Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Soviet Smoke Signals As the May 30-June 3 summit meeting between Presidents George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev approached, it seemed that the...
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ON THE WAY TO 1992 The Uneasy 'New Europeans' By Norman Gelb London No one ever imagined that transforming Western Europe into a federation of nation states would be easy. And the...
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CEAUSESCU'S LEGACY A Talk with Gabriel Liiceanu of Romania By Anna Husarska Bucharest Gabriel Liiceanu is a founding member of the Group for Social Dialogue, formed nine days after the...
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UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY Drug Lords vs. the Press in Latin America By Ron Chepesiuk For many years Manuel Buendia was Mexico's most influential journalist. His muckraking column in...
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5 MILLION IN DANGER Fighting Famine in North Africa BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations The worst famine since the dreadful scourge of 1984-85, United Nations field experts say, could ravage...
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The Dismal Science BUNK ABOUT JUNK BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY A recent editorial in the New York Times opened with these words: "Michael Milken is a convicted felon. But he is also a financial...
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Writers & Writing AT THE TIP OF THE IVORY TOWER BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS FROM the very first chapter ?f The University: A ? Owner's Manual (Norton, 309 pp., $26.95), Henry Rosovsky makes it...
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He Wrote as He Pleased Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty— The New York Times' Man in Moscow By S.J. Taylor Oxford. 404pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Assistant editor, "The...
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Ambiguities of a Mental Marriage Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography By Deirdre Bair Summit. 718 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Tms is an excellent biography. It engages us in the...
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On Art POLLOCK WITHOUT DRIPS BY BRADLEY W BLOCH I have a lot of difficulty with Jackson Pollock. He is held as an American master, of course, and his canonization not only signaled the...
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