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...difficulties in repatriating 20,000 exiled members and setting up local branches, the African National Congress postponed its planned Dec. 16 national conference six months. The gathering will elect a new executive body and is expected to elevate Nelson Mandela to the A.N.C. presidency to replace the ailing Oliver Tambo. But government officials complained that the A.N.C.'s organizational problems could make it difficult for President F.W. de Klerk to convene full-scale discussions on a post-apartheid constitution by March, as planned...
Naude was introduced by S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, which sponsored the speech in conjunction with the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation. Dr. Counter praised Naude's work at the Institute, noting that Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress had once referred to the minister as "a friend to all of South Africa, but an especially fine friend to South African Blacks...
...remains unclear whether the talks between the government and the A.N.C. will begin before or after Mandela flies to Lusaka this week to confer with the organization's leaders. Negotiations may be further delayed if Mandela decides to make a world tour, meeting with the ailing A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo in Stockholm, visiting A.N.C. guerrilla camps in Tanzania and perhaps accepting invitations from President George Bush and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to visit their countries...
Jubilant crowds marched with A.N.C. banners in several cities, but celebrations were short lived, giving way to second thoughts about what remains to be done. U.D.F. spokesmen pointed out that Mandela and other A.N.C. guerrillas remain in prison and that if Oliver Tambo, the Congress's President, were to return to South Africa, he could be arrested under nonemergency laws such as the Internal Security Act. Patrick Lekota, a U.D.F. leader, said the domestic opposition would step up its defiance campaign and call for intensified international pressure on Pretoria...
...A.N.C. leadership's response was cool. In a statement released in Stockholm, where Tambo is recuperating after a stroke, the Congress said De Klerk's steps were important but expressed concern that the state of emergency is still in place and that some of the government's opponents would continue to be detained. It said it would review the prospects for negotiation, but in the meantime asked all countries not to do "anything to lessen the isolation of the apartheid regime...