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Volume 3 ISSUE NO. 56 December 13 - December 26, 2013

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Visa Bulletin For December 2013 Cut-off Dates
FAMILY-SPONSORED PREFERENCES
First: (F1) Unmarried Sons and Daughters
of U.S. Citizens: 23,400 plus any numbers not
required for fourth preference.
Second: Spouses and Chi l dren, and
Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent
Residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any)
by which the worldwide family preference level
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preference numbers.
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exempt from the per-country limit.
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years of age or older) of Permanent Residents:
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limitation.
Third: (F3) Married Sons and Daughters of
U.S. Citizens: 23,400, plus any numbers not
required by first and second preferences.
Fourth: (F4) Brothers and Sisters of Adult
U.S. Citizens: 65,000, plus any numbers not
required by first three preferences.
(NOTE: Numbers are available only for
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F3 08 MAR 03 08 MAR 03 08 MAR 03 01 JUN 93 22 JAN 93
F4 08 SEP 01 08 SEP 01 08 SEP 01 22 OCT 96 01 JUN 90
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Immigration Reform 2013:
DC Gives Right To
Driver's Licenses To
Undocumented Immigrants
By David Iaconangelo
DISTRICT COLUMBIA - The District of
Columbia City Council approved a bill on
Tuesday November 5th, which grants access
to a special kind of driver's license for
undocumented immigrants who are residents
of the city. The bill, which is set to go into
effect in May, puts D.C. in league with some
13 states which allow undocumented
immigrants to obtain licenses -- a list which
grew most recently to include California, which
also passed a host of other laws expanding
rights for the undocumented. Immigrant
advocates hailed the news as a significant but
qualified victory, saying that the bill's creation
of a separate type of license for
undocumented immigrants could lead to
discrimination against them.
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Funny Jokes
EVIDENCE
A carpenter was giving evidence about an
accident he had witnessed. The lawyer for the
defendant was trying to discredit him and
asked him how far away he was from the
accident.
The carpenter replied, "Twenty-seven feet, six
and one-half inches."
"What? How come you are so sure of that
distance?" asked the lawyer.
"Well, I knew sooner or later some idiot would
ask me. So I measured it!" replied the
carpenter.
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SUSPECTS
A workman was killed at a construction site.
The police began questioning a number of the
other workers. Based with past brushes with
the law, many of these workers were
considered prime suspects. They were a
motley crew:
The electrician was suspected of wiretapping
once but was never charged.
The carpenter thought he was a stud. He tried
to frame another man one time.
The glazier went to great panes to conceal his
past. He still claims that he didn't do anything;
that he was framed.
The painter had a brush with the law several
years ago.
The heating, ventilation and air conditioning
contractor was known to pack heat. He was
arrested once but duct the charges.
The mason was suspect because he gets
stoned regularly.
The cabinet maker is an accomplished counter
fitter.
The autopsy led the police to arrest the
carpenter, who subsequently confessed. The
evidence against him was irrefutable, because
it was found that the workman, when he died,
was hammered.
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THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW
WITHOUT MOVIES
-It is always possible to park directly outside
any building you are visiting.
-A detective can only solve a case once he
has been suspended from duty.
-If you decide to start dancing in the street,
everyone you bump into will know all the
steps.
-Most laptop computers are powerful enough
to override the communication systems of any
invading alien civilization.
-It does not matter if you are heavily
outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts -
your enemies will wait patiently to attack you
one by one by dancing around in a threatening
manner until you have knocked out their
predecessors.
-When a person is knocked unconscious by a
blow to the head, they will never suffer a
concussion or brain damage.
-No one involved in a car chase, hijacking,
explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion
will ever go into shock.
-Police Departments give their officers
personality tests to make sure they are
deliberately assigned a partner who is their
total opposite.
-When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to
speak English to each other.
-You can always find a chainsaw when you
need one.
-Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a
paper clip in seconds, unless it's the door to a
burning building with a child trapped inside.
-An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a
dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an
eight-year-old child.
-Television news bulletins usually contain a
story that affects you personally at that precise
moment you turn the television on.
