AT HOME AND ABROAD Israel's Toughest Times BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Israel is in one of the most difficult periods—if not the worst period— of its 36-year history. The Government of National...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Brawl, Britannia The conversation turned to urban insecurity, and I mentioned a mildly alarming experience I once had in Cairo. My friend M, a Spanish Socialist congressman...
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The Dismal Science THE BOTTOM LINE ON TAX REFORM BY GEORGE R. BROCKWAY I suppose I should say something about Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan's recent Federal tax simplification...
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REPLACING THE MARKETPLACE The Trouble with Comparable BY JEAN YARBROUGH Comparable worth has supplanted the Equal Rights Amendment as "the women's issue of the '80s," says Linda Chavez, the U.S....
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Reflections on Forced Buckling By order of the state, New Yorkers are being compelled to bind themselves up in the front seats of their cars for no offense greater...
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Writers & Writing MILTON'S VICTORY BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The ferment of radical ideas during England's mid-nth-century Puritan Revolution inspired a series of actions that astounded Europe. For...
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Organic Chemistry The Periodic Table By Primo Levi Translated by Raymond Rosenthal Schocken. 233 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review," New York "Times Book...
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A False Step Pavlova: Portrait of a Dancer By Margot Fonteyn Viking. 159pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Oleg Kerensky Contributor, "The New Statesman" Anna Pavlova, possibly the outstanding ballerina...
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On Screen ARTISTS AND ECCENTRICS BY DAPHNE MERKIN "Bertrand Tavernier is a wide-open director, porous in a way few of his contemporaries are, here or abroad. Given the expense and brouhaha...
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On Stage SO FAR "SO FOOLISH" by leo sauvage Very little of what the first third of the 1984-85 theater season brought to New York is left, besides money. Including the long-running shows, we are...
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Dear Editor Paybacks Three cheers for Richard J. Margolis! How sad Walter Mondale played the deficit cutter in the Presidential debates instead of pointing to the cruelties the Social Security...
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