LOOKING TO FISCAL 84 The Budget Burlesque by sdney weintraub The Reagan budget is a bit of slapstick consistent with the Grade B—or worse—vacuities that political money and TV cosmetics foist...
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THE BIPARTISAN SOLUTION Securing Social Security BY wilbur j- cohen The debate on Social Security funding now under way in Congress had its roots in Ronald Reagan's election. Soon after taking...
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POSTWAR POSSIBILITIES Repositioning in the Middle East by eliahu salpeter mats finally got underway December 28 at the Lebanon Beach Motel in Khal-de, south of Beirut. Under criticism from the...
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MRS. GANDHI'S PROBLEM India's New Regionalism by darryl d'monte New Delhi Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is now engaged in an uphill battle to reverse the sharp decline of her political fortunes....
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The Dismal Science THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMISTS BY GEORGE P BROCK WAY Acuriosity of economic thought is its frequent dependence on what economists call psychology. My choice of words is...
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LANDS OF SAND BY BARRY GEWEN The Conquest of Morocco (Knopf, 335 pp., $16.95) Douglas Porch reminds us how close we really are to the Great Age of Imperialism. The French established their...
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Searching for Mom Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three By David Plante Atheneum. 173 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Katherine Olstein Contributor, "Change" Since everything possible seems to have been...
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After the Fall Lost Honor By John Dean Stratford Press. 370pp. $15.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Author, "A Better World" Readers who enjoyed John Dean's first book, Blind Ambition, will...
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On Television LIGHTS, CAMERA, REAGAN BY MARVIN KITMAN President Reagan delivering the State of the Union Message on all three major networks last January 25 generated the biggest cable TV...
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Dear Editor LBJ Henry F. Graff tries in vain to palliate the unpleasant picture of our 36th President painted by Robert A. Caro in The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power ("What Made Lyndon...
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