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...meantime, eleven more West European nations and Australia announced that they were withdrawing their ambassadors from Pretoria for "consultations." And in Washington, Congress took its toughest position yet against South Africa's racial policies. Late in the week the House of Representatives voted 380 to 48 for a package of economic sanctions to be imposed against South Africa, but the Senate delayed action until September after opponents of the bill threatened a filibuster to defeat...
...schools conduct 45-, 60-or 90-day sessions, with different student groups on overlapping schedules that provide short breaks in between. The program is most popular in California, which runs three-quarters of the nation's YRE schools. Los Angeles, where year-round programs were launched at two schools eleven years ago, now has 130,000 youngsters (23% of the city's 565,570 public school students) attending year-round classes in 95 schools at all levels. In nearby Oxnard, yearlong attendance has jumped to 7,700 of the district's 11,100 pupils, after starting in two schools...
...meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking him after the Nice race...
Still another source of pressure at home was the decision by black miners to declare a strike on Aug. 25. Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, announced that his union would walk out of 18 gold mines and eleven coal mines unless the Chamber of Mines increases the pay hike that went into effect on July 1. That increase ranged between 14% and 19.6%, but the union wants an across-the-board raise of 22%. The union claims it can get 240,000 workers to walk out. The Chamber of Mines, the trade association that handles...
Under pressure from the U.S., Japan agreed last November to put its sperm whalers, among the last practitioners of an ancient profession, out of business by 1988. American conservationists, who consider whaling a senseless slaughter of an endangered species, were not satisfied. Greenpeace and eleven other environmental groups sued the U.S. Government, charging that amendments to two separate conservation laws require in effect that the Administration impose economic sanctions on Japan for its whaling operations...