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June 18, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 59
World Notes
SOUTH AFRICA
Inching Closer To Talks
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<p> If President F.W. de Klerk is getting jittery, he doesn't
show it. In last week's by-election in the Natal district of
Umlazi, his ruling National Party barely retained a safe seat
against a strong showing by the Conservative Party. Undeterred,
the President announced another move, guaranteed to further
rile right-wingers: he lifted the four-year-old state of
emergency in three of the country's four provinces. The
exception: Natal, where largely black-on-black factional
fighting recently flared up.
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<p> By shelving measures that gave police sweeping powers to
arrest and detain activists and otherwise clamp down severely
on individual rights, De Klerk sought to remove what had been
widely seen as a major obstacle to negotiations on the
country's future. But his move nonetheless failed to
immediately break the impasse with the African National
Congress. A.N.C. spokesman Walter Sisulu called De Klerk's
actions "half measures."
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<p> 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."
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