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Auckland police said the explosions were detonated "on the outside of the hull in the area of the engine room." New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange called the bombing a "major criminal act." Lange, who has banned port calls by nuclear-armed or -powered ships, said he would consider sending a New Zealand naval vessel to lead the Mururoa protest. The Rainbow Warrior was one of four ships used by Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group. "Our actions are all peaceful," said Bryn Jones, chairman of the organization's British branch. "We have not in the past provoked this kind...
...investigation got under way, the Port Elizabeth police hinted to the local press that the Azanian People's Organization, or Azapo, a militant group which excludes whites, may have been behind Goniwe's slaying. But both Azapo and the U.D.F. have rejected that theory. Derrick Swartz, a U.D.F. leader in the Eastern Cape, pointed out that given Goniwe's determination not to stop the car, an Azapo hit squad would have had to force the vehicle off the road. The car, however, showed no damage that might indicate a chase or a struggle...
Sensitive to charges of official complicity in the four murders, the Port Elizabeth police have launched an investigation, and the government has offered a $500 reward for information on the killers. But black residents are skeptical that justice will be served. Last week they took matters into their own hands and initiated the boycott of white stores. The boycott committee also drew up a list of demands that included the return of three other U.D.F. leaders, who disappeared on May 8, and the withdrawal of government security forces from the townships...
...another kind of curse. A heavy deluge produced flash floods that raced through long-dry riverbeds and rushed over brick-hard earth, turning airstrips into quagmires and rendering roads and rail lines impassable. The torrent washed out a vital railroad bridge that linked the region to Port Sudan, cutting off hundreds of thousands of famine victims from emergency food supplies...
...When I regained consciousness, I found myself lying in a warehouse, which was turned into a hospital, near the Ujina port. The Ujina port is at a good distance from the Miyuki Bridge. Soldiers had carried me to the warehouse. There I waited. I remembered my fear at the sight of the bodies in the river. I saw not a single fish. That river was always full of fish. The whole area between my school and the Miyuki Bridge had looked so different. That was where Hiroshima University had stood. A railroad operated in that neighborhood. A Red Cross hospital...