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Stanley Crouch is the latest black social commentator to work a vein first excavated by the journalist George S. Schuyler during the 1940s: the scold posing as a voice of intellectual integrity. A self-proclaimed defector from the black nationalist excesses that he blames for the collapse of the civil rights struggle, Crouch likens himself to the freebooter Henry Morgan, "who sent many of his former pirate buddies to the gallows, certain that they deserved what they got." In this collection of essays and reviews, however, the former Village Voice staff writer too often allows his insights into the self...
Nevertheless, the stubborn nationalist seemed to be holding his own last week in a tense confrontation with Gorbachev over Lithuania's effort to break away from the Soviet Union. Day after day the two fought a battle of communiques. The struggle reaffirmed a fact that has become increasingly clear since Lithuania's declaration of independence two weeks ago: the mild-mannered pianist may turn out to be the Soviet President's most dangerous enemy -- not because he is so strong, but because Lithuania represents the first crack in what could be the collapse of the union that binds the country...
...Lithuanians boast a finer nationalist pedigree than Vytautas Landsbergis. Descended from a long line of intellectuals, the new President is only the latest Landsbergis to agitate for an independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...
...until the birth in 1988 of Sajudis, the nationalist movement that now dominates the local parliament, Landsbergis was not an activist. "He was no more of a dissident than the rest of us," recalls Jonas Vruveris, a former colleague at the Vilnius State Conservatory, where Landsbergis used to lecture on the history of music. Landsbergis quickly gained a reputation as a shrewd strategist and within months emerged as Sajudis' chairman. "No one else has been so capable of forging a united position out of the multitude of positions that exist here," says member Eduardas Potasinskas...
...meeting was the first ever between a high-level U.S. official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela -- and it was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there...