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...past three years, we have suggested changes in the OB/GYN Service which address a number of issues raised by individual patients as well as by the Joint Committee on the Status of Women. The Health Service has responded by hiring an obstetrical nurse-practitioner who provides pre-natal care, offers Pregnancy and New Parent classes, and supplies appropriate educational materials. In addition, the Health Service has been looking into possible participation in the midwifery program at Brigham & Women's Hospital and is planning to employ a third obstetrician (preferably female...
Following the election, Botha's proposals won the unanimous approval of his party's Natal congress. At a rally for 1,200 supporters in Durban, the Prime Minister challenged Treurnicht to resign his seat so that a by-election could be held in his Waterberg constituency. "Then you will see a hell of a collision," Botha warned. Most important, he pledged that he would not deviate from his reformist views. Said he: "I have chosen my path. It is the path of my conviction, built on justice and fairness. It makes provision for the maintenance of civilized Christian...
...general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even the country's white legal Establishment were shocked last week when a judge in the sleepy Natal town of Pietermaritzburg handed down a death sentence to James Mange, a militant, charged with plotting an attack on a police station. Mange was only the second person convicted of treason in South Africa since 1914; he was the first to be condemned in a case in which there...
...Willie and Joe cartoons. For at bottom, she views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance at the many cons directed at her harried legions...
...increase of 17. The moderately liberal Progressive Federal Party, supported by many English-speaking South Africans, doubled its previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right-wing Afrikaner splinter group, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, which won no seats...