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Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- The mantra in Washington during the current winter storm is "stay home," but some doctors and nurses really do need to get to hospitals to take care of the sick.

So, many of them rely on a group of hardy volunteer drivers for transport.

Adrian Stanton was running Virginia Hospital Center's command center Wednesday morning, coordinating the driver pickups and drop-offs. He described the volunteer drivers as "unbelievable saviors for us."

One of those volunteers is Scott Long, who left his home at 6 a.m. to pick up two nurses before heading to the hospital, where he picked up another nurse to take her home. Long initially said he does it because he thinks it's the right thing to do. But he later admitted he also does it because it he enjoys it.

"My wife can stay with the kids. I get to play in the snow and nobody can yell at me for being out driving in the snow," he told CNN.

"I had a police officer the first day pull up at a stoplight and yell at me for being on the road. I told him I was driving for the hospital and he laughed and said, 'Well then, have fun.'"

Long drives a 1995 Jeep Wrangler for his pick-ups. He says he likes the Jeep better than his four-wheel drive.

"The reason is the short wheel base. I can actually turn around in a single lane in traffic, whereas if I had my bigger four-wheel drive, it doesn't turn around and it's not as nimble," he said.

As Long was making that point, his Jeep started sliding sideways along the road. But he didn't miss a beat as he regained control.

"Like where we just slid out there, the Jeep can handle it better than the truck," he said.

The volunteer drivers are offered a gas voucher from the hospital, but Stanton said most of them turn it down. Stanton has an active list of about 30 people who drive for the hospital during inclement weather. Wednesday morning he said the drivers had done somewhere near 50 pick-ups and drop-offs in the previous 24 hours.

The hospital workers appreciate the volunteer drivers.

"I didn't have any other options," said James Schmidt. He heard about the rides from e-mails and texts that the hospital sent to its employees.

One intensive-care nurse said she had driven herself to work the past few days. "I don't know how I made it," she said, adding, "God bless" the drivers.

One night-shift supervisor named Lynne said she received a ride from Long on Thursday morning. She lives only a few miles from the hospital, but didn't think she would be able to make it home in the snow.

Lynne said, "This is worse than ..."

Long finished her sentence: "... anything so far."

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(CNN)  -- Rainstorms and flooding in southern China have killed at least 16 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to state-run media.

Residents in Rongcheng, southwest China's Guangxi region on July 4.

Authorities had sent text messages to more than 1 million people to take precautions in southern China, the Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

More than 400,000 residents total were forced from their homes in Fujian, Guangxi Zhuang, Hunan and Jiangxi.

At least two people were missing in southeast Fujian Province after downpours that started Wednesday, according to the news agency.

The financial damage caused by the rain and flooding -- including damaged homes and crops -- was estimated at $35.4 million.

Destruction included a flooded reservoir and damaged dike in Luocheng County, where fears of a dam collapse forced evacuations.

The storms also disrupted traffic, triggered landslides and cut electricity in various parts of southern China.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After months of stalemate, the Senate late Tuesday passed a huge government spending bill that includes billions of dollars requested by President Bush to continue the war in Iraq.

White House officials have said President Bush would sign off on the spending plan if the Iraq money was added.

The roughly $555 billion bill -- which passed 76-17 -- also preserves thousands of earmarks for lawmakers who will deliver them to constituents just in time for the holidays.

The final vote came at about 11 p.m. ET Tuesday -- after hours of debate that included two more attempts by Senate Democrats to tie war funding to a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

Those efforts failed, as have dozens of others in the House and Senate since Democrats took control of Congress last year.

Earlier, members voted to add $40 billion for the war in Iraq that had been removed by the House -- which passed the spending bill on Monday. The plan also includes $30 billion for troops in Afghanistan.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who co-sponsored the push to reinstate the Iraq money, called its approval "a very powerful bipartisan message of support for our men and women serving in Iraq."

White House officials have said Bush would sign the spending plan if the Iraq money was added. In the weeks leading up to the vote, Bush had repeatedly pushed members of Congress to approve a military spending bill that did not place troop-withdrawal requirements on the military in Iraq.

