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Continued From Page Al guilty.as charged of sabotage and at- tempting to overthrow the Govern- ment. But in other respects, the 71-year-old black leader who emerged from prison today'to the ecstatic salute of millions of his fellow countrymen and of much of the world seemed unchanged from the man whose closing address in his own defense in 1964 has become one of the central documents in the South Af- rican struggle. As always before, he was erect and dignified, immaculately dressed in a '. dark-grey suit tailored for him in Cape Town during his closing weeks in prison. And above all, he was resolute - resolute in his opposition to any ac- commodation with apartheid, and just as resolute in his insistence that blacks in South Africa have always preferred a peaceful settlement with whites to one rooted in violence. Noblack man in South Africa has had,as wide-an audience as Mr. Man-- dela had tonight when he stepped to the microphone on the steps of Cape Town's Victorian City Hall, watched liveby tens of millions of television viewers in countries including the United States, Australia and Japan, and in a delayed but uncensored broadcast, on South Africa's Govern- ment-owned television service. It was an occasion Mr. Mandela used to the full,beginning in a strongunquaver- ing yoice, with the first word he had ut- tered in public - "Amandla!" mean- ing power in the Xhosa language, the rallying cry of the black resistance since the speech at his trial. .Need for Armed Struggle 'To anybody who wondered whether Mr.Mandela had compromised during his three years of secret talks with the Government, the black leader gave a Showed at histrialy blunt answer.As in 1964,he offered no Using the phrase,he coined last,year. For.three hours, police officers.along compromise on the principle of ma- when he met withthe formerPresi- Darling Street, in front of City Hall, and jority rule, calling for the creation of dent, Pw Botha, and jater with the across themazeof. streets andpath a democratic, nonracial and unitary current President E.w deKlerk ways around the GrandParade that Mr South Africa." Mandelasaid that he hopedthat lies across from.themunicpalbuilding, ci- Perhaps most jarring to many mate .conducive' a'negotiated'settle. fought runningbattleswithblack whites, he said that the factors which ment would,allow the AfricanNa- youths, inicluding at leastthreewho were shot dead by thepolice with shot- Congress's resort to guerrilla attacks struggle. He referred to Mr 'de Klerk,. guns' in-1961, under his own leadership,still who watched thetelevisedreplayot the. What prompted most of.the police ac- exist today," so that the congress had no option but to continue." a mile from City Hall, as aman ofin youths smashing windows of.cars and He also demanded what he called "a tegrity"andhe added shopsrand looting.clothing.toys,and al- undamental restructuring" of the cohol,jan action thatwas followed in economy, a phrase many whites will But asMrMandela looked out at the many cases by thetossing of full.or take to signal an intention to national- crowd of 50,000 peopleinfrontof the ize mines, banks and major industries. City Hall a few.blocks. fromMr. de But along with those strictures, Mr. Klerk's office,and in thetwo anda half licemen. Mandela showed the same strong hours he spent conferring inside the. Tear Gas and Ambulancesos .preference for a peaceful solution, the But the result was that Mr.Mandela, same appreciation for whites who are companiedhim on the 40-milemotor and the worldwide television'audience, prepared to join blacks in dismantling cade from the , prison, hewas, con- were exposed to the sounds that.have apartheid, and the same confidence madeSouth Africa's image. in .the