■ 111 ! dl ’ ■ I ^ - Thursday, July 31,1986/The Battalion/Page 5 ■ ^ 'Tiiv'v'V-' killed as gunmen attack outh African police station Mail from World War II delivered YESTERDAYS . Daily Drink & Lunch Special ■ 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. 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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. niteabouil laid. “Mi out thesfl 1 them it I iySOJf ;e coni n theesti ay cent | lig-monc ig are* it. Evidence may revise Titanic theories 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. The impact popped rivets and >la 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. 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