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...retributions were equally predictable. The A.N.C. blamed the government of President F.W. de Klerk, which props up the puppet Ciskei regime and trains its army. The incident, said A.N.C. President Nelson Mandela, will add to De Klerk's "roll call of infamy." The South African President said he had warned Mandela of the possibility of violence in the A.N.C.'s mass-action campaign against Ciskei and announced that there could no longer be any political negotiations with the A.N.C. until the question of the "vortex of violence" had been dealt with...
...subject is the scandalous romance of the late 18th century's hottest couple: Lord Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, and Lady Emma Hamilton, the empire's most luscious pinup -- and wife of diplomat Sir William Hamilton. The story has usually been told from the straightforward missionary -- not to say colonial -- position. The Alexander Korda version, That Hamilton Woman, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, was Winston Churchill's favorite movie...
Sontag creamily shifts perspective. The hero and his mistress are egoists gone on fame and oblivious to the welfare of the masses. Off the poop deck, Nelson is an unimposing shrimp. Without her billowing satins, Emma the society swan is grossly overstuffed. Most of the action takes place in Naples, where nearby Mount Vesuvius huffs and puffs. It is a natural wonder, but also an unavoidable symbol of molten passion and the republican revolution that erupts in France and spreads south...
...campaign to take power from the white government, South Africa's black majority has two main weapons: mass protest and international pressure. Most economic and sports sanctions imposed from abroad have now been lifted -- as South Africa's participation in the Barcelona Olympics attests -- so Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress have increased their efforts at home...
Leading the Ivy League this year, PrincetonUniversity seized four Olympic medals--two gold,one silver and one bronze. The gold medals went tojunior swimmer Nelson Diebel, a Princeton juniorwho won the men's 100-meter breaststroke and themen's medley relay