Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trinidadians traditionally express their political feelings in satirical calypso songs. Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson won a landslide four years ago to the tune of Captain, the Ship Is Sinking, a telling commentary on the island nation's economic decline. But the conservative Robinson almost lost the helm himself last week, when a group of fanatic black Muslims took him and 54 others hostage in an attempt to bring down the government...
...overwhelming," says Lisa Robinson, 22, who graduated in June from Columbia University. "This is the first time in my life that what I do -- actually molding kids' views -- could have negative repercussions for years." For others, there have been frustrating surprises. "I couldn't believe that on my first day some kid was winking at me!" says Vanderbilt graduate Melissa Menotti, 21, who taught algebra to tenth- and eleventh- graders...
This week's cover features five twentysomething adults. From left, they are: John Neubauer, 27, of Baltimore, a teacher; Raul Alvarez, 23, an auto mechanic in Ventura, Calif.; Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver, a communications and business student; Sonja Henderson, 23, an art student in Chicago; and David Robinson, 25, a graduate student in English at the University of California, Berkeley...
...democracy has begun to fade. Now activists say it is important to draw attention to De Klerk's failure to take such steps as lifting the Internal Security Act, which permits thousands of South Africans to be imprisoned without trial. "We have to think about civil disobedience again," says Robinson. "Our challenge is to help Americans distinguish between what is important and what...
...that TransAfrica, a 13-year-old Washington-based lobbying organization, concocted a strategy for broadening the antiapartheid campaign. On Thanksgiving eve, TransAfrica's Robinson; Walter Fauntroy, congressional delegate for the District of Columbia; and Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, paid a visit to the South African embassy in Washington and refused to leave until Mandela was released and apartheid dismantled. They were arrested...