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But six weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre, many Chinese students say that they need to devote themselves to other types of protest. Rather than directly aiding the protesters back home and openly challenging the government, many of them say they now need to challenge the regime of Li Peng...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Pushing for Change Across the Ocean | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

It was not prophesied in Scripture, but the end has come. Ten years after the $ Rev. Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrapping The Moral Majority | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

But, of course, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- Dona Violeta to even the hardest-line members of Nicaragua's Sandinista government -- believes precisely the same thing. Otherwise she could not devote her life to a cause that has torn asunder her country, her family and her young girl's dreams of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLETA CHAMORRO: Don't Call Her Comrade | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

A growing band of activists is lobbying TV, movie and record producers to reduce the level of sex and violence in entertainment. Terry Rakolta of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the mother of four children, has started a group called Americans for Responsible Television. She has suggested that networks devote the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Now Cray and the company he founded have decided to go their separate ways. In an unexpected move, the firm announced last week that it was splitting into two rival entities: Cray Research, based in Minneapolis, and Cray Computer, based in Colorado Springs and headed by Seymour Cray. The new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Chip off the Old Block | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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