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...flora and fauna are unrivaled, in part because of the great diversity of ultra-psammophilous adaptations. It is a great pity, therefore, that the South West African department of water affairs is now hellbent on pumping dry the underground water resources of the Kuiseb River to satisfy the corporate hunger for uranium...
...arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...
Minister of Justice James Kruger issued a lengthy explanation along with his announcement that Biko had died of the effects of his hunger strike. "I'm not pleased, nor am I sorry; Biko's death leaves me cold," Kruger told delegates to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria (later he softened this statement, expressing "human sympathy" to journalists). Kruger said that Biko was given intravenous nutrients just before he died, but Kruger noted, "If a man goes on a hunger strike, you cannot force him to eat." One delegate caustically congratulated Kruger on "being...
White liberals and many blacks noted that it usually takes several weeks for a person to die from fasting, not a mere seven days. Insisted Biko's widow Ntsiki: "We just do not believe that a man like Steve would die of a hunger strike." In an attempt to answer the doubters, Kruger invited independent pathologists to join in an official autopsy, its results may not be released for several weeks...
Remember those 160 students who came here to study Ukranian? Thirty-seven of them staged a well-publicized hunger strike for 24 hours this summer, in protest of the Soviet Union's arrest of several prominent Ukrainians. More than 100 others joined them demonstration in the Yard, gathering signatures on a petition the students sent to President Carter...