October 05, 1990 (vol. 101, iss. 22) • Page Image 16
… The bugle blew too soon We don't blow any bugles until the war's over. -Malcolm X Last Spring South African President F.W. de Klerk declared that "the season of violence is over." This was supposed to mean that all that fighting over rights was behind the country, and that the rational process of negotiation would supersede violence on the road to equality. So, Nelson Mandela was released and the African National Congress (ANc), which he le...…