The bill wraps together 11 of the 12 government spending bills for 2008 -- except for that of the Department of Defense, which was already funded.

Facing a president determined to keep spending in check and a unified Republican minority in the House and Senate, Democrats have been stymied at nearly every turn in their attempts to increase spending on their domestic priorities.

Fearing a politically dangerous government shutdown, Democratic leaders ultimately gave in to Bush's top line number and trimmed $22 billion from the measure.

But Democrats stemmed their losses somewhat by shifting some funding from the president's priorities to their own. And they added billions more above Bush's top line in "emergency" funding for veterans health care, California fires, border security and more.

The government spending watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, which scrambled Monday to pore over the nearly 1,500-page bill that was made public late Sunday night, said it has identified almost 9,000 earmarks worth $7.4 billion.

Many of the earmarks avoided normal congressional scrutiny and were "airdropped" -- or slipped in without going through normal committee consideration -- into the final bill, the group said.

But Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, chairman of the budget-writing appropriations committee, said the spending plan represents a dramatic decrease in pork-barrel projects from the one approved by Bush two years ago -- when Republicans controlled Congress.

"The total dollars that are earmarked is reduced -- hear me now -- by 43 percent," Byrd said Tuesday from the Senate floor. "That ain't chicken feed."

Arguing for a plan that would have begun pulling troops from Iraq within 90 days, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, became emotional as he called the Bush administration's efforts in Iraq "a continuing quagmire."

"The best way to end this charade and protect our troops and our national security is to put the Iraqis on notice that they need to take responsibility for their future," Kennedy said.

"Unless there's a binding timeline for the redeployment of our troops, the Iraqis will not feel the need to make the compromises essential for a political solution."

The measure now goes back to the House for approval in its revised form.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she expects the bill to pass the House, although she will vote against it because of the war funds added in the Senate version. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The leading champion of democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, emerged from house arrest Wednesday to meet with political supporters, a diplomatic source told CNN.

Activists display a portrait of detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Myanmar.

Military leaders in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, let Suu Kyi leave her house to meet with senior leaders of the National League for Democracy, the source said.

The meeting comes after the U.S. State Department criticized Myanmar for arresting 10 democracy activists.

"The United States condemns the regime's decision to press criminal charges against ten Burmese pro-democracy activists ... for the peaceful expression of their political beliefs," the department said in a statement Tuesday.

The department noted that the 10 were charged with crimes that can carry lengthy sentences.

"If the regime were serious about engaging in a peaceful transition to democracy, it would stop arresting and prosecuting Burma's democratic leaders, and instead engage them in a genuine dialogue."

The military government in Myanmar held Suu Kyi under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2002. It restricted her travel afterward and put her back under house arrest in 2003.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

The regime in Myanmar used force to suppress a pro-democracy movement a few months ago. The government admitted that its crackdown killed at least 10 people, but human rights groups said they suspect the number is much higher. The government also acknowledged arresting several hundred people after democracy protests led by Buddhist monks. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Dan Rivers contributed to this report

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- White students at a South African university tricked black residence hall workers into eating stew containing urine, prompting a march Wednesday in which five people were arrested, university officials said.

Students protest against a racist video on the campus of Free State University in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

The white students made a video of the incident, which they staged in reaction to the university's efforts to integrate its residences, according to a statement from the University of the Free State.

The protesters on Wednesday included black and white students who later marched to the residence where the video was made and demanded that it be shut down, witnesses said.

The video surfaced on Tuesday but was made in September, the university said.

In the video, white male students at Reitz Residence are seen encouraging at least three black female housekeepers to participate in what the students call the "Reitz Fear Factor," an apparent reference to the television show in which contestants eat live worms or compete in other feats.  Watch excerpts of video that sparked outrage Â»

In one scene from the video, a student mixes what looks like a beef stew in a plastic bowl and adds garlic and other items. Then he tells the camera he will add the "special ingredient."

The student then urinates into the mixture, which he later stirs up and puts in a microwave. Other students can be heard laughing on the tape.

The next scene shows a different student urging at least three housekeepers to drink cups full of the stew, saying, "This is our dorm's 'Fear Factor.' We want to see who has the best 'Fear Factor.'"

