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...course, since members of the council were transporting loose ballots and unsealed envelopes from the dining halls to the council office, there was ample opportunity to remove "yes" votes and replace them with "no" votes. None of us have any way of knowing whether this occurred. To reduce the likelihood of further problems, I asked Mr. Liston if I could supply special envelopes to the ballot table during each meal, and if I could request that the completed ballots be sealed in the envelope prior to leaving the ballot table. He agreed to this instruction, and I posted a sign...
...before she went to vote, Gladys Mswele, 60, a farmer in the hilly country north of Durban, did not sleep well. "I was thinking about this all night," she said, as she rose before dawn to walk the two miles to the main road, where she patiently waited for transport to her polling place. "This is our day." Seven hours later, she made her X next to the party of her choice. Voting, she said, as she rested after the long journey home, "is hard labor. But we have done our duty." On Saturday A.N.C. Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa confidently...
Somewhere over the Altai Mountains, experts at Montreal's International Air Transport Association now believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski's 15-year-old son -- who, with his sister, was apparently receiving a lesson from Dad on how to fly the plane -- inexplicably may have disengaged the plane's autopilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control...
...cure other diseases through so-called gene therapy. Attempts to vaccinate people by using a weakened strain of HIV may turn out to be dangerous: the inoculation might offer protection against AIDS but cause a cancer. Doctors now experimenting with gene therapy use retroviruses as molecular taxis to transport bits of fresh genetic material into cells in an attempt to replace defective genes. Gene therapists say the retroviruses have been altered so that they cannot reproduce. Yet the scientists acknowledge a small risk that the viruses could cause cancer...
...first nationwide walkout by truckers since 1979, as many as 75,000 Teamsters struck to protest plans by shipping companies to hire part-timers and to send more goods by rail. Many of the 22 companies transport raw materials and parts, so even though there were some delays, there was no immediate impact on consumers...