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...nonbinding resolution is the handiwork of GRIP (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project), a group of black activists who felt that they were losing their neighborhoods to gentrification. Polls indicate that the referendum is headed for defeat, however, partly because several Boston officials have claimed that an independent Mandela would face a first-year tax deficit of $135 million...
...outlawed since 1960, the A.N.C. has emerged during the unrest of the past two years as the focal point of political allegiance in the seething black townships, the source of growing guerrilla ferment and, paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face of severe criticism...
...A.N.C.'s policy of nonviolence received a sudden and brutal setback in 1960 when police killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open...
...military equipment and scholarships for young members. Precisely how much influence Moscow has over A.N.C. policies and personnel is a matter of deep controversy. The organization has had close and unhidden ties for more than 60 years to the South African Communist Party, including pro-S.A.C.P. endorsements from Mandela before his jailing. Observers of the A.N.C. in Lusaka suspect that as many as half the 30 members of its national executive committee may belong to the S.A.C.P...
...negotiations with the South African government. What the A.N.C. is looking for is a clear indication that the other side is serious. If the South African government is serious, then our leaders, who, like Nelson Mandela, have been in jail for over 20 years, must participate in any negotiations. The mere fact of their release would create a new climate. We do not want to substitute negotiations for the struggle. The Portuguese negotiated with the liberation fronts in Mozambique and Angola while hostilities were still going on. The liberation struggle for Zimbabwe continued while talks went on at Lancaster House...