On the video, the student does not tell the women that there is urine in the mixture.

The women, on their knees, spit the stew into buckets after tasting it. Some appeared to vomit, but the women also laughed during the incident as the student urged them on.

Next, the women struggle to run in what appears to be a race. The video is put in slow-motion as the theme from "Chariots of Fire" plays.

Finally, one of the students awards a large bottle of whiskey to one of the women, telling her she has won the "Fear Factor."

At the end of the video, a message appears on the screen in Afrikaans saying, "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration."

University officials and human rights groups in South Africa denounced the video.

"The executive management of the [university] condemns this video in the strongest possible terms as a gross violation of the human dignity of the workers involved," said UFS Rector Frederick Fourie in a statement posted on the university's Web site.

"We have immediately started with a most urgent investigation into this matter," he added.

Later Wednesday, Fourie met with the employees seen in the video and apologized to them, a statement from the university said. Counseling is being provided for the workers, it added.

The students involved in the video have been identified and will be suspended, Fourie said, and charges against the men will be filed with the South African Police Service.

Two of the students in the video are still enrolled at the university but had been barred from the campus in Bloemfontein, according to the university. Two others completed their studies last year.

The students seen in the video have not made any public comment since the video surfaced.

"I am deeply saddened that students apparently see nothing wrong in producing such an offensive and degrading video. I have publicly said several times that the UFS is not a place for racism," the rector's statement said.

"The fact that it is openly linked to the integration process in UFS residences is also most disturbing," Fourie said.

A spokeswoman in Free State province for the Democratic Alliance -- an opposition party which says it puts equal rights for all South Africans at the center of its policies -- called the video "shocking and inhumane."

"It looked like they were willing [participants] but they didn't know what purpose the video served. ... It was quite humiliating at the end to see the quite senior ladies on their knees eating the meat," said spokeswoman Liana Van Wyk, the South African Press Association reported.

Helen Zille, the Democratic Alliance's leader, Wednesday asked the South African Human Rights Commission to conduct an investigation into racial tensions at the university.

"The abhorrent footage of students abusing university workers is a fundamental infringement on the victims' constitutional right to have their dignity respected and protected," Zille said in a statement posted on the group's Web site.

"This incident is symptomatic of racial tensions that have been simmering at the campus for some time over the issue of hostel [residence] integration," she said.

Fourie acknowledged in his statement that "the university is going through a difficult time with its efforts to racially integrate its residences and to create a new residence culture based on diversity, respect, human dignity and human rights."

He added, "These kinds of actions make it all the more important that we succeed with establishing such a new institutional culture on the campus. I appeal to all staff and students to remain calm and to act in the best interests of the university."

The university, a research center, is one of South Africa's oldest; founded in 1904. It has more than 25,000 students, according to its Web site, and uses a parallel-medium instruction in English and Afrikaans for its full range of undergraduate and graduate programs.  E-mail to a friend

CNN's Kim Norgaard contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The Icelandic volcano producing the ash cloud snarling much of European air traffic has not stopped erupting. Is there any chance that flight schedules could return to normal any time soon, and does the weather forecast provide any relief? Here are some common questions and answers about the ash cloud crisis.

Q: For how long will the volcanic cloud remain in the atmosphere?

A: The very fine ash previously injected into higher levels of the atmosphere -- above 20,000 feet -- will remain in the air for "quite some time," because the particles can be removed only by thunderstorms, which are not expected in the next few days, the World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday. The current high pressure system, with weak winds and slowly descending air in the center, is not helping to disperse the ash cloud, the WMO said. Still, the ash particles are slowly descending to lower levels, and there is evidence that most of the ash is now between the ground and about 10,000 feet, the WMO said.

Q: What does the weather forecast say?

A: The current high-pressure system over Iceland is expected to dissipate toward the end of the week, when a stronger low-pressure system is predicted to develop, the WMO said. Not only will this system change the winds and push the ash toward the Arctic, but the rains associated with this system will help "wash out" the ash at lower levels, the WMO said.

