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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas J. O'Grady San Francisco
...take white friends there," a black reporter told a white colleague recently, "and they would be welcome. But if I smuggled you in now, there would be trouble." Last month, when a white commission went to Soweto to investigate the rioting, its members got some straight talk from Tolica J. Makhaya, the council chairman (or mayor). "You are facing the last generation of blacks who are willing to negotiate," Makhaya declared. "The younger generation is calling us fools because we achieve nothing. You must meet with black leaders the government has detained, and talk with them, because black people...
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...
When two dozen black students broke into and occupied Mass Hall in April 1972 to protest the corporation's decision not to sell Harvard's shares of stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation, Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, found himself in an especially sensitive situation...
...were top executives of PCM, William F. Harding and Daniel J. Shields, were named as go-betweens in federal extortion indictments this summer against the two state senators, Joseph J.C. DiCarlo of Revere and Ronald MacKenzie of Burlington...