Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Return of the Unicorn Geneva-the last wild Arabian oryx...
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Washington-USA CHARGING UP THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE BY ANDREW MOLLISON Washington The beige bedside telephone of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Charles T. Manatt rang at 4 a.m. The...
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AS ALFONSIN TAKES CVER Democracy's Chances in Argentina BY ROBERT R. KAUFMAN Radical Crvic Union candidate Raul Alfonsin's victory over the Peronist Party's Italo Lu-der in Argentina's...
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OF ARMS AND AUTOMOBILES The Bottom Line in Japan BY DONALD KIRK Washington United States and Japanese negotiators rattled uneasily over the nasty little bump on the great superhighway to a...
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The Dismal Science IF THIS BE RABBLE-ROUSING BY GEORGE PBROCKWAY Afriend has taken exception to my proposal to limit or forbid the importation of foreign manufactures that threaten to destroy...
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In Memoriam SIDNEY WEINTRAUB 1914-1983 BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Sidney Weintraub, who ranked among the nation'sfew seminal economic thinkers, died last June 19 (see "Between Issues, "NL,...
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Writers & writing CRACKS IN THE MELTING POT BY BARRY GEWEN in the period after World War II, when I was growing up, there was an official piety that declared Americans came from many countries...
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An Author Recaptures His Voice The Desert Rose By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster. 256pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Emily Benedek For years, Larry McMurtry has steered clear of the world of his early...
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China from an Everyday Perspective One Billion: A China Chronicle By Jay and Linda Mathews Random. 353 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Bruce Shenitz When Americans first began to visit China again in...
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On Stage MAMET'S AMERICAN APHASIA BY LEO SAUVAGE The Long Wharf Theater production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, directed by Arvin Brown and starring Al Pacino, has returned to New York...
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Dear Editor Qaddafi and Chad Russell Warren Howe's "Qaddafi Dreams of Empire" (NL, September 5) must surely rank among the very worst reporting on the recent crisis in Chad. While the author...
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