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■ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — Gunmen attacked the cen
tral police station in the Transkei
black homeland with grenades and
Biles, killing seven people, and a
iPflfBovernment minister in KvvaNde-
fi|cle homeland was blown up in his
BBtr, officials said Wednesday.
I The violence Tuesday night
^Hrought to 202 the death toll from
^^^Bolitical unrest since a state oi emer-
l||Bency was declared June 12.
■ South Africa’s currency dropped
^Wednesday in reaction to President
^■.W. Botha’s rejection of British
^■oreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey
^Wowe’s suggestions for peaceful ne-
^Botiations to end apartheid.
■ The rand opened at about 38
cents, down a cent from its closing
value Tuesday, and ended the day at
38.5 cents.
Piet Ntuli, KwaNdebele’s minister
of home affairs, was alone in his car
when it was torn apart by explosives,
according to the government’s Bu
reau for Information.
A plan to make KwaNdbele inde
pendent in December is bitterly op
posed by anti-apartheid activists and
some tribal leaders.
The KwaNdebele areas north of
Pretoria, the South African capital,
have been virtually closed to outsid
ers, as gangs opposed to homeland
government policies have battled se
curity forces and an armed group
reportedly headed by Ntuli.
Transkei’s police commissioner,
Gen. R.S. Mantanga, told a news
conference in the homeland’s capi
tal, Umtata, that three police officers
and four civilians were killed when
attackers struck about 10 p.m. with
hand grenades and AK-47 rifles.
He said seven other police officers
and two civilians were injured in the
assault, which he Said was timed to
coincide with a shift change at the
station.
Mantanga said witnesses saw three
people with firearms near the sta
tion, and one police officer was
killed as he drove up to the building.
Nearby residents reported hearing a
muffled explosion and machine-gun
fire.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Terry
Espinosa finally received a letter
from her boyfriend Raul Alvarez on
Wednesday — 42 years late and
hand-delivered by the postmaster
general of the United States.
That letter and 234 others turned
up recently in an attic in North Car
olina, dumped there in a duffel bag
with some socks by a scared soldier
who forgot to mail them.
In his letter, Alvarez promised,
“No one will ever come between us.”
Although the letter was sent in
May 1944 and not delivered until
1986, she held him to the promise.
They married in 1950.
After years of listening to com
plaints of the postal service losing
mail, Alvarez, a former letter carrier
in Livermore, Calif., said, he was
glad to see something to “really show
that the postal service is doing some
thing good.”
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brain-dead mother for seven and
a half weeks to allow the fetus to
develop.
The baby, Michelle Odette
Poole, had been the center of a
court fight between the mother’s
parents, who wanted doctors to
disconnect life support systems
when their daughter died, and
the father, who went to court to
protect the developing fetus.
The father, Derrick Poole, was
at the Kaiser Permanente Hospi
tal when doctors delivered his
daughter at 8:53 a.m., according
to hospital spokeswoman Denise
Clarke. He had no immediate
comment.
The baby weighed four
pounds, five ounces at delivery
and was 16 and a half inches long.
Stock market rallies to post slight gain
NEW YORK (AP) — Blue-chip
issues set the pace as the stock
market rallied from some early
declines to finish mostly higher
Wednesday.
Analysts said the market’s gy
rations came as Wall Streeters
tried to assess the outlook for the
government’s next quarterly sale
of bonds and notes.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, down about 13 points
at midday, closed with a 12.52
gain at 1,779.39.
Volume on the New York
Stock Exchange picked up to
146.69 million shares from
115.69 million Tuesday.
After the close, the Treasury
announced that it would sell $28
billion in bonds and notes next
week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ex
plorer Robert Ballard on Tues
day unveiled a photographic trea
sure obtained on his second —
and avowedly final — visit to the
Titanic, including evidence cer
tain to revise historical accounts
of how the great liner went down.
Ballard, who discovered the
sunken luxury ship in the North
Atlantic on Sept. 1 last year, said
its collision with an iceberg in
April 1912 did not create a huge
gash in the hull — as many) in
cluding himself, had long sup
posed. Instead, he said, the 12-
inch-thick plates on the hull sim
ply buckled enough to create a fa
tal leak.
Ballard told reporters the com
prehensive photographic explo
ration of the wreck in 12 dives
earlier this month showed “abso
lutely no evidence” of a gash, esti
mated in some accounts as 300
feet long.
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buckled plates, however, many of
which can be seen clearly in the
more than 50 hours of videotape
and 57,000 still photos shot by the
Woods Hole Oceanographic In
stitution crew headed by Ballard.
Crop damage estimate passes
$2 billion mark in Southeast
(AP) — Estimates of crop losses in
the Southeast’s worst drought in a
century soared past $2 billion
Wednesday, and Maryland officials
said 10 percent of that state’s farm
ers face ruin with no crops to pay off
debts..
There “just isn’t any hope for a lot
of farmers,” said Wayne A. Cawley
Jr., Maryland’s secretary of agricul
ture. “I advise them to quit while
they’re ahead.”
Unusually hot weather on the
southern Plains, with highs up to
110, led agencies to offer help with
fans, shelter or advice in parts of Ar
kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and
Tennessee, and electric utilities re
ported record demand. The heat
has been blamed for 61 deaths this
month in the South, Midwest and
the Plains.
Record highs Wednesday in
cluded 108 at Wichita, Kan.; 107 at
Little Rock, Ark., and Springfield,
Mo.; 104 at Memphis, Tenn.; 102 at
Pensacola, Fla.; 101 at Tupelo,
Miss.; 100 at Mobile, Ala., and New
Orleans; 99 at Meridian, Miss.; and
98 at Baton Rouge, La., the National
Weather Service said.
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cool off over the weekend.
Senate-approved bill
promises tax increase
WASHINGTON JAP) — More
than 24 million couples and Individ-'
uals would face a tax increase next
year under the tax overhaul bill
passed by the Senate, even if the rate
reduction took effect earlier than
planned, negotiators were told
Wednesday.
If rates were cut Jan. 1, at the
same time several deductions were
reduced or repealed, 24.4 million
taxpayers would pay more than they
do this year, according to estimates
from the Joint Committee on Taxa
tion.
If the rate cut was delayed until
July 1, as the Senate measure would
do, 26.5 million would have their
taxes raised.
According to the analysis, an ear
lier rate reduction generally would
favor people earning $30,000 or
more; those making less would lose.
The new figures were released as
House negotiators began drafting a
new' compromise to propose to sen
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Wednesday was the ninth day of
efforts to write a compromise that
would fall somewhere between the
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