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...meeting was the first ever between a high-level U.S. official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela -- and it was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there...
...commitment to divestment, said Francis, is"more urgent now that Mandela has been released,"referring to last month's freeing ofanti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela...
...Soviet Union was in the midst of disempowering the Communist Party. Germany was hurtling toward unification. Nelson Mandela was transforming the future of South Africa, and Drexel Burnham Lambert was pronouncing obsequies over the go-go greed of the '80s. But the connubial bust-up of the billionaire New Yorkers was the talk of the town. For that matter, of practically every town. Their story made the network newscasts and countless columns across the U.S., and once the split became a fait accompli, gossipists gleefully predicted that ramifications -- from a rowdy settlement battle to the wooing of new partners -- might...
When the Miss USA pageant takes place in Wichita this week, the smart money will be on the contestants from Texas and California. These young women, Stephanie Kuehne and Cynthia Nelson, both 22, may have a distinct advantage over the rest of the field. They have been groomed, draped and polished by two Texans, Richard Guy and Rex Holt, whose Lone Star protegees have walked away with the Miss USA crown five years...
...century-old El Paso house that serves as their office, Guy and Holt have been busy striving to capture their sixth Miss USA crown. As the partners supervised fittings of Kuehne and Nelson in Guyrex-designed evening gowns, the two consultants delivered pointers and pep talks. For Kuehne, they had prescribed voice exercises to correct her high pitch and slight slur. To Nelson, who at 5 ft. 6 in. and 105 lbs. is too slim, they gave a gentle admonition to keep to daily milk shakes and peanut butter...