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- <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
- </history>
- <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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- </article>
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