While that directly affects only the ash in Iceland, it could be good news for the rest of Europe, because some of the ash could be "washed out" of the air before it reaches the continent, said CNN weather anchor Mari Ramos.

For Ireland and the United Kingdom, upper-level winds coming from the north are not predicted to change any time soon. Any rain that does develop closer to Europe would be unlikely to help wash much of the ash out of the atmosphere, Ramos said, because the ash cloud has generally remained above any weather system. The ash currently being spewed out by the volcano is reaching as high as 20,000 feet.

Q: If the weather isn't going to change, when might the volcano stop erupting?

A: The eruption will continue for a while, but the activity will become less and less explosive, said volcanologist Simon Day of University College London. The more important question is how long the volcano will continue to send ash high into the atmosphere.

"With the first phases, the ash was going up to 30,000 to 40,000 feet," Day said. "The current levels that the ash is being ejected to is maybe only 10,000 or 20,000 feet. It's probably also coarser-grained ash as well -- it's not quite so finely divided on the whole -- so it's going to settle out faster. So although the eruption may continue for a long time, and we may over the next few months see bursts of explosive activity, it's probably not going to be as much of a problem as it has been during this last week."

Q: Does the appearance of the volcano's plume indicate anything about the ash?

A: The whiteness of the plume suggests it contains mainly steam and little ash, the WMO said. When under-glacier eruptions occur, like this one in Iceland, the volcanoes tend to produce finer particles of ash, which stay in the air longer, Day said. That's because the melting ice shatters the magma, which contains the particles that eventually become ash.

Q: What do the ash particles look like?

A: The particles are extremely fine -- about as fine as pollen, Day said. They are made up of rocks, minerals, and volcanic glass, which together form volcanic ash, the WMO said. Such ash is hard, does not dissolve in water, and is extremely abrasive and mildly corrosive, the WMO said.

Q: Iceland has many volcanoes, so why hasn't this situation happened before?

A: The last time an Icelandic volcano produced so much ash over Europe was in 1947, when the Hekla volcano erupted -- but that was when there were fewer planes in the sky and the world wasn't as dependent on air travel as it is now, Day said. Disruption to air travel as a result of volcanoes happens frequently in the northern Pacific, along the Alaska-to-Japan route, where four to five days a year ash levels force flights to be diverted, Day said. But airlines can more easily divert their routes there than they can in Europe.

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(CNN) -- When Nelson Mandela stepped out of South Africa's Victor Verster prison a free man 20 years ago Thursday, he was his country's most famous freedom fighter.

Black South Africans and other opponents of apartheid lined streets to see him when he was released, cheering wildly and waving flags. He was a hero, imprisoned for 27 years for the crime of opposing a government that sought to enforce severe segregation laws with brutality.

Once free, Mandela worked with South Africa's white president, F.W. de Klerk to end those policies, knocking down the pillars of segregation one at a time. Three years after his release from prison, Mandela and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

The African National Congress -- once again legal after being banned in 1961 -- elected Mandela as its president, and he won South Africa's presidential election in a landslide in 1994, the country's first black president.

"We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free," he said in his inauguration speech. "Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward. We are both humbled and elevated by the honor and privilege that you, the people of South Africa, have bestowed on us, as the first President of a united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist government."

And he kept his promise to serve but one term.

Already in prison when convicted of treason in 1964 and given a life sentence, Mandela was a living symbol of the struggle against South Africa's racist apartheid system enacted when he was 30 years old.

But the African National Congress leader fought for justice long before the National Party's 1948 election and subsequent introduction of apartheid. And in his last public words before he was whisked off to jail, Mandela spoke of his own dream.

"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination," he said. "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony, and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for, and to see realized. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Rolihlahla Mandela was always meant for great things, but his name -- it means "pulling the branch of a tree" or, colloquially "troublemaker," in the Xhosa language -- foreshadowed how that greatness would manifest.

Born into a Thembu royal family -- but the wrong branch to be considered in line for the throne -- Mandela was the first of his family to attend school, where a teacher gave him the name "Nelson." He even went to college but was tossed out at the end of his first year for protesting school policies. And he ran away to Johannesburg, where he finished college and began law studies, to escape an arranged marriage.

