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...State Henry Kissinger to mediate the South African political crisis fell apart after Zulu leaders repeated their demand that the nation's all-race elections be postponed. Kissinger's mediation team had hoped to resolve the conflict between African National Congress members and Zulu nationalists, who are demanding a sovereign state and boycotting the April 26-28 election...
Political violence related to demands by some Zulus for a sovereign state in South Africa's Natal province continued to mount, with the death toll reaching . 125 for the past week. Two weeks remain before the country's all-race election, but in a Friday summit, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela failed to persuade Zulu leaders to drop their election boycott...
...Leon Panetta, argued back and forth. Says one who was there: "When George spoke, it wasn't part of the debate. It was time to close your notebook." No one has suggested that Clinton invested such power in a dummy or straw man. Like the President, Stephanopoulos has a sovereign command of policy issues. Unlike him, thanks to his tenure as floor assistant to House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what...
...motives at the heart of this tragedy were only the worst. Mangope was resisting the elections only in order to hold onto his own power and hoped that his small, independent province would become a sovereign state. The South African government finally lost its patience and threatened to send troops into the area to keep the peace in preparation for free elections. Mangope acceded to the plan after he saw that he could not successfully repel the soldiers, but his submission came too late...
...arms embargo on the Bosnian government must be lifted if the new coalition is to survive. Serbia clearly has little respect for the borders of sovereign nations that are recognized by the U.N., as is evidenced by the current situation. What they do have respect for is weapons larger and more accurate than their own. NATO must provide all logistical assistance possible, including air support to the fledgling coalition. The no-fly zone must continue to be enforced, as it was last week by NATO fighters...