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India, Pak nuke war could put 2 billion people at risk
WASHINGTON - A nuclear war between India
and Pakistan would result in a global famine
that could kill over two billion people a
quarter of the world's population and end
human civilisation, a study warned today.
"A nuclear war using only a fraction of existing
arsenals would produce massive casualties on
a global scalefar more than we had
previously believed," said Ira Helfand, the
study's author and co-president of the
International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW).
In a previous study in 2012, the Nobel Peace
Prize- winning IPPNW and Physicians for
Social Responsibility said that a nuclear
famine could kill more than a billion people.
The new study 'Nuclear Famine: Two Billion
People at Risk? is based upon research
published by climate scientists who have
assessed the impact of nuclear explosions on
MUMBAI - Superstar Shah Rukh Khan feels
Aamir Khan is the finest actor and an
inspiration for the kind of work he has done in
'Dhoom 3'.
"He is the finest actor the country has. For his
role (in 'Dhoom 3') he required that kind of
body. He does some trapeze work in the film...
for him to work out that way (to have a perfect
body) it is fantastic and inspiring," Shah Rukh
said here on Sunday night at an event.
"Aamir leads the way and is always an
inspiration like this not only physically and
mentally but with the kind of job and work he
does. I really appreciate it," he said.
In 'Dhoom 3', Aamir plays the role of a baddie.
the Earth's atmosphere and other ecosystems.
According to the study, a nuclear war using as
few as 100 weapons anywhere in the world
would disrupt the global climate and
agricultural production so severely that the
lives of more than two billion people would be
in jeopardy.
"A billion people dead in the developing world
is obviously a catastrophe unparallelled in
human history. But then if you add to that the
possibility of another 1.3 billion people in China
being at risk, we are entering something that is
clearly the end of civilisation," Helfand said.
"Chinese winter wheat production would fall 50
per cent in the first year and, averaged over
the entire decade after the war, would be 31
per cent below baseline," it said.
"The prospect of a decade of widespread
hunger and intense social and economic
instability in the world's largest country has
Shah Rukh is also ready to play a negative
role again on screen. He had played negative
roles in the beginning of his career in films like
'Darr', 'Baazigar' and 'Anjaam'.
"It is long time I haven't played such a role, I
will like to do it. If I am offered (anti-hero role)
I will do it though it may not be commercially
immense implications for the entire global
community, as does the possibility that the
huge declines in Chinese wheat production will
be matched by similar declines in other wheat
producing countries," Helfand said.
He said the study looked at India and Pakistan
as the two sides have fought three full-fledged
wars since 1947.
But the author also said that the earth would
expect a similar impact from any limited
nuclear war. Modern atomic weapons are far
more powerful than the US bombs that killed
more than 200,000 people in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945.
"Countries around the world those who are
nuclear-armed and those who are not must
work together to eliminate the threat and
consequences of nuclear war," Helfand said.
"In order to eliminate this threat, we must
eliminate nuclear weapons," he added.
very befitting... it may not get into club of Rs
100 crore or Rs 200 crore. Like I do 'Don'
series, but it is stylised and is hardly negative,"
Shah Rukh added.
Deepika open to doing small but
meaty roles in Hollywood
MUMBAI - Actress Deepika Padukone does
not regret being unable to make her Hollywood
debut with 'Fast and Furious 7' and says she is
open to doing films in the West even if the role
is small.
Deepika was offered to be a part of 'Fast and
Furious 7' movie, but she could not do it
because of her commitments to the makers of
'Ram Leela'.
Aamir finest actor, always inspiring: Shah Rukh
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Congress and the Modi juggernaut
By: Aakar Patel
It was reported this week that Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh does not underestimate the
Congresss opponent, Narendra Modi. But is
that true?
The quotation used to support this claim was:
We cannot underestimate the power of
Opposition to unsettle the ship of the state.
Therefore, I am one of those who take very
seriously our opponents. There is no room for
complacency.
However, these words do not seem to indicate
what the headlines reflected, which was
Manmohan takes Modi threat seriously. The
remarks were made in the limited scope of a
governing party appreciating the Oppositions
capacity to block its initiatives.
