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Those were the central charges in indictments won last week by federal prosecutors against 15 white supremacists. Ten men were accused of sedition by a grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and a woman were separately indicted by a grand jury in Denver for depriving Radio Talk Show Host Alan Berg of his civil rights -- by machine-gunning him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foiling A Revolt: White racists are indicted | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...fledgling network has assembled an impressive roster of Hollywood talent. At the top of Murdoch's entertainment conglomerate is Barry Diller, who was head of Paramount from 1974 to 1984, turning out such hits as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Flashdance. To run its program department, Fox raided NBC for a 29-year-old whiz kid named Garth Ancier. To create shows, it has enlisted such seasoned producers as James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Ed. Weinberger (Taxi) and Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Room For One More? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...hear Marti Brewer tell it, the fact that she made it into the college she wanted is a small miracle. Although a good student, she decided she needed a special summer course to improve her chances. But the counseling office at her high school in Fayetteville, Ark., bungled the course application by reporting the wrong SAT scores. Fortunately she caught the mistake in time. Looking back on her experience from the safety of Rice University, the freshman-in-spite- of- it-all sighs, "Counselors are overwhelmed with duties. They don't know how to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Bound, Without a Map | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...brothers (who are actually former Siamese twins) are obsessed with death; they inflict their grief on the audience by taking elaborate, stop-action films of dead animals decaying. With cheerful music playing on the soundtrack, we watch crocodiles, dalmatians, zebras, tropical fish and the rest of Noah's Ark decompose before our eyes...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

Before the Diller-Eisner team left, it had already moved Paramount neck- and-neck with Warner for Hollywood's No. 1 studio slot with such hits as Flashdance, An Officer and a Gentleman and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In Diller's final year, Paramount's profits hit what was then an all-time peak of $109 million on revenues of $986.6 million. The duo left behind one monster hit, Beverly Hills Cop, which subsequently brought in $235 million. But the Paramount stable also included such nags as King David ($5.1 million) and Explorers ($9.9 million). Paramount's market share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Mancuso: Hollywood's Top Gun | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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