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The day the Wall fell... 20 years later ; Celebrations mark the euphoric collapse of Berlin's hated divide
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Twenty years ago today, they danced on top of the Berlin Wall,
feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands
clasped in friendship and giddy hope.
On that cold night, years of separation and anxiety melted into
the unbelievable reality of freedom and a future without border
guards, secret police, informers and rigid communist control.
This weekend, Germans celebrated with concerts boasting Beethoven
and Bon Jovi, a memorial service for the 136 people killed trying to
cross over from 1961 to 1989, candle lightings and 1,000 towering
plastic foam dominoes to be placed along ...
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Apartheid horror stories point up churches' failings.(report of Truth and Reconciliation Commission)(Abstract)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...rights abuses during South Africa's apartheid years, one starkly illustrates the divisions...chronicles the period and the violence of the apartheid state as well as responses to oppression...But it also tries to understand how apartheid could have been implemented in the first...
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Apartheid era minister seeks politician's forgiveness
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; Johannesburg, Aug 28 -- South Africa's apartheid-era law and order minister Adriaan Vlok sought...washing the feet of a prominent former anti-apartheid activist this week. Under apartheid, law and order meant ensuring white minority...
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Apartheid era crooks exposed: a damning new report exposes instances of deeply entrenched grand corruption involving high ranking politicians and businessmen during the apartheid era. The report gives the lie to perceptions that corruption in South Africa is a post-democracy era phenomenon. Tom Nevin reports.(Apartheid Grand Corruption)
Magazine article from: African Business
; The damning report Apartheid Grand Corruption--assessing the...corruption that took place during apartheid, in particular between 1976 and 1994...far worse now than it ever was under apartheid rule. The administration has consistently...
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Thorough `Frontline' examines apartheid
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...look at South Africa's system of apartheid and feel revulsion for its backers...To despise the institution of apartheid is simple enough. But to understand the complex historical evolution of apartheid is even more important if this racist...
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SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID'S BUSINESS PARTNERS LOATHE TO PAY UP
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...agree they could have done more to oppose apartheid, but shrug off calls for reparations...country's business sector operated under apartheid is the issue on the agenda of South Africa...hearing how entrepreneurs played along with apartheid during the period under review, 1960...
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The apartheid libel
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Jerusalem Post 02-15-2007 Headline: The apartheid libel Edition; Daily Section: Opinion...It is tempting to ignore "Israel Apartheid Week," an anti-Israel hate-fest...best-selling book branding Israel an apartheid state, who may be taken in by such vitriol...
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Anti-apartheid actions recalled at UCLA for more than 45 years
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- In South Africa, apartheid caused people to lose their jobs, their homes...no stranger to the activity that surrounded apartheid and the excitement when the apartheid regime fell in 1994, 10 years ago. In South...
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After Apartheid; Why South Africa Can Expect an Economic Boom
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...has become obvious and inescapable: Apartheid will at some point end. So the question...And specifically, what sort of post-apartheid economy should we expect? The answer...indeed be peaceful, that the post-apartheid government will be committed to basic...
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This is apartheid?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Post 08-12-2008 Headline: This is apartheid? Byline: WARREN GOLDSTEIN Edition...an article saying that Israel applies apartheid to Palestinian Arabs. In this scandalous...who have defamed the Jewish state. The apartheid label is very dangerous. If it sticks...
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Abusing 'apartheid' for the Palestinian cause
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Post 08-25-2004 Headline: Abusing 'apartheid' for the Palestinian cause Byline...Israel's anti-terror barrier as an "apartheid wall." On August 24, Haaretz reported...General Assembly that "there is 'an apartheid regime' in the territories 'worse than...
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