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...month of emergency rule in 36 magisterial districts, the country is in greater upheaval than it has been for at least a quarter-century. The number of people arrested without charges, most of them black, approached 1,500 last week, though about 700 have since been released. The death toll since the emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral...
Between Wednesday and Thursday, the reported death toll in Natal jumped from four to 19. Most of the victims had apparently been coming from a memorial service for Mxenge in Umlazi township. Local newspapers reported that 16 people were dead on arrival at King Edward VIII Hospital. On Friday, some 300 people were admitted to hospitals with gunshot or assault wounds...
...goes to a supermarket to seek investment advice, but some shoppers can find a hot tip in the freezer department. "Scoop up our stock," reads the message on cartons of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Customers are invited to call a toll-free number for a preliminary prospectus on a new issue of 500,000 shares of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. Expected share price...
...downturn already rivals the depressions that have struck car-and steelmakers in recent years. Some 64,000 semiconductor employees have been laid off in the past ten months, a toll that equals 19% of the industry's U.S. work force. The top five chip producers, including Intel, Motorola and Advanced Micro Devices, lost a total of $195 million in the quarter ending in September, and the red ink keeps flowing...
...TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join the TIME team. Unlike Mexico City immediately after its earthquake, Bogotá had a functioning airport and telex and telephone lines were intact. Still, to get to the Nevado...