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...Clash were the best band in the world. And that year at London's Vanilla studios, they began work on their classic, London Calling. But the rehearsal tapes were left in the underground by a drunk roadie and thought lost. Now for the 25th anniversary, London Calling is being re-released with the newfound "Vanilla Tapes." TIME's Hugh Porter spoke to former Clash guitarist Mick Jones. your roadie recently confessed to losing the vanilla tapes. how did they turn up? They were thought to be the only copies, but at the start of this year I moved house. While...
...atrocities committed by Lao security forces on small armed bands of the ethnic-minority Hmong, reports that the Lao authorities have consistently denied. Va Char, who had acted as the journalists' guide (a role he had also performed for TIME in January 2003) is a member of a small underground network inside Laos known as the Blackbirds. Supported by Lao communities living in the U.S., the Blackbirds have provided food and clothing to a few thousand descendants of a militia, mainly made up of Hmong, that once helped the U.S. fight the communists during the Vietnam...
...rose again, a symbol of the world's monotheistic religions. Now it is menaced by a different destroyer - the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis, for whom the old stones are nationalist territorial markers. Israelis say Palestinian reconstruction work inside the Temple Mount - begun in 1996 to turn massive underground chambers into a mosque - has compromised its structural integrity. The Palestinians insist the structure is safe, and accuse the Israelis of trying to assert control over the site. Both fear the loss of their political claim to the sacred place. At the center of the current controversy is Isam Awwad, chief...
Although most visitors to the new Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, will approach it from the side facing downtown, that's actually the rear of the building. The glass-walled main entry is on the other side, facing south across the banks of the Ohio River. The center turns its face in that direction for good reason. The river is at the heart of the story it will tell. In the mid-19th century, those waters were a fateful dividing line. Separating free-soil Ohio from slave-owning Kentucky, they were a desperate crossing point for runaway slaves...
...Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days, not the far more customary story of white oppression. "The story of the Underground Railroad allows you to talk about slavery in a way that...