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- <title>
- Apr. 02, 1990: World Notes:Southern Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 33
- World Notes
- SOUTHERN AFRICA
- Smiles and a Scolding
- </hdr>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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