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Whether Milosevic manages to retain control in Serbia's parliament in upcoming elections may determine whether the Yugoslav federation shatters. With a governing bloc, he could more easily press territorial claims against Croatia and grudges against Slovenia. Disintegration was not Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Populism on the March | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

On the road to Marion, there are posters trumpeting the Louisiana Senate candidacy of David Duke, the ex-Klansman who lost last October's nonpartisan primary but won an estimated 60% of the white vote. Joseph Hampton sees nothing alarming in this. From his post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: You Can Go Home Again | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Short, stocky, bearded and a teetotaler, Taylor, 42, is the son of a Liberian mother and an American father. He was born and grew up in Liberia but attended Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. After earning a B.A. in economics in 1977, he continued to be active in emigre Liberian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa The Would-Be President | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Smuggled out of Albania by his parents days after his birth in 1939, Leka boasted in the 1970s of training an emigre army to harass the government, which deposed his father in absentia in 1946. Today, he says, "we hope negotiation will prevail." He adds that he is prepared to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albania: Revolution By Balloon | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

If Havel, 53, actually were an enemy of the society in which he grew up, it would be understandable. Long before he was singled out for his outspoken politics and insurrectionist art, he was subjected to discrimination because he was born to wealth. His father was a real estate developer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VACLAV HAVEL: Dissident To President | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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