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- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Return of the Native Son
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- <body>
- <p> Thirty years ago, Oliver Tambo slipped out of South Africa
- to establish an overseas network of the African National
- Congress just before the underground movement was crushed at
- home. Tambo, president of the A.N.C. since 1967, returned last
- week, flying into Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport to delirious
- shouts of "Tambo, Tambo, Tambo!"
- </p>
- <p> Though he suffered a stroke 16 months ago, he was able to
- give the opening address at the first A.N.C. conference held
- inside South Africa in three decades. He surprised many
- delegates by calling for a re-evaluation of economic sanctions
- against Pretoria. "It is no longer enough," he said, "to repeat
- trite slogans." The A.N.C. leadership decided otherwise. The
- next day the conference unanimously passed a resolution
- rejecting any change in its sanctions policy.
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- </body>
- </article>
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