This is not new and we are familiar with the
manner in which the Congress, with over 200
seats, has been unable to enforce its agenda
in the current Lok Sabha.
Dr Singh has not told us whether he takes Mr
Modi as a serious political threat for 2014 and
actually he doesnt need to. My information is
that Dr Singh will not offer himself again as a
prime ministerial candidate in 2014 even if the
Gandhis want him to (which they apparently
dont).
The fight after April in the general election, the
Prime Minister has left to others. So the real
question is whether the rest of the Congress
takes Mr Modi seriously.
I would say it has begun to. The party has
recognised the threat that comes from Mr
Modis ability to enthuse voters, particularly of
the urban middle class who are not
caste-based voters. It is worried that the high
turnout in each state reflects a national mood.
Sundays election results will likely
demonstrate this further. If the BJP is able to
sweep the three big states of Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, it will
reinforce the growing belief in Mr Modi as the
saviour.
Till such time as he became the BJPs prime
ministerial candidate, the Congress was
dismissive of him. He was referred to as being
merely a local leader, as opposed to Rahul
Gandhi who was a national one.
Mr Modis smart response to this was that
while he was happy being a local leader, in his
opinion Mr Gandhi was not just a national but
an international leader (given his Italian link).
After Mr Modis elevation, the Congress
remained for the most part unimpressed with
the Gujarat strongmans ability to resurrect the
BJP from the beating it received in 2009, when
it put in its worst electoral performance in 18
years. On television panels that I was a part of,
there was an attempt by the Congress to
restrict Mr Modi to Gujarat. The line was that
India was not Gujarat. That it was not
possible for the rest of India to succumb to Mr
Modi in the way that Gujaratis had, and that in
any case, Gujarat was just hype and Mr Modi
had no real achievements.
That line has dissolved in the wake of Mr
Modis strong performance in rallies,
particularly in the last two months. The media
is riveted and Mr Modi is setting the agenda for
the election of 2014. The Congress is in
response mode and unable to set the terms of
the debate, given Mr Modis charisma and his
understanding of popular media.
The Sunday results will push things along in
this direction. If Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
and Chhattisgarh in particular vote for the BJP
(Delhi being relatively complex and not a
straight fight), the Congress will have to figure
out a way of stopping the Modi juggernaut. He
is rolling over them at the moment. Even if it is
true that the Prime Minister and others in his
party are not underestimating their opponent,
they seem to have no real understanding of
what to do to counter him.
Aakar Patel is a writer and columnist
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Nelson Mandela with Actor Will Smith
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Mandelas legacy in Palestine
BY: OSAMA AL SHARIF
Palestinians marked the death of South
African leader Nelson Mandela by
remembering the great mans indefatigable
support for their struggle to end Israeli
occupation and establish their own
independent state. And US Secretary of State
John Kerry urged both sides to take inspiration
from Mandela in ongoing peace talks as he
rounded up another visit to the region. In fact
as the world celebrated Mandelas life and
achievements, many Palestinians wondered
why their decades-old sacrifices for liberation
and freedom against a regime that is as bad
as South Africas apartheid state had failed.
At one point Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin
appeared to be repeating the successful
historical reconciliation between Mandela and
F.W. de Clerk that ended decades of racial
confrontations in South Africa. But Rabin was
assassinated in 1995 and the Oslo Accords
were neutralized by his hard-line successors.
Attempts to conclude a final peace treaty
between the Palestinians and Israelis
collapsed in Camp David in 2000, and the
following years were marked by tragedy,
violence and political failures. Arafat himself
died under suspicious circumstances in 2004
and with his departure the historic moment
that was inspired by Mandelas release and
triumph dissipated forever. Mandela and Arafat
faced similar challenges in their early lives.
Both had to decide how to deal with injustice
that had befallen their people. Arafat launched
the national liberation movement that gave the
Palestinians a sense of purpose and
belonging. Mandela joined the ranks of the
African National Congress (ANC), opting at
first for peaceful resistance against the
apartheid regime of the white minority, but
later deciding to resort to violence. His arrest
and subsequent sentence to life imprisonment
in the 1960s sidelined him, but the national
struggle continued as a new generation of
black South African leaders took over. He later
became the symbol of his peoples fight for
justice and liberation.
