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...leader. More than half called him a good role model for black youth. Only a fifth thought him anti-Semitic. When asked to name "the most important black leader today," 9% of those polled volunteered his name -- more than for anyone except Jackson and three times as many as Nelson Mandela. To some extent, admittedly, these results reflect a lack of broad-based, high-profile black leaders. But that vacuum only makes Farrakhan more important, and his hateful words more potent...
...leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party turned down a last-minute package of concessions from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela intended to avert a threatened boycott of the historic election set for April 26-28. Mandela eased up on A.N.C. demands for strong central authority by offering provincial governments more autonomy. In Natal province, gunmen attacked A.N.C. supporters, killing...
Happiness and hatred walk side by side on South Africa's road to democracy. Nelson Mandela wants to focus attention on the better life to come, "the historic moment when all South Africans, blacks and whites, will work together to build a new country." But while joyous crowds of African National Congress supporters chant and cheer at his every appearance, Afrikaner Resistance Movement leader Eugene Terreblanche warns of trouble to come if whites are not given their own state. Last week a visibly angry Mandela repeatedly interrupted his upbeat campaign speeches to warn that he would match violence with violence...
...that current Secretary Warren Christopher's position is shaky, Brown seems to be building his resume. Instead of seeing simply trade ministers on his trips abroad, Brown has in the past few months met with a series of dignitaries and heads of state, such as Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk...
...world anti-apartheid movement must notabandon the ANC in the final step of thestruggle," he said. "If and when Nelson Mandela iselected president, the struggle is not over...