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...legend seems almost more than any one man can bear. A study in dignity, intelligence and unflappability, he is showing amazing grace as he moves from his symbolic role as a political prisoner to the more demanding one of a political activist. His challenge will become still tougher if he begins negotiating some kind of political compromise. "No individual leader is able to take on these enormous tasks on his own," he reminded listeners last week. The question is whether Mandela's children and grandchildren will be as magnanimous -- and patient -- as the elder statesman...
...Tougher question: What is the fastest-rising car company in Europe, a manufacturer whose product line is so sophisticated, so sensitive to shifts in market demand, that it has outperformed all its rivals in the past year...
...reading is that there is a greater willingness on the Board to consider getting...tougher than they have been," Tutu said. "And they are saying that we ought to put it on the agenda. Now I'm not sure whether they agreed...
...reading is that there is a far greater willingness on the part of those on the Board to consider...getting tougher than they have been, and they are saying we ought to put it back on the agenda," Tutu said at a Sunday press conference...
Well then, comes the natural response, more and tougher sanctions are needed. That too is open to question. A major slowdown in South Africa could halt the growth of the skilled black work force and the development of black economic power, which have already caused irreversible changes in the apartheid system -- legalization of black unions, abolition of the internal pass laws, legalization of some nonracial neighborhoods. These developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform...