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TheTALKINi PAGE 14 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS JULY 6, 1993 ALARM cn ffflO dLUU FR1E INSTALLATIOI SPRING SPECIAL Jewish leaders cite Mandela We Clean Your Drains, Tubs, Laundry Tubs mmwm STARTING AT 0ff' Despite Mandela's on-going insistence that he was not tired, Sheraton general manager Gerald Gutenstein said Mandela appeared "wiped out," when he retired to his presidential suite after the medal ceremony. Nevertheless, Mandela bounded into a union-sponsored reception that night at the Civic Center with a wide smile and sporting a pair of khaki pants, a red golfing shirt and loafers. After commending the union for on-going support, Mandela, himself a former heavyweight boxer, confided of one attendee, "I am very happy that Smokin' Joe Frazier is here. He is my hero." Many Philadelphians who saw and heard Mandela felt like Marguerite Pinckney, 51, of Over-brook. "I'm just overwhelmed," she said, after depositing $10 into a basket in the front of the Civic Center for the voter registration campaign.

"I would have done anything to be here." Mandela explained to his listeners at each stop that the biggest problem was educating voters to the election process. Elections are scheduled for next April. South Africa has 22 million voters; Mandela stressed that 9 million of them live in rural areas, where there is no running water and toilet facilities, much less electricity for television and radio sets on which to educate residents on the voting process. He said the effort would require 2,000 workers, literature printed in 11 different languages and $50 IY3 ANDELA Continued from Page 4 de Klerk, his co-recipient of the Liberty Medal. At the Liberty Bell, Mandela commented: "I'm seeing it for the first time.

It looks very impressive I think it's very symbolic for the entire democratic way." On invitation from former Congressman William H. Gray IE, Mandela visited Gray's church, Bright Hope Baptist, at 12th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Sunday. The church greeted him with African drums and a choir that sang the South African National Anthem. Mandela responded by raising his fist in the air.

Many of the 1,500 people in attendance followed suit. Mandela used the occasion to stress unity among Africans and African-Americans. Branding American slavery a "tragedy," he noted that he now has brothers and sisters on both sides of the Atlantic. "In every cloud, there is a silver lining," he reminded them. Gray announced that the church had decided to award Mandela $25,000 for a voter registration campaign.

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Later in the day, Mandela held another private meeting with leaders from the Council of Churches before attending a private dinner given in his honor by billionaire banker David Rockefeller. Mandela is in the United States on a two-week visit to raise funds for a voter registration drive in South Africa and to educate the electorate ahead of next year's all-race elections. He and South African President F.W. de Klerk, who is also in the United States, were jointly awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal Sunday by President Clinton and Mayor Rendell. day night along Penn's Landing', and up to 250,000 Sunday night on the Parkway.

"We were very, fortunate to have great crowds, people that just came to enjoy themselves, not to bother anybody," Chief Inspector Robert Mitchell said yesterday. "It made it easier for the police to do their jobs." Police reported no crimes related to the Independence Mall events Sunday, and three arrests for two thefts from autos and a snatched purse near the Art Museum concert and fireworks Sunday night. Staff writers Dave Davies and Sheila Simmons contributed to this report. Our Prices! Root Canals 1 Canal $150 2 Canals $200 3 Canals $250 Porcelain Metal Crowns Acrylic Crowns 1 00 Gold Crowns. $300 FullPartial Dentures $325 KOaUsmUm 1 800 222 8rrof Eytgi JMrof BifoeJs Francs A lenses Complete! Francs A Leva Compictci Onty 39 99 Only '59 set up on Market Street but who had to strain to hear Mandela, de Klerk and Clinton.

"I think we made our point," said Richardson. "Americans have a right to protest and that's what we did." The ceremonies drew the biggest crowds in the Liberty Medal's five-year history the first attended by a U.S. president, filling most of two blocks. Police put the figure at 40,000. Hundreds of thousands turned out for the weekend of concerts, street festivals, fireworks and sports.

Police estimated the fireworks crowds at more than 60,000 Satur 8roTfaMcnLMFfi5fcdcBr HlnapfiSDisDcmt(to4LaOO PARTY Continued from Page 4 ing commitment, a conflict," but refused to say what it was. The marchers, chanting, "Mandela Yes, de Klerk No," ended up at the Judge Lewis Quadrangle, more than a block from the main event. Armed with a strong speaker system, they were a distant rumble to ceremony participants, especially as Channel 6 anchor Jim Gardner, narrating the Pageant of Flags, lauded free speech. The main impact was to drown out the festivities for hundreds of people at the back of the crowd, who could see a huge TV screen DOS. WORDPERFECT, SPREADSHEET, DATABASE, etc.

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