
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, December 26, 1993                   TAG: 9312260016
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

TIME PICKS 4 FOR HONOR

Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were picked as Time magazine's 1993 "Men of the Year" for "common genius" as peacemakers.

The four were chosen because they "reasserted the principle that leaders matter: that an individual's vision, courageously and persuasively and intelligently pursued, can override the rather unimaginative human preference for war," the magazine said Saturday.

Time displays the four on the cover of the Jan. 5 issue with the headline "The Peacemakers." The issue goes on sale Monday.

"Without Rabin and Arafat, the Israelis and Palestinians would have continued down the same bleak, violent road they have followed since 1948," Time said.

"Without Mandela and de Klerk, blacks and whites [in South Africa] would have descended into the bloodiest race war in history," Time added.

De Klerk, president of South Africa, and Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, were joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Rabin is prime minister of Israel, and Arafat is leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Time's first "Man of the Year" was aviator Charles Lindbergh, chosen in 1927. President Clinton was chosen last year.

by CNB