Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist, was responsible for much of the public outcry after Biko's death. South African officials tried to pass the death off as the result of a hunger strike; later, they attributed it to self-inflicted injuries. But Woods and other South Africans forced the government to conduct an inquest into the death--an inquest that was closely watched from abroad as well as from within South Africa. As the judge did not find anyone in South Africa guilty of mistreating Biko, or of covering up mistreatment, the rest of the world reached its own conclusions: if no individuals were...
...researchers, who acquired many FBI and CIA documents under the Freedom of Information Act and, in addition, covered some 150,000 miles in 26 states and nine nations to interview Oswald's former associates. It was written by Edward Jay Epstein, a careful academic researcher whose 1966 book, Inquest, first revealed the flaws in the Warren Commission's investigation but did not conjure up any wild conspiracy theories...
...least a month, Woods told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter in Lesotho, the reasons for going into exile had seemed more and more compelling. The government had won a strong new mandate from the country's white electorate. The inquest into the death of imprisoned Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko, who had been a close friend of the Woods family and whose death Woods had criticized and questioned, ended inconclusively-although it did show, as Woods had charged, that the circumstances of Biko's death were extremely suspicious. The Woods family had also been angered and alarmed...
Meanwhile, the inquest into the unexplained death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko ended in Pretoria. At first the government maintained that Biko died in prison three months ago from the effects of a hunger strike. Later, security police claimed he had hit his head against a wall while scuffling angrily with interrogators. Summarizing his case last week, the eloquent attorney for Biko's family, Sydney Kentridge, asserted that the security police had inexcusably disregarded Stephen Biko's rights while he was in their custody. "There is indisputable evidence," Kentridge said, "that on the morning of Sept...
South Africa has refused to admit the truth about Biko's murder; but the lie is so blatant and so horrible that it has forced Western nations to take a stand against apartheid. The United States has expressed its outrage, as have other Western states. The inquest into Biko's death, and the circumstances surrounding it, have underlined once more the corruption of the South African regime. The entire system has been indicted once again...