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<text id=90TT0795>
<title>
Apr. 02, 1990: World Notes:Southern Africa
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 33
World Notes
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Smiles and a Scolding
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<body>
<p> The meeting was the first ever between a high-level U.S.
official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela--and it
was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could
have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at
Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to
witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and
Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers.
Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African
President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not
think there has been any fundamental change in the policy of
the national government," he said.
</p>
<p> Baker bore the scolding with a blank expression. Then both
men emphasized the positive. Mandela characterized their
discussions as "dominated by the spirit of friendship." Baker
hailed Mandela's courage as "something the world has taken note
of."
</p>
<p> The next day, Baker applied some skillful pressure himself.
Following an hour-long meeting with De Klerk, the Secretary of
State said before reporters: "May I repeat what you told me at
the conclusion of our meeting? That `we are engaged here in
South Africa in an irreversible process that we will follow to
its logical conclusion.'" Reporters could only guess whether
or not De Klerk meant the comment to be repeated.
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