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...Harvard balloon team includes Harvard graduate student Corbin Covault, a Brazilian graduate student doing thesis research at Harvard, visiting grad student Joao Braga and a group of three to four Smithsonian engineers. who designed and built the telescope and gondola, and Grindlay...
...than 400 people were killed in ambushes on the main road from Maputo to the north in the past three months alone. Traveling in convoys guarded by ill-equipped Frelimo troops, relief vehicles are easy prey. Fifteen CARE drivers and assistants have lost their lives since 1984. Driver Vincent Joao Mendes was ambushed twelve miles from Maputo last November as he headed north with a truckload of corn. Mendes escaped by leaping from the cab of the truck, but a soldier and two others were wounded by gunfire. "Now I think a lot about my seven children," Mendes says...
Amazingly, ten aboard the plane survived, including the Soviet pilot, Vladimir Novoselov, who was taken to a South African hospital with a broken thigh and a concussion. According to initial reports, Novoselov claimed the plane was shot down, and another survivor, Machel Bodyguard Fernando Joao, said, "We heard a shot or a bang from within the plane. The plane vibrated, and then we crashed." The official Mozambique daily Noticias speculated that electronic interference by South Africa might have led the pilot off course...
...mediator, Neves had once before been called upon at a crucial juncture in Brazilian history. In 1961 the country's generals grew restless under a populist President, Joao Goulart. Neves was asked to take the newly created job of Prime Minister, thus diluting Goulart's power. By accepting, he helped preserve civilian rule a little longer. Two years after Neves stepped down in 1962, Goulart was overthrown in a coup. The military ruled until Neves won the presidency last January...
...funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the public demand that Neves' legacy be fulfilled. Said Federal Deputy Del Bosco Amaral, a member of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party: "In a strange way, one of Tancredo's greatest achievements only took place after he died. His death left Brazil with only one path: democracy...