University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 14, 1988
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Atlantis crew preparing for classified space flight
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A two-day countdown simulation began yesterday as part of preparation for the mission scheduled late this month.
The five astronauts who will make the flight will board the shuttle Atlantis today for the final two hours of the rehearsal to test communications and run through checklists and other launch day procedures.
The target for the launch is Nov. 30, but a firm date won't be set until shuttle managers complete a flight
readiness review Wednesday.
Most details about the flight are cloaked in secrecy because Atlantis will be carrying a Defense Department payload, which sources report it as a de-geering satellite intended to fly over 80 percent of the Soviet Union.
The astronauts flew here Saturday from the Johnson Space Center in Houston for three days of special training. Then they counted down was underway, they went to the launch pad to be briefed on procedures in case of a fire.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Plans by the far-right Conservative Party to resegregate facilities in about 100 towns have set off fears of a black backlash at home and tougher sanctions from abroad.
The Associated Press
Nearly 400 Conservative Party town councillors, who were elected Oct. 26 in nationwide balloting, held a closed-door meeting Saturday in Pretoria to plan the party's pro-apartheid strategy on the local level.
Resegregation strategy in works
The party, which campaigned on a promise to return the "whites only" slaves, managed to get about 100 towns, mostly in Transvaal, the most populous province.
The National Party, which controls Parliament, has in recent years rescinded many of the so-called "petty apartheid" laws. Restaurants, bars, hotels and cinemas began opening to all races.
But the Separate Amenities Act, which allows town councils to segregate facilities on the basis of race, remains on the books.
will ask the national government to reverse previous declarations opening downtown business districts to all races. They pledge to make all public facilities in cities off-limits to blacks who live in outlying townships.
The municipal councils have no authority to order owners of facilities to resegregate private premises. They also have the power under licensing and zoning ordinances to make life difficult for businesses who cater to all races.
Conservative Party leader Andries Treunricht said the party was not turning back the clock," but he would have people to have their own communities."
Conservative spokesmen say they
ill revitalize the efforts of foreign groups seeking greater economic and political isolation of South Africa.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 30 political parties are battling over 217 seats in the National Assembly, but Pakistan's first free elections in a decade have been backed by a majority and supporters of two slain leaders.
South Africa has by law and by custom imposed a policy of apartheid under which the 26 million blacks have no voice in national affairs, which are controlled by the 5 million whites.
In some cities the Conservative Party controls, segregation has been ended. In many apartments have signed automatized apartment laws have been removed in many places.
Several commentators predicted the new Conservative strategy would
In many cities, parks, public facilities and transportation remain segregated.
leader of the left-leaning Pakistan People's Party.
Pakistan's 48 million eligible voters, three-fourths of them illiterate, can choose between symbols at the 33,300 polling booths around the country. An arrow is for Bhutto's party, a bicycle for Zia loyalists and a lantern for backers of Pushtun separatist leader Abdul Wali Khan.
Pakistani elections Wednesday
Wednesday's contest pits right-wing loyalists of former President Mohammed Zia ila hua against Benevento leader Giuseppe Zufikar, Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and
The Associated Press
Zia's rule also ended in death on Aug. 17, when Zia, U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel and 28 others were killed in a transport plane crash.
In Johannesburg, controlled by President P.W. Botha's National Party, blacks who try to get on buses designated for whites often are rudely ordered off by drivers.
GANG WARFARE CONTINUES: Drug-dealing gang members in Los Angeles are murdering in record numbers despite police sweeps and the mayor's pledge to "take these terrorists off the streets." But authorities insist the battle is being won in target areas such as south-central Los Angeles and say those successes are not reflected in the numbers. Police Department figures show gang-related homicides rose three-fold in October compared with the same month last year, from 11 to 33. For the year through Oct. 31, they were up nearly 25 percent, from 166
News Roundup
in 1987 to 207
MANDELA MAY BE RELEASED: A representative of the African National Congress said Saturday that the South African government may release black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela as early as tomorrow. Mandela, the 70-year-old leader of the ANC jailed 27 years ago, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to overthrow the government. He was transferred from prison to a hospital in August for treatment of tuberculosis. Since then, it has
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**SPAIN FLOODS:** Three days of heavy rain on the Mediterranean coast flooded rivers and highways in Spain, damaged hundreds of homes and left five people dead and three missing, police said yesterday. Police said firefighters evacuated more than 800 people from flooded homes in the Barcelona province.
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