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When negotiations between De Klerk's government and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress collapsed last week, it was attributable as much to a collision between these diverging worlds as it was to the failure of the negotiators or the latest massacre of blacks. That is one reason why the breakdown has caused so much anguish among people of all races. After more than two years of progress, they were suddenly asking themselves whether their remarkable attempt at reconciliation might actually fail, and with disastrous consequences. "I can only say," wrote Allister Sparks, the South African journalist and author, "that...
Another type of immune cell that swings into action at the first hint of pollen produces a substance that is toxic to parasitic worms. "Probably the IgE response is there primarily to protect people against parasites," says Dr. Harold Nelson of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver. Its response to pollen, he says, is simply a mistake...
...months after her husband Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, announced their separation, Winnie Mandela has had more bad news. The a.n.c. Women's League ousted the executive committee of the Johannesburg branch she headed, effectively dismissing her. South African newspapers also report the a.n.c. is looking into the loss of $130,000 from a department she directed until her resignation in April. The a.n.c. denied the story -- just as it had denied that the Mandelas were separating...
Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial AidRichard I. Melvoin '73 travelled with Nelson inMichigan on her three recruiting trips: "I thinkwhat students and parents most appreciated aboutMecca was that instead of some some agingadmissions officer trying to tell them whatHarvard was like, she was not only a reallivestudent, but one who was remarkably active, onewho does not see Harvard with rose-coloredglasses, yet one who represents the place well inall its complexity...
...organization' moral trump card--divestment from South Africa--has been weakened by a series of South African political moves, including the release of Nelson Manuela and the passage of the De Klerk referendum...