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...last Thursday, the loudspeakers at the sprawling Stenkovec refugee camp in Macedonia announced the promise of peace. There was little rejoicing. "Our faith rests only with the K.L.A.," said Refic Dema, 24, referring to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Dema, the sole member of his family to survive a massacre at the village of Zhegra in eastern Kosovo, said, "If [K.L.A. leader Hashim] Thaci says it's a good deal, then I will try to smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Deal: Will The K.L.A. Play Along? | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Washington is presently faced with the potential for more disorder, more violence, more bloodshed, and a general breakdown of law and order, in the Rev. Abernathy's intended collision course with the law. A confrontation can be avoided if the politicians in power allow this dema-gogue-in-the-making to carry out his massive march and then see to it that his masses are promptly marched out of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1968 | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Newmark collected his third personal foul after eleven minutes of play, and left the game. Harvard quickly took a 25-24 lead. But 6-5 forward John Dema began to outmaneuver Crimson defenders underneath the basket, scored 12 points in the half, and gave Columbia a 39-24 halftime lead...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Cornell, Columbia Defeat Quintet | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

Columbia has no other exceptional talent--but they don't really need it. Four players have been alternating at the forward positions--Jack Dema (6-5), Tuck Ganzenmuller (6-4) Joel Hoffman (6-2) and John Harms...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Five Hosts Cornell, Lions | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...Meistersinger was the one deemed least adaptable to modern staging. But, for better or worse, Designer Wieland Wagner decided to refute the purists. Wieland only slightly distorted the interior of St. Catherine's Church in Act I. But the medieval Nuremberg of Act II was not only "dema-terialized," as traditionalists feared; it was totally atomized. There was not a trace of the famed gingerbread houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Redraping Grandpa's Work | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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