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...lifting of residence and property restrictions, blacks were beginning to enjoy better wages, job opportunities and employment benefits. Expanded credit to township homeowners and developers, totaling some $30 million a month, has helped catapult large numbers of blacks from low-income to middle-income and even luxury housing. A Cape Town conference attended by government officials and political leaders two weeks ago held out the promise of even greater progress, as successive speakers called for economic reforms aimed at giving blacks a bigger share of the country's wealth...
...mind, indeed. The quavering romantic nature flops like a landed fish but never expires entirely, our middle-aged boy discovers. Debts pound at the door like crazy firemen; responsibilities rise like dunes on the Cape; girls in their 20s call him Sir (Oh, call me Captain); and still our hero hopes. Will love come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping...
South Africa's Parliament is officially segregated into three houses -- one for whites, one for so-called coloreds, one for Asians, and none at all for the country's black majority. When State President P.W. Botha opened this year's session in Cape Town last week, he addressed the members of all three houses in a new $16 million, 340-seat assembly hall. But the new auditorium may not get much...
...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...
...still recognize him. He remains solid for a guy of advancing middle age, even if there is a little thickening around the middle, some slackening under the firm jawline. Sartorially, as ever, his daywear is conservative, the evening wear outrageous: long flowing cape, high midnight-blue boots, tights that fit closer than epidermis and, across his chest, the shadow of a black bat, ascendant...