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...defense forces. Thus his crackdown on these mavericks has almost certainly scored him some valuable points -- enough, perhaps, that in spite of enduring a year of violence, crime and political stalemate, South Africans are beginning to see hope for l993. "We are closing the year on a high note," Nelson Mandela told the Sowetan, Johannesburg's black newspaper...
...While 45 journalists died covering Vietnam over 15 years, for example, at least 27 have been killed in Yugoslavia in just 18 months. To help reduce the casualties, the COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS is distributing an unusual handbook called How to Survive and Still Get the Story. Says Anne Nelson, executive director of the committee: "This conflict is different. Instead of two sides, there are many sides, and often the troops are drunken paramilitaries. They shoot on sight, and they carry grudges against reporters." Among the tips in the handbook: Wear body armor. Never wear anything that looks military-issue...
...GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, BY NELSON DeMille (Warner Books; $21.95), a gaudy, cinematic thriller, is two or three levels better than routine, partly because the author's sentences march well. That never hurts. The setting is a dormant military base in Georgia just after the Gulf War. Officers worried about their careers are trying to look busy. Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator for the Army, is there to sort out the bizarre sex murder of Captain Ann Campbell, daughter of the base's commanding general and, not coincidentally, lover of virtually every man on the general's staff. Brenner, digging...
Barnard junior Jennifer Nelson, an active participant in the coalition, said her group rejects the plan as "tokenism" and calls the compromise "fake...
...With Nelson Mandela's release in February 1990 and the declared dismantling of apartheid, the United States appears to be operating under the assumption that South Africa is well on its way to becoming a multiracial democracy...