Arafats path was different. He turned the PLO
into an umbrella organization for all Palestinian
groups fighting against Israeli occupation. But
he was moving farther away from Palestine; to
Amman, Beirut, Yemen and Tunis. Israel
accused him and the PLO of terrorism. The
Palestinian cause was embroiled in inter-Arab
confrontations of the 1960s and 70s. He was
forced to choose sides and he paid for grave
miscalculations like when he supported
Saddam Husseins invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Despite growing international sympathy for the
Palestinian cause, exemplified in numerous
UN resolutions, Arafat was unable to turn the
world community against Israel. He realized
that he was fighting the US as well as Israel.
The Palestinian issue was at the heart of the
Arab-Israeli conflict, which saw three major
wars in addition to the Israeli invasion of
Lebanon in 1982. But in later years and after
the US recognized the PLO the political
momentum changed dramatically. Arafat
renounced violence and gave up armed
struggle in exchange for Israeli recognition and
the beginning of years of painstaking peace
negotiations under US auspices. Mandelas
success is due to three major factors: His
personal strength and refusal to compromise
with the apartheid regime, the unabated
struggle for freedom that the black majority
and their leaders carried on for many years
and the fact that the world community imposed
political and economic sanctions against the
Pretoria government that finally brought the
regime to its knees.
The culmination of these factors had produced
that historical moment when de Clerk decided
to release Mandela without conditions, paving
the way for the ultimate collapse of the
apartheid system in South Africa.
Arafat had said repeatedly that he wanted to
make a peace of the brave with his mortal
enemies. After the first intifada, Rabin and
Shimon Peres, understood that Israels
occupation of the Palestinians couldnt go on
any more and that a deal must be struck.
Arafat was the only Palestinian leader who
could make such a deal. Both sides reached
an agreement in Oslo, which was later signed
in Washington.
Today the Palestinians are engaged in
dubious negotiations with Israel hosted by the
Americans. They had failed to stop Israels
settlement activities and now they face a
humiliating deal that cancels the right of return
for millions of refugees, leaves most illegal
settlements in the West Bank under Israeli
control.
The Palestinians are alone, again, and their
leadership is under US pressure to accept
such shameful conditions. If the deal goes
through it will be a complete victory for Israel;
a reward for its occupation and crimes against
the Palestinian people. The Palestinian
struggle has veered off course many years
ago. Arafat realized this only too late. There
must be another option for the Palestinians,
one that reinstates them as victims being
subjected to an unjust and humiliating deal. If
the legacy of Mandela is to survive in Palestine
today the Palestinians must renew their belief
in their just cause and rekindle the will to
struggle for their freedom.
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Nelson Mandela: Death of a
great man (Continued frome page 7)
Sitting next to him in that hotel room had to fill
you with awe. Why is he so different? What
makes him so great? Why cant I be more like
him? Is the distance between him and the rest
of us the huge difference between something
that is just hard to describe and well the
mere mortal?
At the university where I teach Loyola
Marymount University in Los Angeles many
of the students are not Catholic or even
particularly religious. But historically the
university was founded by Jesuits and evolved
on the basis that no education without a
spiritual or philosophical perspective can offer
a complete education to the individual. And
though no Catholic course is required of any
student, there is a bit of the Jesuit spirit that
infuses the entire atmosphere. And I find this
not stultifying but elevating, because this
somehow adds a special dimension to the
expectation of a proper education.
Even the lexicology of this kind of expansive
education is helpful in this context, because
Catholics have a word for very special people
who spend their time on earth doing very
special things. They are called a saint. And
Mandela, though he would be the first to argue
sincerely that he wasnt one, in fact was. Can
there be any doubt?
Tom Plate, is an author of the Giants of Asia
book series.
A Hersh judgment
Sensational American journalist
Seymour Hersh, known for making
startling disclosures that do not always
stand the test of time, has now made
yet another one, the second of its kind
in as many months.
