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Article: It's time to risk against against lingering apartheid. (lifting economic sanctions from South Africa) (Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 8, 1993
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Recent developments in South Africa offer the best hope yet that the country is well on its way down the road to democracy, despite some persistent potholes of apartheid.
"The countdown to democracy in South Africa has begun," African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said Sept. 24, as he urged the United Nations to lift economic sanctions against his country.
Since then others have echoed this call to action, and rightly so. The ailing economy seems only to prolong the despair there.
The U.S. Senate, hard on the heels of Mandela's U.N. address, enacted legislation to repeal the remaining federal sanctions. President Clinton also urged ...