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...instruments over the area, hoping to catch the next iteration. The last quake occurred in 1966, so scientists figured the next would come around 1988. Instead, the 1966 quake was followed by a 38-year pause. Some speculate that another earthquake, which occurred on a nearby thrust fault in 1983, reset the seismic clock by altering the local stress field...
Pilots gave high praise to Captain Takahama for keeping his stricken 747 in the air for at least 32 minutes after the tail damage was sustained over Sagami Bay. "In spite of such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said...
...forefront of the right-wing thrust stands the Conservative Party, headed by Treurnicht, 64, a former National Party member and Cabinet minister who broke with Botha in 1982 over the issue of limited power sharing with nonwhites. When the President acted on his proposal for a tricameral Parliament, Treurnicht bolted the National Party, along with 16 other M.P.s, and formed his own party. Treurnicht, who is derided as "Dr. No" by his foes, aims his no-compromise rhetoric mainly at lower-class whites...
...shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said a Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens may finally get equal justice. Noted an elderly Communist intellectual: "At least our leaders seem to recognize that this problem exists. We cannot modernize unless everyone is more or less subject to the same legal system." SOUTH AFRICA Going on the Offensive...
...Congress overrode Reagan Administration objections, both Detroit and Miami were given a green light to begin work on People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although the rail system never got off the drawing board, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority decided to take the monorail money anyway...