Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Yeltsin Turns to the 'Narod' The failed August 1991 coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and his ouster in December of that year, were part of...
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HEIGHTENED TERRORISM Putting Pressure on the Peace Process by eliahu salpeter Tel Aviv Violence is shuffling the Middle East cards again. When they are dealt anew, few of the players are likely...
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OBSTACLES TO UNITY Europe on Hold by norman gelb London This is the year that was to mark a fundamental change in the character of Europe. The remaining obstacles to economic integration among...
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POPPING OUT OF THE PYRENEES Andorra Loses Its Innocence by janice valls-russell Andorra la Vella On March 14, one of Europe's tiniest countries decided to grow up and join the ranks of...
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THE MYTH OF EXCLUSION Detroit's Road to Japan by michael berger Tokyo When President Bill Clinton recently told an audience in Silicon Valley that the $49 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan...
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The Dismal Science WHY PRODUCTIVITY WILL UNDO CLINTONOMICS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The flrst column in this series, almost 12 years ago, was titled "Why Speculation Will Undo Reaganomics" (NL,...
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Writers & Writirig ASK ANY BOSNIAN BY ROGER DRAPER The columnist George Will once said conservatism is a philosophy suited to fans of the Chicago Cubs, who know from experience that the hopes of...
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Probing the Racial Divide Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America By Walt Harrington Harper Collins. 416 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Linda Kulman Free-lance writer It seems that at...
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Beyond the Adversarial Tradition Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business By Barry Blueslone and Irving Blueslone Basic. 350 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Lois Gray Jean...
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On Television THE CAMERA NEVER LIES BY REUVEN FRANK The firing of Michael G. Gartner as president of NBC News opened a long, and largely uninformed, discussion of deception in television...
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On Stage THE TRIVIAL, THE TRAUMATIC, THE TRULY BAD BY STEFAN KANFER Sisterhood is powerful. Take Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Wendy Wasserstein did. The playwright transported a trio of siblings...
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