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...quip by New York's then Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, to the effect that the Democratic presidential slate ought to pair Ted Kennedy with Thomas Eagleton, one implicated in the Chappaquiddick drowning and the other known to have undergone electroshock therapy. Rockefeller dubbed the duo "waterproof and shockproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archives: A Blast from Probes Past | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...terrorism and Communism and ready to sell out white South Africa to the country's blacks. The Afrikaans-language press harped on the same theme, making much of a photograph of P.F.P. Stalwart Helen Suzman being embraced by Winnie Mandela, wife of the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa A Lurch to the Right | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...majority were allowed to vote, according to a poll by Johannesburg's largest black newspaper, the Sowetan, the winner by a substantial margin would be Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) whose wife Winnie has become an international symbol of protest. Barred from the ballot, the blacks turned to another kind of action last week in one of the worst outbursts of violence since a state of emergency was declared last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: United No More | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...creatures with manufactured goods. Others were afraid that the patenting of genetically altered human beings might be next, despite the fact that the Patent Office statement clearly specified "nonhuman" life. "My fear is that we will begin valuing human beings as no different from animals," said J. Robert Nelson, director of the Institute of Religion at Texas Medical Center in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Should Animals Be Patented? | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Majority Finds a Way | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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