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...cloud seeding is back, especially in Australia. Energy company Snowy Hydro, for example, is trying to replenish dwindling snowfall in the not-so-Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. But what's special about the Queensland project, says Roelof Bruintjes, a cloud-seeding expert with the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, is that, for the first time, scientists will be able to take full advantage of a simple premise: some clouds are better for seeding than others. Up to now, the right weather-measuring tools have never been in the right program at the right time. Starting in November...
According to Roelof Bruintjes, a cloud seeding expert with the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, what's different about the Queensland project is that for the first time, scientists will be able to take full advantage of a simple premise: some clouds are better for seeding than others. Up to now, the right weather-measuring tools have never been in the right program at the right time. Starting in November, they will be. A project staff of about 30 will use a recently installed CP2 Doppler radar to analyze what's happening in the regions' clouds before, during...
...that Mandela and De Klerk at one point broke off all personal contacts, communicating only through letters and public statements. But both had invested too much in the process to let it founder. Shrewdly, they delegated the day-to-day haggling to subordinates. And the leading understudies, government minister Roelof Meyer, 46, and A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, 41, eventually came through with the crucial compromise: an agreement to establish a government of national unity for five years after the first free elections in April. Full-scale majority- rule democracy would arrive, with some time allowed for all South Africans...
South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha denounced the A.N.C.'s unprecedented deployment of mines on roads. He said investigators had discovered "tracks" leading to the Zimbabwe border and warned that South African troops would pursue the saboteurs into Zimbabwe if the attacks continued. The Foreign Ministers of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, denied that A.N.C. guerrillas maintained bases in their countries and protested Botha's threat "in the strongest possible terms." NORTHERN IRELAND Anger in Parliament...
...minority government. Over the past five weeks, 13 whites have died in explosions that are believed to have been the work of the A.N.C. Accusing Lesotho of allowing the outlawed organization to give "crash courses in the use of explosives" to militants who flee into the country, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha initiated the slowdown at the border. Lesotho has long angered its neighbor by its open expressions of solidarity with the A.N.C. and its willingness to accept South African refugees...