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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...
...Bower sees it, the biggest roadblock to increasing production is Government price-control policy that "discourages the formation of the capital necessary to expand supplies, inhibits sensible planning and encourages wasteful consumption." Roadblock No. 2: Endless delays in the leasing of federal oil land, notably on the outer continental shelf, less than 5% of which has been let to oil explorers. Roadblock No. 3: The day-today uncertainty of Government regulation. State and federal rules are likely to change as often as every six months, making it virtually impossible to plan for long-term capital investments. Roadblock No. 4: Congressional...
Assad, who moved his troops into Lebanon to end "savage massacres" and remove a roadblock in the way of a Geneva conference, is currently the key figure in the peacemaking. In a 90-minute interview in Damascus with TIME's Wilton Wynn last week, he outlined his views on terms and timing of a settlement, on Palestinian participation, and on the need for the U.S. to be still more evenhanded in its Middle East dealings. Excerpts from the interview...
Before the Schaffer roadblock, Roberts had made short work of her first two opponents. In the first round she went' three sets against Heidi Ranz of U Mass, finishing strong to win, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Roberts' second match saw a "double bagel" job over Patty Finnegan of Holy Cross...
Twenty-four hours after the last evacuee struggled past the roadblock into the safety zone, the island was shaken by an earthquake that measured 4 points on the Richter scale. There were reports that the volcano might erupt at any moment with the force of a 350-kiloton nuclear explosion. The next day Professor Robert Brousse, 47, a burly volcanologist from the University of Paris, flew in an Alouette III helicopter over the volcano to see if it had begun to erupt. "We were over the sea when suddenly the cloud into which we were about to fly turned...