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...black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...
That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...
...first evidence of these virulent new bugs was detected in May at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, a port on the Indian Ocean, where five children ranging in age from three months to two years came down with unusually persistent cases of pneumonia. Three eventually died of meningitis. The two who recovered did so only after long treatment...
...effort in the U.S. has remained relatively low key. Taiwan supporters have pushed hard to get city councils and state legislatures to pass resolutions opposing the establishment of full relations with Peking "at the expense of Taiwan's interests" (21 legislatures have done so). Officials in the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung got their counterparts in Plains, Ga., to join in a sister-city declaration of friendship, and extended a come-visit invitation to Miss Lillian (she politely declined). In Washington the Koreagate scandal has cooled Taiwan's lobbying. Exchanges of cultural and economic missions continue. But because...
...about 15 years, the Soviet Union trained and armed the 22,000-man Somali army and helped make it one of the best fighting forces in Africa; it also built a missile and naval base at the Somali port of Berbera, which is strategically located near the approaches to the Red Sea. But three years ago, following the overthrow of Haile Selassie, the Soviets began to concentrate on improving their relations with the new junta in Ethiopia-and thus began to alienate the Somalis. The Cubans, who used to back the Eritreans, followed the Russians to Addis Ababa, and today...