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Citing change in South Africa, Bush lifts sanctions
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The Boston Globe
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July 11, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush lifted economic sanctions against
South Africa yesterday, drawing sharp criticism from civil rights
groups and leading Democrats. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy called the move
a triumph of private business profits over human rights.
"We all know what is going on here," Kennedy said in a Senate
speech. "Once again in the councils of the administration, private
business profits have collided with basic human rights, and human
rights have lost."
Despite a last-minute plea from Nelson Mandela, the leader of the
African National Congress, that lifting the five-year-old sanctions
was premature, Bush said dramatic changes and progress toward racial
equality in South Africa ...