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...Jewish organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent on staging protests during his visit because of his insistence that Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders. What finally assured the harmony that...
...rumblings among American Jews about Mandela's praise for the Palestine Liberation Organization. He has met with Yasser Arafat three times since his release from prison in February. Much of that concern had been put to rest -- or at least diplomatically laid aside -- after a June 10 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at which Mandela assured a contingent of American Jewish leaders that he supported Israel's right to exist within secure borders. There was no such comfort for Cuban Americans in Miami, where Mandela is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. They are threatening to stage demonstrations against Mandela's expressions...
...Mandela's shoulders. He embarked on his journey only a week after removal of a cyst from his bladder, and in recent years he has also had tuberculosis and prostate surgery. There were reports -- promptly denied by A.N.C. spokesmen and Mandela -- that he felt faint last week in Geneva and had to cancel a meeting. Out of concern for his health, planners in the U.S. tried to schedule free time between large events so Mandela would be able to rest. But Mandela does not have to try to do everything on this trip. Demand for the international superstar...
...then there is Los Angeles. Gang violence doesn't fit the Geneva Convention standard of war: there has been no invasion, no mass uprising against an oppressor, no minefields, aerial bombings or refugee camps. Instead, there are small armies of youths fighting one another and the police. Gang violence is combat stripped of all the familiar rationales. It is the closest thing the U.S. has to battle within its borders, and many of the children emerge from the streets of Los Angeles more psychologically scarred than the young mujahedin who patrol the mountain passes of Afghanistan...
Nelson Mandela aroused concern for his health a few days after embarking on a six-week, 13-nation tour when he postponed a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Although the 71-year-old activist had recently undergone surgery to remove a bladder cyst, A.N.C. officials insisted that he was in good health, while acknowledging that his schedule was "tight...