Correspondents' correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Herbal Healing Geneva—For countless generations African...
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STRAINS IN THE ALLIANCE Reagan Rattles the West BY NORMAN GELB London Listeners here to Letter from America have grown used to the almost sentimental tone of Alistair Cooke's radio reports to...
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PROBLEMS OF SOVEREIGNTY Spain's Rocky Straits BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Madrid Whenever Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez looks up from his desk, a print of a head-shaped...
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FOWLER'S OBSESSION Fighting the Fairness Doctrine byherbertdorfman Ever since he was named Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by Ronald Reagan five years ago, Mark Fowler has...
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Writers & Writing ENGAGING HISTORY BY BARRY GEWEN ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. is our foremost example of the historian engage, a scholar who has yearned to make a mark in the public arena no less...
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Ideology and Reality in Africa Assignments in Africa: Reflections, Descriptions, Guesses By Per Wastberg Farrar Straus Giroux. 231 pp. $16.95. King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests...
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Success at a Dead'End Price Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados Introduction by Grace Paley Viking. 448 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Alice Neufeld Associate...
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On Television A SURPRISING SEASON BY MARVIN KITMAN There are so many good new shows this fall season, I sometimes think I've lost my mind. Or I've died and gone to heaven. Some of the sitcoms...
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On Stage MIXED GRILL BY LEO SAUVAGE Although several more or less agreeable productions have recently opened in theaters on Broadway and off, the most remarkable dramatic event of the late fall...
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