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...addition to the nation's largest center for pediatrics will house improved facilities for cardiac surgery, bone marrow transplants, neo-natal care, and organ transplants, according to physician-in-chief David G. Nathan...
...liberal Progressives were stunned by the election and left puzzling over what had actually happened. They could be satisfied that Helen Suzman easily returned to Parliament for a ninth time, but little else. The party lost ground in Natal, where it has traditionally been strong, because it had supported a proposal for a multiracial, black-led provincial government in cooperation with KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Worried about the future, large numbers of English-speaking South Africans, who normally are more liberal on racial issues than the Afrikaners, jumped this time from the Progressives to the National Party. Concluded...
...Botha government was also having troubles last week with the country's independent judiciary. Court rulings in Natal struck down two emergency regulations, one that prohibited campaigning for the release of detainees and another that restricted press reporting and public comment on unrest. The government is certain to appeal the rulings...
...Afrikaners' complete political takeover. Some 250,000 mainly English war veterans, bitter about their antagonists' widespread pro- Nazi sympathies, formed a paramilitary organization called the Torch Commando (with Oppenheimer financing) to oppose the Afrikaners. There was even talk of secession in the pre-eminently English-speaking province of Natal in 1953 and again in 1960-61, when the Nationalists declared South Africa a republic and led it out of the Commonwealth. But eventually the English minority fell back on the comfortable tradition of live and let live and returned to making money. That minority still pays 60% of all personal...
...Similar antibodies can damage other natal tissues," the neurologist said, adding that children of mothers with lupus have an increased chance of developing congenital heart block. The conclusion that antibodies can also damage brain tissue is "a very small step," Galaburda said...