Word: passport
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Magubane's touching photograph of Mandela hugging a grandchild appears in this week's issue. But as far as Mandela is concerned, the most important picture Magubane took last week is a small black-and-white head shot. Informed that Mandela wanted to apply for a passport in case he was called to African National Congress headquarters in Zambia, Magubane obliged by shooting a roll of black-and-white film and having it developed overnight. The next day Mandela's lawyer showed up to take Magubane's photographs to the passport office in Johannesburg...
...Hello, boys," cries Ursula Schubert, 39, waving to a pair of green- uniformed border guards in Posseck, East Germany. Without bothering to show a passport or other identification, Schubert, with two of her children in tow, strolls past the smiling guards and across a blacktop that covers part of what was once the "death zone" between the two Germanys. "I'm off to pick up the newspapers," she explains, gesturing toward the West German border post 200 yards away...