But 1948 focused Mandela's life like nothing before. First organizing non-violent resistance to apartheid policies, Mandela and his ANC cohorts were nevertheless hounded -- arrested, beaten, followed, spied upon -- by the government. When the ANC was formally banned in 1961, the group realized that non-violence wasn't working.

"It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle," he said in court. " ... the government had left us no other choice."

Prior to his imprisonment, Mandela was anything but a free man, traveling incognito, organizing the business of the African National Congress without having to bring its members together in one place where they would be vulnerable to government action, spending days and weeks away from his family.

Even before his release, Mandela had moved beyond freedom fighter to statesman, a position he still holds despite retiring from public life in 2004 to spend more time with his family. He spoke out for democracy, human rights and peace. He fought against AIDS but admitted he probably could have done more to stop the spread of the disease. He created foundations to carry on his legacy, spoke around the world and tirelessly told the world that the end of apartheid was not his doing but the work of many others who shared the same dream.

But Mandela is not remembered simply for ending apartheid. He was also behind reconciliation, a painful and lengthy process that attempted to hold those responsible for the brutality accountable for their acts without alienating the other white South Africans.

In nearly every speech, Mandela pushed this concept. He urged black South Africans to support the South African national rugby team -- hated by many blacks because they viewed it as the sport of their oppressors -- in 1995. And when the team won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, team captain Francois Pienaar received the trophy from the president himself, wearing a duplicate of Pienaar's jersey.

Pienaar, after the release of the movie "Invictus" that tells the story, said of his first meeting with Mandela -- when the president described his plan to use the team to help bring white and black south Africa together -- "I left that first meeting with the feeling that we were in good hands in South Africa. I felt safe with him."

And Mandela was instrumental in bringing soccer's World Cup to South Africa -- finally arriving this year, six years after soccer's world body awarded the event.

Now 91, Mandela rests in the company of his family, including his third wife, Graca Machel. The accolades have been heaped upon him. He is a hero to his people, and to much of the world.

But 15 years into democracy, South Africa still faces rife poverty, unemployment and crime. Many people do not enjoy the benefits of freedom -- there is more to be done, but no one pretends otherwise.

"I've been amazed that they haven't said to hell with Mandela and Tutu and all these people who talk about reconciliation and go on a rampage," Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of the patience of South Africa's poor.

Tutu also won a Nobel Peace Prize -- in 1984 -- and was one of many who carried on Mandela's work through the late 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. He was chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee and is now chairman of The Elders, a group he, Mandela and Machel founded to provide a mechanism for world leaders to share their wisdom.

F.W. de Klerk is not a member of that group. But he recognizes both the transformative work he and Mandela did in the 1990s and the troubles the country still faces.

"We have averted a catastrophe, the new South Africa with all these big problems is a much better place than it would have been had we not taken the initiatives we did in the early 1990s," he said. "We are back in the international community; we play a positive good role on the problematic continent of Africa. So life is good but not for the poor."

And no one is more keenly aware of those "big problems" than Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela, now known fondly in South Africa by his clan name, Madiba. He saw it clearly in 1994, when his autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom," was published.

"I have traveled this long road to freedom," he wrote. "I trust I did not falter. I made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that, after crossing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to cross."

Twenty years ago, there was no freedom for Mandela, no freedom for black South Africans. There may be more hills to cross, but those black South Africans are no longer strangers to freedom.

