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...York, a teen-ager was arrested Saturday for investigation of murder in the Friday shooting death of Gabriel Williams, 19, in front of a theater showing the movie...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Movie Sparks Violence | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

...packed Johannesburg courtroom erupted in surprise at the start of the trial when prosecutor Jan Swanepoel told Judge Stegmann that a key prosecution witness who was one of the victims, Gabriel Pelo Mekgwe, had been mysteriously "kidnapped" the night before the proceedings. Subsequently, two other victims who were expected to testify against Mandela, Barend Thabo Mono and Kenneth Kgase, refused to speak when they took the stand. Said a terrified Kgase: "I feel strongly about the obligation to give evidence, but it's my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Courting Trouble | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...Mandatory retirement is age discrimination," says Gabriel A. Maisels, an ACLU spokesperson. "Age discrimination, like any discrimination, violates the rights of each individual not to be judged by the group he belongs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rosovsky Plan: Professors as Policy Makers | 2/5/1991 | See Source »

...General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America, are imaginatively reconstructed by the acknowledged master of magic realism. As the general flees from his progressive illness and ungrateful people, he trails, in his turbulent wake, a hyperactive tale of grandeur and disillusionment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Books | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel, The General in His Labyrinth, is about the last days of Simon Bolivar, but it can also be read as allegory. Having cast off the shackles of empire, tried to found a rudimentary democracy and earned the title of the Liberator, Bolivar dies in defeat. What he wants most is a single South American republic reaching from Caracas to Quito. But the passions of the revolution he led give way to those of separatism that he cannot control. His "golden dream of continental unity" becomes an embarrassing abstraction to his people, who begin following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The General Secretary in His Labyrinth | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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