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...these factors swirling around in a kind of Brownian motion. Certainly one of the forces behind peace in both the Middle East and South Africa was what one observer called ''a biological compulsion'' in all four men to reach a settlement. Mandela is 75, De Klerk 57, Rabin 71 and Arafat 64. ''They were aware they did not have much time left,'' says William Quandt, who was at the National Security Council during the 1978 Camp David negotiations. ''And if they waited, history would write about them as people who had missed a chance to end their careers with...
...tribal memory and grievance, the blood's need for vindication. $ The past wants revenge, like Hamlet's father's ghost. Peace settlements in South Africa and the Middle East will bury the bloody shirt, shut down the past as an imperative. The projects of Mandela-De Klerk and Arafat-Rabin are not yet realized, of course. Leaders must bring followers along. Leaders must exercise the visionary's gift. They must tell their people a new story about themselves (in these cases, the story of themselves at peace, to replace their older myth of struggle) and make it plausible. Peace...
...able to give TIME an hour or so early the next morning, but De Klerk could set aside only 20 minutes in Oslo. Not enough. O.K., then, he would have 90 minutes in Rome the night before seeing the Pope on Monday. Done. Getting Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin was more complicated. They were supposed to meet in Cairo on Dec. 12 or 13, but their schedule (not to mention their peace agreement) was in flux, especially given the violence erupting in the occupied territories. Both sides had consented in theory to give TIME a joint interview in Cairo, which...
...Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat: A pair of old warriors choose to follow the fork in the road toward peace -- and history...
Conversations with Rabin and Arafat...