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...About half a mile away, Elijah Makagamatha, a black truck driver, triggered a similar device. He too was unharmed, but the blast shattered the legs of a passenger. The next day another mine explosion killed a 25-year-old black driving a tractor. As security officials combed the area, rocket attacks narrowly missed two coal-to-oil refineries at Secunda, near Johannesburg. The outlawed African National Congress called the attacks a "generalized escalation" of its struggle against apartheid...
...best thing to happen in America since the Democrats started spending their way into office [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no sane alternative. The country was headed for total bankruptcy. In five years, when the budget is balanced, the free-enterprise machine will take off like a rocket. James A. Worrell Oklahoma City...
...calm." That, quite obviously, was not true. Though the fighting faltered occasionally, it continued throughout the week. Eyewitnesses spoke of "deafening blasts" and "sky-high balls of flame" in the port. On Thursday, a Western diplomat in San'a, the capital of neighboring North Yemen, reported that gunfire and rocket exchanges had continued in Aden through the day, adding that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told of the explosion of an ammunition dump and of air-force bombing runs on Aden's airport and harbor, as rebel troops advanced on the presidential palace...
...scuttled, Syria allowed its Lebanese supporters to shell Gemayel's hometown of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut. Tank and artillery clashes between Druze militiamen and Christian forces shook Suq al Jharb, a hill town overlooking the Presidential Palace. In Beirut, meanwhile, there were exchanges of artillery and rocket fire across the line that divides the capital between Muslim and Christian sectors...
...clanking, metallic roar. Because of turbulence caused by sudden wind shifts, Challenger's crew had an especially rocky launch right from lift-off. Just 72 seconds into the flight--a second and a half before the explosion--the orbiter yawed suddenly to the right. As the righthand rocket booster broke loose, spewing superhot gases from a faulty joint, the shuttle's engines tried to compensate for the loss of pressure, and the crew must have felt swift side-to-side lurches...