FOR RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY Is Yeltsin a Wise Investment? BY ROBERT V. DANIELS George Bush ultimately conceded his mistake in relying too long and too heavily on Mikhail S. Gorbachev as the man to...
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WAITING FOR DECEMBER Venezuela in Transition BY GEORGE A. MILLER Caracas The specter of chaos continues to haunt Venezuela. As the country gears up for a long and possibly violent political...
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NUREMBERG REAFFIRMED Putting War Crimes on the UN Agenda BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations On February 22, the United Nations' 15-member Security Council made a historic decision. Acting...
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CARNIVAL, RUM, UNEASY CALM The Other Side of Haiti BY CAROLE CLEAVER JACMEL JACMEL is calm. Superficially, little has changed in this sleepy town on Haiti's south coast since I first saw it in...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN The Anglo-Russian Game "You could smell them coming, it was said, even before you heard the thunder of their hooves. But by then it was too late. Within seconds came the...
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Writers & Writing POETRY BY THE NUMBERS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Our culture seems obsessed with statistics. In clearheaded moments, most will acknowledge that figures can be manipulated to prove...
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From Words to Language Word Menu By Stephen Glazier Random House. 977 pp. $22.00. The Oxford Companion to the English Language Edited by Tom McArthur Oxford. 1,184 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by John...
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Chipping Away at Competition Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries By Laura D'Andrea Tyson Institute for International Economics. 341 pp. $40.00, cloth; $25.00,...
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On Stage THE SOUND OF SILENCE BY STEFAN KANFER In 1879 Johan Martin Schleyer, a Bavarian pastor, invented an international language. Missed communications were the way to misunderstandings, he...
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