MORE THAN ECONOMICS The Roots of Britain's Riots by norman gelb London Exactly 600 years ago, in the summer of 1381, bands of peasants descended on London town. Angered by the limitations...
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'FREE' MARKETEERS Protecting Japanese Business bydonaldkrk Tokyo The setting was the elegant living room of an American bank executive. The guests were business colleagues and their wives, over...
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COLONIAL GRUMBLING Life in the Soviet B<lC by juris ozolins Riga Early risers recently were greeted by an unusual sight when they passed the massive statue of Lenin in the center of this...
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Writers &Wfriting THE WORLD IN DIARRAY by barry gewen books were pharmaceuticals, both Oscar Handlin's The Distortion of America (Atlantic-Little Brown, 165 pp., $10.95) and Jean-Jacques Servan...
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Idealism Gone Mad Love and Terror By William Herrick New Directions. 250 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Richard Hanser Author, "A Noble Treason, "Putsch! How Hitler Made Revolution" In one of those...
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Transforming a Region Urban Capitalists: Entrepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Valleys, 1800-1920 By Burton W. Folsom Jr. Johns Hopkins. 191 pp. $16.50. Reviewed...
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On Screen SUMMER FARE by robert asahina the prospect of ogling Julie Andrews' bare breasts thrills you, then go see S. O. B. But if, as I suspect, the possibility strikes you as more tiresome...
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Dear Editor Political Experiments Reading Brian L. Zimbler's piece on the French election ("Mitterand's Deceptive Mandate," NL, July 13), I was struck by certain similarities to the current...
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