<A HREF="http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20030214.ra&end=8:41.7">NEWS HEADLINES</A> 
Story: <A HREF="http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20030214.ra&start=8:41.7">NELSON MANDELA IS CONDEMNING BUSH'S PLANS TO INVADE IRAQ; SOUTH 
AFRICAN PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI ANNOUNCES BAGHDAD AND UN INSPECTORS HAVE 
ACCEPTED SOUTH AFRICA'S OFFER TO HELP IRAQ DISARM</A> South African President 
Thabo Mbeki today announced that both Baghdad and UN weapons inspectors have 
accepted South Africa's offer to help Iraq disarm. Speaking at the opening of 
the South African Parliament, Mbeki said a South African team had offered to 
share its own experience of the disarmament of weapons. Blix last month 
praised what he calls "the South African model of co-operation" with the 
United Nations and urged Baghdad to adopt it. A decade ago, Blix was the 
director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, when its 
inspectors traveled to South Africa to verify claims that all the country's 
nuclear weapons had been dismantled. Today, Blix reports to the UN Security 
Council. The world's media is riveted on the deepening split between the US 
and Europe. But countries all over the world are opposed to the Bush 
administration's plans to launch a first-strike attack on Iraq. At the 
African Union summit in Ethiopia last week, 54 African heads of state issued 
a statement saying the African Union is firmly against any war against Iraq. 
African Union Chair and South African President Mbeki said many of Africa's 
economic problems stem from a sharp rise in oil prices following war in the 
Middle East in 1973. He warned that a new conflict in the Gulf would have a 
serious impact on Africa's economies by pushing up oil prices. Meanwhile, 
former South African President Nelson Mandela has strongly criticized the 
Bush administration. Mandela spent 30 years in prison for his leadership in 
the struggle against apartheid. In 1994 he was elected the President of South 
Africa's new multi-racial democracy. He spoke last month to the International 
Women's Forum meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tape: 
Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, political prisoner and 
anti-apartheid movement leader, speaking at the International Women's Forum 
in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 30, 2003   
         listen to speech by pasting 
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are 
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
 - Albert Einstein
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead 
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear 
the government, you have tyranny." 
- Thomas Jefferson
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" 
- Edmund Burke 

    
    

    

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