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Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
—Students abandoned black schools
near Johannesburg and rioted
around Cape Town on Tuesday, one
year after bloody rent protests set
off a tide of violence against white
rule that has cost more than 650
lives.
Police and troops sealed off eight
black townships, including the two in
which the rent protests began Sept.
3, 1984.
The black National Union of Min-
eworkers said Tuesday night it had
“suspended” a two-day-old pay
strike against selected gold and coal
mines after a gold mine fired 5,000
of its 7,000 workers.
Gold Fields of South Africa said
earlier that it was “processing” the
workers dismissed from its Deelkraal
mine, west of Johannesburg. Mine
guards and police fired tear gas to
drive strikers away from a heavily
guarded dormitory block, where
management said 1,400 miners who
wanted to work took shelter.
The strike appeared to be crum
bling through the day. Manage
ments said only two gold mines re
mained struck, Deelkraal and the
General Mining Corp. operation at
Marievale.
In announcing the suspension,
the union said it was seeking a court
injunction to stop management from
sending dismissed miners back to
impoverished l lack homelands. It
said Marievale already had sent 300
miners home. There was no immedi
ate comment from the mine man
agement.
A black man was shot to death
Tuesday in the black Eastern Cape
township of Duncan Village, near
East London, when police fired on a
crowd during a gasoline bomb attack
on a police vehicle, national police
headquarters in Pretoria reported.
It also said students demonstrat
ing at the University of the North, in
the Lebowa tribal homeland, went
“on the rampage.” One student was
seriously wounded and five were ar
rested, it said.
In the huge black city of Soweto,
which houses 1.5 million people out
side Johannesburg, thousands of
high school students left classes and
roamed the streets. Residents said
the anniversary walkout spread rap
idly in a mixture of spontaneity and
coercion by militant students.
South Af rica’s currency, the rand,
traded at 41.50 cents against the dol
lar late Tuesday, down from 44.95
Monday despite strong suppon
from the central bank.
The bank has intervened sintt
foreign exchange and stock markets
reopened Monday after a five-dai
suspension. The suspension was or
dered last Tuesday when the rand
plunged to a record low of 34.811
cents.
The mine strike was to have in
volved 60,000 miners at five
and two coal mines. Union leaders
said 28,000 men walked out Mon
day, but management said the total
was fewer than half that.
South Africa’s military corn
mander, Gen. Gonstand Viljoen
said 45 white conscripts wereai
without leave from a parachute bar-
talion. He said in a statement thatnc
army could “tolerate the ciTci®
stances” of the disappearances fron
the Bloemf ontein base, but gave nr
other details.
Syncom 3 repaired
Shuttle returns triumphan
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Associated Press
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. —Space shuttle Discovery’s tri
umphant astronauts landed safely by
dawn’s early light Tuesday, complet
ing a “near-perfect” repair mission
in space that revived a lifeless $85
million satellite.
Discovery dropped out of a
brightening sunrise sky and mission
commander Joe Engle and pilot
Dick Covey guided the 100-ton craft
to a flawless landing down the cen
terline on the dry lakebed runway,
ending a week-long, 2.9 million-mile
voyage.
“Eddie (Edwards) looks beauti
ful,” said Engle, a former test pilot
who once flew airplanes at the desert
test flight center.
“Welcome home, Joe, and con
gratulations to the whole crew,” said
Mission Control.
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Jesse Moore, director of NASA’s
space shuttle program, said he was
delighted with the mission that in
cluded the “jump start” salvage of
the Syncom 3 satellite and the suc
cessful launch of three other satel
lites.
If Syncom 3 works when it is fired
toward a higher orbit next month, it
will become the first commercial sa
tellite salvaged in space.
“I have to characterize this as a
near-perfect mission,” said Moore at
a post-landing news conference. "It
clearly demonstrated the value of
people in space.”
During the week-long mission, the
astronauts launched three satellites
for commercial customers and then
stalked and captured the crippled
Syncom 3.
Syncom 3 was launched from the
shuttle last April, but failed to turn
itself on. Astronauts on that flight
tempted to activate it by brushing
switch with improvised fly-swatte
like snares. The switch moved, be
the satellite remained lifeless
Astronauts James “Ox" van He
ten and Bill Fisher, in two weekea:
spacewalks, muscled it onto Disce
ery’s robot arm. They then instalkt
an electronics box and a wiring hi’ i
ness to bypass the failed elect
circuit.
Van Hoften launched the I'/riu
satellite, heaving like a weighdifir
to give it a stabilizing spin of abo;
three revolutions per minute as
floated away.
Engineers at Hughes Commi
nications Inc., owner of the Synctm
reported its batteries and liquidi
eled rocket engines seem unda
maged, despite four inactive momlt
in tne supercold of space.
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