ISRAEL IN ANGUISH A Hard Way Out of Lebanon by ELIAHU SALTPETER TEL AVIV The departure from Lebanon has become a matter of such grave concern here that even the country's sharply deteriorating...
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OVERVALUED DOLLARS Getting your Lira's Worth BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome The current strength of the American dollar, its instability and high United States interest rates have been a source of...
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THE FAR RIGHT AND PROPORTIONALITY France's New Political Landscape BY NORMAN BOWEN Paris The elections for half of France's departmental legislatures, held the second and third Sundays in...
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Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Give! Give! Give! For some years I have been making out small checks to worthy organizations that depend on small givers when they can'tget big ones. But my resistance to...
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The Dismal Science FAINT PRAISE FOR PROFIT SHARING BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY In making the case "For a Labor Theory of Right" (NL, February 11-25), I remarked that "if you review all the problems of...
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Writers & Writing LOOKNG BACKWARD AT RACISM BY BARRY GEWEN Racism in America is on the rise. Increasingly, one encounters the attitude that "we" have done enough for "them." At parties and in...
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A Poet Against Apartheid The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist By Breyten Breytenbach Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 396 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Lorna Hahn Director, Association on Third World...
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An Inside Spy Job The Double Man By William S. Cohen and Gary Hart Morrow. 348 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Will Colonel Cyril Metrinko, head of the KGB's counterintelligence...
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Tales from the Verandah The Old Forest and Other Stories By Peter Taylor Dial. 358 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Oliver Conant Contributor, "Dissent," New York "Times Book Review" A distinctive...
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On Screen UNFAKED INNOCENCE BY DAPHNE MERKIN The Sure Thing is that rarest of commodities: a film that actually lives up to its title. Here is a treat for Yuppies with soul—the Porky/Son of Porky...
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On Television NATURE WALKS BY MARVIN KITMAN Have you ever noticed how much walking is done on television? Phil Donahue is always strutting around like a nervous peacock on his syndicated talk...
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