Tag: San Francisco

  • Snapshots of Nation at its Birth

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 1, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Not every little story got told in the telling of the story of South Africa’s epic election this past month. But not every little story got told. In the plush Carlton Hotel, President-to-be Nelson Mandela was telling the nation…

  • “Gonna be a Bumpy Ride”

    The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sends us Foreshadowing the “R” Word- A Day Late and Many Dollars Short Our Government is finally admitting what seems to surprise only them, that we are in a recession and have been for some time. “Duh”?! The following is a re-posting of a previous entry on this blog originally…

  • Thousands Protest: Demand Palestinians be given homeland By SUZANNE ROZDEBA and GREG GITTRICH, Daily News Writers

    Sunday, April 08, 2001 Middle East tensions spilled out on the streets of Manhattan’s East Side yesterday as thousands of protesters rallied outside the Israeli Consulate to demand that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes in Israeli-occupied lands. Waving posters with images of bloodied children and screaming words of protest in English…

  • SENIOR CITY-ZENS; They left only to find there’s no place like home

    Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Horst Liepolt left New York City in 1995 for Berlin, where he was born 70 years ago, only to discover his heart belongs to the Big Apple. Ditto for Dolores White, now retired, who yearns to live in the city again. Howard and…