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...epidemic of such massive size could be handled with no hospitals in the area. "We were going to be dealing with thousands of patients at a time, and we didn't know if it would be possible to do this out in the open and under a tree," says Johan Hesselink, who headed MSF-Holland's southern Sudan operations during that period...
...Duar area, Johan Hesselink says, "We used to fly over here, and there were no tukuls [huts]. Now there are tukuls everywhere. These people have come back because they see a future. That is what life is about." That is no small achievement for an unassuming American girl from Moscow, Idaho...
...revelations were stunning enough last week when South Africa's former chief of police admitted to his role in two notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning...
...Johan Helsingius, a Finn who lives near Helsinki, had run anon.penet.fi as a hobby since November 1993, mainly because he loves the idea of truly free speech. There are now a dozen of these so-called anonymous remailers around the world, but Helsingius' is the oldest, best known and largest, having served more than half a million people. Anon.penet.fi and its owner are also the most notorious; together they survived E-mail "bombings" that threatened to bury the computer under millions of pages of garbage, death threats and even a recent scurrilous report in the London Observer that linked...
...were no life-prolonging devices that could reduce a dying person to little more than a houseplant. His quotation of the oath with respect to euthanasia should be compared to a doctor's admonition to use the time-honored method of bloodsucking by leeches to cure high blood pressure. JOHAN ROORYCK Leiden, the Netherlands Via E-mail...