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...took to the streets of Miami to celebrate a victory for their countrymen last week. Rejecting the government's argument that it should be allowed to ship back to Haiti the refugees who have tried to reach Florida in sailboats in the past three months, U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins extended his ban on forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: Reprieve for The Haitians | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...Clyde Haberman's prattling in The New York Times that Shamir, a hard-liner, blocks progress by attending the conference in place of his more moderate foreign minister, David Levy, is probably (not to say characteristically) a misreading. If Levy headed the Israeli delegation, any concessions he made would be subject to fierce resistance in Jerusalem. Only Shamir can make real concessions stick. Perhaps--just perhaps--he is putting himself in place...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: No Plans for Peace | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

...government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that the two bachelors were lovers. (Gentry leaves unresolved the question of Hoover's homosexuality and generally is better at describing what the director did than at analyzing what made him tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Emperor's Old Files | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...city tour after a two-year absence and puts out two new albums after the tour is over. And it's hard not to chuckle at a band whose lead guitarist spends a sizable chunk of his Rolling Stone interview discussing the death of his pet snake Clyde. ("Had he been sick for a long time?" inquired Rolling Stone, in arguably the most unforgettable rock-'n'-roll interview question of all time. Yes, the snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misfit Metalheads | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...Thelma & Louise in the honorable line of movies whose makers, without quite knowing what they were doing, sank a drill into what appeared to be familiar American soil and found that they had somehow tapped into a wild- rushing subterranean stream of inchoate outrage and deranged violence. Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, Dirty Harry and Fatal Attraction -- all these movies began as attempts to vary and freshen traditional generic themes but ended up taking their creators, and their audiences, on trips much deeper, darker, more disturbing than anyone imagined they were going to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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