WITH MORE THAN 3,000 POLITICAL DEATHS, 1992 was one of the bloodiest years in South African history -- bloody enough so that the threat of more violence and economic ruin has finally brought politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This is the proposal that will break the deadlock."
If the plan is approved by all major parties when full-scale negotiations resume in March,...
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