Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER...
...Chrome Domes of the Century. Although we would not be very comfortable flatly asserting that the following Men of the Year were bald, it would be safe to say they were balding or, better yet, follicularly challenged: Gandhi, Churchill, Eisenhower, Truman, Mossadegh, Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, Sadat, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Pope John Paul...
...were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that we are all related...
...Mandela's remarrying would confirm a curious trend among his country's recent rulers: Octogenarian former president P.W. Botha recently remarried, while the country's last white ruler, F.W. De Klerk, 61, plans to marry his new love once his divorce comes through. Needless to add, South Africa was among the first countries to approve Viagra...
STATUS The only country to develop nuclear weapons and then give them up of its own volition. De Klerk dismantled the arsenal in 1991 and joined...