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Yevgeni Primakov was in high spirits as he pulled a chair up to a horseshoe-shaped table in Geneva's Palace of Nations. Seven years earlier, the Russian Foreign Minister had been hunkered down in a Baghdad bunker with American bombs falling around him after he failed to broker a deal to head off the Gulf War. Now, with two U.S. carrier battle groups and 300 warplanes poised in the Persian Gulf for another major strike against Iraq, the pressure was on Primakov once more. But this time he was sure he could keep the guns silent. "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT 2 A.M. IN GENEVA | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...bizarre incident in Tucson, Ariz., a group of skinheads built a Nazi bunker on city property (it was bulldozed) and then, a few weeks later, mounted a cow's head on the hood of a 1970 Ford Thunderbird and drove around town shouting white-power slogans. Many of today's race-hate groups, however, are more sophisticated. According to the TIME/CNN survey, 75% of white teens and 55% of black teens say they have access to a computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS AND RACE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

There are heroes here: Paul Bunker, the only Army player to make Walter Camp's All-America team at two different positions, who died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST POINT, NY: TOO MANY BRAVE SOULS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...could be Bunker Hill II for the Cheyenne-Arapaho vs. NATHAN LANDOW, Democratic moneyman and AL GORE adviser. Early this year he allegedly threatened to blackball the impoverished Oklahoma tribes with the Clinton Administration if they didn't hire him to help try to reclaim some 7,500 acres of land that was under the control of the Agriculture Department. Tribal representatives met with Landow after ponying up $107,000 to the Democrats in 1996 for a chance to make their plea to Clinton, but they saw no action on their land. Landow wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUND RAISING | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

CARROLL O'CONNOR Archie Bunker always stood by his unminced words, and now a jury agrees: a drug supplier is a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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