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...prow angled high, the speedboat skims across an iridescent lagoon that shivers with wind-whipped chop. Just ahead looms the island city of Malé, bustling capital of the Republic of Maldives, about 400 miles southwest of the southern tip of India. Clearly visible is the low line of motorized dhonis tethered in the harbor, and just beyond the boats, a row of multistory buildings that seem to be floating like a mirage. Exactly where, I find myself wondering, does the sea end and the land begin? For Malé--with its crowded shopping streets, its lively fish market, its gold-domed...
Earlier, some 225 miles to the southwest of Johannesburg, police in the Orange Free State town of Brandfort raided the house of Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. They arrested 30 people after firing tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd. Mrs. Mandela, who has been banished to the remote location for the past eight years, was away at the time of the raid. She had obtained government permission to go to Johannesburg to see her doctor. In explaining their action, police said they had been stoned by protesters and then chased rioters who took refuge...
Ongoing through June. “Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbers Pottery of the American Southwest.” The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; students and seniors $6. Free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
Fisher immediately sent his divers to the area, and instructed them to investigate a 3-sq.-mi. patch of underwater reef ten miles southwest of the Marquesas. He was relying on the supposition that the Atocha had probably split asunder on the reef. But a small find that at first seemed encouraging led him astray. In 1973 Fisher's boat, the Virgalona, hauled up his first Atocha finds, an anchor and three silver bars, some two miles or so from the site that Fisher had targeted. Says McHaley: "I wish we had never found them. It was a false lead...
...their lives has changed hardly at all. South African whites rarely if ever visit black townships and have only the vaguest idea of what life in them is like. Says a Johannesburg travel agent: "Foreign visitors who take the scheduled bus tour to Soweto," the sprawling black township southwest of Johannesburg, "know more about the place than do most of the city's whites." Those tours were temporarily canceled a fortnight ago after a bus carrying American, German and British tourists was stoned by youths...