Word: tambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were pleased by the exchange. Many were similarly disgruntled over the July meeting with Botha, an encounter of less import, considering that Botha was a lame duck. Some A.N.C. members seem to object to Mandela's taking a supreme role in the organization, officially headed by the ailing Oliver Tambo, 72. Still, none suggested that Mandela had compromised the A.N.C. goal of one-man, one-vote black majority rule, although younger militants are afraid that he has grown too soft and too accommodating. The group officially opposes talks with the government until several preconditions are met, including...
Another roar came when prominent activist Murphy Morobe read a letter of greeting from Oliver Tambo, the exiled president of the ANC, who may not legally be quoted in South Africa...
...looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement," said Thabo Mbeki, 47, the heir apparent to the A.N.C.'s ailing President Oliver Tambo, 71, "is very much on the agenda...
...lawyers expect such a complete transformation overnight. The campaign to provide blacks with legal defenses began after World War II, when both African National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg...
Though Shevardnadze is smoother than Gromyko, he can be just as tough as his predecessor. It was Shevardnadze, after all, who forced an unhappy President Najibullah to accept the fact that the Soviets were leaving Afghanistan. In February he told Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, that the Soviet Union would no longer support the A.N.C.'s "war of national liberation" in southern Africa. And, when necessary, Shevardnadze will blatantly lie, as British officials believe he did when he told Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the chemical...