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Perspectives BENEVOLENT BREZHNEV IN AFGHANISTAN BY JOHN P ROCHE Leonid Brezhnev is a man who yields to no one in his respect for world opinion and the aspirations of the Afghan people....
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ANEW OPPOSITION Challenging the Nationalists in Taiwan * kirk Taipei The facts are jumbled. One witness reports the crowd surged through the police lines, strug-ling only to get to safety....
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Killing Off France's Artisans "In [modern] society there is a growing dislike of original, creative people," wrote J. B. Priestley. "The bureaucrats regard them with horror, knowing that no...
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SEfrARATISM TAKES A BACK SEAT Canada's Unexpected T^fecf iqti by har°ld m- waller Montreal Canadians were stunned by the no-confidence vote in the House of Commons last month that toppled...
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States of the Union NEW LIFE NTHE OLD VILLAGE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS The small community has been the very predominant form of human living throughout the history of mankind. —Robert Redfdhld...
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\\riters&V\friting SPIRITS OF PLACE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL JLm. ' rom the shape of men's lives imparted by the place where they have experience, good writing springs," declared William Carlos...
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Trial by Rumor The Brethren By Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong Simon & Schuster. 467 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This long-awaited blockbuster and certain bestseller is so bad that...
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Death and Desire Confessions of a Lady-Killer By George Stade Norton. 379pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review" They're off together again, Eros and Thanatos....
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How Moscow Makes Policy Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia 1968: Anatomy of a Decision By Jiri Valenta Johns Hopkins. 208 pp. $12.00. Reviewed by Vojtech Mastny Author, "Russia's Road to the...
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On Screen NO LAUGHING MATTERS BY ROBERT ASAHINA ing matter. What we find funny says a lot about what we take seriously—and that seems especially true in the case of directors, performers and...
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On Music MENDELSSOHN MISHANDLED BY M. ANATOLE GUREWITSCH D ecades have passed without so much as a mention of Felix Mendelssohn's once hugely popular choral spectaculars, and suddenly this season...
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Dear Editor Hard Times As Robert Lekachman points out ("Hard Times Ahead," NL, October 8,1979), our economic future looks bleak. We are apparently heading for a depression, and what amazes me is...
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1980
Vol. 063 Issue 001 (January 14 1980)
Benevolent Brezhnev in Afghanistan
