NAKASONE'S GOODWILL TOUR Japanese Charades in Washington by donald kirk Washington Japan is "the unsinkable aircraft carrier," Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone told reporters on his January...
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FIGHTING APARTHEID A Talk with Oliver Tambo by norman gelb The best known black political party in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) has lately stepped up its long-term campaign...
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REFURBISHING THE BUREAUCRACY Andropov and the New Soviet Generation BY ROBERT V. DANIELS The most striking aspect of Yuri V. Andropov's first few months as supreme Soviet leader has been his...
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States of the Union ALL AGAINST ALL BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Washington What will Ronald Reagan do with Simeon W. Bright, a Carter appointee to the Postal Rate Commission whose term of office has...
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Writers & Writing CAPTAIN NEMO FROM PLAINS BY JOHN P. ROCHE From the moment he appeared on the national Democratic scene in 1975, Jimmy Carter spooked me. There was an autistic quality about the...
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Timerman's New Country The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon By Jacobo Timerman Translated by Miguel Acoca Knopf. 167 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Irving Louis Horowitz Hannah Arendt Professor of...
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Dickens Without a Twist The House of Cards By Leon Garfield St. Martin's. 296 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Mimi Kramer Contributor, "The New Criterion" A crying baby in a village in Poland, swept...
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On Screen UNEVEN TRIO BY ROBERT ASAHINA It's a toss-up which is more tiresome: watching the movie version of Sophie's Choice, or reading the original. William Styron's novel is more jerry-rigged...
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On Stage WEAK BRITISH IMPORTS BY LEO SAUVAGE would be wonderful if, midway through a Broadway season that has offered few occasions for satisfaction, let alone enthusiasm, David Hare's Plenty...
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Dear Editor Steel George P. Brockway's "Productivity: The New Shell Game" (NL, February 8,1982), which I have only recently come upon, makes more good than bad points. There is one instance where...
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