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...Burundian capital of Bujumbura was calm last week under a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew. Calling an end to all major military activity, Buyoya has mounted a program of pacification and has opened centers for returning Hutu refugees. At the same time, Burundi's President has made it clear that he will not tolerate any further violence. Said Buyoya: "Force will be used again if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burundi Horror Amid The Green Hills | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...have no joint activities. "There is no unified, strong Islamic movement in America," complains Muzammil Siddiqi, director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif. Coordination among U.S. Muslims is lacking even on something as fundamental as the dates for beginning and ending Ramadan, the month of dawn-to-dusk fasting that concludes this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans Facing Toward Mecca | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Wilbur's "Leaving," for example, moves adroitly from the specific to the universal. A couple depart from a garden party at dusk and stumble slowly into a perception of the pageant of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Testament To Civility NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...valley is halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua A Town That Peace Forgot | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...part of the problem. His failings were those of the young -- indecision during critical times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look less a candidate for President than the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nova That Stayed Nebulous | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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