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Such yearnings help explain the torrent of emotion that erupted when Mandela arrived in New York City last week on the first leg of a twelve-day, eight- city U.S. tour. For one brief, wistful moment, a city that had been pounded by a series of violent racial incidents seemed to vibrate with one voice shouting "Mandela!" More than 750,000 people lined the streets of lower Manhattan as Mandela sped by in a bulletproof glass chamber borne on a flatbed truck. At a rally on the steps of City Hall, Mandela was presented with the key to the city...
...constitution that would for the first time enfranchise the 26 million blacks who represent 68% of South Africa's population. Mandela is seeking assurances that the U.S. will not prematurely loosen the economic sanctions it imposed on Pretoria in 1986. He is also looking for "money in buckets" to help the A.N.C., unbanned in February for the first time in 29 years, change from a militant underground force to an aboveground political organization...
...getting into camera range at nearly every point along Mandela's New York route. The New York-based organizers of the Harlem rally made a point of keeping Jackson off the list of speakers, despite his best efforts to be added to the program. It didn't help when the master of ceremonies told the crowd, "I know for many of us it's been a long time since we've really loved a leader...
...activists say it is important to draw attention to De Klerk's failure to take such steps as lifting the Internal Security Act, which permits thousands of South Africans to be imprisoned without trial. "We have to think about civil disobedience again," says Robinson. "Our challenge is to help Americans distinguish between what is important and what...
...addition to stronger action on the budgetdeficit, Washington pledged to urge Congress toenact laws on family savings accounts and othermeasures to help increase U.S. savings andinvestment...