THE LEGACY OF LEBANON Season of Gloom in Israel by eliahu salpeter Tel Aviv A sense of gloom now hangs over Israel that may seem somewhat surprising. Rarely, in fact, has the mood of the people...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Britain's Tribal Warriors "How can these English be considered civilized?" asked a Rome daily. "Europe is tired of English vandalism," declared Spanish, French and Dutch...
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THE CORN ISLANDS A Sandinista Failure by forrest d- c°lburn Great Corn Island Forty miles off Nicaragua's east coast lie two of the country's beautiful backwaters, the Corn Islands. Their name...
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Perspectives THE 'CHILLING'OF JOHN P ROCHE BY JOHN R ROCHE Recent libel suits have led to a great furor among media pundits about the "chilling effect" of defamation actions. True, General...
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The Dismal Science STARVING ALLTHEWAY FROM THE BANK BY GEORGE PBROCKWAY To write this I had to turn off a television show featuring a rock star, eyes closed in rapture or agony or something,...
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Writers & Writing WITNESSES FOR SOCIAL DEMOCRACY BY BARRY GEWEN One reads the latest news from Nicaragua with a gnawing sense of deja vu. The New York Times reports that the Sandinista leaders...
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The Limits of Leveling Equality in America: The View from the Top By Sidney Verba and Gary R. Orren Harvard. 334 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of History, Rutgers;...
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Two Parallel Lives Lost Continental Drift By Russell Banks Harper & Row. 366 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Selden Rodman Author, "Haiti: The Black Republic," "Artists in Tune with Their...
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Stalin as Empire Builder Between Russia and the West: Hungary and the Illusions of Peacemaking By Stephen D. Kertesz Notre Dame. 299 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Vojtech Mastny Professor of...
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On Screen RETIREMENT AND BEYOND BY DAPHNE MERKIN Cocoon is the first, and will almost certainly be the only, smash hit set in a retirement community. Released just in time to counteract the...
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On Television A NEW CHINA LOBBY BY MARVIN KITMAN I GREW UP at a time when China was a dangerous subject. One week a scholar specializing in the Middle Kingdom would be denounced as a Communist...
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