POLITICAL BOOBY TRAPS Obstacles to a Mideast Pcacc by eliahu salpeter Tel Aviv Not since the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem eight years ago has diplomatic and...
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IN THE FACE OF TERRORISM The UN Yawns at 40 BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations Presidents and kings, foreign ministers and assorted other dignitaries have been participating since mid-September...
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Perspectives IN PURSUIT OF PUBLIC EXCELLENCE BY STEVEN KELMAN Some academics and officials who are concerned about government effectiveness and efficiency have embarked upon what might be called...
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INDIANA'S TEST CASE The Politics of Gerrymandering DAVID I. WELLS On October 7, the U.S. Supreme Court listened to argument in an unusual and potentially momentous case. The chief opponents were...
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The Dismal Science MERCANTILISM REVISITED BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY I have been happily working my way through Fernand Braudel's tangled, lumpy, unmade-bed of a book whose three volumes have the...
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Writers & Writing SETTING THE CULTURAL AGENDA BY BARRY GEWEN If you have the impression that everyone in America seems to be writing a book, there is a good reason. Just about everyone is. One...
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Jews in the Land of Promise A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today By Charles E. Silberman Summit Books. 458 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Samuel Heilman Professor of sociology and...
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Escaping the Sub'Saharan Quagmire Africa: The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent By Sanford J. Ungar Simon & Schuster. 527pp. $19.95. Reviewed by William McCord Visiting Fellow, Clare...
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On Television SPIELBERG'S AMAZING DISGRACE BY MARVIN KITMAN The first of Steven Spielberg's A mazing Stories on NBC (Sunday, 8:00 p.m. EST) wasn't very amazing. The other early installments of...
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Dear Editor British Realities In "Dog Days in Britain" (NL, September 9), Norman Gelb tells us that the people of the United Kingdom "have of late proved themselves to be unreliable, undisciplined...
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