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MIDDLE EAST: Raise the Flag...
...South Africa of segregation and oppression dissolved itself and re-emerged as a tentatively hopeful, newly democratic nation. On Wednesday morning at 12:01, the old order formally ended as cheering crowds in the nine new provincial capitals hailed the lowering of apartheid's blue-white-and-orange flag and the raising of a banner with six colors symbolizing the people, their blood, their land, the gold under the ground, the sky -- and white for peace...
...British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street, with its own flag, armed forces and immigration controls...
...viewing" was of nothing more than a closed casket, draped with an American flag. Some might attribute the choice to decorum, but the conspiracy theorists, who have spent so long looking for a "smoking gun," would not be satisfied with anything less than a "stinking corpse...
...word raised such a red flag for Mr.Rosovsky that it wasn't worth it," Hall says. "Theprogram was described in functional and behavioralterms instead--and in those terms it had all thepowers and prerogatives of existing departments...