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text: and

text: privilege

text: that

text: you

text: the

text: people

text: of

text: South

text: Africa

text: have

text: bestowed

text: on

text: us

text: as

text: the

text: first

text: President

text: of

text: a

text: united

text: democratic

text: non

text: racial

text: and

text: non

text: sexist

text: government

text: And

text: he

text: kept

text: his

text: promise

text: to

text: serve

text: but

text: one

text: term

text: Already

text: in

text: prison

text: when

text: convicted

text: of

text: treason

text: in

text: and

text: given

text: a

text: life

text: sentence

text: Mandela

text: was

text: a

text: living

text: symbol

text: of

text: the

text: struggle

text: against

text: South

text: Africa

text: 's

text: racist

text: apartheid

text: system

text: enacted

text: when

text: he

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: But

text: the

text: African

text: National

text: Congress

text: leader

text: fought

text: for

text: justice

text: long

text: before

text: the

text: National

text: Party

text: 's

text: election

text: and

text: subsequent

text: introduction

text: of

text: apartheid

text: And

text: in

text: his

text: last

text: public

text: words

text: before

text: he

text: was

text: whisked

text: off

text: to

text: jail

text: Mandela

text: spoke

text: of

text: his

text: own

text: dream

text: I

text: have

text: fought

text: against

text: white

text: domination

text: and

text: I

text: have

text: fought

text: against

text: black

text: domination

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: have

text: cherished

text: the

text: ideal

text: of

text: a

text: democratic

text: and

text: free

text: society

text: in

text: which

text: all

text: persons

text: will

text: live

text: together

text: in

text: harmony

text: and

text: with

text: equal

text: opportunities

text: It

text: is

text: an

text: ideal

text: which

text: I

text: hope

text: to

text: live

text: for

text: and

text: to

text: see

text: realized

text: But

text: if

text: needs

text: be

text: it

text: is

text: an

text: ideal

text: for

text: which

text: I

text: am

text: prepared

text: to

text: die

text: Rolihlahla

text: Mandela

text: was

text: always

text: meant

text: for

text: great

text: things

text: but

text: his

text: name

text: it

text: means

text: pulling

text: the

text: branch

text: of

text: a

text: tree

text: or

text: colloquially

text: troublemaker

text: in

text: the

text: Xhosa

text: language

text: foreshadowed

text: how

text: that

text: greatness

text: would

text: manifest

text: Born

text: into

text: a

text: Thembu

text: royal

text: family

text: but

text: the

text: wrong

text: branch

text: to

text: be

text: considered

text: in

text: line

text: for

text: the

text: throne

text: Mandela

text: was

text: the

text: first

text: of

text: his

text: family

text: to

text: attend

text: school

text: where

text: a

text: teacher

text: gave

text: him

text: the

text: name

text: Nelson

text: He

text: even

text: went

text: to

text: college

text: but

text: was

text: tossed

text: out

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: his

text: first

text: year

text: for

text: protesting

text: school

text: policies

text: And

text: he

text: ran

text: away

text: to

text: Johannesburg

text: where

text: he

text: finished

text: college

text: and

text: began

text: law

text: studies

text: to

text: escape

text: an

text: arranged

text: marriage

text: But

text: focused

text: Mandela

text: 's

text: life

text: like

text: nothing

text: before

text: First

text: organizing

text: non

text: violent

text: resistance

text: to

text: apartheid

text: policies

text: Mandela

text: and

text: his

text: ANC

text: cohorts

text: were

text: nevertheless

text: hounded

text: arrested

text: beaten

text: followed

text: spied

text: upon

text: by

text: the

text: government

text: When

text: the

text: ANC

text: was

text: formally

text: banned

text: in

text: the

text: group

text: realized

text: that

text: non

text: violence

text: was

text: n't

text: working

text: It

text: was

text: only

text: when

text: all

text: else

text: had

text: failed

text: when

text: all

text: channels

text: of

text: peaceful

text: protest

text: had

text: been

text: barred

text: to

text: us

text: that

text: the

text: decision

text: was

text: made

text: to

text: embark

text: on

text: violent

text: forms

text: of

text: political

text: struggle

text: he

text: said

text: in

text: court

text: the

text: government

text: had

text: left

text: us

text: no

text: other

text: choice

text: Prior

text: to

