Word: stephen
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...Stephen Erwin...
There is also pressure on James Kruger to resign as South Africa's powerful Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons. Kruger triggered an international furor by his seemingly casual handling of the 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...
...MYSTERIOUS DEATH in a South African prison five weeks ago of Stephen Biko, a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid "Black Consciousness Movement" among South African blacks in the past decade, has justly provoked an international furor. But the Biko case must not serve simply as a short-lived cathartic outlet for anger and moral outrage. Rather, it should be seen as just the latest and most visible reminder of the larger pattern of ongoing government repression in South Africa--a pattern that has grown increasingly pervasive and brutal since the outbreak of anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa...
...first annual Stephen D. MacDiarmid Band Award was presented to Lisa Hirschorn '81 by Edith MacDiarmid, the late student's mother...
...Stephen Gould, professor of Geology, said yesterday Bakker's concentration on the decrease in the dinosaur's species origination rate contrasts with traditional theories' emphasis on an increased death rate...