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Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 15:39-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: Delegation to Tambo Funeral
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                          THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release                             May 1, 1993

                 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY

A Presidential delegation departed Andrews Air Force Base last 
night (April 30) to attend the funeral of ANC leader Oliver Tambo 
in South Africa.  Tambo, who led the ANC from exile for a period 
of over 20 years, will be laid to rest in Johannesburg on May 2.

The delegation is being headed by HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and 
includes Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Randall Robinson of 
TransAfrica, Ernest Green, Jesse Jackson, Nadine Hack, Bill 
Lynch, Maya Angelou, William Lucy and White House and State 
Department staff.  Ambassador Princeton Lyman will join the 
delegation in Johannesburg.

President Clinton decided to send the delegation to convey U.S. 
respect for the ideals of peace and democracy which marked 
Tambo's public life and to demonstrate support for the transition 
to non-racial democracy now underway in South Africa.  

Tambo will be widely and deeply mourned, as he was revered for 
his leadership of the international anti-apartheid movement, 
especially during the 1970s and 1980s.  Unfortunately Tambo did 
not live to see the culmination of the process of negotiations to 
democratic government which he did so much to foster.

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