The unsubstantiated whistleblower this time
claims that President Barack Obama wasnt
honest with the people of America, and the
world at large, when he accused his Syrian
counterpart Bashar Al Assad of using chemical
weapons which killed hundreds of civilians in
August. The Pulitzer Prize-winner, who earlier
said that the raid in Pakistan that killed Osama
bin Laden in 2011 is one big lie, told the
London Review of Books that he has proof to
substantiate his claim that the administration
indulged in a cover-up on Syria and altered the
information available, in terms of timing and
sequence, to achieve the results it desired.
Hersh said Obama cherry-picked information
and influenced opinions to gang up on the
regime in Damascus, which had apparently
pushed him over the red line in considering
military intervention. The most disturbing part
in Hershs revelation is that the administration
buried intelligence on a fundamentalist group,
Al Nusra, which he said had used sarin gas.
Little is known, however, as to how the rebel
group could produce and use the toxic gas, as
Hersh claims. He bases his argument on a
document leaked by an intelligence source in
the Defence Intelligence Agency, which could
open a Pandoras box since the veracity of
such unverified claims cant be ascertained. It
is difficult, if not impossible, to get a debriefing
from any authorised official in the Pentagon on
such allegations. However, the US envoy to
the United Nations, Samantha Power, has said
that its very important to note that only the
(Assad) regime possesses sarin, and we have
no evidence that the opposition possesses
sarinas well. This seems to dismiss the
second claim by Hersh on Al Nusra. It should
be noted that the White House didnt feel it
important to issue a rejoinder on the Navy
Seals operation in Abbottabad, which Hersh
claimed was faked.
The US scribe could be privy to classified
information and there is no doubt about his
professional credentials. But the fact is that
contrary to his allegations, the US government
has shown remarkable restraint on the Assad
issue. Despite the accusations that Assad
used chemical weapons, Obama displayed
considerable patience and didnt begin to order
sorties over Syria. While Hersh says that the
US media is too afraid to pick on Obama, the
fact is quite contrary. Obama has had a tough
time from the media, be it over his healthcare
policy or his red-line doctrine on Syria. The fact
that Pentagon didnt press for another
undesired war goes to Obamas credit.
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By: Tom Plate
His was a charisma not of flamboyance but of
the deep inner strength that seems to come
only from true suffering on two occasions for
certain, I can say I felt that special burst in a
way that I knew was no apparition or
deception. This was the two and only two
times I had met Nelson Mandela.
One was in Los Angeles when I was an editor
at The Los Angeles Times. And the other was
when I was attending a World Economic
Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, as
an op-ed columnist for that newspaper. These
took place in the nineties, the decade in
Mandelas life that began, in February 1990,
with the African National Congress leaders
release from long political imprisonment.
By 1991, when Mandela addressed a plenary
session in the WEFs main hall, he was then a
legend, and in that audience were the sinfully
rich and successful who had heard every slick
speech that could possibly be manufactured.
But they had not heard anything like him. It
was not just the ineffable quality of his simple
and direct language on the subject of the
deeply spiritually corrosive and spiteful effect
of human poverty that caught the ear of
everyone in the room, not one of them
remotely poor. It was the luminous spirit
behind the timber of the voice of a man who
had been closeted for 27 years in a dark
prison by a white racist government that had
lost its soul.
No one in that great hall in Davos had suffered
anything remotely as demoralizing in their life
and had emerged from it with such spirit and
global impact; and thus everyone at that
conference knew that, no matter how many
companies they had started up or how much
stuff they had sold or even invented, they were
simply not on his level and could never hope
to be.
But Mandelas own persona was quietly
elegant. His was a charisma not of
flamboyance but of the deep inner strength
that seems to come only from true suffering. In
Los Angeles in 1990, not long after his release
from the exhausting prison stretch, he met with
a handful of us Los Angeles Times staffers in
his hotel room, where he was resting after a
virtual riot of fundraising meetings and
speeches the day before.
Then only 71 years of age, he was clearly
fatigued, in fact recovering from another bit of
surgery, but in sitting with us and talking
hopefully about his country of South Africa, he
filled the room with a special sense of destiny
even after enduring some of the worst
punishment we humans are capable of
inflicting on another.
