Correspondents correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Life and Breath Geneva—Efforts by two Scandinavian...
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HIGH-LEVEL MANEUVERS In the Shadow of Israel's Rotation BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Diplomatic initiatives have been preoccupying the Israeli press and public since midsummer. On July 22, Prime...
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THE DC-PSI ARMISTICE Craxi's Limited Victory BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome A still cocky, albeit somewhat battered, Bettino Craxi is back in the Palazzo Chigi, the residence of Italy's prime...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Probing the Chinese Paradox BY TIMOTHY TUNG PLAINCLOTHESMEN used tO be posted in front of Peking's Friendship Store, limited to foreign currency, to screen visitors with...
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CHALLENGE IN VIENNA Making Helsinki Matter BY WILLIAM KOREY Although the prospect of another Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev summit is preoccupying policy makers, the next firm item on the...
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Culture Watching SPEAKING AROUND LITERATURE BY JOHN SIMON This spring a " triangular encounter of Soviet, United States and Italian writers" took place— for two days in Palermo, and two in...
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Writers & Writing LESSONS OF SOUTH AFRICA BY BARRY GEWEN AS SOUTH AFRICA drifts inexorably toward disaster, the question of roads not taken inevitably arises. Just when did the country go wrong?...
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Tales of Vienna Between the Wars The Play of the Eyes By Elias Canetti Translated by Ralph Manheim Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 329 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Brian Thomas Free-lance critic, fiction...
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Failure After the Fall of Inchon Korea: The First War We Lost By Bevin Alexander Hippocrene. 588 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A Better...
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On Dance WHERE THE KIROV DIFFERS BY LAURA A JACOBS For those of us who had never seen Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, but had pieced together an ideal from the glimpses afforded by books and films, and...
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