Washington-USA SOUTER'S JUDICIOUS RESTRAINT BY STEVEN V. ROBERTS Washington After the Senate confirmed David H. Souter's Supreme Court nomination by the overwhelming vote of 90 to 9,...
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AS IRAQ SITS TIGHT The Dark View from Israel By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Aviv Israel has spent the late summer and early autumn caught in conflicting modes: It has been trying to respond...
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TAKING ON SADDAM HUSSEIN Thatcher as a Modern Boadicea BY NORMAN GELB London Iraq's seizure of Kuwait is likely to have a serious political impact in Britain, but whether it will be...
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FROM THE GULF TO THE MAFIA Balancing Acts in Italy BY SILVLO F. SENIGALLIA Rome The number of incurable optimists still expecting to see Italy's sailors in the Persian Gulf back with...
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POLISH POLITICS Walesa Runs for President BY ADRIAN KARATNYCKY Gdansk Sitting in his spacious, sparely furnished office, Lech Walesa has the easy look of a confident fighter who has just...
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BUILDING A DEMOCRACY Hungary at the Dawn of a New Era BY PETER KENEZ Budapest The superficial symbols of yesterday have been quickly swept away: There are no teams of border guards when you...
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The Dismal Science WHAT COLOR IS YOUR RECESSION? BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Everybody seems to have a theory about the when or what or how of arecession. The official or customary theory (I'm...
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Writers & Writing ANTHONY HECHT'S DESIGN BY PHOEBE ??TTI?G?LL Considering the earnest demeanor reviewers of verse tend to adopt, you might think we hoped to convince some hostile citizens'...
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Angst Up to the End Rabbit at Rest By John Updike Knopf. 512 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by George J. Searles Associate Professor of Humanities, Mohawk Valley Community College; author, "The...
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Filling a Gap The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 By Billy G. Smith Cornell. 280 pp. $34.50. Reviewed by Joseph E. lllick Professor of History, San Francisco State...
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