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Like Muslims in their annual pilgrimage to Mecca, or the swallows returning to Capistrano, the hippies migrated from their usual Harvard Square haunt to the Cambridge Common last Saturday for what was billed as "a happening, a gathering, an awakening...
Belize, formerly British Honduras, enjoys the distinction of being the most obscure country in Latin America. It is tiny: a nibble between the borders of Mexico to the north, Honduras to the south and Guatemala to the west. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the haunt of Spanish bucaneros and English slavers, of logwood cutters and warm-sea riffraff. In 1981 it achieved independence, and today it is the last fragment of the British Commonwealth on Central American soil, the smallest sovereign state on the whole continent (pop. about 200,000) and politically the least eventful...
...Kapor has emerged as a leading watchdog for freedom in the information age. He views the tiny bulletin-board systems as the forerunners of a public computer network that will eventually connect households across the country. Kapor is worried that legal precedents set today may haunt all Americans in the 21st century. Thus he is providing funds to fight for civil liberties in cyberspace the best way he knows how -- one case at a time...
...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Guilt about his conduct in Vietnam comes back, in the literal form of an accusatory Army buddy, to haunt a successful middle-aged man in this gripping Broadway drama by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away). Stephen Lang (A Few Good Men) repeats his electrifying Chicago performance as the accuser...
Boastful propaganda? Of course, but with just enough potential truth to haunt George Bush for days to come. The President, his generals and allies emphasized last week that he alone will make the fateful decisions whether and when to start a ground offensive -- a campaign that Baghdad Radio says Iraq "is waiting impatiently" to fight. But if he gives the go signal -- and it is increasingly difficult to see how he can avoid doing so -- he enters into a grisly calculus of death...