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<text id=90TT1825>
<title>
July 09, 1990: Hold The Phone
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
Hold the Phone
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<body>
<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> Nelson Mandela's grand and glorious reception in New York
City came about only after some backstage scrambling. The
problem? To avert major protests by 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 prevailed for
nearly three days was an unpublicized phone call from another
rebel who, like Mandela, knows how it feels to be a prisoner
of conscience: Natan Sharansky, the freed Soviet dissident who
now lives in Israel.
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</body>
</article>
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