Word: jaiprakash
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...placid taxi driver called Life, that identity means confinement to a segregated township. There, boredom and despair are as palpable as the omnipresent automobile carcasses and piles of beer cans. Jaiprakash Bhula is an educated Indian haberdasher, contemptuous of racial decrees. His question gnaws at South African policy: If whites really believed they were better, "would it be necessary to create laws guaranteeing social, monetary, and political superiority...
...vapor passed first over the shantytowns of Jaiprakash and Chhola, just outside the walls of the plant, leaving hundreds dead as they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions...
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