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...campaign rally that Foreign Minister Pik Botha was like a "poker player who knows his position is hopeless and who sometimes kicks the table over." The government's calculation, continued De Beer, was "that if you can get the voters to the polls to vote against ((A.N.C. Leader)) Oliver Tambo, then that will be just the injection that the National Party needs." But in truth, said ! De Beer, "Mr. Tambo is not a candidate in this election. Nor for that matter is Senator ((Edward)) Kennedy. Voters will best serve their own interests by looking at the situation here at home...
With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
...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...
...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...