AS LIKUD QUARRELS Labor Closes Ranks in Israel BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel AVIV Israel's Labor Party watched with evident joy as voters in the recent French, German and Italian elections demonstrated...
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BEREGOVOY'S CHALLENGE Shaking Up the French Socialists BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris It takes a good electoral trouncing to make parties sit up. France's Socialists expected a setback in the...
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POISED FOR A REBOUND? Japan's Deceptive Downturn by MICHAEL BERGER Tokyo In March Japanese were shocked by what was once unthinkable news. After more than 15 years of uninterrupted economic...
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IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Longing for the 'Good Tsar' by JAN FELDMAN "I do not blame the Russians for being what they are," the Marquis de Custine remarked in 1839, "I blame them for pretending to...
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Thinking Aloud THE CORRECT LINE ON CASTRO'S CUBA BY IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ There has been such a fixation in Washington on when Fidel Castro's regime will dissolve that his continuing ability to...
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The Dismal Science WHERE SCHUMPETER WENT ASTRAY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY In preparation for my previous column I reread the passages I had underlined long ago in Joseph A. Schumpeter's Capitalism,...
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Writers & Writing P.C. PIPE DREAMS BY ROGER DRAPER A Although the term "political correctness" (PC) was apparently first coined by Left-wingers in the 1970s, I did not become aware of it until...
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Wrestling with Germany's Past The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution By Richard Breitman Knopf. 352 pp. $23.00. Germans: The Biography of an Obsession By George Bailey Free...
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Politics and Private Lives Natural Light By Ethel Gorham Zoland. 295 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" The natural light of Ethel Gor-ham's title...
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On Stage FLASHBACKS AND THROWAWAYS BY STEFAN KANFER Early or late, almost every playwright gets around to confronting his family onstage. Frequently, as in Neil Simon's Jake's Women, the result...
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