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...Party leaders were shocked, nonetheless, since De Klerk remained the only NP leader with any significant support in the black population. Nelson Mandela was barely gracious in his praise of the man he had come to increasingly distrust in recent years ? particularly after De Klerk withdrew his party from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing the crimes of the apartheid era. Mandela's salute to his predecessor was barbed: "Whatever mistakes he may have made, and it is possible that he has made very fundamental mistakes as many of us have done, I hope South Africa will not forget...
...said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth of his works to a proposed museum in his honor--he was born and raised there--after a local art critic said his work "stank." He says he might reconsider, and Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson will visit him this week to soften...
Gomes advocated recognition of war dead on both sides but when Rudenstine withdrew support for this position, Gomes was left "holding the bag," Slayton said...
...loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (1966): "He said that he just did not want to live anymore." He withdrew into himself, built a moat around the castle of his isolation. He fed on memories of Gloria--so painful because they were so sweet--and on the survivor's inevitable feelings of loss and guilt...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Having become the poster boy for the Pentagon?s double standard on sex, Air Force General Joseph Ralston withdrew from consideration as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than face a hostile and microscopic Senate examination of his past. He insisted to the end that his adulterous affair deserved different treatment than that suffered by a flock of other military officers. "My regret is that the public discussion surrounding my potential nomination blurred the facts in a number of recent cases," Ralston said. He will continue in his post as vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs...