Washington-USA REAGAN'S FOREIGN POLICY FLIP-FLOPS BY ANDREW MOLLISON Washington in the spring sun on a portable camera platform, my W^back to the windows of the Oval Office, I had a splendidly...
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT The Threat to Social Security WILBUR J. COHEN Wilbur J. Cohen began his career in Washington in 1934 as research assistant to the Executive Director of President Roosevelt's...
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AT THE HEART OF THE CONFLICT Between Damascus and Jerusalem BY ELIAHU SALPETER TelAvtv Like the rest of the world, albeit with more intense personal interest, Israelis are waiting for special...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN Philby for Foreign Secretary? MOLESKIN IS again in fashion around the watering holes of Britain's senior civil servants and journalists following speculation that a...
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BLOODY BUT UNBOWED Thatcherism at Two BY NORMAN GELB London At least every five years, the government here is required to advise the Queen to dissolve Parliament and call new elections. If the...
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Writers & Writing AMERICA IN 'METRES' BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL u nth the American renaissance of the mid-19th century, our writers looked primarily to English literature for their models. Ralph Waldo...
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Jewish Soul on Ice Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number By Jacobo Timerman Translated by Toby Talbert Knopf. 164 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Irving Louis Horowitz Hannah Arendt...
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Story Within a Story Within. The Affirmation By Christopher Priest Scribner's. 213 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Brian Thomas In this tale told by a madman, one hears echoes of At Swim-Two-Birds,...
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On Stage STAR ATTRACTIONS BY LEO SAUVAGE Since it was bringing Elizabeth Taylor to Broadway for the first time, the new production of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at the Martin Beck...
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On Screen SUCCESSFUL RECYCLING BY ROBERT ASAHINA T here is a fine line between recycling cliches and reworking conventions. For instance, Alien, one of the big hits of 1979, was little more than...
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Dear Editor Brecht In his interesting article, "Creative Politics in Poland" (NL, April 20), Jan T. Gross tells us: "Bertolt Brecht once quipped that when government and society are at odds in...
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