Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Capitol Hill Trophies In September 1992, in Atlanta, Candidate Bill Clinton told voters they had the power to end gridlock and move the country toward change...
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THE PLO VS. THE PALESTINIANS On the Road to a Mideast Peace by ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv On the eve of the 11th round of the Arab-Israeli talks that began almost two years ago in Madrid and have...
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RESTORING DEMOCRACY A Lesson Learned in Uruguay BY GEORGE A. MILLER Montevideo Late winter has come to this elegant, Mediterranean-style city, and the winds blowing through its tree-lined streets...
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SLOW DEATH Life Among the Unemployed BY THOMAS J. COTTLE IT ALL BEGINS with adults asking children that fateful question: What are you going to be when you grow up? Because it is "only natural"...
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The Dismal Science THE RESERVE TAKES FLIGHT ONCE AGAIN BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY On July 20, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan announced a fundamental change in the way the august body he...
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Writers & Writing FALL FROM GRACE BY ROGER DRAPER Alexander Orlov, the highest-ranking officer ever to defect from the Soviet intelligence service, has always been a problematical character....
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Trials of an Independent Regulator Full Faith and Credit: The Great S&L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas By L. William Seidman Times Books. 300 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Leonard Silk Senior...
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Dazzled by the Glitter Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties By Olivier Bernier Little, Brown. 351 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Ever since it became a great capital and one of the...
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On Screen LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND RUTHLESS BY DAVID BROMWICH "SIGH no more, ladies" (a Shake-speare song that says: expect nothing from men) is being recited by a voice that turns out to...
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On Stage ODD COUPLES BY STEFAN KANFER IN 1966 a modest volume appeared in bookstores, received some respectful attention, and then vanished. Its title was The Collected Works of Jane Bowles, as...
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