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Nearly 50 students gathered yesterday outside Widener Library in a rally to celebrate the release of South African dissident Nelson Mandela and urge continued economic sanctions against the white-governed country...
Although the government had made a "firm decision" to release Mandela unconditionally and wanted to do so "without delay," De Klerk said, there were "factors in the way," including considerations of his "personal circumstances and safety." This sounds as if the government is still haunted by its old fears of upheavals in the townships and possible attempts on Mandela's life by extremists from left or right, for which the government would inevitably be blamed. It is also possible that De Klerk is still hoping for a formal renunciation of violence from the A.N.C. In any case, black leaders seemed...
Jubilant crowds marched with A.N.C. banners in several cities, but celebrations were short lived, giving way to second thoughts about what remains to be done. U.D.F. spokesmen pointed out that Mandela and other A.N.C. guerrillas remain in prison and that if Oliver Tambo, the Congress's President, were to return to South Africa, he could be arrested under nonemergency laws such as the Internal Security Act. Patrick Lekota, a U.D.F. leader, said the domestic opposition would step up its defiance campaign and call for intensified international pressure on Pretoria...
Behind the stern talk, antiapartheid leaders conceded they were searching for compromises that could get them to the conference table. De Klerk has kept the final ace, the release of Mandela, in his hand, and when he plays it, the antiapartheid movement will feel heavy pressure to sit down and talk. The question then will be whether any solution acceptable to both the black majority and the white minority is negotiable...
Citizens in a cluster of border towns are already uniting the two Germanys through efforts both large and small. -- Though Gorbachev wants to keep his title as party chief, he aims to strengthen the presidency. -- South African President de Klerk announces that Mandela can go free. But when? -- Traffic jams and pilfered caviar in Bucharest...