WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Mandela, De Klerk Have Direct Contact
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela said he had spoken to President Frederik W. de Klerk on the telephone, apparently for the first time since all-race democracy talks broke down in May. State radio said Mandela told African National Congress supporters at a rally in the southern Ciskei tribal homeland he telephoned De Klerk at home Friday but did not talk about democracy. Mandela called De Klerk to seek a guarantee that his meeting in Ciskei, a nominally independent tribal homeland, would not be disrupted.
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