THE PLUSES AND MINUSES Tax Reform in a Nasty Universe by robert lekachman President Reagan almost swoons over the Senate tax bill. What delights him most is its contemplated top rate of 27 per...
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STAVING OFF SANCTIONS Thatcher Takes On the Commonwealth BY NORMAN GELB London "A white man's gang" was how the sports columnist of the London Daily Express described the Commonwealth Games...
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Perspectives A WAYOUT IN SOUTH AFRICA BY RUSSELL WARREN HOWE No historian faults Neville Chamberlain for wanting to avoid war at Munich in 1938. Rather, he is scored for believing this goal was...
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ATTACK FROM THE RIGHT Undermining the WHO BY DARRYL D'MONTE Bombay Ronald Reagan's Administration is on the offensive against the World Health Organization (WHO). Warning shots were fired in...
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ATTEMPTING THE POSSIBLE Cutting the Cost of 'Free Trade' BY alberta, BLUM MITSUBISHI MOTORS In Japan, an auto worker helps put together a Toyota; across the Pacific, his American counterpart...
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The Dismal Science LEARNING FROM MACY'S BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY Like the Ancient Mariner, we war veterans have a glittering eye. (I have seen mine reflected, dully, in my grandchildren's eyes as...
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Writers & Writing PLAYFUL PASTORAL VOICES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL HENRI COLE'S The Marble Queen (Atheneum, 64 pp., $15.00) is so polished, we might easily take it to be the latest collection by an...
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The Spleen of a Dandy Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude Translated and edited By Rosemary Lloyd Chicago. 264 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Baudelaire was...
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Inflamed Views of Communist China The Burning Forest By Simon Leys Holt, Rinehart, Winston. 256 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Timothy Tung Associate professor, librarian of Chinese materials, City...
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On Television BLUES AT THE CBS MORNING NEWS' BY MARVIN KITMAN ONE OF MY favorite pastimes, next to sleeping late when I should be watching the network TV offerings, is reading about all the...
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