text: his

text: imprisonment

text: Mandela

text: was

text: anything

text: but

text: a

text: free

text: man

text: traveling

text: incognito

text: organizing

text: the

text: business

text: of

text: the

text: African

text: National

text: Congress

text: without

text: having

text: to

text: bring

text: its

text: members

text: together

text: in

text: one

text: place

text: where

text: they

text: would

text: be

text: vulnerable

text: to

text: government

text: action

text: spending

text: days

text: and

text: weeks

text: away

text: from

text: his

text: family

text: Even

text: before

text: his

text: release

text: Mandela

text: had

text: moved

text: beyond

text: freedom

text: fighter

text: to

text: statesman

text: a

text: position

text: he

text: still

text: holds

text: despite

text: retiring

text: from

text: public

text: life

text: in

text: to

text: spend

text: more

text: time

text: with

text: his

text: family

text: He

text: spoke

text: out

text: for

text: democracy

text: human

text: rights

text: and

text: peace

text: He

text: fought

text: against

text: AIDS

text: but

text: admitted

text: he

text: probably

text: could

text: have

text: done

text: more

text: to

text: stop

text: the

text: spread

text: of

text: the

text: disease

text: He

text: created

text: foundations

text: to

text: carry

text: on

text: his

text: legacy

text: spoke

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: and

text: tirelessly

text: told

text: the

text: world

text: that

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: apartheid

text: was

text: not

text: his

text: doing

text: but

text: the

text: work

text: of

text: many

text: others

text: who

text: shared

text: the

text: same

text: dream

text: But

text: Mandela

text: is

text: not

text: remembered

text: simply

text: for

text: ending

text: apartheid

text: He

text: was

text: also

text: behind

text: reconciliation

text: a

text: painful

text: and

text: lengthy

text: process

text: that

text: attempted

text: to

text: hold

text: those

text: responsible

text: for

text: the

text: brutality

text: accountable

text: for

text: their

text: acts

text: without

text: alienating

text: the

text: other

text: white

text: South

text: Africans

text: In

text: nearly

text: every

text: speech

text: Mandela

text: pushed

text: this

text: concept

text: He

text: urged

text: black

text: South

text: Africans

text: to

text: support

text: the

text: South

text: African

text: national

text: rugby

text: team

text: hated

text: by

text: many

text: blacks

text: because

text: they

text: viewed

text: it

text: as

text: the

text: sport

text: of

text: their

text: oppressors

text: in

text: And

text: when

text: the

text: team

text: won

text: the

text: Rugby

text: World

text: Cup

text: team

text: captain

text: Francois

text: Pienaar

text: received

text: the

text: trophy

text: from

text: the

text: president

text: himself

text: wearing

text: a

text: duplicate

text: of

text: Pienaar

text: 's

text: jersey

text: Pienaar

text: after

text: the

text: release

text: of

text: the

text: movie

text: Invictus

text: that

text: tells

text: the

text: story

text: said

text: of

text: his

text: first

text: meeting

text: with

text: Mandela

text: when

text: the

text: president

text: described

text: his

text: plan

text: to

text: use

text: the

text: team

text: to

text: help

text: bring

text: white

text: and

text: black

text: south

text: Africa

text: together

text: I

text: left

text: that

text: first

text: meeting

text: with

text: the

text: feeling

text: that

text: we

text: were

text: in

text: good

text: hands

text: in

text: South

text: Africa

text: I

text: felt

text: safe

text: with

text: him

text: And

text: Mandela

text: was

text: instrumental

text: in

text: bringing

text: soccer

text: 's

text: World

text: Cup

text: to

text: South

text: Africa

text: finally

text: arriving

text: this

text: year

text: six

text: years

text: after

text: soccer

text: 's

text: world

text: body

text: awarded

text: the

text: event

text: Now

text: Mandela

text: rests

text: in

text: the

text: company

text: of

text: his

text: family

text: including

text: his

text: third

text: wife

text: Graca

text: Machel

text: The

text: accolades

text: have

text: been

text: heaped

text: upon

text: him

text: He

text: is

text: a

text: hero

text: to

text: his

text: people

text: and

text: to

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: But

text: years

text: into

text: democracy

text: South

text: Africa

text: still

text: faces

text: rife

text: poverty

text: unemployment

text: and

text: crime

text: Many

text: people

text: do

