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Back in 1972, when Tom Root returned from Vietnam as a 21-year-old Army corporal, he hid in an airport bathroom wishing he could change into civilian clothes before running the gauntlet of war protesters. When he and his Illinois National Guard unit returned from the gulf last month, the parade stretched 13 miles along an Illinois interstate. "The response of the community was overwhelming," he says. "We were not prepared for the homecoming...
WORLD: Boris Yeltsin throws down the gauntlet...
Several small groups of protestors, ten or so at a time, attempted to block the narrow gauntlet though which the workers were entering the building. They did this by sitting down in tightly packed groups and holding hands...
...still viewed, sometimes resentfully, as classic. So today's artists are busy trying to gain acceptance by reworking the past. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians redo Dylan; 10,000 Maniacs covers Cat Stevens. Why hasn't the twentysomething generation picked up the creative gauntlet? One reason is that the generation believes the artistic climate that existed when the Beatles and the Who were writing is no longer viable. Art, they feel, is not created for the sake of a statement these days. It's written for money...
...gauntlet was thrown down in another Baltic rebellion against the Soviets that could further complicate superpower relations. Even as Eduard Shevardnadze and the Bush Administration were trying to muffle Lithuania's impact in Washington, Estonia was setting off on a similar course of defiance. As Ruutel told a group of visiting TIME editors in Tallinn last week: "We understand the concern abroad that we are, perhaps, too bold in our demands and are undermining Gorbachev's position. But the interests of the superpowers should not be advanced at the expense of small nations...