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...been at the helm for more than 24 hr., trying to stay in "good water." His eyes dart with worry as the Cavalier passes points that were mapped with sailors' lives: Icy Cape, Skull Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks...
...government's response to the ANC campaign has been to tighten up already formidable security measures against the repressed black majority. Last week, more than a hundred police swooped down on a black squatters' encampment near Cape Town and trucked 1,300 homeless black men, women and children off to jail, before sending them to rural reservations. On the military front, Defense Minister Magnus Malan has warned South Africans that "the revolutionary effort against us has reached an extremely dangerous phase." The Pretoria government two weeks ago raised the defense budget by 30% to an all-time high...
...scene outside two Massachusetts hospitals last week has become distressingly familiar at hospitals across the nation: nurses on a picket line. At Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, a walkout by 300 nurses last weekend resulted in a virtual shutdown of the facility, with only emergency room services being provided...
...flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
...backpedaling on the undertakings he gave the people of South Africa?" While members of South Africa's ruling National Party shifted uncomfortably in their green leather seats, Colin Eglin of the opposition Progressive Federal Party last week sent his questions ringing across the chamber of Cape Town's Parliament. The angry counterattack from South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha: "I am not a weakling who tries to satisfy everybody. I have my own ideas and pattern for leading South Africa." Some of Botha's ministers have echoed similar pious themes...