Being with him then made you wonder about
how you would have handled such
imprisonment. Surely not emerging from
prison, putting yourself back together quickly
and proceeding to negotiate with the enemy to
rebuild and indeed recreate your country?
Surely this is hard for mere humans to do,
right? (Continued on page 8)
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Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali while paying
Tribute to Nelson Mandela said:
Mandela. One name. One man. One mission:
Saving a nation from itself.
Few men in the history of mankind have had
more impact on a nation and inspired the
world. Mandela.
He led his country from the viciousness of
apartheid to the glory of a multiracial
democracy, peacefully.
Has an individual ever given more to a nation
and a cause? Only those who have sacrificed
their very lives.
Mr. Mandela could have easily spent those 27
years of incarceration abroad, protesting the
evil from afar, safe from repercussions. Not
him. If his people suffered, he would suffer
with them.
I know something about protest. I know well
the feelings and questions that run through the
mind of those who stand against a system,
braving everything for a cause. It is never
easy. The personal price is high, but the
greatest of people persevere for the greater
good. Modern South Africa is built on the back
of Mr. Mandela's sacrifice. It still amazes me,
even to this day, that a man could give up two
and half decades of his life, emerge from
prison and forgive his imprisoners.
The "Zulu" word ndugu best
describes him: my humanity is
through you. Mr. Mandela was able,
despite all the evil done to him, to
see the humanity of those who
punished him. He was able to look
into their souls and see something
worth redeeming. This is a lesson
that should be learned by the world:
There is humanity, even in the
worst of us. If only the leaders of
nations would embrace his method,
there would be peace throughout
the world. He proved there is
always a way to reconcile
differences.
As Mr. Mandela walked to freedom,
I thought about him in that cell,
brave and proud and unbroken,
fueled only by the power of his
beliefs for all those years. His iron
resolve was a beacon for that
nation, and on that great day, South
Africans followed that powerful,
inspirational light out of bondage.
Later, I was amazed to discover that Mr.
Mandela used to listen to my fights when he
was imprisoned on Robben Island. That
humbling revelation moved me to tears. There
he was, a king in exile, being lifted up by my
ring exploits. Had I known he was listening to
Ali-Frazier I, I probably would've beaten Joe
that night. I was always the greatest when I
was fighting for something.
Mr. Mandela is considered a chief of his tribe;
his family name is Mandiba. But he represents
a much larger tribe. He is the chief of the tribe
of courage, and decency for all of mankind.
There is not a more significant, important,
profound world leader of this century.
A hundred years from now, they will speak his
name, and somewhere a child will be imbued
with his spirit and use that inspiration to
achieve greatness. This is his legacy, a path of
light for generations to come. Can there be
anything greater to leave behind?
For good reasons, Mr. Mandela is also called
Tata, father. He is indeed the father of his
nation. But because he has lived his life in
service to others, been a warrior for freedom,
an avatar of personal sacrifice, he is also the
father of nations -- Tata to the world.
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Mandela 'took history in his hands'
and wrought justice : Obama
President Barack Obama paid somber tribute
to Nelson Mandela Thursday, celebrating the
late South African leader's "fierce dignity and
unbending will" and unquenchable thirst for
justice.
"For now, let us pause and give thanks for the
fact that Nelson Mandela lived - a man who
took history in his hands and bent the arc of
the moral universe toward justice," Obama
said in the White House briefing room.
"He achieved more than could be expected of
any man. Today he's gone home, and we've
lost one of the most influential, courageous
and profoundly good human beings that any of
us will share time with on this earth," Obama
said. "He no longer belongs to us; he belongs
to the ages."
Mandela, who was 95, died from complications
of a recurring lung infection.
"His journey from a prisoner to a president
embodied the promise that human beings -
and countries - can change for the better,"
Obama said.
The president also recalled the personal
connection he felt to Mandela, and the
antiapartheid campaign that fueled the young
American's political passions.
