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lchic - 04:26pm Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12979 of 12987)
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Mandela - 'unemployed pensioner'

Criticism of Mandela re AIDS

' 'He, more than anyone else, could have reached into the minds and behaviour of young people,' said Cameron. 'A message from this man of saintlike, in some ways almost godlike, stature, would have been effective. He didn't do it. In 199 ways, he was our country's saviour. In the 200th way, he was not.'

""Blair and Clinton supported the frail old man as he walked slowly down the hall between the audience of a thousand Rhodes Scholars who were clapping Mandela much more than them. It was a poignant image: the two much younger leaders still needed the moral support of the old man.

How has a man with no formal political position retained such influence? Since Mandela retired as President of South Africa four years ago, when I wrote his authorised biography, I have talked to him often in London and South Africa, and have always been surprised. Since I first met him 50 years ago in Johannesburg, I have seen him in many different roles - as lawyer, revolutionary, prisoner, electioneer, President and global icon.

At each stage, many people have expected a let-down or, at least, an anti-climax. But in retirement, he provides many new surprises. He has become a more outspoken and, sometimes, angry old man, protesting against injustices - and now most notably against the warlike attitudes of Britain and America in the Middle East. It's a confrontation which is now coming to a head.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,992092,00.html

' Now, South Africans of all colours take for granted that their country is a multiracial working democracy. This is Mandela's most valuable legacy. '

' keeps crossing the world, particularly to Britain, America and the Middle East, often in a private plane provided by one of his rich friends, such as Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador in Washington.

He has embarked on writing the second volume of his memoirs, covering his presidential years, with help from his old colleagues. He's determined to write them himself, without being ghosted, and he conducts his research with very personal methods: he rings up old friends and even former enemies, such as ex-President de Klerk, to ask for their recollections of crucial meetings. '

lchic - 04:35pm Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12980 of 12987)
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Clinton - London - North Korea

'' NK seen as an everpresent danger ''

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lchic - 05:15pm Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12981 of 12987)
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