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...days of apartheid when I was with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. If Nelson Mandela can steer his nation safely past the tribal bloodbaths that drench the African continent, he will have fathered the eighth wonder of the world...
...local armory Wednesday, then rampaged through several neighborhoods, flattening fire hydrants and crushing dozens of cars before he was shot to death by police. No one else was injured. "The guy was just going crazy," said one witness . "He was mowing cars over." Police said the driver, Shawn Nelson, had served in the military and apparently knew how to maneuver the vehicle. They said they shot him as he was trying to spin it round and head into traffic. Fortunately, the tank's weapons -- a 105 mm cannon, 12.7 mm anti-aircraft gun and 7.62 mm machine gun -- were...
...week before the April 1994 elections that plucked South Africa from the brink of civil war and invested Nelson Mandela as its first democratic leader, government troops opened fire on a group of journalists near Johannesburg. As South African photographer Greg Marinovich fell to the ground, wounded, American photographer James Nachtwey began pulling him to safety. Then Nachtwey noticed that another colleague, Ken Oosterbroek, had also been hit. "I laid Greg down, told him I'd be back, and as I was crawling to Ken, one of the soldiers fired," recalls Nachtwey. cnn caught what came next. As he scrambled...
...Nelson Mandela has arrived at an estate in the wine country outside Cape Town where he will dine and speak on economic reconstruction to 75 mostly white businessmen and bankers. He receives a standing ovation. Politely acknowledging the applause, he samples a glass of sweet Weisser Riesling 1993 and jokes about his lack of vinous sophistication. During his last days in prison, he says, he was permitted to have visitors for relatively luxurious meals, and his warder once told him the best wines were dry. "I thought every wine was wet," Mandela says now with a laugh. Not long...
Graceful, charming, deliberate, Nelson Mandela is the sun whose gravity holds the disparate elements of South African society in peaceful orbit. As his country prepares to celebrate the anniversary of its first democratic elections, he permits Time the exclusive opportunity to spend a day with...