Soviet Union was in the midst of disempowering the Communist Party. Germany was hurtling toward unification. Nelson Mandela was transforming the future of South Africa, and Drexel Burnham Lambert was pronouncing obsequies over the go-go greed of the '80s. But the connubial bust-up of the billionaire New Yorkers was the talk of the town. For that matter, of practically every town. Their story made the network newscasts and countless columns across the U.S., and once the split became a fait accompli, gossipists gleefully predicted that ramifications -- from a rowdy settlement battle to the wooing of new partners -- might...