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...there are scant funds to treat HIV patients or pay for anti-AIDS drugs. Here his risk taking would leave him dead. Not every country is able to spend millions of dollars for AIDS drugs so that a generation of spoiled kids can play games with death. LAURA MARCUS Nylstroom, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

With voting day only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Lion's Roar | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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