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...negative images to the outside world, the government banned such equipment from emergency areas and required reporters to request permission to enter these zones. The press was permitted to cover the Alexandra funeral, which was attended by several leading activists, including Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Spiritual Leader Nelson Mandela, but cameras were still prohibited. The CBS journalists say they will appeal their expulsion. But even if they are allowed to stay, it seems clear that the press will continue to labor under emergency-style restrictions. So, too, will the rest of the country...
...separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...fire at New York's Belmont Park, producing a momentary headline as familiar as the chill of winter. By the standards of today's racing business, which is to say the standards of Arabian sheiks, it was an undistinguished lot, though three of the horses belonged to Nelson Bunker Hunt, a man of redoubtable means, and all but nine were trained by Johnny Campo, who saddled Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Pleasant Colony in 1981. That fine spring, Campo became as prominent as his stomach, holding forth on the unsentimental subject of cheap horses, crows as he is wont...
...Nelson's piece on abortion, "A Mockery Of Choice," received an honorable mention...
Meanwhile, a regional court in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, withdrew charges against Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, for violating her banning order, a legal device that places restrictions on her movements. Mandela is currently challenging the validity of the banning order before South Africa's Supreme Court. If the ban is upheld, the charges in the regional court may be reactivated. Even less clear is the disposition of investigations opened into the activities of several journalists. If formal charges are brought, it will be the first time that journalists have been criminally charged since...