"I am one of the countless millions who drew
inspiration from Nelson Mandela's life. My very
first political action - the first thing I ever did
that involved an issue or a policy or politics -
was a protest against apartheid. I would study
his words and his writings," Obama said. "The
day he was released from prison it gave me a
sense of what human beings can do when
they're guided by their hopes and not by their
fears. And like so many around the globe, I
cannot fully imagine my own life without the
example that Nelson Mandela set. And so long
as I live, I will do what I can to learn from him."
In his 1995 autobiographical "Dreams From
son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I
sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and
Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela," he wrote. The
two men met in 2005, when Mandela visited
Washington, and Obama was a junior senator.
My Father," Obama had described Mandela as
something of an idealized father-figure -
inspiring him and filling the void of his absent
Kenya-born parent.
"It was into my father's image, the black man,
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Continued from page 3
to the rural community where he was born.
Mandela's death comes months after his 95th
birthday on July 18, which his foundation,
various charities and businesses vowed to
celebrate with a nationwide day of service that
includes painting schools, handing out food
and books, and running a 41-mile relay
marathon in the spirit of Mandela's 67 years of
activism and public work.
Nelson Mandela is survived by his wife, Graca
Machel, his former wife, Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela and three daughters
Pumla Makaziwe, Zenani and Zindziswa
Mandela.
"What made Nelson Mandela great was
precisely what made him human," Zuma said
in his address. "We saw in him what we seek
in ourselves. "on Walk Of Nelson Mandela,"
documentary.
As that rarest of politicians, a leader imbued
with moral force, Mandela was never likely to
lose. But his task in office was immense,
nothing less than preventing a civil war. "We
enter into a covenant that we shall build a
society in which all South Africans, both black
and white, will be able to walk tall, without any
fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable
right to human dignity - a Rainbow Nation at
peace with itself and the world," he declared
on being sworn in. He succeeded in preventing
serious racial violence in part through his easy
manner and mastery of symbolism.
Perhaps two of his finest moments as a
reconciler came when he had tea with the
widow of apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd
and when he donned the Springbok rugby
jersey to congratulate the mainly white team's
victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Mandela remains a unifying symbol in a
country still riven by racial tensions and deep
inequality. "His life tells a story that stands in
direct opposition to the cynicism and
hopelessness that so often afflict our word,"
US President Barack Obama wrote in the
foreword to Mandela's most recent
autobiography. But crime, grinding poverty and
corruption scandals have effectively ended the
honeymoon enjoyed after Mandela ushered in
the "Rainbow Nation".
"Mandela, in a sense, was a
once-in-a-hundred-year phenomenon," said
Frans Cronje of the Institute for Race
Relations. "Thinking that South Africa would
maintain that level or that standard of
governance, of attitude, of role in international
politics, I think was expecting too much." Born
in the village of Mvezo in one of South Africa's
poorest regions, the Transkei, on July 18,
1918, Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was the
great-grandson of a Tembu king.
He was given his English name "Nelson" by a
teacher at his school.
Mandela's presidency, like that of US president
Abraham Lincoln or British Prime minister
Winston Churchill, will not be remembered for
legislative achievements. He served only one
five-year term, and after his retirement in 1999
he devoted his considerable energy - despite
increasing physical frailty - to mediating
conflicts, especially the war in Burundi.
At age 83, he was diagnosed with prostate
cancer and successfully underwent treatment.
Throughout his life he suffered from respiratory
ailments.
He was diagnosed with early-stage
tuberculosis while in prison in 1988.
His funral will be held on Sunday December
15th 2013 in Johannesburg. World leaders
and around 90 thousand peoples joyous,
singing South Africans honoring Nelson
Mandela at Soweto soccer stadium where US
President Barack Obama praised him as a
''giant of history'' and the last great liberator of
the 20th century.
On March 17 1997 with Lady Diana
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela Dies At 95
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African
President Nelson Mandela, who served 27
years in prison for anti-apartheid activities and
led his continent into a new era, has died at
age 95.
South African President Jacob Zuma said,
"He is now resting. He is now at peace," Zuma
said. "Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our
people have lost a father."
Born Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in Transkei,
South Africa, the civil rights activist would
become the linchpin in South Africans' move to
end the country's notorious apartheid regime.
