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<text id=93TT0295>
<title>
Sep. 27, 1993: Afterlives Of The Revolutionaries
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Sep. 27, 1993 Attack Of The Video Games
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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.
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<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
</p>
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