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Suhs and Quinn also combined with sophomores Lani Nelson and Karen Schneider to earn the 200 medley relay victory...
...clique known as the Room used the cover of international travel and scientific expeditions to gather information that it passed on to Washington and London. The Room's membership list read like the Social Register: Vincent Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, David Bruce (Andrew Mellon's son-in-law), Nelson Doubleday and a gilt edging of Wall Streeters and lawyers...
Until last year no one, not even Nelson Mandela's family knew in detail his current stands on political issues, because he was forbidden to discuss them with his rare visitors. Then the South African government began seriously to consider releasing him as a "humanitarian" gesture, fearing he might die in prison and thereby touch off an uprising in the black townships. Some official might have remembered the warning of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins...
White House Adviser Oliver North, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and South Africa's Nelson and Winnie Mandela left their stamp on the year just past...
...Moderate South Africans, for example, could take some heart from the success of civil disobedience; nor could they fail to note the victory of a woman who was once her jailed husband's ambassador to the world, much as Winnie Mandela works in the name of her imprisoned husband Nelson. In overthrowing Marcos, moreover, Aquino helped erase a whole volume of shibboleths. She showed that politics could be the art of the impossible; that force could speak softly and carry a small stick; that religion could be not % the opium but the stimulant of the masses; that nice guys, whatever...