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27YEARS IN PRISON maN ~aw11 HeAsks Other Nations Ot'to Lift Sanctions Against Pretoria By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN IgHoG Special to The New York Times PE.TOwN, Feb. 11 -- After 27 and ahalf years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally won his freedom today and promptly urged his supporters'at home andiabroad to increase their pressure agalnst the white minority-Goverment thathad just released him. yiwe have waited too long for our eedom," Mr. Mandela told a cheering crgwd from a balcony of Cape Town's oldCity Hall."We can wait no longer." Now, is the time to intensify the uggle.on all fronts" he said."To relax our efforts now would be a mis- take-which generations to come will not able torforgive." [Transcript of ad- dress, Page A10. . Telephone Talk with Bush - InWashington, President Bush re- joiced over the release of Mr. Mandela, spoke to him by telephone and invited the^anti-apartheid leader to visit the White House. [Page A12.] Mr. Mandela's 20-minute speech, which.. he prepared before leaving prison today, constituted his first re- marks in public since before he was sentenced in June 1964 to life imprison- ment for conspiracy to overthrow the Goyernment and engage in sabotage. He asked the' international com- munity not.to'lift its sanctions against South Africa, despite the recent : changes introduced by President E. W. de Klerk, which culminated in Mr. Mandela's release. To lift sanctions now would be to run the risk of aborting the process to- ward ending apartheid," he said. Mr. Mandela's voice sounded firm and his words as eloquently militant as when he defended violence as the ulti- mate recourse at his political trial in 1964Though he looked all of his 71 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED years and was grayer than artists' HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED Trenditions over the years had depicted, -ahewalked out of Victor Verster prison DATE 04-22-2014 BY NSICG F54M93K42 Serect and vigorous. More important, Mr. Mandela gave 'noevidence that his militant opposition toapartheid had been tempered by 'more than 10,000 days he spent in con- REARCHE NDEXE finement. But he also said nothing that would have surprised the Government MAR 0 3 1990 had he said it during his years of incar- ceration. Indeed, there appeared to be nothing in Mr. Mandela's initial re- BSAN A . marks after his release to give the Gov- ernment much consolation or encour- .b6 'agement. b7C Although he has been viewed as a potential leader for all South Africans, he stressed time and again that his loy. 247B-5F-89q43- alty lay with the African National Con-