The unexpected gesture between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service recalls earlier similarly unlikely pairings.
BARACK Obama and Raul Castro’s public handshake at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday was the first such greeeting between US and Cuban leaders since Raul’s brother Fidel took power in the 1950s. Here are four earlier pairings once thought similarly unlikely:
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