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James ("Bo") Gritz, ex-Special Forces commander and Vietnam War hero, is well known in the Patriot movement. But its extremist credo leaves him cold. Though mad at Washington, he helped win the 1992 surrender of separatist Randy Weaver. TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson talked to Gritz in Bakersfield, California. Excerpts...
DIED. JEAN MUIR, 66, fashion designer; of breast cancer; in London. Though Muir first made a mark in the early '60s, her mastery of starkly simple yet always elegant designs kept her on the cutting edge for three decades. Her practical credo: "When designing clothes, you must remember that you are covering a body that moves." Her specialty: the "little black dress...
...different direction. "If I can only find some quiet time, I want to write the symphonic music I've been dreaming about since I was a child." His face is illuminated with delight as he says this. It beams again when he offers this innocent credo: "The great leaders of the world should learn the tin whistle and have a party. And the world will be a happier place...
...existential rock star; he's closer to Neil Sedaka than to Bruce Springsteen. And there's something uncool-refreshingly so-about his naked need to be loved across the footlights. "Even if I had only one finger left," he once said, "I'd play for you." That's the credo of the compulsive showman, who loves to get people to sing along with all the tunes (Your Song, Daniel, Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, I'm Still Standing) that have snaked into the pop repertoire...
Brown is willing to declare what many others still refuse to acknowledge: that the Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program