Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR What a Difference a Year Makes! The start of 1993 caused me to temper the expansive global view I expressed at the start of 1992. Then 1 was...
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AMID SLUMP AND SCANDAL 'People Power' Emerges in Japan BY MICHAEL BERGER Tokyo In Japan, where Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines outnumber churches about 1000-1, Christmas is essentially...
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BRITAIN'S ROYAL DILEMMA Her Majesty the President? BY NORMAN GELB London Several years ago the late British writer Malcolm Muggeridge, poking innocent fun at the British monarchy,...
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THE GLOBAL DIMENSION It's Still the Economy, Mr. President BY PAUL DAVIDSON In his first news conference (on November 12) following the election, President-elect Bill Clinton announced...
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The Dismal Science CLINTON'S SUPPLY SIDE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Little Rock "economic summit" was one of the most moving and inspiring and uplifting events in recent public life....
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Writers & Writing CHINA'S LOST OPPORTUNITY BY ROGER DRAPER V For centuries China has been the poorest and most isolated of all major nations. Yet that wasn't always so. In 1405, when the...
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What Happened in the USSR and Why Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 By Mary McAuley Oxford. 132 pp. $18.95. Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 By R. Craig...
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A Remarkable Judicial Event_ The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials By Telford Taylor Knopf. 703 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "American...
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On Stage FRONTLINE VS. FLAPDOODLE BY STEFAN KANFER There are two Larry Kramers. One is the quiet, intense author of fiction, plays and film scenarios, including a memorable adaptation of...
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On Television HITTING THE BEACH IN MOGADISHU BY REUVEN FRANK The tumult and the shouting had not yet died, nor the Captains and the Kings departed, when the anchormen went home from...
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