Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. The New Vienna Vienna—A silent but thoroughgoing...
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THE PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATION Israel's Government of Equals BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv The probable longevity of Israel's new Government of National Unity is no longer so much a question of...
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States of the Union NATIVE ROOTS BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS The power of Indian oratory has long astonished non-Indians, some of whose own attempts at eloquence have seemed appropriately pale by...
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MISKITOS VS. SANDINISTAS Nicaragua's Other War BY RICHARD BODURTHA Sandy Bay The dead guerrilla, a Miskito Indian who had participated in almost 30 firefights against the Sandinistas and had...
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Countdown '84 THE THIRD DEBT CRISIS BY GUS TYLER "National Airport," I said. The cabbie grumped a reply on this sticky, hot evening. "An awful day," I offered fatuously, attempting to ungrump...
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Writers & Writing VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Emerson, that most democratic of Americans, was moved by the symbols of work and aspiration laborers invent for parades and...
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Prescriptions for a Better America The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice By Robert Kuttner Houghton Mifflin. 308 pp. $19.95. The New American Poverty By...
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Merchandisers of the Dream The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators By Stephen Fox Morrow. 384pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Arthur Kimmel Few enterprises can match...
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On Television LOST IN THE SANDS BY MARVIN KITMAN Nothing Abba Eban narrates on Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Monday, 9 p.m. EST), WNET/13's monumental nine-part miniseries airing October...
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Dear Editor Goodman "Poker Rights" (NL, September 3), Walter Goodman's burlesque of affirmative action, was terribly funny and terribly sad. Above all, however, it was terribly realistic. I...
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