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Worse news soon came from Johannesburg, 300 miles inland. A three-year-old boy admitted to Baragwanath Hospital for heart surgery had his operation postponed for five weeks until he was cured of a stubborn case of pneumonia. But after surgery he again developed pneumonia, and analysis of the guilty bacteria proved them to be similar to those identified in Durban. They were astonishingly resistant to penicillin and also to many newer antibiotics. In the boy's case, the hardy new pneumococci finally succumbed to combined doses of rifampin and fusidic acid, but doctors noted that he was already...
According to Dr. David W. Fraser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the newly virulent pneumococcal strains have so far appeared only in South Africa. But that is no cause for complacency. Tests showed that staff members at Baragwanath and 80 patients at another Johannesburg hospital also harbored the new strain. Though some showed no symptoms of pneumonia, others became ill and one patient died. The danger, says Epidemiologist Fraser, is that patients' relatives and hospital staff members can carry the bacteria in their throats and remain well, yet transmit the infection to others who will become...
Smith no longer feels committed to achieving black majority rule by 1978. "That was part of the package deal we made with [then Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in Pretoria last year," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter last week. "That package deal, which included the cessation of terrorism and an end to sanctions, has been thrown out the window, not by the Rhodesian government but by the other parties...
...troubled that captured guerrillas were being tried as terrorists rather than as prisoners of war Unable to start a practice in Britain, he was unemployed for six months; after being refused permission to migrate to New Zealand or Hong Kong, he finally went into business with a friend in Johannesburg Ford predicts that in the future white Rhodesians may have an even harder time relocating than he did. "It follows you like a bad smell," he says bitterly of his Rhodesian connection, "No matter what you say, the stigma persists...
...prohibited from attending meetings (including church) or going to school. Such intimidation works. So far, there have been few signs of urban guerrilla action or terrorism. There have been some individual work stoppages, and it is generally assumed that a one-week strike of the black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals and because they cannot afford a strike, living as they do mostly just above poverty. The government may well keep the lid on for many more years...