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...there are more fundamental reasons for the decision to withdraw from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The A.N.C. is deeply frustrated by both the one-sided power De Klerk has wielded in the negotiations and their failure to yield tangible change...
...breakdown had been brewing since May. But the negotiations, known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, collapsed altogether when the African National Congress withdrew from the talks after the Boipatong massacre. The A.N.C. also called for South Africa's team to withdraw from the Olympic Games. The Congress accused the government of negotiating while fostering violence and charged supporters of its rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, with carrying out the massacre with the aid of government security forces. President F.W. de Klerk denied both allegations. But late in the week, a black mine-security guard told...
...arms that could be used raise international concerns. Though Ukraine has + pledged to withdraw the remaining 176 Soviet strategic missiles on its territory and become a non-nuclear state by 1994, some nationalist parliamentarians have suggested holding on to the 46 weapons not targeted for destruction under the start treaty as a lever to get the West's attention and respect. Concerned that bickering between Kiev and Moscow might degenerate into a violent conflict, the West has been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow...
...order to curb Bulger's influence, Barrett joined a game of power politics when he actively campaigned to block the re-election of Bulger's leadership team during the months before the in-house elections in January. In his letter-writing campaign, he asked colleagues to withdraw support for Bulger. Barrett's challenge posed perhaps the greatest threat to what the Globe called "Bulger's 12-year hegemony in the senate...
Proponents of student choice, on the other hand, point to the fragmentation which has taken place in house communities since the beginning of non-ordered choice. Forced to live with people who share completely different interests, students withdraw into smaller and smaller social circles...