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...with the 1980 bombing of fuel storage tanks at South Africa's SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack ever staged in the country, with damage estimated at $7.2 million. Shabangu had thrown a grenade into the home of a black policeman in the sprawling black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Tsotsobe had been involved in an armed assault on a Johannesburg police station and in several bombings. As the authorities made clear during the trial, the three men were only part of an increasingly warlike campaign against the government: there have been 38 ANC attacks...
...shortage of skilled workers has gradually been building. Even the least academically inclined high school graduates now set their sights on college rather than on a technical education. Says Karl Sjogren, 60, a Finnish immigrant who owns a one-man tool-and-die shop in Redford Township, Mich.: "My son is not interested in this at all. He is an auditor for a big company...
Some weekends, as many as 500 fishermen at a time take to the Lake Erie ice along Jerusalem Township, Ohio, and the shores of Lucas County echo to the noise of chain saws cutting fishing holes. That's how it is on Sunday. Fishermen arrive in force, some driving out onto the ice in pickup trucks to set up the shanties they use for protection, others pulling sledges loaded with equipment and six-packs of beer, still others zinging along in snowmobiles. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, a moderate offshore wind is blowing out of the southeast. North...
Near shore, the rescue proceeds smoothly. But more than 80 fishermen are still stranded farther out on the ice. Jerusalem Township Fire Chief Joe Verb and Rescue Captain Bill Miller have commandeered 20 boats. But Verb is hopping mad. Not only is the Coast Guard unable to provide helicopters (they are grounded in Michigan by fog), but it turns up with what the chief considers totally inadequate rescue support. "What the hell's one 14-ft. boat and five guys going to do in a five-mile area?" he storms. Verb also believes the ice break was caused...
...their escape. Will they go back to fish ing once the ice refreezes? Fishing maniacs aside, these are hard tunes in the Great Lakes states. A rescued fisherman says: "I need to fish to feed my family." This year has seen the revival of the Depression-era ice-fishing "township" called Smeltonia, near Boyne City, Mich. In Ohio, jobs are scarce, and after a year of recession and high unemployment, benefits are running...