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...treason case was said to be the country's biggest political trial since Nelson Mandela, leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), was imprisoned for life in 1964. A few days before the latest trial began, Victoria Mxenge, a prominent black lawyer who was to have helped defend the 16, was shot to death by four unidentified blacks as she was about to enter her home outside Durban. Black leaders blamed the government, while the authorities said the slaying was the result of a split between the U.D.F. and the followers of Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi. Whatever the truth...
...Director William Colby took the podium to defend the need for covert actions. Joan Mondale, wife of the former Vice President, made the case for government funding for art. Former Representative Shirley Chisholm attacked Reagan Administration cutbacks in social programs...
...Jima had cost more American casualties than D-day; on Okinawa, 79,000 U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. As the U.S. readied plans to invade the main islands, Japan was deploying up to 2 million soldiers and additional millions of "auxiliaries" who were clearly prepared to defend their homeland to the death. It was easy to believe estimates that an invasion would result in as many as a million American casualties, plus many more Japanese. The Bomb offered the chance of ending the war and saving lives...
...communicate with students that they should not be illegally downloading material, and if they do, they run the risk of having to obtain lawyers and defend themselves from lawsuits,” he said. “Students...are certainly intelligent enough to understand that...
...expected to contain tens of thousands of errors. Some of these could be eliminated by testing component parts one at a time. But when these components are finally put together, new bugs inevitably turn up. For example, in the first field trial of Aegis, a computerized system designed to defend naval ships from air attack, the weapon failed to stop six of 16 targets. Aegis' faulty software was eventually debugged, but for the Star Wars program, there may be no second chance...