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United States Geological Survey Sept. 28 'Science Leads'
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RESTON, Va., Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was
released today by the United States Geological Survey:
September 28, 1998
Discovering How and Why Hurricanes Erode Coastline
The USGS Coastal & Marine Program's Storm Response Project
is improving our ability to predict coastal change during extreme
storms. Using pre- and post-storm aerial video and scanning
airborne laser surveys, researchers can assess the geologic impacts
to beaches and dunes. Initial assessment of the aerial video
surveys of the coastal change resulting from Hurricane Bonnie
indicates that the damage was far less ...
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Shots Disputed In Ciskei Slaying Probe; Accounts Conflict On Who Fired First
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; A lawyer for the Ciskei Defense Force today told an inquiry that soldiers who...ballistics evidence. A ballistics report prepared for the Ciskei attorney general indicated that the lone Ciskei soldier killed in the Sept. 7 incident had been hit...
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28 Killed in S. African Homeland; Troops' Fusillade Routs ANC, Communist Protesters Entering Ciskei
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...independent South African homeland of Ciskei today sprayed volleys of automatic-weapons...been aimed at peacefully overthrowing Ciskei's military ruler, Brig. Oupa Gqozo...South Africa bestowed independence on Ciskei in 1981. Gqozo, who assumed power in...
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Coup plot in Ciskei homeland fails as soldiers refuse to join
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...military government in the black homeland of Ciskei yesterday, but the plan failed when soldiers...Indian Ocean. South African troops entered Ciskei to help keep order after the attempt...any doubt," he said. Gqozo was not in Ciskei when the coup attempt began yesterday...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Blood in the homelands. (violence in Ciskei)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...of them and wounding nearly 200, the Ciskei police have added a new tragedy to the...Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei--were declared independent, while...South Africa. But three large homelands, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu (where Chief...
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Slaughter in Ciskei. (South African slaughter) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...live on. And when black policemen in Ciskei fire on unarmed African National Congress...today's South Africans (see page 69). Ciskei is one of these. It began its life as...white South African government invented Ciskei, built it a capital and gave it money...
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Panel Blames Ciskei for Massacre
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...today assailed the security forces of the Ciskei homeland for the "morally and legally...National Congress marchers at Bisho, the Ciskei capital, on Sept. 7. The commission...injury." In its condemnation of the Ciskei troops, the commission, under the chairmanship...
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State of Emergency Declared in Ciskei
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; The new military rulers of Ciskei, one of four nominally independent...a bloodless coup Sunday that ousted Ciskei's pro-apartheid president-for...have wide support among residents of Ciskei, many of whom viewed Sebe's rule...
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CISKEI MOVES TO END LOOTING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Africa - The new military rulers of the Ciskei homeland declared a state of emergency...violence at the request of the new rulers in Ciskei. Dissident army officers led by Brig...staged a bloodless coup Sunday that ousted Ciskei's President Lennox Sebe while he was...
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Bloody Bisho. (Bisho, Ciskei, South Africa) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...capital of the "independent homeland" of Ciskei, rises from the barren red earth of the...process, which has already decided that Ciskei, along with the three other homelands...into South Africa. The willingness of Ciskei residents to die rather than live under...
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Anne Kelk Mager, Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-59.
Magazine article from: Africa
; ...African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-59. Social History of Africa...criminality. Mager convincingly presents the Ciskei as an invented place. Perhaps unintentionally...help but suspect that the residents of `Ciskei' experienced more interconnectedness...
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