BACK TO BASICS? China Hits the Coluteli By Mark Hopkins Beijing It was only a matter of time before a backlash began to flay Deng Xiaoping's liberalizing leadership. The forced...
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AFTER THE IMAM Iran's Smiling Powerbroker BY ROBIN WRIGHT In 1962 an Iranian seminary student in Qom signed a petition demanding freedom for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had been...
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Giving the Word BY WALTER GOODMAN Just as the nation was coming to believe that the Administration's dealings with Iran—the Bible, the cake, Colonel Oliver L. North—were too wacky to be...
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WORLD WAR TWO'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS Anomalous Berlin BY NORMAN GELB London Unrelenting Persecution of dissident movements in Czechoslovakia and the continuing clampdown on the...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN The Long March of the Prince of Wales Whenever a Vice President of the United States is tempted to grumble that he is underemployed and that the fellow in the Oval...
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States of the Union THE FAST-CARE INDUSTRY BY RICHARD J. MARGOUS The business of nursing homes today is chiefly business, and it's been booming. Gross revenues in 1985 came to $35 billion,...
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Writers & Writing ENIGMATIC UVES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL SINCE his death in 1953, Wallace Stevens has remained an enigmatic figure. He does not conform to any of the stereotypes frequently...
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That Awesome Man in Havana Fidel: A Critical Portrait By Tad Szulc Morrow. 703 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Antonio de la Carrera Former member of 26th of July Movement and secretary...
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A Time of Euphoria American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960 By William L. O'Neill Free Press. 321 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield Professor of American...
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On Screen MODESTY'S VITUES BY JAMES GARDNER Doris Dorree's new comedy, Men, is being hailed as a radical departure from what we have come to expect German cinema to be like in recent...
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On Art MATISSE IN NICE BY JOSEPH MASHECK Matisse is the great modern painter of color as sensation and delight. Americans tend to go for Picasso as combination genius, mover and macho...
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