SITTING ON AVOLCANO Trouble in the French Topics BY DAVID G. KNIBB Mururoa Atoll sits in the tropical Pacific, the part of the world many regard as the closest thing on earth to paradise. Its...
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FIGHTING FANATICISM A Talk with Israel's New UN Ambassador BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's first native-born Ambassador to the United Nations, presented his credentials to...
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The Dismal Science ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DEFICIT BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Now, about that deficit: Ronald Reagan was quite correct, during the first Presidential debate, in insisting that...
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SUCCESS TAKES ITS TOLL The Punjab Paradox BY WILLIAM MCCORD Bombay "We have been able to prevent people from dying" of hunger, Indira Gandhi said in the last interview she gave before her...
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Writers & Writing EVOLVING TRADITIONALISTS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The cover of Richard Kenney' s The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (Yale, 68 pp., $12.95), winner of the 1983 Yale Series of...
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Unearthing the Real Ike Eisenhower: The President By Stephen E. Ambrose Simon & Schuster. 637pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Herbert S. Parmet Professor of history, Queensborough College; author,...
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The Passion and the Pity Stranger on the Square By Arthur and Cynthia Koestler Random House. 242 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock This book is, in the truest sense, pathetic. My first...
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On Screen THREE THAT DON'T PLAY BY DAPHNE MERKIN Sam Shepard must be among the most prolific—and least versatile— writers going. As Dorothy Parker said of the young Katharine Hepburn's affective...
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Dear Editor The Hidden Story Thomas Land's report ("Swept Away," NL, September 17) on a study of the misrepresentations perpetrated by journalists who covered Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon...
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