The impact of his efforts -- to reconcile
generosity with pragmatism and to find the
common ground between humanity's higher
values and his own aspiration to power, as
journalist John Carlin once described them --
would ultimately reach well beyond South
Africa's borders, and earn him a Nobel Peace
Prize in 1993.
Prior to doing so, however, Mandela earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Fort Hare, during which time he was elected
onto the Student's Representative Council and
suspended from college for joining in a protest
boycott.
Mandela was qualified in law in 1942, an
accomplishment that would ultimately help him
make the kind of contribution to the freedom
struggle of his people that he'd reportedly
dreamed about since hearing stories of vThat
law degree allowed Mandela to practice law
and in August 1952 he and Oliver Tambo
established South Africa's first black law firm,
Mandela and Tambo.
But by Dec. 5, 1955, he would be on the other
side of the law following a country-wide sweep
by police that would put him and 155 other
activists on trial for treason. The case, known
as the 1956 Treason Trial, dragged on until
the last 28 accused, including Mandela, were
acquitted on March 29, 1961.
During the trial, on June 14, 1958, Nelson
Mandela married Winnie Madikizela, a social
worker. They had two daughters, Zenani and
Zindziswa. The couple divorced in 1996.
Rising through the ranks of the African
National Congress (ANC), initially by way of
the organization's youth wing, which he helped
establish in 1944, Mandela was ultimately
asked to lead the armed struggle and help
form Umkhonto weSizwe ("Spear of the
Nation").
On Jan. 11, 1962, using the adopted name
David Motsamayi, Mandela left South Africa
secretly. He traveled the continent and abroad
to gain support for the armed struggle. Before
returning to South Africa in July 1962, Mandela
also received military training in Morocco and
Ethiopia.
In 1964, alongside eight members of the ANC
and its armed wing, Mandela stood trial for
plotting to overthrow the government by way of
violent acts. The following year he was
sentenced to life in prison, a term he served
until Feb. 11, 1990.
The would-be South African president spent
18 of his 27 prison years on Robben Island
confined to a small cell with the floor for a bed
and a bucket for a toilet. During his
imprisonment, Mandela was forced to do hard
labor in a quarry and was allowed one visitor a
year for 30 minutes.
Jack Swart, who served as Mandela's chef
when he was moved to a private house inside
the Victor Verster prison compound in 1988,
recalled encounters with Mandela on Robben
Island, in an interview for PBS Frontline's "The
LAfter his health began to fail -- he was
hospitalized in February 2012 for a long-
-standing stomach ailment -- Mandela returned
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Nassau County Democrats Elect
a Pakistani To Executive Committee
New York - Last week, during a meeting of
the Nassau County Democratic Executive
Committee at its headquarters in Carle Place,
Chairman Jay Jacobs nominated well respect
Pakistani Malik Nadeem Abid as a
Vice-Chairman of the Nassau County
Democratic Committee. Chairman Jay Jacobs
acknowledged the services and devoted work
of Malik Nadeem Abid, founding Chairman of
the New-American Democrats (recently
formed Democratic Club to motivate and
mobilize immigrant communities to actively
participate in political system) and proposed a
motion for his appointment as Vice Chairman
of the Nassau County Democratic Committee.
The committee members unanimously
approved the motion.
Malik Nadeem Abid is a community advocate
and human rights activist who works especially
with immigrant and minority communities in
New York State, and Nassau County in
particular. His work in the civic rights,
non-profit and health care sectors for the past
15 years has focused on the needs of
disenfranchised populations, with particular
concern on political mobilization, health
education, civic rights, legal concerns, and
community empowerment.
"On behalf of the Nassau County Democratic
Committee, we congratulate Mr. Malik
Nadeem Abid on this great achievement and
wish him the best in his future endeavors. We
also look forward to working with him and the
New-American Democrats to empower
immigrant communities and strengthen
Democratic presence in the grassroot level,"
said Chairman Jay Jacobs.
"I am extremely grateful for the support of
Chairman Jacobs and the entire Democratic
committee and I look forward to working
together to build the party with new and
passionate advocates who believe in our
principles," said Mr. Abid.
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Nelson Mandela Taking Oath as First Black President of South Africa