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...stockholders, including unwelcome suitors, in a maneuver known as recapitalization. The idea is to create a debt-burdened company less attractive to raiders. Last week both publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986 revenues: $1.3 billion), of Orlando, and travel conglomerate Allegis (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion), of Elk Grove Township, Ill., made use of this shark repellent to fend off marauders...
...Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, at least five fire-bomb attacks took place last week against commuter trains, and an explosion ripped apart the rail line at Soweto's Nancefield Station, preventing thousands of black officeworkers from reaching their jobs in Johannesburg. The violence grew out of a six-week-long strike by 16,000 black transport workers...
...organization whose offices had previously been raided by police, last week won a court order against such harassment. But the next day police found the bodies of four black railway workers, who had been stabbed and burned, in the Johannesburg rail yards. A fifth body was discovered in Tembisa township, to the east of the city. White officials charged that the five had been killed by blacks for refusing to join the strike. Police once again raided the COSATU offices, this time armed with search warrants, and arrested twelve people...
...bloodshed began when a hand grenade came sailing out of the back of a truck as it sped past a police parade ground in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. The blast killed one black trainee and wounded 64 others. Six hours later, a bomb exploded under a parked car in the white suburb of Mayfair, shattering windows and starting a fire...
...violence was not limited to Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...