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...Compared to four or five years ago, there is a stirring among students," says James E. Miller, a lecturer in Social Studies and author of Democracy Is In The Streets; From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, one of the first books in the recent wave of studies on the 1960s. "Students today are looking for alternatives in a way which I have not seen in a while," he says...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The '80s Student Movement: Persistence Without Idealism | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Some initially compared the meeting to the Port Huron conference of 1960, where 55 students wrote a statement of intent that many activists of the time considered the foundation of the movement that followed...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The '80s Student Movement: Persistence Without Idealism | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...kids at Rutgers who wanted to duplicate the Port Huron conference didn't get what Port Huron was about," says Miller. "Port Huron was not about building a coalition. It was really about a group of only 55 people who were questioning, "What is the Good Society?" and not knowing the answer. The kids at Rutgers thought they knew the answers...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The '80s Student Movement: Persistence Without Idealism | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Hizballah's negotiators. Iran's cooperation may have been motivated in part by the battlefield losses it has suffered recently in the eight-year-old gulf war with Iraq. Last week Iraqi troops recaptured Iranian-occupied territory east of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, beyond the battered southern port city of Basra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Clever Are the Peacekeepers | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...outburst was inspired by the transfer of Port Vila land leases from a semi-government authority to a government department. Members of Vanuatu's three Melanesian tribes, which consider themselves the traditional owners of the land, opposed government control of the leases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanuatu: Troubles in the South Pacific | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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