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Because De Klerk's steps have been as substantive as they have been swift, he deserves respect when he pledges a new deal for the country's 28 million blacks. Having freed Nelson Mandela, De Klerk has agreed to release hundreds of other political prisoners and has ended the state of emergency in much of the country. Most important, he and his National Party have started down a road that made De Klerk's predecessors tremble: toward negotiations on a new constitution that will finally enfranchise blacks. If everybody votes in the next election, this son of Afrikanerdom could...
Confronted by growing violence among blacks and stalled political talks with the government, Nelson Mandela received another dispiriting blow last week. His wife Winnie is to be tried with seven other people for kidnapping and assaulting four young militants on Dec. 29, 1988. One of the victims, a 14- year-old antigovernment activist named James Seipei, who used the nom de guerre "Stompie Moeketsi," was found stabbed to death eight days later. The four had fled the Mandela home after a dispute with members of the so-called Mandela United Football Club, who lived there...
...Since Nelson's release from prison last February, his wife has been effectively rehabilitated by his prestige. In August she was appointed head of the A.N.C.'s social-welfare department, a move that produced protests inside the organization. That same month Jerry Richardson, "coach" of the Mandela football club, was sentenced to death for Seipei's murder. During his trial, the three surviving youths testified that Winnie beat them with her fists and a whip. She was trying to force them to claim that the white Methodist minister with whom they had taken refuge had sexually abused them, they said...
...foresee an aggressive SWAT teamenforcement approach," Nelson said. "We're doingeverything the feds are asking...
...While Nelson said that drinking regulations forsororities and fraternities have yet to bedecided, Cornell University plans restrictions onthe use of Greek funds for alcohol...