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...world, which would it be? It could be the day he stood in front of the Great Emancipator's statue and told more than 250,000 marchers and millions of TV viewers about his dream for America. It might be the day he sat scribbling in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., challenging the moderates of white America to stop offering sympathy and start offering real change. Or maybe it's the day a bullet took him down and made the country wonder if it could ever fulfill his promise of a better future...
...Watergate break-in a "third-rate burglary," which of course it was. Ziegler was credited with coining the term photo opportunity, now widely used to describe canned political appearances. He was also famous for rescinding one set of White House lies by calling them "inoperative." Ziegler never went to jail for his actions during Watergate, but like many of the others who served Nixon, he never quite regained his reputation either. --By John F. Stacks...
...longer do: "You are spent/ It is time to accept you are old." Most Zimbabweans heard an allusion to the President, then 76. A crew member at a show thought so too. He cast the spotlight on Mugabe's portrait during Wasakara and earned a trip to jail...
...politics. "He's like everyone else - afraid," says one. He could exploit his popularity to make a statement. "But at what price?" asks John Matinde, a DJ at SW Radio Africa. "He could come out with a killer of an album - and spend the rest of his life in jail." Tuku knows there's power in what he does and the way he does it. "A musician is not a politician. He is there to entertain," he says. "But a musician is also there to help. He is a leader trying to tell, to teach." Jail would mean class...
...troops who occupied the island in the 1950s. In the 1990s, Papadopoulos was a legal adviser to Beogradska Banka, the Yugoslav state-owned bank, during Slobodan Milosevic's rule - an association that seemed at the time to bring him into conflict with U.S. officials. But with Milosevic now in jail, and a war looming against Iraq, all that appears to have changed. After all, Cyprus' strategic location and logistics and communications facilities could prove invaluable to the U.S. The new President has a lot of complicated decisions to make...