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Show World welcomes New Year with fireworks, revelry By ROBERT SEELY Associated Press Writer 7Ti u LONDON Fireworks Hazed over Sydney harbor, Europeans uncorked champagne for a new currency, and a monk in Tokyo rang out the past year's woes as partygoers the world over celebrated the start of the New Year. 100 singers and .i About dancers rocked Berlin with an open air party and a midnight fireworks show illuminating its famed Brandenburg Gate. This New Year is especially historic for Germans because later this jjear Berlin once again becomes the capital of a united Germany. ! Europe embraced 1999 with its own form of, unity: Champagne bottles popped and scores of balloons soared into the air to mark the launching of the new euro currency in 11 European countties. I French President Jacques (Shirac looked to a promising future in his New Year's Eve address, saying the euro "will bring us more stability in an uncertain world." Not everyone in Europe was In Frankfurt, celebrating. headquarters of the new European Central Bank that will oversee euro policy, employees worked feverishly Thursday to adjust computer records for the new currency which for now will be used only in electronic transactions. In Scotland where New Year's is called Hogmanay the residents of Edinburgh celebrated with concerts, bagpipe players and fireworks. The Welsh capital, Cardiff, began a three-daevent reviving the Celtic tradition of giving gifts at New Year's, complete with a lantern procession, live bands and a fireworks display. More than 6,000 American cheerleaders and band musicians flew into London to march in its New Year's Day parade on Friday. In his last New Year's message before leaving office, President Nelson Mandela called on South Africans to work together to solve poverty and corruption the legacies of decades of apartheid rule. The New Year will bring many changes," Mandela said. They will depend on our working together to realize our dream." President Russian Boris Yeltsin hoped 1999 would be an over the past improvement year, when his country was hit by economic disaster and he was plagued by bad health. "What can I say? The year was difficult for the country, for many of you, and for me, too. But New Year's Eve is always about new hopes, new dreams, new plans," Yeltsin said. y In Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahem spoke of 1998's Good Friday peace : agreement in British-ruleNorthern Ireland. "The fantastic support of people ... for an agreed Ireland of dialogue, mutual respect and common endeavor is the surest guarantee yet that we will succeed in making this an island eff peace and prosperity for all especially for our children," Ahem said. GwLnjiiLbn On d Associated Press Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. 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