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Times 13/q0 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 04-22-2014 BY NSICG F54M93K42 On Mandela's Walk: Hope and Violence . By JOHN F.BURNS and walked to the point where the,Mandela, then about the same age as Special to The New York Times prison entrance road abuts the high-JMr. Kennedy, used a phrase that be- way running through the undulating came the title of a book of Mr. Mande- PAARL, SouthyAfrica, Feb.11 hen Nelson Mandela made his walk wine country of the Western Cape: la's speeches and writings. Thebook No Easy Walk to Freedom has been passed hand to hand in dog- eared copies among South Africans, ame.simplicity:and command of occa- It wasawalk of perhaps 70 yards, who were forbidden until todayunder censorship laws and statutes govern- simprisonment began more,than ingpolitical prisoners, to own any book word aj least none that could be heard 0,000 daysago. by or about the black leader. There: by any sn the.crowd ofs,ooo blacks and was, Mr..Mandela said, "no easy walk At 414 P.M. on a sun-warmed day whites chanting'his name. But to those ta freedom for South African blacks years, six months and one week whohavecometoknow Mr. Mandela in. after three centuries of white domina- er his arrest on Aug. 5, 1962 - Mr. the only way that was possible under. tion and'repression. andela stepped from the car that? the total ban that the South African drove him to the last guard post at the Government threw around the black Dignified and Resolute Victor Verster prison. leader in prison .through his The Nelson Mandela who made his From there, smiling gently, he] speeches and writings of a generation own walk tofreedom today after mor sed under a raised barrier and ago-- there was no mistaking the sym- than 22 years in the fortress prison on. flicked his right-hand quickly out from bolism involved in beginning his life Robben Island, in the gale-swept mouth his body in greeting. He then raised his outside jail on foot. of Cape Town harbor, and five more Ight'arm several times in the bolder, About the time in 1961 when Presi- years in a series of other prisons, end- black nationalist salute, his left hand dent John F. Kennedy was spending his ing at Victor Verster, had hair that had olding the hand of his wife, Winnie, pounds lighter than he was when, at the. weight of the heavyweight boxer he had been in his youth, he made his last ! public appearance. That was in June| 1964, when Mr. Mandela stood in the dock at the Rivonia Trial in Johannes- burg and acknowledged that he was Continued on Page A9, Column 1 SEARCH MAR'0 3 1990 b6 b7C 247B-SF-88943