His power was acquired by the terror tactics of the ANC. One of the methods used by the ANC was known as "necklacing," whereby a victim was executed by first tying his hands and then placing an automobile or truck tire around his or her body, filling it with gasoline or diesel fuel, and setting it on fire. Most of the victims were not whites but blacks who refused to support the ANC. Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela stated, "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country." Hundreds of blacks have died an agonizing death by this method. None of this deterred the United Nations, the U. S. Government, the World Council of Churches, the world news media, and many U. S. Congressmen and Senators from working for a new South African Government headed by the ANC. Under the CFR-dominated Carter administration, a U. S. boycott was launched against South Africa that helped set the stage for a Communist While the U. S. media was daily attacking South Africa, not a word was spoken about the millions of Africans who were dying because of Communist devastation in other nations throughout Africa. As hundreds of thousands of black Africans were fleeing from these Communist countries and pouring into South Africa to survive, the media attacks on South Africa It is a sad commentary indeed, that a once great nation has fallen so low, that Communist terrorists are 140 The Secret Side of History take over. continued.