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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...
...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...
Some skittish firms turn to buyouts to escape unwelcome suitors. "Management has often used them as a weapon to defend against hostile takeovers," says Burton Malkiel, dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management. Directors of Storer Communications, a major cable-TV operator, voted last summer to take the company private for $93.50 a share, rather than accept a $95-to-$96 bid from Comcast, a smaller cable company. Revlon pursued a similar path last month when it arranged a complex $1.8 billion transaction that would break up the cosmetics firm but keep it out of the hands...
...Editors: Your article stressed "disarray in diplomacy" vis-à-vis Egypt and Italy [TERRORISM, Oct. 28]. President Reagan is the elected head not of those two nations but of the U.S. His leadership correctly reflected his constitutional obligation to defend American lives at home and abroad. Marvin Alisky Tempe, Ariz...
...POSSIBLE BOYCOTT. We are not going to boycott the election, even if we know it is going to be dirty. The people want a chance to participate. Whether it's dirty or clean, they want a chance to defend their ballot...