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...drove up to the stadium. But the remaining 8,000 or so people quickly recognized the woman who emerged from the car, and they escorted her into the stadium shouting, "Winnie! Winnie! Mother of the nation!" To their surprise and pleasure, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela, addressed the crowd. "This is our country," she told them. "As you have had to bury our children today, so shall the blood of these heroes be avenged...
...temperature of the blood will be monitored in orbit by Representative William Nelson (D-Fla.), whose district includes the Cape Canaveral launch site...
...Nelson, who will be the second politician in space--after space sickness expert Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah)--will participate in the Harvard-affiliated experiment. However, Diller stressed that Nelson "will not evaluate the experiment, only make sure the parameters are adhered to and that they are executed properly...
...Nelson is "very enthusiastic" about the mission and has prepared extensively for the experiments, said James F. Sutherland, Nelson's administrative assistant. "He has been taken up in airplanes with the doctors and has learned how to do the experiments in near-zero gravity," Sutherland said...
...Nelson will tend the blood in a locker on the shuttle and keep it at normal blood bank temperature, while a controlled sample will be isolated at the same temperature on earth. Sutherland said that "the temperature should not vary more than 2 degrees," and if it does "then Nelson will not have done his job right...