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- Sep. 27, 1993: Afterlives Of The Revolutionaries
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 27, 1993 Attack Of The Video Games
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRIME, Page 62
- Afterlives Of The Revolutionaries
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- <p> Both the movement and the revolution died years ago, but the
- network is still alive. When news of Katherine Power's surrender
- became public, phones began ringing as a fellowship of aging
- rebels who hadn't spoken in years reached out to talk about
- endings. An end to the '60s. An end to the belief that the only
- way to stop an unjust war abroad was to start an unlawful one
- at home. And more than anything else, an end to another life
- on the run.
- </p>
- <p> "I felt a little deflated," confessed Alan Berkman, physician
- to both the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army
- and the first doctor charged with "providing assistance and
- comfort" to fugitives since Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes
- Booth in 1865. After two years on the run, Berkman was captured
- in 1985 and spent seven years in prison. He now works for the
- Osborne Association, helping released prisoners cope with life.
- "Kathy Power had become something of a mythic figure. Always
- out there, always free. The one the police couldn't catch."
- </p>
- <p> The police never caught Bernardine Dohrn either. In the early
- '70s, she and the Weather Underground took part in 12 bombings.
- After almost 11 years on the lam, she gave herself up in 1980,
- plea-bargaining for three years of probation and a $1,500 fine.
- Dohrn, a lawyer since 1967, is today director of Northwestern
- University Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center.
- Dohrn is married to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, who teaches education
- at the University of Illinois. They have two children and are
- rearing the son of fellow radical Katherine Boudin, who is serving
- 20 years in prison for her role in the 1981 Brink's robbery
- in which three people were killed.
- </p>
- <p> "I live fully in the present," says Dohrn, who keeps the door
- to her radical history firmly locked. "I'm as settled about
- my past as anyone who's 51 can be. I'm not seeking a public
- role as a radical in the media." But some colleagues will not
- overlook her past. Says Professor Daniel Polsby: "This woman
- set a bomb off in the U.S. Capitol, for heaven's sake! And then
- she says, `Ha, ha, I'm not sorry.' This is a school of law,
- not a dental school!" Counters Dohrn's former attorney Don Reuben:
- "She picked herself up from her past and has done socially good
- work for years now. What do they want her to do? Do they want
- a public flogging?"
- </p>
- <p> By Kevin Fedarko. Reported by Edward Barnes/New York and Sheila
- Gribben/Chicago
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