RESHAPING THE MIDEAST After the Fall of Saddam By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Avtv Almost from the start of the fighting in the Persian Gulf one could discern the outlines of major changes likely...
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WITH MAJOR AT THE HELM Britain and the Gulf War BY NORMAN GELB London Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain the same day the armies of Nazi Germany began their...
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GLASNOST REVISED The Limits of Gorbachev's Reform By Robert V. Daniels Revolutions do not go on forever. Sooner or later, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform revolution in the Soviet...
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THE POLITICS OF APOLOGY Japan's Pearl Harbor Opportunity By Michael Berger Tokyo The 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is still almost a year away, but people on...
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PLUS ÇA CHANGE... Fonetik French Fracas BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris President François Mitterrand has confessed to being "somewhat frightened." Young French shopgirls and retired...
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States of the Union HAVING A DREAM IN GOSHEN BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS A man builds a fine house, and now he has a master and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it...
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Writers & Writitig THE PRICE OF POOH BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Certajn fictional characters become more real than their creators in the public mind, and then weigh like an albatross around the...
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Pity the Poor Patricians The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy By David Cannadine Yale. 813 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, "Commentary," "National...
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A Mass of Lost History Uncovered An Undercurrent of Suspicion: Anti-Communism in America During World War II By George Sirgiovanni Transaction. 209 pp. $32.95. Reviewed by Richard Gid...
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On Dance WALTZ TIME AT THE NYCB BY LAURA JACOBS INITIAL public reactions to the waltz were shock and disapproval. That is hardly surprising, given that the German verb, walzen, means to...
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