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Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Etching the Candidates A striking feature of this Presidential election year has been the weak allegiances to the candidates. On September 24, the...
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AFTER THE DUVALIERS Round Five in Haiti By Selden Rodman How many military coups will it take before Haiti, the most impoverished and badly governed nation in the Western Hemisphere, is...
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Perspectives ABOUT THAT PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY POOR RICHARD It was almost 200 years ago, in 1790 to be exact, that I left you with a promise to return. You must remember the epitaph I...
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States of the Union GEORGE, MIKE AND ADLAI BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS "I am easily swayed by emotion until· I think, which I occasionally do." —FROM A VOTER'S LETTER to Adlai E. Stevenson In...
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Writers & Writing WORLD WAR II REVISITED BY BARRY GEWEN FRom letters, diaries, interviews, memoirs published and unpublished, and any other personal materials that he was able to lay his hands...
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And They Lived Happily Ever After Silver By Hilma Wolitzer Farrar Straus Giroux. 324pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Leila Ruckenstein Free-lance critic, editor In this, her fifth novel (on top...
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Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Harrington I want to thank The New Leader for Robert Lekachman's...
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Vol. 071 Issue 017 (October 3 1988)
Washington Notebook
