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"From the air," reported TIME'S Andrea Dabrowski, the only journalist on the mission, "the ravaged area looks like a surrealistic patchwork, with a few brick and adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Fire in the Dawn Sky | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: The Ghosts of Protests Past... | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

For instance, "liberal white guiltiness" is supposed to explain the sympathy of white radicals for Black militants "The ghost of Senator for McCarthy" is palmed for the moderate distrust of radicals. And in a remarkable passage, a few scattered antiwar demonstrations are credited with the "quarantine" of President Johnson:

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: The Ghosts of Protests Past... | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

Last week Kobayashi, 45, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment after he had failed to show up for work at Masa's. He had suffered head injuries and was discovered in a pool of blood. The contents of his wallet were scattered on the floor, the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco: Death of a Master Chef | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

He gently scattered his slain mother's ashes into the thin Himalayan air from the open hatch of an Indian air force transport plane. Then Rajiv Gandhi, 40, returned to New Delhi last week and boldly took Indira Gandhi's place in the oak-paneled Prime Minister'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Rajiv Takes Charge | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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