Washington-USA BUSH'S BUDGET TEST BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington Soon after moving into the White House, Ronald Reagan ordered a picture of President Calvin Coolidge, a taciturn Republican...
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THE ID CARD CONTROVERSY Britons Worry About Civil Rights BY NORMAN GELB London If the British government has its way—and it invariably does on legislative matters—soccer fans in this...
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HUMAN RIGHTS China's Forbidden Subject BY MARK HOPKINS Bedino One bright afternoon early this winter in the sprawling Chinese city of Chengdu, Fang Li—not his real name—hunched over a map...
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SPECTATOR AND PARTICIPANT A Talk with the Editor of 'Ogonyok By Mihajlo Mihajlov Vitaly A. Korotich, editor of the Soviet political and cultural weekly Ogonyok, founded in 1923, covered...
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Writers & Writing THE ROBESON RECORD BY BARRY GEWEN PAUL Robeson was a colossus of U.S. cultural and AfroAmerican history, pioneering a path into the national mainstream later followed by...
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Rushdie in Wunderland The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie Viking. 547 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Fiction writer, free-lance critic '"To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta...
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The Genius of Drohobycz Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz Edited by Jerzy Ficowski Translated by Walter Arndt with Victoria Nelson. Harper and Row. 256 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Michael...
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On Screen FRIENDS AND RELATIVES BY JOHN MORRONE WRITER-DiRECTOR Mike Leigh's High Hopes is about resourcefulness in what he sees as an era of frustration. It provides further evidence that...
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