Word: biko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died a prisoner. And thus was born a martyr. The prisoner, Steven Bantu Biko. 30, was the 20th South African black known to have died in security detention during the past 18 months. More important, he was a founding member of the all-black South African Students' Organization, honorary president of the national Black People's Convention and undisputed spiritual leader of the black consciousness movement inside South Africa. His death triggered a chorus of demands, by both blacks and whites, for an investigation, and at week's end there was growing concern that memorial services...
Among the J N.R.'s 256 separate rail lines, only the bullet trains and two of Tokyo's urban services turn profits. The rest lose money at a rate that makes the old Penn Central's losses trivial by comparison. One example: the Biko line, which serves a sparsely populated area on the island of Hokkaido, has outlays of $11 for every 34? it earns. In the past twelve years, the Japanese National Railway has piled up a staggering debt of $34 billion; at present it is losing money at the rate of $8.6 million...