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Melvin Foot , (left), Coordi
for th Constituency For ric,
(CFA) pre n the Mickey Leland
commemo tive tamp to th State
Dep rtment' i t nt Secretary
for African Affai ,Amb dor
Herman l. Cohen.
Melvin Foote, coordinator for the Constituency for Africa (CFA),
presents the Mickey Leland commemorative stamp to the State
Department's Assistant Secretary for African AffaIrs, Ammbas­
sador Herman J. Cohen.
More than 10,000 Blacks have
died ince the mid-1980 in
township unrest, much of it linked to
a war between the ANC and the rival
Inkatha Freedom Party. The ANC
accuses government ecurity force
of instigating the unrest, a charge the
government denies.
Mandela calls on Black·
groups t� Join talks
the PAC, the more moderate African
National Congress, and the conserva­
tive Inkatha Freedom Party.
More than 10,000 Blacks have
died since 1984 in political violence
in Black township . Police say most
were caught up in the ongoing war
between the ANC and Inkatha.
Meanwhile., potice said an ANC
official was killed when a grenade he
was holding exploded. The blast also
killed two other people and wounded "
two.
Police Col. Dave Bruce said it
wasn't known why the ANC mem­
ber, Saul Tsotetsi, had a grenade in
his hand. Tsotetsi was a member of
the ANC's executive committee in
the Black township of evaton, south
of johannesburg.
The visit to Paarl was Mandela's
first since February 11, 1990, when
he was freed from Victor Verster
Prison in the city. The local branch of
the ANC presented Mandela with a
"Freedom of Paarl" award, and
Mandela called the occasion' 'one of
the best moments of my life."
Mandela served 27 years in prison
(or plotting to overthrow the white­
led government. Most were spent on
Robben Island prison off Cape Town,
but he was moved to Victor Verster
in December 1988 after becoming ill.
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CAPB TOWN, SmllII AJrb (AP) -
elson Mandela said recently the
white government should have con-
ulted the African Nation I Con­
gress before deciding to tax basic
foods, and vowed to fight the plan
with mass prot ts.
Accu ing the government of
being insensitive to Blac needs,
Mandela aid his ANC must protect
the poor from the tax, "even if we
destroy the economy."
Starting March 31, the govern­
ment plans to add a 10 percent tax to .
basic foods uch as beans, milk., rice
�nd lentils. This is a follow-up to the.
implementation in October of taxes
Seeds of self-sufficiency that help
. starving people become healthy,
productive people. And we do it
village by village by village. ,
Please help us turn cries for help
into the laughter of hope. ,.
ri nn
needs n ctive,
nowledge ble merican con­
titu n y to help it meet today' op-
portuniti nd c lleng ."
Amb dor Cohen al 0 noted
that thi is a time of great change in
terms of th U.S. policy for Africa.
S id Cohen, "U.S. policy in Africa
present nd
alternative to nationalization to
redress the economic inequities be-
tween Bla k and white. • "Th
ANC has no ideological attachment
to nationalization, and we have to b
realistic," he aid." As long as
nationalization remains our official
policy, it i not going to b po sible
to get the cooperation of big business
and foreign investors."
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PAARL, South Africa (AP) -_ ANC
president Nelson Mandela on Sunday
returned to the city where he had been
freed to make a call for black unity,
Speaking to a crowd of about
5,000 at Paarl, about 30 miles outside
Cape Town, Mandela said the Pan
Africanist Congress and the Azanian
People's Organization should join
talks with the government on ending
apartheid.
"We want unity. We want all
black political organizations to speak
with one voice," he said to cheers.
The PAC and Azapo have
boycotted ne otiations, saying they
are a ploy by the white-led govern­
ment to extend apartheid. Nineteen
black and white political organiza­
tions held their first round ofnegotia­
tions Dec. 20-21 and are expected to
convene again in April.
The government's position was
strengthened last week when white
voters overwhelmingly gave their ap­
proval to the continuation of negotia­
ttons, which are aimed at writing a
new constitution to give the Black
majority voting rights. Militant
white groups that support apartheid
also have boycotted the negotiations.
There are sharp differences be­
- , tween militant Black groups such as
so
Father Elvin Sunds, Catholic
Charities' executive director, said
about 300 orphaned children ere
among the 16,000 ho fled Haiti
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on most goods and services, includ­
ing medicine and many foods.
Critics of the new tax said it hurt
the poor, and the ANC called a
nationwide protest strike that vir­
tually crippled the economy for two
days in November. If the additional
tax goes through, protests will be
even stronger, Mandela told about
300 pensioners, most of them Black,
at a rally.
When government leaders make
deci ions uch as impo ing new
taxes, they hould not only consult
theANC, utheymustgetourexpre
pprov 1," Mandela said.
Earlier in the week, white voters
unanimously approved the continua­
tion of government talks with Black
leaders to end apartheid and give
Blacks political power.
Even though the government i
discussing reforms, however, it
remains "insensitive" to the needs.
of Black people, Mandela aid.
"They are thinking of the interests
of whites."
During an earlier speech to
businessmen and diplomats, Man­
dela urged business leaders to offer
Panama protest
A hooded prote8t r plae a wooden beam on a barrleadeln the,Chorrlllo.. ctlon of Panama
City, Panama. About 200 re.ldent. mareh d agaln.t the government, d mandlng
eompen.atlon for the deatructlon .of their hom • during th u.s. Inva.lon of Panama In,
Oeeemb r 1989. Chorrlllo. wa. th loeatlon of Gen. M�nuel Noriega'. headquarter. and wa
h avily bomb d during th Inva Ion.
Haitian orphans arrive
looking for new homes
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Wilner
Norelia is a Haitian orphan who fled
his home and is now looking for
another In the United States.
"Before I say thank you to
anybody, I must say thank you to
God," Norelia, 16, said through an
interpreter. Norelia is one of n or­
phaned Haitian children now living
at the Jackson YWCA. They were
flown in Thursday from refugee
camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Catholic Charities, with the U.S.
Department of Justice, is providing
temporary shelter for the children,
who have been granted asylum in the
United States. . Catholic Charities
hopes to place the children with rela­
tives in the U.S. or work with other
agencies to find fo ter homes.
"Arriving in the U.S. has been
good for them," said Frantz Heraux,
who manages the shelter called" the
House of Hope." "They though1
they were going to be in the same
kind of place they were in before,"
said Heraux of Miami, a Haitian na­
tive. "But when they arrived here,
we started seeing smiles."
after the military-backed coup. As
homes are found for those now at the
YWCA, Sunds said, other children
will be brought to Jackson. He said
the program is scheduled to last four
months but it could be extended.
Norelia left Haiti in a boat full of
other refugees. The only personal
possession he. brought was his
, father's wedding band. Norelia said
he doesn't know what happened to
his parents. He hope to be united
with a cousin in New York City, go
to school and study agriculture.