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...JOHANNESBURG: Graca Machel may become a first lady for a second time -- and of a second country -- on Saturday. South Africa's media is awash with reports that President Nelson Mandela plans to celebrate his 80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South...
...example. There will always be a Jewish nation, divided or not [WORLD, May 11]. Leave the Jews to settle their differences by themselves. The press has helped destroy a princess, and is working to bring down the American President. Is the state of Israel next? LARA SAUER, age 16 Johannesburg...
...Botha?s contempt-of-court trial heard evidence that the octogenarian hardliner had ordered the August 1988 bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in which 21 people were injured. Botha is unfazed by the charges: ?He?s never denied ordering the bombing,? says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. ?He?s never admitted it either. In his own inimitable way, he?s saying he did it because the building was the headquarters of a subversive organization...
Kelly is on of the 10 editors to receive fellowships. Others include Fannie Flono of The Charlotte Observer; Rhef Beyoung-Gyu of The Hankook Ilbo in Seoul, Korea; Pippa Green of The Sunday Independent in Johannesburg, South Africa; Martin Holguin of El Imparcial in Hermosillo, Mexico; Malou Mangahas of The Manila Times; Ilka Piepgras of the Berliner Zeitung; Masaru Soma of The Sankei Shimbum in Sendai, Japan; Dan Stoica of Radio Romana in Bucharest, and Sun Yu of China Environment News in Beijing...
...build the thatched huts in the Harambe village found their hotel rooms too cold; so, says a Disney employee, they built fires in their rooms. Some of the 82 Africans who work in the park are troubled by the "help" of their U.S. colleagues. Mmathabo Marule, 20, from Johannesburg, was vexed when shown how to use a microwave: "I had to tell her we do have those at home...