Legless News

(legless Drunk)

Saturday June 19, 1993
Legless drunk A 75-year-old man known as Uncle Apple, convicted of driving his wheelchair while drunk, has been ordered off the road unless accompanied by a ``sober assistant". A magistrate in Montagu, east of Cape Town, imposed the restriction on Oom ``Appeltjie" (Uncle Apple) Hartzen

Brazilians Relive Horror Of Thalidomide

Tuesday June 1, 1993
The name thalidomide spelt horror for a generation of parents. Now the horror is back. Thalidomide babies was what they called the thousands of armless, legless children born to women who took the sedative in the 1950s and 1960s. It was banned worldwide in 1962. But today, thalidomide is back

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