LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 26, 1990 

* Recently released Nelson Mandela 
* White House Meeting w/ George H.W. Bush
* South Africa anti-apartheid struggle

The top of the front page has a two column heading: "Mandela Rejects Plea on Violence" with subhead and color photo. (see images) Lengthy coverage continues inside. 
Complete with all sections (100+ pages), very nice condition.

Background: The June 25, 1990, meeting at the White House between Nelson Mandela and President George H.W. Bush served as a watershed moment in global diplomacy, signaling the definitive shift of the United States from a stance of cautious engagement with South Africa's apartheid regime to an overt, high-level validation of the anti-apartheid movement. Coming less than five months after Mandela's release from 27 years of political imprisonment, this encounter on his extensive U.S. tour was crucial for cementing his status not just as a liberated dissident, but as a head-of-state-in-waiting and the primary architect of South Africa's democratic future. By securing a public commitment from President Bush that American economic sanctions would remain firmly in place until irreversible democratic reforms were enacted, Mandela successfully leveraged the global influence of the U.S. to maintain immense financial and moral pressure on the Pretoria government. The meeting’s true significance lay in this delicate diplomatic choreography: it successfully bridged cold war tensions—navigating Mandela's continued alliance with figures like Fidel Castro—and forged a bipartisan American consensus that institutionalized racism was entirely unsustainable, thereby accelerating the formal collapse of apartheid and paving the way for Mandela's historic election as president four years later in 1994.