Word: nelsons
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...TIME has selected the person, people or thing that, for better or worse, has most significantly influenced the course of world events in the preceding twelve months. In choosing the 59th Man of the Year, the editors considered such headline makers as Mikhail Gorbachev, the vigorous new Soviet leader; Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African who symbolizes the struggle against apartheid; Bob Geldof, musical fund raiser for African famine relief; and once again, the terrorist. The editors eventually decided to look beyond the day-to-day news and examine a phenomenon with an enormous potential impact on history: China...
...more than 850 South Africans, almost all of them nonwhite. His words cannot be legally published in the South African press. Only a few intimates even know what he looks like now; he has not been photographed since 1965. Yet from his cell in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, Nelson Mandela, 67, head of the outlawed African National Congress, has become an almost messianic figure, incarnating the aspirations of South Africa's 23.9 million blacks...
...Christmas Day she visited Nelson Mandela for 40 minutes at Pollsmoor Prison, eight miles outside of Cape Town. Afterward she told reporters that the holiday visit had been the saddest in the 23 years her husband has been in jail. Reason: the 67-year-old black nationalist leader has been kept in solitary confinement in the prison hospital while recovering from a prostate-gland operation he underwent last month. "Christmas has ceased to be of any specific meaning to the oppressed people of this country," she declared. "Christmas has become a day of mourning...
...declared Helen Suzman, an opposition member of Parliament and a long-standing antiapartheid activist. The financial daily Business Day predicted that the blast had destroyed chances for peaceful negotiations between the A.N.C. and the government. More-over, the paper said, the prospects for the release of imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela "have faded...
...their lives in the midair breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer Rick Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame died with his fiancé and five band members in the crash of a chartered DC-3 in Texas...