Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Reagans De Facto Détente Of the many surprises in the autumn of this Presidency, one of the greatest has been the emergence of a de facto Reagan detente...
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WAITING FOR DEMOCRACY In the Eye of Haiti's Hurricane By Carole Cleaver Jacmel The first thing the regular traveler to Haiti notices these days upon leaving the Port-auPrince airport is...
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STOKED BY LE PEN The Summer of French Discontent By Janice Valls-Russell Paris Every summer a centrifugal force grips France. The heat and holidays drive millions of people out of the...
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ATRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Riding the Silk Road in China BY GEORGE WOODCOCK Beding I went t? China eager to see it as wholly as I could—not merely as the Party and its political power...
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Writers & Writing WORDS ON WORDS ABOUT WORDS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Since the 1970s literary criticism has been enjoying one of its periodic renaissances. Arguments about feminist and Marxist...
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The Wrong Move in West Philadelphia Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Tragedy of Philadelphia By John Anderson and Hilary Hevenor Norton. 409 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Robert...
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A Norwegian Novelist's Ugly Sympathies Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun By Robert Ferguson Farrar Straus Giroux. 453 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Lothar Kahn Professor Emeritus of Modern...
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On Stage SCANDAL ON BAKER STREET BY LEO SAUVAGE There was a time when London, alone among the cities of the world, offered the theater fanatic an irresistible opportunity: By attending some...
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