Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. The View from Slovakia Bratislava—At the memorial...
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ASSAD'S NEW ROLE When Shamir Blinked BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv As Foreign Minister David Levi told it on television, the Middle East peace conference scheduled for the fall was all...
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A REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK Covering the War in Croatia BY ANNA HUSARSKA Zagreb Journalists arriving in Croatia initially find themselves wrestling with the question of whether they...
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TURNING TO COMIC BOOKS Japan's Summer of Discontent By Michael Berger Tokyo The long-term prospects here look impressive. The domestic economy remains robust, and Japanese business is...
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STUCK ON THE SHOW Dr. Paulie's Snowstorm By Thomas J. Cottle RAYMOND PAULIE CWGHTON IS a tall, frighteningly thin boy of 13. When I first met him —while doing research on how families...
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Writers & Writing THE GREATEST GOOD BY ROGER DRAPER Little more than half a century ago there was not much medical research in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter. Neither did...
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Losing a Sense of Direction Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and Failures By Robert G. Kaiser Simon & Schuster. 476 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Author, "Is Russia...
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The Exquisite Lightness of Helprin A Soldier in the Great War By Mark Helprin Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 792 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Free-lance writer On an August afternoon in...
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On Stage HOSTS AND PARASITES BY STEFAN KANFER REAL estate and AIDS remain the prime components of New York chatter, and by battening on both subjects Terence McNally has...
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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. Minority Stockholder? Nathan Lewin's thought-provoking review of Alan...
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