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...plotted the future as a cluster of indentured black homelands surrounding a wealthy white state. But those certainties are beginning to feel like relics of an embarrassing past. The future is now clouded, and Afrikaners are uneasy. For them, the architect of what lies ahead is not the revolutionary Nelson Mandela but a quiet, cautious lawyer who seems to demonstrate more loyalty to the past than to a vision of the future...
...those astonishing ironies of history, many have invested their hopes in Nelson Mandela, the aged black revolutionary now endowed with almost mythic stature. Imprisoned for life for sedition, unseen and largely unheard from for more than 27 years, he is somehow expected to lead South Africa to salvation. But can any man perform that miracle? Is South Africa really ready to be led out of the wilderness of apartheid into the promised land of . . . of what? The black dream of a nonracial democratic society -- in short, black rule? Or something less, a revision of the old system in which white...
...white South Africans will have to "accept that there will never be peace and stability in this country" until the principle of majority rule is accepted. The distance between these demands and De Klerk's offer to negotiate a division of political power could be too great for even Nelson Mandela to bridge...
...capture the face of a man who has not been seen in public for the past 27 years? Ask artist Paul Davis, who painted this week's cover of Nelson Mandela. No new pictures of the African National Congress leader have been available since the early 1960s. Relatively few people know what he looks like today...
...Cristiani has been one of the most evil people in the world," said Sam K. Nelson '92. "The fact that the he should have the nerve to come here on a public relations trip seemed hypocritical...