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...Salber had had previous experience with public health. She was born and raised in Capetown, South Africa. After graduation from Capetown University Medical School, now made famous by Dr. Christian Barnaard, she and her husband went to work in a demonstration health center in Durban on the east coast of the country. These federally-operated clinics had been founded in 1945 by Henry Gluckman, a Cabinet Minister in the moderate United Party government. (The United Party is today strongly pro-apartheid...
...Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...
...anxious that their four children not grow up in such an atmosphere. When the Harvard School of Public Health offered Dr. Salber's husband a position in 1956, they were able to get their visa and move to the States. A few years after they left the clinic in Durban collapsed...
...policeman was wearing? The Chicago police department thought so. None of their men wore it. Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay was also puzzled. She did some checking and printed the results. The officer, she said, was a South African and so were the blacks he was beating at Durban in 1960. Concluded Mrs. Kay: "Looks like the university needs to temper its ads with a bit of honesty...
Species of Superman? The mercenary apparently gets great emotional satisfaction from his work. In a new book, Congo Mercenary, Colonel Hoare, who is now retired and living on a yacht moored off Durban, reflects that a large number of his recruits were drunks, dope addicts and ("the greatest surprise of all") homosexuals...