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...socialist. But Mandela abandoned peaceful methods after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, in which police killed 69 black protesters. When Tambo left to establish a headquarters in exile, Mandela stayed behind to set up the A.N.C.'s underground military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and launch a campaign of sabotage. After 17 months on the run, he was caught in 1962. He was convicted in June 1964 of attempting to overthrow the government along with seven others in the Rivonia trial. His sentence: life in prison...
...watch a slim red-and- silver rocket roar off the pad at the Kagoshima Space Center near Uchinoura, some 940 km (598 miles) southwest of Tokyo. But despite the minimal press coverage and lack of hoopla, the event was a major milestone for Japan's space program. The launch sent the unmanned Muses-A probe on its way to the moon, the first lunar mission since the Soviets' Luna 24 in 1976. Muses-A is expected to come within 16,000 km (10,000 miles) of the target in mid-March. It will then release a smaller probe, which will...
Another problem has been the more than two decades of bureaucratic rivalry between two Japanese space groups, the National Space Development Agency and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. ISAS focuses on academic scientific research, like the Muses-A mission, while NASDA's main business is to launch satellites for more practical uses, such as weather observation and communications. Combining these agencies and eliminating overlapping functions would make for a more efficient program...
...country is now trying to free itself from dependence on foreign know-how by developing its own booster. The H-2, scheduled for its first test launch in 1993, will be able to put a two-ton spacecraft into high earth orbit. That is competitive with Europe's Ariane 4, the U.S. Titan and the Soviets' Proton booster, all of which are being marketed as commercial launchers...
...formidable constituency pleaded for sympathy for the man, attention shifted to his sometime ally, Jesse Jackson. Jackson moved to Washington last summer amid calls for him to challenge his old civil rights compatriot. Yet three days before Barry's arrest, Jackson used Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to launch a national campaign for D.C. statehood -- a campaign that could put him into the U.S. Senate rather than the District Building...