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Only a few days earlier, the governor of Manchester's Strangeways Prison had pronounced it "the fastest-improving establishment in the country." Not for long. As if to mock that boast, most of the prison's 1,648 inmates went on a rampage last week to protest against overcrowding and outdated facilities. At least two died and scores were injured in the red brick relic, which was built in 1868 to incarcerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Explosion Of Evil | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...Lithuanians boast a finer nationalist pedigree than Vytautas Landsbergis. Descended from a long line of intellectuals, the new President is only the latest Landsbergis to agitate for an independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Is Playing for Time | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...moving than the political articles he pens. He is married to a fellow pianist, Grazina, and is proud that his family is caught up in the struggle for independence. "All of them are emotionally tied to this movement," he told a reporter last year, then went on to boast that his eldest grandson, at age seven, wags a national flag at Sajudis meetings. In the grand tradition of the Landsbergis family, the boy, he said, "feels himself a fighter for Lithuania." As Landsbergis matches Mikhail Gorbachev wit for wit, Sajudis colleagues watch the man they affectionately call "maestro" with admiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Is Playing for Time | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

Next door in Room 23, unbeknownst to the Democrats, a three-person team from the Washington-based National Republican Institute is advising the Forum on campaign tactics. G.O.P. consultant Richard Galen suggests that the party should boast to the press how many seats it intends to win in the new parliament. But Ferenc Kulin, a Forum official, objects that such specificity would demoralize his party's weaker candidates. Not if you don't identify which seats you fear losing, Galen explains. "All candidates are optimists," he says. "They'll think they're the ones who are going to win." Kulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary Hot Export: Campaign U | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...Plymouth Laser and Eagle Talon, the company has introduced a family of U.S.-built V-6 engines. The automaker's real product gap is in the mid-size-car category. To counter that, Chrysler will introduce a striking auto in 1992, code-named the L/H, which will boast, among other things, a new multivalve Chrysler engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Iacocca Do It Again? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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