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When Winnie Mandela appeared after a visit to her husband at the Victor Verster prison farm near Cape Town last week, she was radiant and smiling. For the first time Nelson Mandela had talked about making arrangements for his homecoming. According to family lawyer Dullah Omar, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962 was "buoyant, confident and raring...
...deceiving. A closer look at the seemingly lifeless land- and seascape reveals an amazing abundance of life. Like most of the coastal waters around the continent, McMurdo Sound is filled with plankton and fish, and its thick ice is perforated by the breathing holes of Weddell seals. Nearby Cape Royds is home to thousands of Adelie penguins, which hatch their eggs in the world's southernmost rookery. Skuas -- seagull-like scavenger birds -- scout the breathing holes and the margins between sea ice and land, seeking seal carcasses and unguarded baby penguins to feast on. The ice itself is permeated with...
...inhabitants of these bases have been notoriously careless, often discarding trash in ways that would be illegal at home. But their actions went largely unnoticed until January 1987, when Greenpeace became the first nongovernment organization to establish a permanent Antarctic base, located at Cape Evans, some 24 km (15 miles) north of McMurdo Station. The group has mounted annual inspection tours of dozens of bases. It was Greenpeace that publicized McMurdo's continued dumping of untreated sewage into the sea and burning of trash in an open-air pit. The waters right off the station are reportedly more polluted with...
...where he is serving his 26th year of a life sentence for plotting to overthrow white rule. Most of his powwows have been with leaders of rival antigovernment groups. But last week Mandela, 71, a leader of the banned African National Congress (A.N.C.), traveled under escort 30 miles to Cape Town for his first meeting with Botha's successor, President F.W. de Klerk. By granting his request for a meeting, De Klerk signaled that Mandela will play a crucial role in proposed negotiations aimed at giving black South Africans the right to vote...
...cancellation of a test-firing of the Trident 2 missile last July by hanging an antinuclear banner on the communications mast of an American submarine, the Navy vowed that it would never again be similarly embarrassed. Last week, when the U.S.S. Tennessee launched a Trident 50 miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., the protesters discovered how determined the Navy...