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Since his release from prison, Nelson Mandela has traveled 63,350 miles in 84 days to 23 countries, urging the retention of sanctions against South Africa and raising hackles by his refusal to denounce Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who have supported his cause. The strain is showing: last week Mandela came down with mild pneumonia in Ethiopia. Mandela, who turns 72 this week, is considering a vacation that could raise some eyebrows: a three-week Caribbean sojourn as Castro's guest in Cuba...
Mention farm aid, and most Americans think of the benefit concerts Willie Nelson throws for debt-plagued family farmers. In reality, the average full- time farmer boasts a net worth of $1,016,000 and annual income of $168,000 -- thanks in large part to federal handouts...
...Nelson Mandela's historic address to a joint meeting of Congress, George Bush's retraction of his no-new-taxes pledge, the savings and loan crisis -- none of these issues could hold Washington's attention for long last week. The topic dominating front pages and TV news broadcasts, gossip on the Metro and at the State Department was a fuzzy 83-minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend...
...Nelson Mandela's grand and glorious reception in New York City came about only after some backstage scrambling. The problem? To avert major protests by Jewish organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent...
George Bush's main reason for inviting Nelson Mandela to the White House this week is to dramatize Washington's opposition to apartheid and its support for oppressed blacks in South Africa. But the President may have seen another benefit in being hospitable: he wants to demonstrate his longtime regard for issues of concern to American blacks, many of whom know him, like him and may even be willing to vote Republican in this year's congressional elections, to say nothing...