Michael O. Allen

Tag: New York

  • President Obama's Remarks on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

    The Bible tells us, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Ten years ago, America confronted one of our darkest nights. Mighty towers crumbled. Black smoke billowed up from the Pentagon. Airplane wreckage smoldered on a Pennsylvania field. Friends and neighbors, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters…

  • BREAKING THE CHAINS

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Against a backdrop of hope and fear, a nation’s epic march toward democracy has entered a bloody home stretch. The people of South Africa—including, for the first time, the majority black population—will go to the polls later this month…

  • FEAR STALKS THE LAND_‘Whole country has gone mad’

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—The looming national election has laid a new carpet of fear across this already traumatized and hyper-vigilant society. With three weeks to go, gun stores and food stores are running out of weapons and non-perishable food, and many whites…

  • VISIT TO SOWETO_INSIDE THE NECKLACE Pointless deaths but real victims

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 SOWETO—He was an unidentified man, a weekly newspaper reported, and lucky for him that the police and paramedics came along when they did. He was walking past the Dube Hostel, a decrepit barracks-like encampment where the so-called Zulu royalists…

  • Blacks live in N.Y.—that’s no put on

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Monday, April 11, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—This is a time and a city for keeping a journal: Yes, Princess, New York is in the U.S.A. and black people live there. Most black South Africans have had little contact with American blacks, so little that Princess…

  • SEARCH FOR MEANING IN SLAY

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 24, 1994 CAPE TOWN—The trial is in its sixth tedious month, but residents of the area anxious whites call the Ring of Fire still come into town to cheer the young comrades accused of murdering Amy Biehl. From the courtroom balcony,…

  • DEMOCRACY MAY BE FACING A DIFFICULT BIRTH

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 24, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After living much of her life with the perverse indignities of apartheid, voting in South Africa’s historic first all-race elections this week comes down to one thing for Louisa Rakale: “I’ll vote if somebody comes to take me to…

  • NEW CHALLENGES FOR A NEW NATION: Sharpton Sees Lesson in South Africa Voting

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 1, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After a whirlwind, emotional visit, the Rev. Al Sharpton flew home to New York yesterday with stars in his eyes. “If only I could bring home in a bottle the hope and spirit I saw here, it would change…

  • A Hero of the Cuban Revolution

    Che – Part 1 (Cert 15) by Philip French , The Observer, Sunday 4 January 2009 Related: Peter Bradshaw’s review of “Che” This month is the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and his replacement by Fidel Castro, who, sadly enough, was also to become a dictator. Shortly after the revolution,…

  • A MALEVOLENT HULK Sunken ship continues to claim lives By MICHAEL O. ALLEN

    Wednesday, August 26, 1998 NEW YORK–On a foggy July night in 1956, 52 people died when the cruise ship Stockholm rammed the luxury liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. But 42 years later, even as the Andrea Doria lies a rusting hulk 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, its appetite for blood has not been…