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...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...
...going to call a general strike that would affect an important armaments factory. Walesa was furious to find such a strike was being considered, and the men had argued for hours. At breakfast, he made peace with the delegation, which agreed to put off the strike. "lam absolutely finished and run down," he said later. "I have more problems than the hairs on my head." Then, in his last major interview before the military takeover, Lech Walesa talked to TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik about his work, his hopes and discouragements, and the forces that drive and sustain...
...region's geography and partly in its history. The area is a natural Ellis Island for all those coming, for whatever reason, from the Caribbean and points south. The region's benign climate and studied informality have long made it prime destination for Americans on the make, on the lam or on a pension. With it hundreds of miles of coves and inlets, the area is also an ideal port of entry for boat laden with
...newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided, but had been rented in the name of Nina Lewis, an alias police believe is being used by Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, another radical on the lam. Buck is known to have been a gunrunner for the B.L.A. and is believed to be its only white member...
Federal authorities are still unsure if Boyce received foreign help while on the lam. They think he may have spent part of the time abroad, before blending into the rural life of Washington as a quiet, well-mannered young man. "I have some ambivalent feelings about [him]," admits Christman. "The guy is likable. The only problem is that he is a manipulator; he uses people." Adds Kay Sullivan, whose husband worked with Boyce in a short-lived commercial fishing venture in La Push, on the Pacific coast: "He was not anti-American. He cared about his country...