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...what really galled Botha was Jackson's apparent desire to share in the glow of Mandela's release. "The government's decisions ((on Mandela)) were taken before the arrival of Mr. Jackson," Botha said. "He can come and enjoy the aftermath, but he can certainly not claim any credit for having been a player on the field...
...request to lead a protest against a visiting English cricket team. Still, black South Africans were unrestrained in their welcome for the American cleric. In Soweto, where he visited Sisulu, Jackson was followed by scores of singing and dancing people who, in addition to their traditional paeans to Mandela and the A.N.C., chanted "Long live Jesse Jackson...
...sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
...local time on Sunday, Feb. 11, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison Farm near Cape Town -- free at last. It was, said an announcer for the official South African Broadcasting Corp., "the moment that a majority of South Africans, and the world, have been waiting...
...bulky 200-pounder when the prison doors closed behind him, Mandela is now a slim, white-haired statesman of 71. He has referred to his quarter-century behind bars as "long, lonely, wasted years." The tinge of bitterness is understandable, but the years were not entirely wasted. He has been planning a long time for this day, and blacks -- and many whites -- eagerly await his guiding hand to lead the nation toward a resolution of their racial antagonism...