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...gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact, she is already a somewhat experienced actress, having appeared back home in five peace-promoting films. Earlier, in Houston, she visited the Johnson Space Center and participated in her first Easter-egg hunt. In Chicago she sampled the cuisine of McDonald's (French fries da, Big Mac nyet). And in Washington she toured the national monuments. The point of her 13-day visit was to bring a message of world peace to U.S. children and adults alike, so Katya was more...
Meanwhile, other antiapartheid activists took a less confrontational tack. On Easter Sunday a conference of 1,500 black teachers, parents and students decided against a national school boycott. Instead, the group urged students who had engaged in sporadic local boycotts to return to their classrooms and subvert the school system from within...
...Easter Sunday congregation at Kwangju was perhaps the largest demonstration in South Korea since Chun Doo Hwan assumed the presidency six years ago. Just one week earlier, a similar protest had been held in the city of Pusan. And last weekend the opposition mounted yet another rally in the central city of Taegu. Though police took no action against the orderly crowd of 10,000 people who heard Kim Young Sam speak, they fired tear gas and waded into 2,000 youths who threatened to storm the city hall after the main group had dispersed...
Antigovernment protests in an authoritarian country are rare, and those in South Korea are still distinctly circumscribed. The state-controlled national television channel devoted one sentence to the Easter demonstration; newspapers all but ignored it. On his way to Kwangju, the country's leading oppositionist, Kim Dae Jung, was stopped by more than 200 policemen and forced to return home. He was also told by police that he would not be allowed to travel to Taegu...
...memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...