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Meanwhile, Thatcher will pursue her last-ditch diplomatic initiative in an attempt to tame insistent calls for sanctions within the 49-member Commonwealth. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe will head to Pretoria with a two-pronged message for Botha: release imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela and lift the ban on the African National Congress. Though Botha has agreed to meet with Howe, the flurry of diplomacy is not expected to change the State President's position. Warned Botha last week: "We are a strong, proud nation with the faith and ability to ensure our future. We are not a nation...
Professors are not the only ones noted for their peculiar sense of humor. During the school's annual Ditch Day, seniors secure their rooms with a variety of fiendishly clever locks and barriers, then leave campus and challenge the wimps (underclassmen) to get in. This year one room was guarded by a computer that had to be addressed in several languages before the door could be opened. "I guess it sounds like a strange way to have fun," says Ky-Anh Phan, 19, a sophomore from San Jose, "but building strange things is what this place is all about...
What if a large asteroid or comet is discovered heading toward the earth? At the AGU meeting, Shoemaker and Colleague Alan Harris, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., suggested that the intruder could be diverted by landing a thrusting device on it. As a last-ditch effort, they say, a small nuclear warhead could be detonated on or near it. Says Shoemaker: "We have the technology to do that right now." But if the explosion simply broke the meteorite into large chunks, the danger would only be multiplied. "The more prudent solution," says Harris, "is to burrow...
Agnes Varda's remarkable film Vagabond begins with Mona's end (she is found frozen to death in a ditch) and then recounts the last months of her life through a series of recollections by the people she met on her lonesome road, all of whose insights into her character or motives are banal. The director's style is as bleakly austere as her subject's life. Varda's camera is nearly always at an objectifying distance from Mona, her editing as abrupt as the small changes in the journey's rhythm (here a spot of comfort, there a moment...
Undaunted, Nakasone's planners came up with a last-ditch ploy: to call the lower house of parliament into special session to debate relief measures for the yen. By preventing parliament from recessing, the Prime Minister could exercise his power to dissolve the lower house and call elections. If that happens, political observers give Nakasone a good chance of revising the party's restrictive rule. "It is a document that is easy to change," said an L.D.P. official. If Nakasone fails in his bid for new elections, however, his chances for another term are slim indeed...