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...only last week staged a raid against alleged African terrorists in the Transkei that killed five youths. Mandela has frequently derided De Klerk as a man who ''talks peace while making war,'' accusing him of being responsible -- directly or indirectly -- for the political violence in South Africa. At his press conference in Johannesburg to acknowledge the award, Mandela was asked what De Klerk had done to deserve it. ''Just ask the Nobel Peace Prize committee,'' Mandela replied. The freedom fighter at 75 has retreated a great distance from his initial description of De Klerk as ''a man of integrity...
...idea, as was keeping his full name to himself. The POW-MIA question is emotional, and people have come after him before for dealing with Vietnam, so Dave aims for a low presence. Nevertheless, because he was the genuine article, a war hero, the only one here, the press glommed on to Dave like beggar lice. ''They keep coming after me,'' he said, ''trying to corner me. They don't want to talk about surfing, but I do. I know what they want, but I haven't allowed myself to be cornered in a long time.'' In 1968 Dave...
...week in China, Rabin tried to downplay Eisenberg's sales efforts. By coincidence,CIA Director R. James Woolsey had just reported to a congressional committee in Washington that the value of Israel's military sales to China over the past 10 years ''may be several billion dollars.'' At a press conference in Beijing, Rabin confirmed that sales had taken place but quibbled about the total: ''All these stories of billions of dollars of arms business in the past 12 years are total nonsense.'' Actually they are not nonsense. As early as December 1978, Eisenberg was in China sizing up business...
...This is the State Department Operations Center Office of Crisis Management. To continue, press 1 now.'' -- OUTGOING MESSAGE ON A STATE DEPARTMENT PHONE LINE
...seemed directed more at smearing the U.S. and Israel than at lending support to Waldheim. The dispatch was not picked up by Moscow newspapers. Meanwhile, the President-elect set about the difficult task of trying to heal campaign wounds before his inauguration on July 8. In his first postelection press conference, Waldheim, 67, declared, ''The horror of the Holocaust must not be forgotten,'' and pledged to fight anti-Semitism. That same day, his wife Elisabeth confirmed that she had once been a Nazi. The defeated Socialist Party had its own set of problems. Although the Austrian presidency is a largely...