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...Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in 1964 for plotting violent resistance to the South African government. Last year, responding to mounting domestic and international pressures, the government offered him his freedom on the condition that he renounce political violence. Mandela held a one sentence press conference and returned to captivity. His message: "Let them first renounce violence...
...doomed." In an interview with the New York Times, he argued that apartheid "is not only wrong in our view, but, at least in my judgment, it is over." Shultz encouraged the South African government to "signal" its willingness to negotiate with blacks by releasing imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela...
...movement urging the disinvestment of American capital from South Africa, and divestment from corporations that continue to participate in the apartheid economy, was not initiated in the Adams pool, or after a Quincy bong-a-thon. All the legitimate voices of the South African liberation struggle: Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Archbishop Huddlestone and Rev. Carstons of the International Defense and Aid Fund, Desmond Tutu, Allen Boesak of the United Democratic Front, and the brutally murdered Steve Biko, have repeatedly called for the total isolation and ostracism of South Africa...
...domestic front, violence still surged in and around major South African cities. In Johannesburg, blacks rioted in response to a false rumor that ailing Black Leader Nelson Mandela, 67, had died in Pollsmoor prison. In Cape Town, 150 students, parents and teachers were arrested for trying to open schools shut down by the government since Sept. 6. Near Pretoria, black demonstrators clashed with police, following the funeral of a four-year-old girl killed by security forces...
...thin thread by which all this hangs is the immediate and unconditional release of (imprisoned African National Congress Leader) Nelson Mandela. State President P.W. Botha has got to release Mandela unconditionally if he wants to save the situation. I believe President Botha is a sincere man, despite what has happened. It is a good quality, but in this situation it is not enough. I don't think he has the courage to see his sincerity through...