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...national scale, violence abated slightly, but disturbances boiled up in the huge township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, as police attempted to get students to return to their classrooms, on one occasion arresting more than 700. Near Cape Town, an angry crowd killed a plainclothesman after he fired at mourners following a funeral. Said General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner: "We do not have a state of war or revolution in this country." Still, unrest and violence remain daily features of South Africa's life...
...outset." Well, not exactly. Discovery's launch had been postponed twice at the last minute, first by bad weather, then by a faulty backup computer. The third try seemed doomed to failure too when the storm system that later spawned Hurricane Elena darkened the sky and began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA officials were determined to make this one good. Stretching the agency's own rules, which forbid blast-offs in the rain or through clouds that could generate lightning, they spotted a thinned-out area of clouds overhead and ordered a launch...
...decisive manner. But all the signs last week pointed toward continuing intransigence and spreading violence. One evening a crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes before being driven away by white residents who fired at them with pistols and shotguns. Later, police arrested two young men who had been wounded...
...government and the violence we have seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...
...widespread rioting in the townships. Several thousand marchers, led by clergymen, headed down Kromboom Road toward the prison. The police charged the procession, forcing the marchers to break and run. A group of clergymen and nuns refused to leave the scene and were arrested. Students at the University of Cape Town tried to march on the nearby Groote Schuur estate, which contains the official residence of President Botha, but they too were turned back. Later in the day, when it was clear that the march in Cape Town could not succeed, Boesak's wife Dorothy appeared at a press conference...