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...blaze of trumpets heralding the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town had barely died down when State President P.W. Botha unveiled an improbable proposal. Said he: "If I were to release Mr. Nelson Mandela on humanitarian grounds, could Captain Wynand du Toit, Andrei Sakharov and Anatoli Shcharansky not also be released on humanitarian grounds...
With that highly rhetorical offer, Botha announced that his government might be prepared to end the 23-year imprisonment of Mandela, the leading figure in the outlawed African National Congress, the country's most popular black political organization. Botha's price: the release by Angola of a South African officer captured during a commando raid in that country last year, as well as the freeing of the two prominent Soviet dissidents. Botha then reminded his listeners that he had offered to free Mandela last year if the black leader agreed to renounce the use of violence and that Mandela...
...Thursday--Commencement speaker Winnie Mandela tells an audience of 30,000 that the United States must wake up to reality and stop coddling corporate pseudo-moralists. "You mean there are actually Black South Africans who want divestment?" one Harvard Corporation member is heard to murmur in astonishment. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 says, "I think the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will be reconsidering its position shortly...
...Friday--The new Black majority-ruled South African government (renamed "Azania") appoints its first Prime Minister, Nelson Mandela...
...federation's ambitious agenda includes the call for foreign divestment and nationalization of major industries, the release of Nelson Mandela, the withdrawal of government troops from the black townships and the abolition of the pass laws. Barayi said the federation would lead a campaign for blacks to burn their passbooks publicly if the law is not revoked within six months. That threat prompted grim reminders of the last widespread protest against the & pass laws, which ended with the deaths of 67 people after police opened fire on a demonstration in the black township of Sharpeville in 1960. The A.N.C., which...