31.   The award honors the participation of U.S. figures in the campaign to end apartheid.

32.   That same year, Mandela was released from prison and the South African government began negotiations to end apartheid.

33.   The ban was lifted before the Barcelona Games during negotiations on ending apartheid, but South Africans won only two silver medals at Barcelona.

34.   The case has highlighted racial fault lines still dividing South Africa four years after all-race elections ended apartheid.

35.   The film attains even more significance than the earlier versions in light of efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.

36.   The mother of a black British teen-ager slain by white youths presented Nelson Mandela with a lifetime achievement award Thursday in recognition of his fight to end apartheid.

37.   The protest is considered the beginning of the final push to end apartheid.

38.   The resulting contempt trial has cast a spotlight on racial faultlines still evident four years after all-race elections ended apartheid.

39.   The singing of the national anthem became an issue Tuesday during a memorial service for Anglican Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, who had led the British campaign to end apartheid.

40.   The talks were considered the first step toward the eventual release of Mandela from prison and black-white negotiations on ending apartheid.