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...agree that the organization has become too extensive to ignore. Long regarded in the West as Communist clients for their ties to the Soviet Union, A.N.C. leaders are being received by a lengthening list of Western officials. In September British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe met A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo near London. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker saw Tambo the same day. At their meeting Crocker told Tambo, "We are not talking with you because we like you but because we know you have influence in South Africa...
...A.N.C.'s policy of nonviolence received a sudden and brutal setback in 1960 when police killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open...
...newly exiled revolutionary found some interest in his cause in Scandinavia but little in other Western nations. Tambo's pleas were better rewarded by the Soviet Union, which beginning in 1963 became increasingly important to the A.N.C. as a supplier of funds, military equipment and scholarships for young members. Precisely how much influence Moscow has over A.N.C. policies and personnel is a matter of deep controversy. The organization has had close and unhidden ties for more than 60 years to the South African Communist Party, including pro-S.A.C.P. endorsements from Mandela before his jailing. Observers of the A.N.C...
...that changed after a mass uprising in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg in 1976. An estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet-made AK-47 rifles began to escalate their attacks on South Africa from bases in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique. Total occurrences of armed attack or urban sabotage believed to be the work of the A.N.C. have grown from...
...Oliver Tambo, 69, has served as acting president of the African National Congress for 19 years. The son of a peasant Transkei farmer, he studied at a Protestant missionary school and once considered becoming an Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers...