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Chicago Tribune, Sunday, October 2, 1994 Section i 25 NationWorld Mandela in U.S. to speak at UN, attract business I I' Barbra Streisand The Conceit A BLOCKBUSTER' video exclusive. address to the United Nations General Assembly, meetings with President Clinton and other U.S. officials and a series of luncheons and dinners with business leaders whom Mandela hopes to persuade to invest in South Africa. As his nation's first black president, Mandela has a simple message on this trip: It's time to do business.

Sanctions against South Africa for its former apartheid policy have been lifted and U.S. money could help create jobs for millions of poor South Africans. Victory by Mandela's African National Congress in April's all-race election ended white minority rule. Now the Novel Peace Prize-winner must build a stronger economy and attract foreign capital. He has promised the impoverished black majority a multibil-lion-dollar plan to build houses, schools and hospitals, provide electricity and running water, and create jobs.

FjoM Tribune Wires YORK South African President Nelson Mandela slipped into town Saturday for a U.S. visit that will include a United Nations speech and meetings with business leaders. your years after his triumphal tour of the United States as a newly freed political prisoner, Mandela is making his first visit here since winning the presidency last spring. Mandela, 76, made no public appearances Saturday after arriving on a private jet He was to spend Saturday night at the Rockefeller family's estate in Westchester COunty, just north of the city, and attend church Sunday with former Mayor David Dinkins. ater in the day, Mandela will bq honored at an outdoor reception given by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and 600 guests at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor.

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