Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk first announced that Mandela would be released "without delay" on Feb. 2. Then came a nerve-racking interval, recalling the years of slice-at-a- time tactics the government has used to neutralize black reaction. Mandela was kept waiting while the government whittled away at its proviso that he must renounce violence. Last Saturday De Klerk simply declared, "I came to the conclusion that he is committed to a peaceful solution and a peaceful process." Pretoria had long worried that when Mandela appeared on the streets of Soweto once again, black townships all over the country would explode into...