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...fought her family and her teachers to go to Barnard, and later did post-graduate work at Syracuse University. Four years ago, she married a British anthropologist. The idea for Final Payments came from the old neighborhood. "I thought of women of my mother's generation who led sacrificed lives for someone in their family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around...
...rejected a settlement plan put forward by five Western powers. Carter only regretted, and did not condemn, the cold-blooded murder of Herero Chief Clemens Kapuuo, who almost certainly was the victim of a SWAPO assassination campaign directed against moderate black Namibians. One famous South African, Heart Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, charges that Washington refuses to accept admittedly imperfect internal settlements in Namibia as well as Rhodesia, even though the U.S. acquiesced to naked Marxist takeovers in Angola and Mozambique. "It is not majority rule that Carter is asking for," Barnard says, "it is black rule by pre-selected majority...
Christiaan Barnard will soon have to put down his scalpel because of arthritis in his hands, but he is just warming up as a writer. The co-author of a couple of novels with medical themes, the South African heart surgeon last week began a weekly column for Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. Although he is consigned to the women's pages, Barnard, 55, addressed himself to men. Where, he wonders, do men stand "now that the stronger sex has escaped from the boudoir and the kitchen?" Says he: "The dainty little thing who sets your pulse racing...
...come back to his boyhood home near Dublin to bury his father and dispose of the old man's effects. As he begins stuffing faded letters and papers into the kitchen stove, who should shuffle in and plop into his favorite armchair but old Da himself (Barnard Hughes)? Only to be followed by Young Charlie (Richard Seer), Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play proceeds by anecdotes and episodes, some funny...
...Harvie Barnard Tacoma, Wash...