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...Christmas Day she visited Nelson Mandela for 40 minutes at Pollsmoor Prison, eight miles outside of Cape Town. Afterward she told reporters that the holiday visit had been the saddest in the 23 years her husband has been in jail. Reason: the 67-year-old black nationalist leader has been kept in solitary confinement in the prison hospital while recovering from a prostate-gland operation he underwent last month. "Christmas has ceased to be of any specific meaning to the oppressed people of this country," she declared. "Christmas has become a day of mourning...
Blackburn and Brian Bishop, a respected civil rights attorney, were killed while returning from a black township in the Eastern Cape, where they had been collecting affidavits from parents whose children were detained by security officials. Their car collided head on with an approaching vehicle. Bishop, Blackburn and the driver of the other vehicle were killed instantly...
...technique of a gifted and tormented periodontist. Nor is it always advisable for amateurs to try to reproduce the unforgettable scenes, like the one in which Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr tumble in the Hawaiian surf in From Here to Eternity. Those who attempt that on Cape Cod arise with abrasions on their shoulders and plankton in their sinuses...
Like a grim ghost ship, the broken space capsule sat on the ocean floor, 18 miles east of the launching pad at Cape Canaveral. Peering through the clear blue water of the Gulf Stream, U.S. Navy divers could make out the remains of several crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. The astronauts, some still strapped into their seats, had come to rest in 100 ft. of water after the long plunge from the sky on the icy morning last January that marked a crash landing for the U.S. space program...
...National Transportation Safety Board investigator: "The crew compartment was pressurized and sealed tight and welded into a kind of cocoon or bubble that may have suffered relatively little damage, briefly riding the top of that fire ball." Nonetheless, a pathology expert sent to examine the astronauts' remains at Cape Canaveral said, "it is likely that the crew was knocked unconscious immediately and felt nothing during the [three-to-four-minute] fall to the ocean. I want to guess that they were unconscious all the way down, if any of them really survived the fireball and breakup in flight." Some experts...