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Like vultures fighting over a corpse, the various factions in Liberia's bloody civil war vowed to continue their armed struggle despite the death of President Samuel K. Doe last week. Since removing Doe was a common goal of the rebels, there was a faint glimmer of hope that his death might open the door to peace. But instead of signaling the end of the carnage, Doe's demise only set the stage for a new contest for military dominance between Prince Yormie Johnson, leader of a several-hundred-member force that captured and killed Doe, and Charles Taylor, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia Death of a President | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...getting too small for wars and that they have to put an end to the spiraling arms race. The burden of today's military spending has proved too heavy even for rich nations such as the U.S. To sum up, toward the end of the 1980s there appeared a glimmer of hope that the global political process could be demilitarized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Interview: I Am an Optimist | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...Prince defended his position that a transitional government comprising the four rival Khmer factions should preside over the election of a new leadership, following a verified withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. But he then offered a glimmer of a concession: a recent Australian ! proposal, which skirts the issue of Khmer Rouge participation by placing the country under U.N. trusteeship, "merits consideration." However, he added, his Western supporters would have to join the Viet Nam-backed Phnom Penh government in making that a condition of a peaceful settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: The Prince Presses On | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...terrible execution and heard some encouraging words from Iran's new leaders. Yet after a decade of outrage and frustration, the President and the American public may be willing to settle for such small steps while they strain to see, through the latest signals from Tehran, at least a glimmer of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Again: A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S. | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...experience authentic? Can the blues be legitimately sung for 2 1/2 hours with barely a glimmer of rage or pain? Would W.C. Handy and Fats Waller recognize anything except their own music? In truth, not much that is funky survives the onslaught of feathers and sequins. During I Can't Give You Anything but Love, a song about poverty, the stage is aswirl with what looks like gold and diamonds. The title number, which was wrenchingly performed this season in Ain't Misbehavin', is used here to bring on a choral stomp. Almost perversely, the blues, an art rooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gorgeous Fun, but Not Funky | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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