Word: robben
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter. A White House advance woman felt compelled to remind network correspondents that it would be "inappropriate" to deliver their stand-ups in cell No. 5 on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent nearly 18 years...
...darkest hour of the history of this country,? he said, referring to alliances criticized by Washington. If the U.S. aspired to world leadership, it should set an example by making peace with its enemies, Mandela added. The tone of today?s events -- which included a visit to Robben Island, the prison where Mandela served much of his 27-year sentence -- was mostly positive, with the two leaders showering praise on each other...
...details about Mandela's secret outings around Cape Town with his jailers (one of whom covertly brought the grandfatherly prisoner home to meet his two small children), the vital role of Mandela's courtly lawyer, George Bizos, and the courageous actions of the wily Mac Maharaj-Mandela's former Robben Island mate and now Minister of Transportation, who once smuggled out Mandela's prison memoirs...
...each day at 6:45 a.m., usually meeting at Mandela's African National Congress office in downtown Johannesburg or his suburban home. On his own, Stengel tracked down and interviewed more than 50 of Mandela's friends, colleagues and family members, including the President's former prison mates at Robben Island, his sisters and a white lawyer who hired the young Mandela as an apprentice...
...Mandela, consensus must be its own reward, for he does not always get his way. During his imprisonment on Robben Island, he wanted to stage a strike to force the warders to address prisoners with the honorific "Mr." But he was always turned down by his comrades. Last year he urged the A.N.C. to reduce the voting age to 14, but his colleagues refused. Once he has lost, he publicly speaks in favor of the position he opposed. "I sometimes come to the National Executive Committee with an idea and they overrule me," he recently observed. "And I obey them...