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...brown imbuia wood paneled Supreme Court chamber in Pretoria's imposing Palace of Justice was crowded with black spectators and white plain-clothes officers last week as Judge Charl Theron entered the room. Guilty of high treason, said Theron, referring to the three young black men in the dock, all members of South Africa's long-banned black liberation organization, the African National Congress (ANC). The sentence: death by hanging...
Dealers are already queuing up to sell the new boats, the first of which will be ready some time in the fall. Says Edmund Laviano, president of Bellpat Marine of East Patchogue, N.Y.: "The Hobie 33 looks as if it's doing 30 knots just sitting at the dock. I want one the minute the boat is available." The tinkerer from Southern California, who shepherded Americans onto surfboards in the 1960s and onto Hobie Cats in the 1970s, now hopes to lead them onto deepwater sailing ships in the 1980s...
...Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio, should have logged two years with the Navy's Pacific Fleet. Instead, the state-of-the-art leviathan sits, 40% over the original budget and still not quite finished, in its builder's dock...
...month when he and his rookie sidekick, Viktor Savinykh, 41, headed back to earth in an advanced Soyuz T spacecraft after 75 days in space. Theirs was the final visit of cosmonauts to Salyut, although it could be used for unmanned missions. The Soviets have indicated that they may dock an unmanned Cosmos satellite on Salyut soon, perhaps this week. After looking back at the ship for the last time, Kovalyonok rhapsodized: "It was so beautiful it gave my heart a pang...
...larger Nebraska crew intently watched the J.V. boat, which averages about ten pounds less than it is allowed, and saw the J.V.'s bronze medals as the team pulled close to the dock...