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Formerly bani speaks on S. A By NANCY LEHMAN Staff Writer The audience laughed when anti-apartheid journalist Donald Woods apologized for not resembling Kevin Kline, who portrayed him in the movie Cry Freedom. Woods, who wrote Biko and Asking For Trouble, from which Cry Freedom was made, spoke at the Russell House Ballroom Tuesday night. "I had a personal reason to rejoice on Saturday morning when the news came through that I'd been unbanned after 12 years," Woods said. South African papers are now allowed to print things Woods says. Woods was banned as a journalist in South Africa after printing articles revealing the details of black leader Steve Biko's death in the hands of the South African government. Woods quickly grabbed the opportunity by being interviewed from Boston by a radio station in Johannesburg. "These are truly exciting times," he said. Woods said he thinks South African President F. W. de Klerk came to South Africa to tame the National Congress. "I think he may even end up as our Gorbachev," Woods said. Woods also believes that de Klerk will want to make more radical changes once he sits down with black leader Nelson Mandela. When de Klerk sits down with Mandela, he will discover his own country, Woods said, comparing this to the first time he sat with Biko. Woods was not 100 percent anti-apartheid when he met Biko, he said. However, talking with Biko helped him turn around completely. Woods said he was ashamed it took him so long to turn around in the first place. But, born to racism, he was taught that it was the natural order of the world. mMmMM DO YOU LO i / .av>4. \ _ ?>i ( mwi* D? Y0U L umtl yD0 you enj ju^j+y D0 Y0U L!] i| If YOU ANSWE TO [ QUESTIONS, THEN YOU NEED 1 ij SPECIAL PROGRAM CAROL / NA PROG, STOP BY THE CP1 |! 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More seriously, he pointed out that South has an infant mortality rate "on a scale not ex by third world countries." Woods described the past months as "fanta exciting" with the changes de Klerk has made. He said he did not think President Bush she consider sanctions against South Africa until ; democratic system is in place. Although de doesn't want a black majority vote, Woods 5 think he'll end up somewhere in that neighbor!* Woods suggested ways for students and ot help. He urged people to write directly to M About 53,000 American college students have written Althnnah the.v wnn't all rearh him the the most effective target ? the government. "Racism may be targeted at blacks, but it whites, too, very much," Woods said. vE 10 LBUGH? OvE COmEdy? OY HYPNOTISTS? rrr* k^nnininvToo SX mnui^ini-Nu r ANY Of7 H?ABOVE TO BE A MEMBER Of THE ' S C0MMST7??/<mr R/tM UNION Xm-% U OFFICE Vj|I?i ' ROOM 209 fflSL^gLII M 1AM UNION Heart? Surprise Your \| ? 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