Washington-USA THE GOP AT TIDEWATER III BY ANDREW MOLUSON Easton, Maryland Outside the Tidewater Inn, cold wind from the Chesapeake Bay whipped the last flecks of snow from the pancake-flat seed...
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ANALYZING THE SOVIET STRATEGY Confusions about Afghanistan BY MILOVAN DJILAS Belgrade Future historians trying to understand the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan will no doubt find it difficult...
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AFTER IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN Shifting Relations in the Middle East BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Avtv Events in Iran and Afghanistan are having an impact on practically everything happening in the...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN Dictators Are Not for Embracing The most disturbing thing about the Soviet Union is that it possesses advanced military technology but is governed by old-fashioned...
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TRANSMITTING UNDERSTANDING New Role for the Commonwealth by norman gelb London More anguish undoubtedly lies ahead for Rhodesia Fundamental differences among the political parties and...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reversions and Revisions It's topsyturvy time again Inside-out and upside-down time The moon must be in one of its whackier cycles All yesterday's wisdom is up for...
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Writers & Writing A PREY TO MADNESS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL What nightmare inspired a quiet teenage mother to create Frankenstein1 Was it necessary for the Bronte sisters and Mary Ann Evans to...
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Plying an Empty Radicalism Vida By Marge Piercy Summit 412 pp $12 95 Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review" Halfway through Marge Piercy's new novel, we are told "Oscar...
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Old Ploy or New Hope? Eurocummunism. Challenge for East and West By Wolfgang Leonhard Holt, Rmehart and Winston 398 pp $17 95 Reviewed by Lloyd Harrington Rejecting with varying emphases the...
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Heeding the Wrong Calling Looking for Work By Susan Cheever Simon and Schuster 188 pp $8 95 Reviewed by Eric Goldstein In this messy, lifeless little novel, Salley Potter joins the hordes of...
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On Screen FANTASY LIVES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Paul Schrader is probably the only filmmaker left in Hollywood who thinks sex has to be dirty Although only in his 30s, he typically heads straight for...
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Dear Editor Jimmy's Trail It's absolutely incredible According to John P Roche ("Benevolent Brezhnev in Afghanistan," NL, January 14), "Pakistan is the ideal location for starting the 'Jimmy...
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