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  1. 4. South African President who ended apartheid.
  2. 5. 1987 stock market crash known as Black Monday.
  3. 7. Russian leader who followed Gorbachev.
  4. 12. Cyclist who faced a dramatic fall from grace due to doping.
  5. 15. Author of "Soul on Ice" and key figure in the Black Panther Party.
  6. 16. 1979 hostage crisis where U.S. embassy staff were held.
  7. 17. Term describing the division between East and West Europe during the Cold War.
  8. 18. 1992 standoff in Idaho between the government and an individual.
  9. 19. Group of major industrial nations' annual economic meetings.
Down
  1. 1. Leader of solidarność and later President of Poland.
  2. 2. Resort in South Africa boycotted during apartheid.
  3. 3. Korean airliner shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983.
  4. 4. Code name for the Gulf War military operations.
  5. 6. 1989 Chinese prodemocracy protests brutally suppressed.
  6. 8. Project that developed the first nuclear weapons.
  7. 9. PostWWII population surge leading to the Boomer generation.
  8. 10. Peaceful split of Czechoslovakia into two countries in 1993.
  9. 11. 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.
  10. 13. His 1991 beating led to L.A. riots after the acquittal of the officers.
  11. 14. Last leader of the Soviet Union.