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...unable to leave the country by land, sea or air. Many were stranded on clogged roads with little money and no food. Some were herded into a Lagos airport terminal normally used by pilgrims departing for Mecca. The refugees were told they would be sent to Apapa, the main port of Lagos, for transport home by ship...
...since the Communist takeover in 1949 have U.S. Navy warships been permitted to enter Chinese waters. So when Peking last August agreed that American vessels could pay a port call, Washington laid plans to send three ships to Shanghai this spring. But last month the proposed visit hit an unexpected mine. Hu Yaobang, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that only "conventional" American ships would be welcome. Since the U.S. refuses as a matter of policy to state which of its vessels carry nuclear weapons, the two countries were at a diplomatic impasse. Last week Peking and Washington...
Last week, Mengistu made some promising moves. He ordered increased daily processing of supplies at Assab, Ethiopia's largest port, where 100,000 tons of grain have been stockpiled and are going to waste. He also announced that 70% of the country's commercial trucks would be made available for shuttling relief goods from Assab to the parched heartlands...
...deaths raised the already high tensions in black communities, where at least 30 blacks have died in outbreaks of violence. In New Brighton township, near Port Elizabeth, police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who, they said, was robbing a bus. The deaths increased political strains on the government of Executive President P.W. Botha. As liberal politicians pressed the government to hold an official inquiry into the deaths of Raditsela and Mutsi, the Afrikaner right wing was protesting relaxation of the apartheid laws. The latest move: an end to the plan that would force 700,000 blacks...
Patterson captained the Shreiver High School track team in Port Washington. N.Y., where she began developing her sprinting and field event talents...