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Three days after his release from prison, Walter Sisulu met at his Soweto home with Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod. Sitting on a bed beside schoolbooks that belonged to his grandchildren, Sisulu began the interview only minutes after seven policemen departed. They had asked Sisulu to disperse groups of youngsters who were gathering outside. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sisulu: We Want Immediate Change | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...American Dream more passionately than his own. The author's exploits are subordinated to the old man's: his struggles to sustain his clan and make sure that his daughters find suitable (meaning Greek) husbands. Gatzoyiannis' death at age 90 provides a classic resolution. Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, he drifts off on old memories. It is a scene that evokes Chekhov and his observation that "any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Kind Of Hero | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...survived by three married sisters, a brother and two sons. He also leaves seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Botanist Mangelsdorf Dies at 90 | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

Reflecting his fragile alliance with the Khmer Rouge, Sihanouk pointed to the communist ultras as a major stumbling block to peace and reminded journalists that they killed five of his children and 14 grandchildren during their reign of terror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambodian Peace Talks Split | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...Westerplatte Memorial, which marks the site of the first gunfire of World War II, Bush, draped in a large American flag by an exuberant Pole, reached into the crowd, picked up a small boy and hugged him as if he were one of his own eleven grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush's High-Wire Act | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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