Mandela Home, Calls 6-Week Tour a Success
<i> Associated Press</i>
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela returned home today after declaring his six-week tour of three continents a “tremendous success.”
He arrived on a Mozambique Airlines Boeing 737 more than two hours late at Johannesburg’s Jan Smuts Airport, where about 100 supporters waited to greet him on his 72nd birthday.
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