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As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal , he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
President of the Republic of China (1944–1945) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Liang Hongzhi: Collaborationist China: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China (1938–1940) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Kōki Hirota Japan: Prime Minister of Japan (1936–1937) 1946: Crimes against humanity (Executed by ...
In 1980, he immigrated to the United States where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in urban studies at Cleveland State University. [ 1 ] In the November 1997 general election, running as a non-partisan, he defeated incumbent mayor Wallace D. Davis with 62.56% of the vote. [ 1 ]
The crime went unsolved until Cleveland Hells Angels chapter vice president-turned-government witness Clarence "Butch" Crouch confessed to being one of the gunmen to federal agents on November 5, 1981. He named the other two shooters as Richard C. "Friz" Frazier and Enis "Eagle" Crnic, who died in April 1977. [41]
The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa on Thursday over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants, making it the second lawsuit filed in a single day ...
Donald C. Rickard (2 March 1928 – 30 March 2016) was an American diplomat for the State Department and spy for the Central Intelligence Agency.Shortly before his death, Rickard claimed to have provided the information that led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962 due to allegations of communist influence under Mandela while he was working as a vice-consul in Durban, South Africa.
Taylor Taranto, a Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested near former President Obama's home after former President Trump posted the address faces new gun charges.
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the ...