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Tutu plays a complex role in the South African freedom struggle. He does not have a huge political following, nothing comparable to that of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader, or Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the 6 million-member Zulu tribe. Tutu calls himself an "interim leader," saying that he would be less important if Mandela and others were released from prison. The archbishop is most popular among the small group of educated, middle-class blacks, but he has proved to be effective in calming angry crowds in the black townships...
...reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro imagines the principal characters of Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid wife Susanna a loyalist clinging to the old social order...
...less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
...state-controlled economy, he welcomes private foreign investment. At present, most of the country's crops are privately grown and some industry is in private hands. Associates say that from the moment Mengistu became chief of state nine years ago, the Chairman, as he is known, has been a nationalist first and a Marxist second. Now Mengistu is reaching the zenith of his influence at home and abroad. "Ethiopia is the key to the Horn of Africa," says a Western expert, "and Mengistu is the keeper...
...camp, he cannot economically afford to break with the U.S. and the West. While Moscow supplies the weapons to combat Ethiopia's rebels, only the advanced industrial nations can provide the financial and technological assistance that the country needs to develop its supine economy. Given his Marxist philosophy and nationalist instincts, Mengistu seems determined to walk the fine line between East and West...