ANOTHER TEST FOR SHAMIR The Economic Dilemma in Israel by eliahu salpeter Tel Aviv The honeymoon that followed the early December announcement in Washington of the U.S.-Israeli strategic...
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REVIVING STALINISM Andropov and After BY VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV AND ELENA KLEPIKOVA Have you ever heard of our former Commandant? No? Well, it isn't saying too much if I tell you that the organization...
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REJECTING THE CEREMONIAL Italy's Outspoken President by simo r senigalua Rome It is said that Pope Alexander VI, when advised that the good burghers of 15th-century Rome were grumbling over...
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The Dismal Science A CAUTIONARY TALE OF TAX REFORM BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Something over a year ago, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri put...
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Writers & Writing THINKING ABOUT THE POOR BY BARRY GEWEN n 1770 Samuel Johnson observed: "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." More than 200 years later we are still...
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A Novelist's Lonely Song_ Pitch Dark By Renata Adler Knopf. 144 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Oliver Conant In Renata Adler's second novel Kate Ennis, a successful, well-traveled, middle-aged...
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The Road to Pearl Harbor The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1895-1945 By Stephen Howarth Atheneum. 398 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Matthew...
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On Stage WHERE STOPPARD FAILS BY LEO SAUVAGE There is little doubt that Tom Stoppard has demonstrated a great talent, perhaps a kind of genius, for combining literary wit with theatrical...
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Dear Editor Bertram Wolfe An otherwise most perceptive article by Sol Stein, "Remembering Bertram Wolfe" (NL, December 12, 1983), is marred by its incomplete and therefore inaccurate account of...
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