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...existence of La Cosa Nostra, they admit it. "This case is not about whether there is a Mafia," thundered Defense Attorney Samuel Dawson. "Assume it. Accept it. There is." Nevertheless, he told the jury, "just because a person is a member of the Mafia doesn't mean he has committed the charged crime or even agreed to commit the charged crime." Dawson depicted the Commission as a sort of underworld businessmen's round table that approves new Mafia members and arbitrates disputes. Its purpose, he insisted, is "to avoid -- avoid -- conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...home, the Committed Artists, the Earth Players, the Bahumutsi Drama Group and the other black groups featured in the festival work largely in the dark. Since theaters are nonexistent in South African townships, the companies operate like the mystery players of medieval England, wandering from shantytown to shantytown and staging their dramas in churches, schoolrooms or whatever space is available. And since printed texts might be considered subversive, they commit little of their improvised theater to paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cries of the Silenced | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...constitutional ones as well -- by passing a bill that would throw as much as $4 billion over the next three years into a wide array of antidrug efforts, permit the military to protect the country's borders from drug trafficking and impose a federal death penalty on those who commit murder while dealing in drugs. Across the country candidates were not only trying to top their opponents with radical proposals for tackling the problem but were challenging one another to urinating contests as a demonstration of fealty to the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Harem paints a poignant picture of two boys, Pat and Madjid (Remi Martin and Kader Boukhanef), who commit aimless acts of delinquency, wandering through the streets of a French village with nothing to depend on except their friendship. Through this portrait, the film also addresses some essential questions in society, from racism to poverty to the meaning of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Looking | 8/12/1986 | See Source »

...forced until our backs are against the wall, we will have no alternative but to stand up in self-respect and say to the world: You won't force South Africans to commit national suicide. Leave South Africa to the South Africans." Just as South Africa's black Anglican Archbishop-elect, Desmond Tutu, had told the West to "go to hell" the week before, now it was South Africa's white President, P.W. Botha, saying virtually the same thing. The defiant stands on both sides of the embattled nation's apartheid clash focused on the same subject: sanctions. While Tutu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Lashing Out At the West $ | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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