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ROBERT MOSES STATE PARK CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY
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The New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation issued the following news release:
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Carol Ash commemorated the 100th anniversary of Robert Moses State Park, the oldest state park on Long Island, with a birthday cake and the reopening of a new bathhouse at Field #3. The bathhouse is one of the more than $28 million in revitalization projects taking place at state parks across Long Island as a result of the state's new Revitalizing State Parks initiative.
"It is truly fitting for us to ...
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Former South Africa President Pieter Willem Botha dies.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; Former South Africa President Pieter Willem Botha dies Durban, Nov 1 (PTI) Former South Africa President Pieter Willem Botha, who led the country defying international condemnation...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Tetchy crocodile: South Africa.(Pieter Willem Botha is on trial for refusing to give evidence to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; JOHANNESBURG PIETER WILLEM BOTHA stepped into court on April 15th...summons, he faces a small fine. Mr Botha has called the commission "a circus...Nor has it forgotten that it was Mr Botha who revoked the ban on mixed-race...
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P.W. Botha, leader of apartheid-era South Africa OBITUARY
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...to maneuver shrank.Botha was re-elected in 1987...brought apartheid down.Pieter Willem Botha was born on Jan. 12...it.A year earlier, Botha married Anna Elizabeth...two sons, Rossouw and Pieter Willem, and three daughters...
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Former apartheid leader P.W. Botha faces contempt hearing Friday.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...commemorating the birthplace of P.W. Botha. A signed 1979 photograph hanging...mayors is the only public sign that Botha, the last unrepentant leader of...The restrained recognition of Pieter Willem Botha in Paul Roux reflects the ambivalence...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Vain but cunning bully who lived beyond the law; PW Botha, 'South Africa's Pinochet', has passed on but his ghost haunts the Outeniqua mountains and his legacy is a blight on our political landscape.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; BYLINE: Michael Schmidt Pieter Willem Botha lies as cold and dead on the mortuary...Biko is partly unfair because PW Botha ascended the pinnacle of racist...assumed by his successor, Frederik Willem de Klerk - was in fact forced into...
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South African who said "not now." (P.W. Botha)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...road to abdication and suicide," Botha declared. He largely stood pat...world. Only in recent years has Botha been seen as a man of compromise...State to farmers of Dutch descent, Pieter Willem Botha--pronounced BOEta--at age...
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P. W. BOTHA ; President of South Africa whose tentative reforms were disabled by his adherence to apartheid
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...politics (11 as head of government) Botha survived numerous crises, outlived...impossible to escape the conclusion that Botha narrowly missed being one of South Africa's great men. Pieter Willem Botha was born in 1916 on the farm Telegraaf...
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PW Botha, unrepentant defender of apartheid, dies aged 90 ; WORLD
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...near George on the east coast, Botha died "peacefully" yesterday evening...violent temper and finger wagging, Botha was nicknamed die Groot Krokodil...eventually released Mr Mandela in 1990. Pieter Willem Botha retired to almost complete reclusion...
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P.W. Botha; President of Apartheid-Era South Africa
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...death was reported. "Peevee" Botha was the bald, bespectacled mandarin...led leadership emerged, Mr. Botha remained defiant during investigations...Marxist revolutionary onslaught." Pieter Willem Botha was born Jan. 12, 1916, at his...
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S African leaders condole Botha's demise.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; S African leaders condole Botha's demise Durban, Nov 1 (PTI...paying tributes to former President Pieter Willem Botha, who defied international condemnation...apartheid for more than a decade. Botha had suffered a stroke two weeks...
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