Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. A Soviet Addiction Vienna—Public health and law...
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THE POLITICS OF FRENCH ECONOMICS Giscard's Precarious Balancing Act BY ELIAHU SALPETER Paris The two basic facts of French political and economic life are, first, that the Gaullist-led ticket...
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20 YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION Notes of a Native Hungarian BY PETER KENEZ We Hungarians who left the country following the Soviet intervention in 1956 now return there to visit by the thousands....
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN The Politics of Shangri-La As every schoolboy should know, the frontier that separates France from Spain is neatly and conveniently marked—in atlases, at least—by the...
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States of the Union PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS On A flight from Georgia to New York a decade ago I found myself seated next to the owner of an Atlanta department store, a...
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Writers & Writing EXCISING THE HURT BY HOPE HALE DAVIS Hemingway once told A. E. Hotchner that "serious writers have to be hurt terrible before they can write seriously. Once you get hurt and can...
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Labor's First Lady Madam Secretary: Francis Perkins By George Martin Houghton Mifflin. 608 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Ellen Chesler The day after Francis Perkins took office as Franklin D....
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Details That Make a Life The Lists of the Past By Julie Hayden Viking. 159 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Andrew Giarelli Like a child at a grownups' party, Julie Hayden loves to interrupt her own...
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On Screen SALVAGINGA LACKLUSTER FESTIVAL BY ROBERT ASAHINA The 14th annual New York Film Festival, held last month, brought together 30 movies from 10 countries—France, Germany, Hong Kong,...
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On Television A FORMAT FOR THE 1980 DEBATES BY MARVIN KITMAN A number of mistakes were made in the presentation of the Presidential debates, the four-part mini-series (September 23-October 22)...
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On Music WOODY'S CHILDREN BY BRUCE COOK Recently I attended a concert at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum honoring the memory of Phi! Ochs. The troubador of the New Left committed suicide last...
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Dear Editor Kudos Even faithful readers of The New Leader (and I have been one for the last quarter of a century) have their favorite columns. Upon receiving an issue, I always turned first to the...
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