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DATE: FRIDAY, March 2, 1990                   TAG: 9003023467
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: LUSAKA, ZAMBIA                                LENGTH: Short

ANC GIVES MANDELA NEW TITLE

The African National Congress today named Nelson Mandela as its deputy president and welcomed him and two others to leadership positions they held when they were arrested in South Africa in the 1960s.

Mandela, released Feb. 11 after 27 years in prison, becomes the No. 2 official in the ANC, behind president Oliver Tambo, who is recuperating from a stroke in a Swedish clinic. The post of deputy president is a new position.

Mandela effectively becomes the ANC's top leader, because the ailing Tambo is widely believed to be unable to resume an active political life as the ANC sets about establishing a political framework in South Africa.

- Associated Press 


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