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...black candidate. Everywhere, the film has polarized white liberals for whom Bed-Stuy is as exotic and unknowable as Burkina Faso. Some see Lee as the movies' great black hope; others tut till they're tuckered. A few fear that Do the Right Thing could trigger the kind of riot it dramatizes and perhaps condones...
...daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read out three hitherto secret telegrams sent from the Georgian party leadership, absolving the Kremlin...
Witnesses reported a small boy killed and a girl wounded in the head. Police in riot gear cruised the streets in vans as night fell, beating up and shooting passers...
Covering the bloody eruption in Panama's streets last week, Central America bureau chief John Moody had a powerful sense of deja vu. He had spent ten weeks in Panama last year reporting on the riots that accompanied the Reagan Administration's efforts to bring down the country's dictator, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. On both occasions, Moody felt a shiver of physical danger. Last year Moody was chased by several of Noriega's riot police, called the Dobermans. "When they finally cornered me, I figured my time had come," he recalls. "I was more than a bit surprised when...
Moody, who joined TIME as a correspondent in Bonn in 1982, is no stranger to social unrest. As TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1983 to 1985, he covered protests by the then illegal Solidarity union. Says Moody: "The riot police in Poland, the ZOMO, can be tough, but at least both they and the demonstrators knew they were Poles, fellow countrymen. In Panama I sense an alienation between the police and the people that may take a long while to overcome...