IN MARCOS' SHADOW New Battle for the Philippines BY DONALD KIRK Manila The shadow of deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos, never fully expunged, now looms increasingly large in this troubled...
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BACKROOM PRESSURES The Politics of Summitry BY ROBERT V. DANIELS The acrimonious collapse of the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Iceland, which very briefly promised an epochal accord between the...
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ISRAELS NEXT TWO YEARS Shamir Takes the Helm BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv The average Israeli, if asked, would probably say not much will change now that Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Torpor in Belgrade BY ELIHU BERGMAN Belgrade A visitor settling in here this past summer couldn't help noticing that someone made a mistake in scheduling the Yugoslav...
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Waiters & Writing YANKED FROM THE CLOSET BY BARRY GEWEN SUFFERING IS SUPPOSED to ennoble, and Robert Bauman, the former Congressman who lost his office, his career, his wife of 21 years, and his...
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Perversely Ingenious Morality Roger's Version By John Updike Knopf. 329 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University When it first was...
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An Inventory of Horrors Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared Introduction by Ronald Dworkin Farrar Straus Giroux 463 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Arthur M....
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On Stage GOING FULL CIRCLE BY LEO SAUVAGE It was not exactly a play that marked the start of the Off-Broadway season at the Circle in the Square Theater on Bleecker Street. Although the program...
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On Art ABSTRACT IRONIES BY JOSEPH MASHEK Seventy-five years of diversity in abstract art have amply demonstrated that abstraction is more than a set style, and much more than a fashion that comes...
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