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- <text id=90TT1404>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: The Mauling Of Mandela
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
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- <body>
- <p>By Priscilla Painton/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> THE MAULING OF MANDELA. Antiapartheid leader Nelson
- Mandela's ten-day tour through the U.S. is three weeks away,
- but it has already set off a frenzy of opportunism among
- organizers, peddlers and politicians. Officials at the African
- National Congress are so besieged with requests from T-shirt
- hustlers, record producers and concert promoters that they've
- started a file labeled SHARKS. In California the Mandela Visit
- Freedom Committee and the Southern California Chapter for the
- A.N.C. are jockeying over who has final say about his schedule
- there. And Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is preening
- for a summit. "The No. 1 man that Nelson Mandela must talk to
- and spend time with in America is Louis Farrakhan," declares
- a Nation of Islam supporter. Laments one A.N.C. organizer:
- "Mandela's just seen as a commodity."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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