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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolutions that erupted against the autocratic rule of hereditary monarchs and in favor of democracy. It began in Paris and spread south to Italy and east to Poland. Crowds gathered in major European cities, including Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna demanding an end to the regimes imposed on them three decades earlier by the victorious kings, emperors and statesmen in the great European war that Napoleon Bonaparte unleashed...
...size, strength and speed going for me, and I learned as I played," he says. Azusa Pacific football coach Jim Milhon recalls that a teammate once jokingly brought out a cardboard sign with an arrow showing Okoye which way to run. During his three years on the Azusa team, the Nigerian scored 33 touchdowns and won a berth in the 1987 Senior Bowl, where he scored four times. N.F.L. scouts were soon on to Okoye's case. "He's big, strong and fast," says Mihon, "but there's more to it than that. There's the quickness, the agility...
...China since the massacre outside Tiananmen Square. Kissinger had planned to address a Beijing conference on foreign investment in October. But he called off the trip in September after the Wall Street Journal published an account of his business deals, which include a $75 million partnership called China Ventures. Three weeks later, Nixon began his excursion to Beijing. After he arrived, an aide released a background paper pointing out that Nixon had no Chinese business interests. Though the document named no names, some people got the impression that Nixon was contrasting himself to Kissinger, who showed up in Beijing...
When visitors arrive for an approved visit with Mandela, they drive through the prison farm's main gate and across its rustic grounds until they reach a fenced-in compound. After registering at a guard station, leaving cameras behind, guests are ushered into the parlor of a three-bedroom stucco cottage where Mandela has been incarcerated since recovering from tuberculosis...
...Three attorneys visited at a specified time last month. "We had tried to arrange our own date, but we were told that he was a busy man," says Keith Kunene, head of the Black Lawyers' Association. Mandela gave them a tour that included a room where he gets a weekly medical exam, a modest gym and a small outdoor swimming pool. He is permitted a TV and radio but not a shortwave receiver, which would pick up foreign broadcasts. Before talking politics, he hinted that the parlor might be bugged and asked Swart to bring some Cokes. Later Swart served...