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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...
Minister of Justice James Kruger issued a lengthy explanation along with his announcement that Biko had died of the effects of his hunger strike. "I'm not pleased, nor am I sorry; Biko's death leaves me cold," Kruger told delegates to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria (later he softened this statement, expressing "human sympathy" to journalists). Kruger said that Biko was given intravenous nutrients just before he died, but Kruger noted, "If a man goes on a hunger strike, you cannot force him to eat." One delegate caustically congratulated Kruger on "being...
White liberals and many blacks noted that it usually takes several weeks for a person to die from fasting, not a mere seven days. Insisted Biko's widow Ntsiki: "We just do not believe that a man like Steve would die of a hunger strike." In an attempt to answer the doubters, Kruger invited independent pathologists to join in an official autopsy, its results may not be released for several weeks...
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...