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...despite his avowed eagerness to engage in talks, the going has proved bumpy. After Winnie Mandela visited her husband last Saturday, she emerged despondent. Complications had arisen, she said, that might delay her husband's freedom. "It is quite clear," said Mrs. Mandela, "that problems have cropped up about his immediate release...
Whatever the government's cause for hesitation, Mandela has none. Newspapers last week published the text of a document he had delivered to the government prior to his tea with Botha last July. In it he urged both the A.N.C. and the government to "meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement." But he also made it clear exactly where he stood. "White South Africa," he wrote, "must accept the plain fact that the A.N.C. will not suspend, to say nothing of abandoning, the armed struggle until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela...
...capture the face of a man who has not been seen in public for the past 27 years? Ask artist Paul Davis, who painted this week's cover of Nelson Mandela. No new pictures of the African National Congress leader have been available since the early 1960s. Relatively few people know what he looks like today...
Davis began with an old Mandela picture, imagining how decades of hard time would change him. Four years ago, TIME commissioned Davis to paint Mandela as a young man. We sent a copy to South Africa for suggestions on how he had changed. Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod, who wrote this week's cover, showed it to Mandela associates. Using their comments as a guide, Davis painted a portrait of an older Mandela, his hair flecked with gray. Then we faxed a copy of this version to MacLeod, who showed it to Winnie Mandela. "It was like the way police...
...various renditions, Mrs. Mandela said the unfinished portrait was "the nearest likeness to today's Mandela." But she thought his face was too round, although Davis had caught the hardness in his eyes. Said she: "Years of suffering you can't take away. That expression he did not have before prison...