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...Many venerated him as a mahatma (great soul). His protests in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant India independence and Gandhi would achieve worldwide status as a moral icon. His example lives on in nonviolent activists of our day such as Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela...
DIED. DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
DIED. MARIKE DE KLERK, 64, ex-wife of F.W. de Klerk, the last President of South Africa before apartheid was abolished, who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela; when a security guard at her apartment complex strangled and stabbed her; in Blaauwberg, South Africa. At the time of her murder, her former husband was in Stockholm celebrating the centennial of the Nobel Prizes...
...life. His picture hangs in shop windows across the northern Afghan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif and is pasted in the windshields of Alliance pickups and jeeps. Along every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze out from their baggy sockets. He's the Che Guevara of northern Afghanistan, its Mandela, Marley, JFK. (Nearly anyone you ask can recall where he or she was when the news of his assassination broke.) Not merely because Massoud was a famed fighter or a charismatic leader?but because he had a vision of a unified, representative government for Afghanistan, which remains the country...
After the 1994 election that resulted in majority rule by Nelson Mandela's A.N.C., the National Party under former president F.W. de Klerk was part of a government of national unity. It was an uneasy alliance that lasted only two years. Now, calling themselves the New National Party and under new leadership, the Afrikaans-speaking nationalists - mostly descended from white Dutch and other European settlers - are openly talking of joining with the A.N.C...