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...Washington's Dulles International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Port Authority's request to extend...
Israeli diplomats have insisted on maintaining a military presence at Sharm el Sheikh as a way of guaranteeing that ships will have unhindered access through the Gulf of Aqaba to the port of Eilat. Egypt would lease to Israel Sharm el Sheikh and an access road along the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for a stated period-perhaps 20 years. An alternative is to place a U.N. force at Sharm el Sheikh and give Israel inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through...
...lawyer was Sydney Woolf Kentridge, one of South Africa's most able trial attorneys; the witness was Colonel Pieter Johannes Goosen, the officer in charge of security police at Port Elizabeth. Their angry exchange in Pretoria last week provided the dramatic high point of an extraordinary public inquest into the death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko...
Biko, 30, leader of a new generation of black political activists, had been arrested on Aug. 18 near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district and, under the country's tough Terrorism Act, detained in Port Elizabeth without trial. On Sept. 11, he was transferred to Pretoria's Central Prison, 750 miles to the north; the next night he was found dead in his cell...
Among the questions still to be answered: Why did the police at Port Elizabeth fail to tell the examining doctors that Biko had suffered a head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...