THE MIDEAST TUG OF WAR-1 The Perils of Ignoring History BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington A vaporous fog produced by the clash of myth and reality blankets both sides of the latest struggle...
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THE MIDEAST TUG OF WAR-2 Contemplating Saddam's Weaknesses BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Much to Washington's satisfaction, Israel has maintained a studiously low profile in the...
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THE MIDEAST TUG OF WAR-3 Mitterrand Takes a Strong Stand By Janice Valls-Russell Toulouse The European Community's prompt, one-voiced decision to impose sanctions on Iraq after its invasion...
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THE MIDEAST TUG OF WAR-4 Andreotti Off the Hook BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome Immediately after Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait, the Italian government severely condemned the...
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Perspectives TROTSKY REDUX BY GENE SOSIN Lev Davedovich Bronstein, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, was assassinated 50 years ago—on August 20, 1940. Last month also marked the latest...
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A MATTER OF ECONOMICS Ireland's Population Hemorrhage By Norman Gelb Dublin Politics in the Republic of Ireland is a unique affair. No other democratically elected government has...
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The Dismal Science WHO KILLED THE SAVINGS AND LOANS? BY GEORGE ?. BROCKWAY The way we're going, we're not getting close to the truth about what happened to the savings and loans. It's much...
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Writers & Writing VICTORIAN NOSTALGIA BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL In the midst of looking into the lives of 19th-century notables for his irreverent Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey wrote to...
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Five Years that Shook the USSR Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin By Dusko Doder and Louise Branson Viking. 450 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert V Daniels Professor emeritus of...
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One ofa Kind General of the Army: George C. Marshall— Soldier and Statesman By Ed Cray Norton. 847 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author,...
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Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Swinging Away I have generally thought that Daniel Schorr was in...
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