Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS "Yesterday's Hero Tel Aviv for a few weeks this winter,...
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NOTHING NEW ON INFLATION Carter's Hoover Syndrome BY SIDNEY WEINTRAUB WATCHING Jimmy Carter orate his much touted "new" war on inflation March 14, and then suffering largely the same speech later...
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A MODEL FOR SOUTH AFRICA? Looking Ahead in Zimbabwe BY RUSSELL warren Howe ZIMBABWE becomes independent next month under an African nationalist government?85 years earlier than Ian Smith...
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THE ECONOMY IS THE KEY Preserving South Korea's Stability BY EDWARD A OLSEN Like most dictators, South Korea's Park Chung Hee cultivated a myth of his indispensability So it came as a surprise to...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN The Scam The house was a big one, with an oil derrick in the garden and a two-camel garage I should have suspected something fishy from the Avis sign on the camels'...
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Writers & Writing CHALLENGING THE GOSPELS' TRUTH BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL VIRTUALLY ALL religions experience a tension between organized and mystical practice The first embraces the community of...
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Mixing Myth and Polemic The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter Harper & Row 164 pp $8 95 Reviewed by Joshua Gilder Myths are the most fragile and the most durable of fictions Fragile because their...
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Wide-eyed in the Desert Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth By Jonathan Raban Simon & Schuster 344 pp $1195 Reviewed by Eric Goldstein Arabia is a clever title for the story of an...
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On Screen LOSING A LOST GENERATION BY ROBERT ASAHINA EVERY GENERATION is in some fashion "lost," and each of its members considers himself an authority on why So it is not surprising that the...
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Dear Editor Soviet Fears While reading Peter Kenez' "What Russia Is Reading about Afghanistan" (NL, February 11), I noted a great similarity between [he Soviet propaganda handed out to the public...
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