CHOOSING AN IDENTITY The Dilemma in Puerto Rico By Selden Rodman San Juan When I made ray first threemonth visit to Puerto Rico a generation ago, the advocates of statehood had just won...
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HEALTH AT RISK Trouble in Thatcherland BY NORMAN GELB London An assortment of issues is provoking unease in Britain at the moment. Onaverybasic level, the fact that interest rates have...
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EAST GERMAN ACTIVISM Fighting Honecker's Stagnation By Donald R. Shanor East Berlin AROUND THE TIME officials from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were agreeing to new human rights...
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MACHADO REMEMBERED Spanish Dreams from a French Cemetery BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL COLLIOURE ALMOND AND MIMOSA blossoms are the white-and-gold heralds of spring around the Mediterranean....
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BURDEN SHARING Turning Again to UN Peacekeepers BY AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTON and THOMAS G. WEISS Rent by East-West and NorthSouth polarities, encumbered by a bloated bureaucracy, the United...
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States of the Union RECESSION IS NOT A SOLUTION BY AMITAI ETZIONI The Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan is well on its way to inducing yet another recession, for no good...
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Writers & Writing GLOBAL BALANCING ACTS BY BARRY GEWEN John Newhouse's Warand Peacein the Nuclear Age (Knopf, 486 pp., $22.95) is not particularly exciting. As the companion to a public...
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Crawling with Animus Intellectuals By Paul Johnson Harper and Row. 385 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University If Intellectuals were...
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A Prehistoric Tale The Gift of Stones By Jim Crace Scribner's. 170pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer; contributor, "Massachusetts Review, " "Story Quarterly" Jim...
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On Art WHERE WARHOL FAILED BY BRADLEY W BLOCH Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) until May 2, is every bit the blockbuster show its planners hoped...
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