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IN THE WAKE OF THATCHERISM Britain's Major Shift by NORMAN GELB London The departure of Margaret Thatcher from Number 10 Downing Street, and her replacement by the man living next door in...
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Perspectives PLAYING PACHINKOAS JAPAN CHURNS BY STEVEN Y ROBERTS Tokyo We have gotten used to thinking of the Japanese as a race of overachieving superpeople, unafflicted by doubt...
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COSSIGA VS. THE COMMUNISTS From Pebbles to Brickbats in Italy BY SILVIO F SENIGALLIA Rome When Francesco Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Republic in 1985, the general consensus...
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READING THE 1990 RESULTS Straws in the American Political Winds BY GUS TYLER In retrospect, the rather bland election of 1990 may be recorded as a turning point in the politics of our times....
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CHALLENGING BIGOTRY Unfinished Helsinki BUSIness BY WILLIAM KOREY President Fran?ois Mitterrand had it right when he dubbed the Paris summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation...
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A PLEA FOR REFORM French High School Blues BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris "I'm rap, rap, rapping for education/Saying stop, stop, stop to shoddy schools." Those lyrics were heard often...
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The Dismal Science A ROAD EASTERN EUROPE COULD TAKE BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY The countries of Eastern Europe have a unique opportunity to combine the virtues of capitalism and socialism. If...
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Writers & Writing THE FIRSTLADY OF MODERNISM BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Had the institution of American poet laureate existed in the 1960s, the popular choice in many quarters would have been...
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In the Aftermath of Peronism The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism By Paul H. Lewis University of North Carolina. 573 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Arthur M. Shapiro Professor of...
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Nothing to Laugh About East is East By T. Coraghessan Boyle Viking. 384 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Oliver Conant Contributor, "Dissent," New York "Times Book Review" A young sailor in the...
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Vol. 073 Issue 015 (November 12 1990)
Britain's Major Shift
