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FD-350 (ReV. 5-8-81) I ate page, name of Newspaper, city and state.) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) $ate: 11/22/00;A-1&7 dition: The Commercial Appeal 'Living hero' Mandela tle: 'Living hero' Mandela accepts award, says poverty main accepts award threat to freedom. says poverty main Character:300A-ME-54720 or Classification: threat to freedom Submitting Office: Memphis By Tom Bailey Jr. The text of Nelson Indexing: The Commercial Appeal Mandela's speech. A7 The greatest long-term threat to freedom everywhereis the mark African shirt, never men- growing divide between the tioned Dr. Martin Luther King rich and poor, Nelson Mandela Jr., but alluded to Memphis's told 1,500 people at The sacred place in the history of Peabody Tuesday night.. civil rights. The black-tie throng over- "For a South African to be flowed the hotel's Memphis honored here tonight in this Ballroom to see the revered place and by this body inspires freedom fighter receive the Na- as it reminds us again of the in- tional Civil Rights Museum's In- divisibility of human freedom," ternational Freedom Award. the 82-year-old world hero said. Mandela, wearing his trade-. "No flash! No flash!" yelled his entourage to photographers as ted the first black president of Mandela slowly walked through South Africa in 1994, servedone the mezzanine to the ballroom. term and stepped down last The plea served as a reminder year. of Mandela's historic, 27-year He beamed that famous en- imprisonment by the South Af- dearing smile, but his speech rican government for his fight revealed the fire still inside. against apartheid. His eyes He did not allow the affluent- have been sensitivetolight ever looking audience to enjoy in since he was forced to work in complete comfort its meal of glaring-white lime quarries as a. stuffed capon 'and mixed vege- prisoner. tables. Mandela was freed in 1990 and The world produces far in ex-- negotiated an end to the oppres- cess of what's required to feed, sion of black South Africans by clothe and shelter the world's the white minority. He was elec- ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 04-01-2014 BY NSICC F54M93K42 b7E Reviewed By