Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Lancegate Washington—It is not difficult to see why...
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THE NEW U.S. POLICY Facing Mideast Realities BY HANS J. MORGENTHAU Writing in The New Leader of December 19, 1977, I started my assessment of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem...
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UNCONVINCING EVANGELISM Carter's Third World Gospel BY ANDREW J. GLASS Laos When he goes visiting in the Third World, the evangelist in Jimmy Carter comes to the forefront. According to his new...
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POLARIZED PARTIES France's Electoral Aftermath by Norman Jacobs The French Left's dream of victory in the legislative elections vanished within seconds after the first-round balloting ended on...
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THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS Terrorism and Politics in Italy BY SILVIO R SENIGALLIA Rome For months, the Italian Socialists (PSI) had been planning to turn their biannual national congress into a...
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HIGHEST IN THE HEMISPHERE The Cost of Life in Argentina by Peter C. Stuart BUENOS AIRES The most familiar advertisement here—covering more billboards, walls and construction-site fences than the...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN War This Year? A Frenchman who claims to possess prophetic powers (he describes himself as "le plus grand voyant du monde") informed me a little over two years ago that the...
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Writers & Writing BEACONS IN THE DARK BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL "Cities," wrote George Santayana, "are a second body for the human mind ... a work of natural yet moral art, where the soul sets up...
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Ethnic Insularity Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940 By John Bodnar Pittsburgh. 213 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Joseph E. Illick Professor of...
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Purposeless Confusion River of Light By Brenda Peterson Knopf. 303 pp. $8.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Ames_ The trouble with River of Light, Brenda Peterson's novel about north Georgia, is that...
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On Screen KID STUFF BY ROBERT ASAHINA Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, a fictionalized account of an actual 12-year-old prostitute who plied her trade in New Orleans' notorious Storyville district...
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Dear Editor 'Miles': New Ending Because I was traveling, the tribute paid in your letters column of January 2 by my friend Adolf Sturmthal to the memory of "Miles," the founder of the German...
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