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...surrogate mother, Shannon Boff, 23, of Redford Township, Mich., is an old pro at the stand-in trade: she had a baby last year through the standard artificial-insemination procedure in which the fertilized egg was hers. "I think I'm going into retirement," says Boff, a married student with a 3-year- old boy of her own. "Any more babies coming from me are going to be keepers...
Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...
...black township of Kwazekele, outside Port Elizabeth, police who had taken up positions inside a liquor store shot nine people dead when the place was attacked by some 100 rioters. Two other township residents were killed in unrelated incidents. Liquor stores have long been the target of black activists because they are often owned by black officials who are regarded as collaborators with the white apartheid regime...
Tutu's request, which was also seen as an illumination of Black despair, came at the same time that the government dropped restrictions preventing the wife of jailed Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela from returning to her home in the township of Soweto...
Meanwhile, police engaged last week in a shoot-out with black militants on a road outside Cape Town. Officials said security officers mounted an ambush after informers told them that the men were A.N.C. guerrillas who planned to attack the police station in Guguletu, a black township near Cape Town. Seven A.N.C. militants were killed, but their presence near South Africa's southernmost city, far from the northern border area where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout...