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March 29, 1998 New York Times

By JAMES BENNET

President Clinton commemorated the moral courage of the long struggle against apartheid here today, but he also turned his attention to the gritty, complex tasks of state-building, crime-fighting and economic development that have succeeded it.

In this sprawling collection of townships, the President and Hillary Rodham Clinton planted a tree at the memorial to the 13-year-old Hector Peterson, whose shooting death on June 16, 1976, led to riots and galvanized the anti-apartheid movement. The boy was the first black killed by the police while protesting a law mandating the use of Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers, in the schools.

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Mandated for use in schools, not in homes. The British in India taught English and that common language allowed communication throughout the country, a country with over 400 dialects.

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Mandated for use in schools, not in homes. The British in India taught English and that common language allowed communication throughout the country, a country with over 400 dialects.

And it's now allowing Indians to take American call-center jobs.

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"In this sprawling collection of townships, the President and Hillary Rodham Clinton planted a tree at the memorial to the 13-year-old Hector Peterson"

"We ate the Memorial Tree," said Mr. Gumbo...