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...gauntlet was thrown down in another Baltic rebellion against the Soviets that could further complicate superpower relations. Even as Eduard Shevardnadze and the Bush Administration were trying to muffle Lithuania's impact in Washington, Estonia was setting off on a similar course of defiance. As Ruutel told a group of visiting TIME editors in Tallinn last week: "We understand the concern abroad that we are, perhaps, too bold in our demands and are undermining Gorbachev's position. But the interests of the superpowers should not be advanced at the expense of small nations...
...student, Jon P. Jiles, said that continuing to display a flag some Leverett House residents have described as "racist" would be "an act of rebellion and controversy...
There is at least some possibility of a coalition that would unite angry conservatives in the party with worried bureaucrats at all levels and military men who resent their increasing role in controlling ethnic rebellion. "There is grist for their mill," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow of such opponents. "They want to restore centralization, keep the country strong. It's a prescription for a real Russian-dominated empire." If disorder does increase, he adds, "maybe a leader will emerge...
...Revisiting the Bay Area painters' rebellion...
...rock 'n' roll of the day," says pop-music publicist Bill Adler. "Rock 'n' roll was about attitude, rebellion, a big beat, sex and, sometimes, social comment. If that's what you're looking for now, you're going to find it here." The basic sound, propelled by a slamming polyrhythmic beat, is loud and raw. The lyrics, a raucous stew of street-corner bravado and racial boosterism, are often salted with profanity, and sometimes with demeaning remarks about whites, women and gays. The fact that they are delivered by young, self-consciously arrogant black men in a society where...