Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Dreaming about Noriega Timing and television, as well as politics, can make strange bedfellows. In some surreal kind of counterpoint, Romanian...
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COSTA RICA GOES TO THE POLLS Democracy in aVery Small Place By Marc Levinson San Jose To the north, Nicaraguans look toward their scheduled February 25 elections with trepidation. To the...
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A DIVERGENCE OF INTERESTS Jilting the Iron Lady BY NORMAN GELB London When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, nearly alone among world leaders, staunchly endorsed the American military...
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MEANWHILE, IN HAVANA Castro Against the Tide BY RON CHEPESIUK Havana It was a scene Cubans have witnessed often since the Revolution that ousted Fulgencio Batista 31 years ago: President...
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The Dismal Science 100 MILLION CHILDREN CAN BE WRONGED BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY One hundred million children are expected to die unnecessarily in the brave new decade that lies before us. The...
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Writers & Writing CHERISHING A PERILOUS WORLD BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY It has been a very long time since I have read a work of poetry as consciously and deftly orchestrated as Sherod...
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A Case of Fraud Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 641 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Lee Siegel Imagine yourself a professor of semiotics at the University of...
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Listening to the Future Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology By George Gilder Simon and Schuster. 426 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Harvey H. Segal Author, "Corporate...
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On Screen WOMEN I? CRISIS BY JOHN MORRONE Four films concerning women that were presented at this fall's New York Film Festival are now scheduled for general release. Bertrand Blier's...
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