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CORRESPONDENCE Aristide & history Petionville, Haiti To the Editors: John Hogan's review of Jean-Bertrande Aristide's In the Parish of the Poor [June 14] dealt more with recent Haitian history...
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...Yet Israel's next- door neighbor, Hafez Assad, as ruthless as Saddam, but more cunning and more powerful, completed his conquest of Lebanon on Israel's borders while the world was watching Baghdad...
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...After a war that revealed Israel's vul- nerability as never before, in a period in which ancient anti-Semitic poisons have surfaced more than at any time since Hitler, when Israel is struggling valiantly to ab- sorb hundreds of thousands of victims of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, it would behoove American liberals not to be quite so quick to offer hostile advice to the Israelis...
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...Many will disagree with his statement that "Aristide has surrounded himself with strong and capable cabinet members...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Aristide & history Petionville, Haiti To the Editors: John Hogan's review of Jean-Bertrande Aristide's In the Parish of the Poor [June 14] dealt more with recent Haitian history and with prescriptions for the country's future than with the writings themselves...
...The article left me asking myself whether Mr...
...It costs nothing for your editors to hurl Jovian thunderbolts against Israel for the intransigence of its leaders...
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...To the Editors: One can agree with the edi- tors of Commonweal with regard to the sub- stance of the debate over Israel's current settlement policies, while at the same time also understanding Judith Banki's concern as a Jew over Commonweal's "elliptical" attack on members of Congress who might express a different viewpoint [editorial, June 14...
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...Their struggle may or may not offer a model for other nations, but it ought to be an omen for the "cold country to the north," and be received as "a voice of one calling in the desert...
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...To the Editors: Having lived and worked in Haiti during a turbulent time, December 1986 to July 1988, I'd like to lend my sup- port to the John P. Hogan review of In the Parish of the Poor, by Jean-Bertrande Aristide [June 14...
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