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What angers Mandela and the A.N.C. is that De Klerk's strategy is manifesting itself in his proposals for a lengthy transition process calculated to entrench the National Party in a system of power sharing. The A.N.C. believes that De Klerk revealed his true colors at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, which became deadlocked in May over his demand that, in effect, whites be given a veto in the proposed two-chamber constituent assembly that will draw up a post-apartheid constitution. When the President insisted on allowing a mere 26% to block any constitution favored...
Meles knows he must move quickly to entrench reforms and win the respect and trust of all the Ethiopian people. But the young President is determined not to be diverted from his political priorities, even if each step forward is followed by multiple steps backward. "Democracy is the only way to unify the country," he insists. And if ethnic or economic problems overwhelm this unorthodox venture, sending Ethiopia the way of Yugoslavia? Then that too will be an exercise in democracy. For if the grand experiment fails, it will be the choice -- and fault -- of all Ethiopians...
...their first backlash movement against the merger mania of the '80s. Advocates of tough new antitakeover laws that are sprouting from Massachusetts to South Dakota claim that the legislation will prevent outsiders from looting local firms and throwing residents out of work. Critics are concerned that the rules will entrench inefficient corporate managers and drive investors elsewhere...
...events sent tensions rising again: the passage in 1988 of the U.S. omnibus trade bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of trade barriers. Alleged European discrimination against American telecommunications equipment is the latest U.S. casus belli; the E.C., for its part, accuses the U.S. of playing "war games" with farm legislation in the current major round of international trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, which culminates in December...
...Klerk objects to anyone questioning his commitment to change. Like many Afrikaners, he gets angry when the outside world criticizes South Africa for not doing enough rather than acknowledging what it has done. "Anyone who says that we are just looking for another way in which to entrench white domination has either not taken note of what has been said and what is happening or is willfully distorting the truth," he says. "On the one hand, they put up stumbling blocks that make it difficult for us to meet the expectations. On the other hand, they test us against expectations...