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...Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended race. "I found," he says, "that all parents, black and white, wanted the same thing for their children: the best education possible...
...says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations. His latest venture involves an interactive CD-ROM spy game, "Spycraft: The Great Game," where he plays himself opposite ex-KGB General Oleg Kalugin...
Even the recent third-grade-style antics in the State House show distinctive changes. After a bit of confusion over how to pay his taxes and what's considered a gift from a lobbyist, former Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty, a staunch Cambridge Democrat, said he will not run for re-election. In the wake of his departure, there was a bitter battle for Flaherty's position. Through a coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston) was able to prevail over a more traditional Democratic with a strong backing...
...NATO's intention to expand its membership into the former Soviet bloc. The issue could prove troublesome for Yeltsin in the upcoming election campaign, providing anti-NATO Russian nationalists with political capital. NATO's plans to expand are not new. The process has been underway since 1994, and encountered staunch Russian opposition from the start, even though NATO has officially recognized that Russia is not a military threat. "As far as the Russians are concerned, NATO is an anti-Russian military organization," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "Further, the Czechs, Poles and Hungarians are scared of Russia and are interested...
...fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two media-produced camps? These days, it seems one must either join the majority in condemning Mrs. Clinton as a corrupt, adversarial Jezebel leading her husband into ruin or fight with the underdogs as a staunch Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. These are the two ends of the spectrum, carefully constructed for us by the press...