Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Mexican Maverick Mexico City—The visitor here...
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Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Focus in Moscow The primary race lies behind us, the Presidential race looms ahead, and here I am still ruminating about the ReaganGorbachev...
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SIX MONTHS OF THE 'INTIFADA' Israel Assesses the Damage By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Aviv Six months after it began, the Intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,...
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FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND France's Father Figure BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Toulouse Is patriotism the last refuge of uninspired leaders and of voters caught in a social and economic flux? The "...
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Countdown '88 CAUGHT IN THE DOLDRUMS BY GUS TYLER IN LATE May, a Federal agency asked me to meet with some two dozen foreign journalists and academicians to explain how our political...
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The Dismal Science IN FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A POUND BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Last October, just before the stock market crash, one Peter G. Peterson had an article in the Atlantic that caused a...
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Writers & Writing VOICES OF DEMOCRACY BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL THOMAS JEFFERSON, our pre-eminent American democrat, once wrote that "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if...
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Updating the Gulag Fear No Evil By Natan Sharansky Random House. 480 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Alex Goldfarb Soviet émigré; assistant professor of microbiology, Columbia University A classic...
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One More Denial Recollections of a Life By Alger Hiss Holt Rinehart Winston. 240pp. $19.95. Reviewed by George Sirgiovanni Assistant professor of history, Rutgers University Forty years...
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On Stage MAMET'S UNREAL HOLLYWOOD BY LEO SAUVAGE The new David Mamet play that opened recently at the Royale Theater is called Speed-the-Plow, apparently after an old form of farewell once...
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On Dance PERILS OF A FESTIVAL BY LAURA A. JACOBS This spring's three-week-long American Music Festival (AMF) was the first major undertaking of its kind by the New York City Ballet since...
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