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...Crowd of nearly 200 listened to Jeff Radebe, deputy chair of the ANC in Southern Natal, express his faith that the democratic vote will ultimately result in the election of Nelson Mandela as President...
...Nelson Wivel, who is the head of the NIH's Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, defends the experiment. Anderson's detractors, he notes, "call him a zealot. But if it weren't for his zealotry, we probably wouldn't be doing gene therapy." Indeed, it was the ADA trial by Anderson, Blaese and Dr. Kenneth Culver that opened the floodgates for dozens of gene-therapy efforts...
...When Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in South African prisons, the entire world celebrated. We paid tribute to a man who had refused to compromise his principles despite torture and deprivation. We marveled that at 71 he still had the energy, the spirit and the will to lead his organization, the African National Congress (ANC), in the struggle to restructure his country...
...against anti-apartheid political parties are emerging as serious threats to a peaceful transfer of power. At this important moment, editor Steve Clark and Pathfinder Press have done us a great service, collecting public addresses made over the past four years by South Africa's most prominent statesman in Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Democratic, Nonracial South Africa. In the 31 separate appearances before student groups, trade unions, community organizations, branches of the ANC and audiences in the United States and Cuba, Mandela develops his vision for a geographically united, politically stable and economically viable democracy...
...Nelson Mandela's legacy to the South African nation is secure. He will forever be remembered as a patriot, as a stalwart veteran of the liberation struggle, and as a remarkable visionary in the fight against racism. These speeches are essential reading for historians, activists and followers of the anti-apartheid movement. They chart four years in the life of a man capable of immense self-sacrifice in service of his principles, whose power and importance will be felt long after he is gone. At the April 1993 funeral of slain ANC veteran Chris Hani, Mandela delivered what surely...