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...some Zulus for a sovereign state in South Africa's Natal province continued to mount, with the death toll reaching . 125 for the past week. Two weeks remain before the country's all-race election, but in a Friday summit, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela failed to persuade Zulu leaders to drop their election boycott...
...state of emergency in Natal province as his government headed for what may be a violent showdown with Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who continues to threaten a boycott of the April 26-28 elections and to hold out for autonomy from the national government. Rival African National Congress head Nelson Mandela endorsed De Klerk's move. Earlier in the week, a march past A.N.C. headquarters in downtown Johannesburg by members of Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party turned into one of the bloodiest battles in the city's history; on Saturday suspected Zulu nationalists attacked a church in a Natal A.N.C...
...elections. On Thursday and Friday protesters swelled the streets, and looters exploded through shopping centers. "This is part of my pension fund," said a smiling young man who called himself Michael as he walked away from a store with a stolen jug of wine. After consultations with A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela, order was restored when President F.W. de Klerk sent in 2,000 troops of the South African Defense Force, plus additional police units to help negotiate the retreat of the right-wing bands. Estimates of the casualties ranged to as many as 24 dead and 300 wounded...
Columbia University has been without a ROTC program since 1969, according to Robert J. Nelson, a spokesperson for the Office of Public Information...
After months of political wrangling and escalating violence, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said his party has provisionally registered for South Africa's April 26-28 elections. In return, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela agreed to submit to international arbitration the two parties' deep differences over the country's constitution...