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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...
Finance and labor ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations met in Detroit to discuss the issue troubling nearly all their economies: unemployment. President Clinton, opening the conference on Monday, urged participants to take more responsibility for promoting global job growth. The summit concluded with a statement agreeing that improved education will be the key to creating more good jobs in an era of rapid technological advances...
...wrote to President Reagan for help, says Blackman, "I made sure the Reagans would see Vera's letter by sending it through an intermediary from my previous years in Washington." The First Family took an interest in the Ziemans, who made national headlines during the historic 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit when Gorbachev sent a warning that the President not see the family. But after the Ziemans were once again denied emigration rights, Reagan intervened, and they were at last granted permission to leave the U.S.S.R. They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they promptly became...
...accompanied the President to a summit in Moscow in January, and, more recently, traveled to Beijing with Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen. "It's a very heavy schedule," Nye said. "I've been so busy that I haven't really spent much time thinking about Harvard...
...Foxman of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, who met last week to discuss what to do about him in a meeting so sensitive they would not even confirm he was the topic under discussion. On Saturday, the N.A.A.C.P. said it would convene a national summit of black leaders and would pointedly include Farrakhan as a gesture of support, despite expected Jewish condemnation. "We have every right to convene African-American leadership," said Chavis. "There's a deep hunger in our community...