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What is important, however, is what happens while nothing happens. Kingston follows this "rebel with a cause" to the depths of his personality, and at the bottom comes up with a vision of America and the American dream and California, of integration and discrimination, of the '60s and the '80s. Although sometimes her work seems as out-of-focus as the glasses Wittman wears, it is on the whole breathtakingly fascinating...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do in the City of the Golden Gate | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flower in a Clenched Fist: Abbie Hoffman: 1936-1989 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...elite Leopards corps took President Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family hostage in a coup attempt. Loyalist troops rescued Avril at the airport as the captors prepared to send him into exile. A second coup attempt was put down by the Presidential Palace guards, who killed eight rebel military soldiers. By week's end the real casualty looked to be Haiti's hope for democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Military Madness | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...should make financial aid to El Salvador conditional upon the country's efforts to reduce human rights violations, a representative of the Salvadoran rebel group and political opposition told about 50 people at a Law School forum last night...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Speaker: Salvadoran Aid Should Be Conditional | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...petite woman with gray hair, Lauristin may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but she is as much a rebel in her own way as was her father Johannes, a prominent Estonian Bolshevik. Her Popular Front has taken the organizational model of the party and turned it upside down. The movement promotes no rigid political platform, except a general commitment to democracy and pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Go Faster! No! Go Slower! Pushing Forward | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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