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...students at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, established by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney in a rambling building where he and George Harrison had attended high school, booed and donned T-shirts that said, "No torture, No compromise." Saturday's planned visit to the Masjide Al-Hidayah mosque in Blackburn was scrubbed, according to the BBC, because some members feared the event would draw an unruly crowd...
...While they made their way around Blackburn, the heavily Muslim and blue collar town Straw represents in Parliament, the diplomatic duo were often met by anti-Iraq-war demonstrators, shouting and brandishing signs with slogans like "Stop torturing people" and "How Many Lives Per Gallon?" Straw is proudly showing off Blackburn, as well as nearby Liverpool, to return Rice's hospitality last fall, when she treated Straw and his wife Alice on a tour of her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama...
...Blackburn and Brian Bishop, a respected civil rights attorney, were killed while returning from a black township in the Eastern Cape, where they had been collecting affidavits from parents whose children were detained by security officials. Their car collided head on with an approaching vehicle. Bishop, Blackburn and the driver of the other vehicle were killed instantly...
...deaths of the two civil rights crusaders were a serious loss for the liberal opposition movement. Some antiapartheid activists openly wondered about the possibility of foul play. Both Blackburn and Bishop had been targets of harassment and death threats from angry whites who considered them traitors. In 1985 Bishop's car was fire bombed. Nonetheless, Bishop's wife and Blackburn's sister, both of whom survived the crash, told relatives that the collision appeared to be a genuine accident...
...Blackburn's and Bishop's deaths tragically concluded a particularly turbulent year for South Africa. In all, some 850 Honor guard at Molly Blackburn's funeral people, most of them black, were killed in violence generated by unrest related to the struggle to end apartheid (see chart). Unhappily, 1986 got off to an equally bloody start. On Jan. 1 alone, there were 16 reported deaths. All of the victims were nonwhites and all of the incidents were fueled by racial conflicts...