Word: tambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system of racial apartheid, the African National Congress has become the embodiment of the hopes and aspirations of the country's blacks. Yet even some of apartheid's opponents harbor lingering reservations about the ANC, mainly because of its longstanding and unapologetic ties to Communists. ANC President Oliver Tambo has repeatedly said he does not know or care how many members of his national executive committee are party members. As the ANC's critics see it, the ! organization runs the danger of becoming, wittingly or not, the vehicle through which Communism could eventually gain power in any change of government...
Outside the State Department, a knot of conservative protesters shouted, "Tambo, go home!" and "The A.N.C. means the KGB!" Inside, Secretary of State George Shultz was closeted with Oliver Tambo, the leader of South Africa's outlawed black revolutionary organization, the African National Congress. It was the first time a senior U.S. official had met with a leader of the banned A.N.C., and marked a broadening of the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement" with the South African government...
...meeting with a determination not to budge on matters of principle. Shultz, interested in exploring a U.S. role as mediator between the A.N.C. and the government of State President P.W. Botha, has expressed strong reservations about the A.N.C.'s ties with Moscow and its increasing ^ embrace of violence. Tambo has sharply questioned past U.S. policy and remained stubbornly unmoved by attacks on the A.N.C. for its Communist links...
...expected, neither man gave much ground. The Secretary protested the A.N.C.'s Soviet backing and condemned tactics like "necklacing," the grisly practice of murdering blacks believed to be government collaborators by placing around their neck a gasoline-doused tire and lighting it. Tambo, who defended the use of violence on several occasions during his two-week U.S. visit, countered that the time for passive resistance to white oppression had passed. Said he: "We hope we can establish the same relationship between the U.S. that we have with European and even socialist countries." After 50 minutes the two agreed only...
...Leader Nelson Mandela, caused a furor last April by declaring, "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country." A.N.C. leaders later told her to stop making such statements, and at the group's 75th anniversary celebration in Lusaka two weeks ago, A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo declared, "Of course we are not in favor of necklacing. We don't like necklacing, but we understand its origins. It originated from the extremes to which people were provoked by the unspeakable brutalities of the apartheid system...