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...South Africa" until well into next year. Last week, citing difficulties in repatriating 20,000 exiled members and setting up local branches, the African National Congress postponed its planned Dec. 16 national conference six months. The gathering will elect a new executive body and is expected to elevate Nelson Mandela to the A.N.C. presidency to replace the ailing Oliver Tambo. But government officials complained that the A.N.C.'s organizational problems could make it difficult for President F.W. de Klerk to convene full-scale discussions on a post-apartheid constitution by March, as planned...
...course, the whole idea of a sit-in took BSA by surprise. According to Nelson, the Afro-Am concentrators didn't officially tell BSA about the the sit-in until the meeting had begun...
...meeting had been going well," says Nelson. "The sit-in was a decision that the concentrators felt that they had to make and we admire them for that. But we are not sure what action is best. We agree with the chairman of the department [Barbara Johnson] that it was a good thing to do, but there may be better means available...
More importantly, Nelson says, BSA is better suited to acting as a mediator in this dispute...
...administration and the concentrators both look to the BSA for leadership," Nelson says. "Both groups look at us for guidance, and we'd like to keep both doors open...