text: not

text: enjoy

text: the

text: benefits

text: of

text: freedom

text: there

text: is

text: more

text: to

text: be

text: done

text: but

text: no

text: one

text: pretends

text: otherwise

text: I

text: 've

text: been

text: amazed

text: that

text: they

text: have

text: n't

text: said

text: to

text: hell

text: with

text: Mandela

text: and

text: Tutu

text: and

text: all

text: these

text: people

text: who

text: talk

text: about

text: reconciliation

text: and

text: go

text: on

text: a

text: rampage

text: Anglican

text: Archbishop

text: Desmond

text: Tutu

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: patience

text: of

text: South

text: Africa

text: 's

text: poor

text: Tutu

text: also

text: won

text: a

text: Nobel

text: Peace

text: Prize

text: in

text: and

text: was

text: one

text: of

text: many

text: who

text: carried

text: on

text: Mandela

text: 's

text: work

text: through

text: the

text: late

text: the

text: and

text: the

text: He

text: was

text: chairman

text: of

text: the

text: Truth

text: and

text: Reconciliation

text: Committee

text: and

text: is

text: now

text: chairman

text: of

text: The

text: Elders

text: a

text: group

text: he

text: Mandela

text: and

text: Machel

text: founded

text: to

text: provide

text: a

text: mechanism

text: for

text: world

text: leaders

text: to

text: share

text: their

text: wisdom

text: F.W.

text: de

text: Klerk

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: that

text: group

text: But

text: he

text: recognizes

text: both

text: the

text: transformative

text: work

text: he

text: and

text: Mandela

text: did

text: in

text: the

text: and

text: the

text: troubles

text: the

text: country

text: still

text: faces

text: We

text: have

text: averted

text: a

text: catastrophe

text: the

text: new

text: South

text: Africa

text: with

text: all

text: these

text: big

text: problems

text: is

text: a

text: much

text: better

text: place

text: than

text: it

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: had

text: we

text: not

text: taken

text: the

text: initiatives

text: we

text: did

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: he

text: said

text: We

text: are

text: back

text: in

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: we

text: play

text: a

text: positive

text: good

text: role

text: on

text: the

text: problematic

text: continent

text: of

text: Africa

text: So

text: life

text: is

text: good

text: but

text: not

text: for

text: the

text: poor

text: And

text: no

text: one

text: is

text: more

text: keenly

text: aware

text: of

text: those

text: big

text: problems

text: than

text: Rolihlahla

text: Nelson

text: Mandela

text: now

text: known

text: fondly

text: in

text: South

text: Africa

text: by

text: his

text: clan

text: name

text: Madiba

text: He

text: saw

text: it

text: clearly

text: in

text: when

text: his

text: autobiography

text: Long

text: Walk

text: to

text: Freedom

text: was

text: published

text: I

text: have

text: traveled

text: this

text: long

text: road

text: to

text: freedom

text: he

text: wrote

text: I

text: trust

text: I

text: did

text: not

text: falter

text: I

text: made

text: missteps

text: along

text: the

text: way

text: But

text: I

text: have

text: discovered

text: the

text: secret

text: that

text: after

text: crossing

text: a

text: great

text: hill

text: one

text: only

text: finds

text: that

text: there

text: are

text: many

text: more

text: hills

text: to

text: cross

text: Twenty

text: years

text: ago

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: freedom

text: for

text: Mandela

text: no

text: freedom

text: for

text: black

text: South

text: Africans

text: There

text: may

text: be

text: more

text: hills

text: to

text: cross

text: but

text: those

text: black

text: South

text: Africans

text: are

text: no

text: longer

text: strangers

text: to

text: freedom

question: What its the crime of Mandela?

answer: opposing a government

text: opposing a government

question: What was Mandela convicted of in 1964?

answer: the crime of opposing a government that sought to enforce severe segregation laws with brutality.

text: the crime of opposing a government that sought to enforce severe segregation laws with brutality.

question: What was Mandela the first in his family to do?

answer: attend school,

text: attend school,

question: Who did Mandela share his Nobel Peace Prize with?

answer: de Klerk

text: de Klerk

question: Who was the frist of his family to attend school?

answer: Mandela

text: Mandela

question: What was Mandela?

answer: his country's most famous freedom fighter.

text: his country's most famous freedom fighter.