Word: elizabeth
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...lashing black demonstrators with leather whips called sjamboks have become all too familiar. Last week a young government doctor turned the spotlight on another pervasive form of police violence: the beating and torturing of detained prisoners. Dr. Wendy Orr, 25, who noted that inmates she treated in two Port Elizabeth prisons were often physically abused, sought a restraining order against the police. Said she: "Detainees are being taken out of my care . . . and during the course of interrogation are brutally assaulted." In an official acknowledgment of such violence in South African jails, the state supreme court issued an injunction barring...
Human rights groups have been protesting the treatment of detainees since Black Leader Steve Biko died of brain injuries suffered in a Port Elizabeth prison in 1977. Since then at least 26 black South Africans have died while in detention, 15 of them during the past year. While police officials have repeatedly denied abusing prisoners, a recent University of Cape Town study found that detainees stood an 83% chance of being tortured...
Council Vice Chairman Elizabeth M. Touhey '86, who is charged with conducting the election, said she was "as happy as a kitten," after learning of the improvement in the field, but added that "we were definitely hurt by the initial [publicity] problems...
...billed as a "25th anniversary" revival of his first international success, The Blood Knot. The play, which Fugard started writing in 1960 and performed in 1961, is the story of two mixed-race brothers who live together in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of Fugard's hometown, Port Elizabeth. One is light-skinned enough to pass for white, and for years he tried to do so; one is unmistakably, and bitterly, black...
Amis' routine back in London has settled down after some turbulent times. "My second wife (Author Elizabeth Jane Howard) walked out on me about five years ago," he says, adding "thank God. I didn't say thank God then, of course, but I do now." He currently shares a house in north London with his first wife Hilary and her third husband. This unconventional menage has occasioned much gossip and speculation. Amis claims the arrangement is simply practical, convenient and mutually agreeable. He is obviously fond of "Hilly," to whom Stanley and the Women is dedicated, not only...