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Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town...
Doctors in Jerusalem, Paris and Johannesburg have failed in attempts to fit him with an artificial eye. Author Teveth says that Dayan still frets that his patch makes him look like a highwayman and sometimes frightens small children...
...judge took five hours to drone out his verdict, but it still had the impact of a thunderbolt. Women in the courtroom gasped and sobbed last week as the dean of Johannesburg's Anglican cathedral was sentenced to five years in prison under the catchall Terrorism Act for subversion against the South African government. As the pale, stocky defendant left Johannesburg's Old Synagogue, site of his three-month trial, blacks and whites outside began singing Onward, Christian Soldiers...
Cracks are gradually appearing in many of the petty forms of segregation with which apartheid has been buttressed. In Durban, the city council recently threw a multiracial cocktail party. In Johannesburg, a few adventurous whites have begun to take black friends to restaurants and bars; they are often stared at, but invariably served. Last week South Africa's 8,000-strong Chinese community won the right, in a test case, to live in white areas "where this is permitted by the community." The prime reason for the change is economic. South Africa is rapidly industrializing, with more skilled jobs...
...classified as political prisoners. According to one recent account, the government still has 42 persons under house arrest and out of circulation, including a grandson of Gandhi (no newspaper can mention their names). In Pretoria, the terrorism trial of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, is now in its third month. In Natal, where 14 nonwhites are also on trial under the government's all-purpose Terrorism Act, the defense has charged that all of the prisoners and some of the government witnesses were tortured to make them talk...