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...arrested thousands of opponents, but a new crackdown last week is a milestone in the Pretoria government's retrenchment against change. Last Thursday the government announced new press restrictions that destroyed any pretense of a free press, and on Friday the police carried out a self-proclaimed "swoop," rounding up not only opposition activists, but also reporters and even two Swiss citizens in neighboring Swaziland...
Remote airstrips in the Oregon hills and Idaho flats are buzzing with traffic as planes from as far away as Maine and Tennessee swoop in, bringing assistance from all over the country and swelling the local fire-fighting ranks from 6,000 to 17,000. Four C-141 transports loaned by the U.S. Air Force are bringing in reinforcements and supplies, while 36 helicopters fight the blazes from above. Tent cities are springing up in places with names like Sled Springs, near major conflagrations. Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior...
...York Philharmonic will play in Central Park. On July 6, the closing ceremony in New Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra will croon while audiences swoon, and more than 12,000 immigrants will pledge undying allegiance to their new country...
Some residents, including English professor andplaywright William Alfred, long for the days ofcorner drug stores and cheap groceries andrestaurants. The Athens St. resident recalls whenVie de France at 1100 Mass. Avenue replaced agrocery store, a Chinese laundry, and aninexpensive Japanese restaurant in one fell swoop...
...precise path, it enabled them to make accurate last-minute corrections in the courses of Vega 2 and Giotto. The second Vega was to pass within 5,000 miles of the comet on March 9, supplementing Vega 1's findings. Giotto's mission four days later was to swoop to about 300 miles of the nucleus, shooting close-up pictures as it passed. Precision pathfinding was less important for the Japanese craft. Suisei, designed to study the huge hydrogen gas cloud surrounding Halley's, was targeted to fly by the comet at a distance of almost 100,000 miles. Sakigake...