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Amid the preparations for her joint television address Sunday night, Nancy Reagan carried her campaign against drugs to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., site of John Brown's 1859 rebellion. Calling drugs a "silent killer," she said they had the "potential of tearing our country apart, just like the Civil War did." Although most officials sincerely support that sentiment, even within the Administration there are some who are becoming cautious about turning the war on drugs into something resembling the Civil War's Wilderness Campaign, with a lot of frenetic and random shooting in all directions...
...youth rebellion, the fact that parents were shocked by drugs was all the more reason for children to take them. Hollywood and Broadway, ever sensitive to changing mores, romanticized the drug culture with pot-smoking antiheroes in Easy Rider (1969) and let-it-all-hang-out hippies in Hair (1968). "In the 1960s the baby boomers got fooled into thinking, just like the people in the 1890s, that you could use drugs recreationally and not get addicted to them," says the National Cocaine Hotline's Washton. "Marijuana had a meaning beyond just getting high. It was the source of shared...
Pick up an old novel by one of the Russian masters or a new memoir by a Soviet dissident and notice how people introduce themselves -- last names first. "Good day, I am Scriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich." Notice too how often, perhaps in rebellion against those cumbrous Russian patronymics, they use only their initials. "Good day, I am Scriabin, A.N." The title of a French movie made a few years back, Lacombe, Lucien, was apparently intended to show how the German Occupation had bureaucratized and dehumanized the susceptible French. But the Russians do not have their reversed names imposed on them; they...
Just as naming a child is one of the first assertions of parental power, so one of the first attempts at teenage rebellion is announcing that one is changing one's name (and thus, theoretically, one's identity). One now wishes to be addressed not as Bobby but as Hercules, or vice versa. Susan Weaver, for example, announced at 14 that she was henceforth Sigourney, a name that impressed her as "long and curvy, with a musical ring." For those apprehensive about anything so drastic, there is the face-lifting change in spelling: Debbie now wishes to be Debi...
...Tolentino, an ally of ousted Leader Ferdinand Marcos, tried to seize power last month, Philippine President Corazon ("Cory") Aquino offered him clemency. But Tolentino refused to swear allegiance to Aquino's provisional constitution. Last week the Aquino government responded by formally charging Tolentino and 30 other Marcos supporters with rebellion. Under a Marcos-era decree, a person found guilty of leading a rebellion...