1.   Onlookers in the packed congressional galleries clamored to show affection and pay homage to the man who led South Africa from the oppressive system of apartheid.

2.   There also are pushy parents and oppressive systems that crank out the occasional champion at the expense of many also-rans.

3.   They are no longer interested in shedding the yoke of what was an oppressive judicial system that had authorized human rights abuses.

4.   True, they were party members, which was the passport to advancement, and believed that change for the better was possible in the oppressive East German system.