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...death of the 30-year-old black leader Stephen Biko in a Pretoria jail (TIME, Sept. 26). The minister first strongly implied that Biko, who was detained for questioning under South Africa's tough internal security laws, had died as a result of a hunger strike. An inquest, expected to be held later this month, will inquire into the suspicious circumstances of the death. Kruger further infuriated blacks by saying that Biko's death had "left him cold...
There is also the issue of Pound's insanity. While Heymann explores this in depth and uncovers a few new tidbits about the inquest into Pound's mental state--especially the conflicting reports by psychiatrists--the issue really isn't part of Pound's political life...
...mind" that there were political overtones behind the placement of the trial in a criminal court. "The Grand Jury no longer provides a protection of the citizen against the state," he said, citing his client's inability to appear on his own behalf before the month-long election inquest...
...formal inquest--months later, because of legal maneuvering by Kennedy attorneys, and closed to the public--did little to dispel the mystery. Witnesses revealed that Mary Jo had left her pocketbook and keys at the cottage, hardly the actions of someone eager to return to her motel room. She had a .09 per cent alcohol level in her blood, (equivalent to 3 1/2 to 5 ounces of eighty to ninety proof liquor), although her friends testified she had not been drinking heavily at the party. Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look observed a dark sedan with Massachusetts license plates that began with...
Your reporter also exhibited considerable bias, for he ignored the main, novel issues that were discussed and that provided the framework for the inquest. These included the question whether the criticisms of the study were so serious and so firmly grounded as to justify an appeal to the general public; the obligation of a professor, in generating such an appeal, to see that alternative views are presented; the significance of the precedent of regulating research by one-sided adversel publicity; and the question whether the university should remain passive in the face of such inroads on intellectual freedom...