Washington-USA CLINTON'S SECOND PHASE BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington Fall brings to a close the gestation period of Bill Clinton's Presidency. During those initial traumatic months, the...
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WHAT PRICE PEACE? Israel Debates Its Future by eliahu salpeter Tel Aviv Israelis did not need a historic ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House to set them arguing the pros and cons of a...
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HAMPERED BY HIS OWN PARTY Balladur Riding the Waves byjanice valls-russell Paris This was not France's sunniest summer. Unemployment rose; so did the number of car accidents. The franc fell;...
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BAD LUCK FOR THE TORIES Heeere's Maggie! BY NORMAN GELB London MARGARET THATCHER is about to flex her political muscles again??this time on the telly, for all to see. That is bad news for...
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RITES OF SUMMER The Hidden Japanese by michael berger Tokyo Two totally unrelated summer rituals took on new dimensions this year that further punctured some long-held myths about Japan. One...
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Writers & Writing RICHARD KENNEY ZEROES IN BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Even in the final decade of this century, our culture is still struggling to graft the imagery of quarks, DNA, black holes, nuclear...
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The Last of a Precious Species The Sixties By Edmund Wilson Farrar Straus Giroux. 968 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Edward T. Chase Writer and book editor The posthumous publication of The Sixties,...
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A Panglossian Portrait of Old Age Old Friends By Tracy Kidder Houghton Mifflin. 352 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review," New York "Times Book...
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On Television LOCALIZING NETWORK NEWS BY REUVEN FRANK It is the consensus among people one talks to that something bad has happened to network news. They are vague, but angry. Some complain...
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On Stage QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS BY STEFAN KANFER A Acurrent story: A boy asks his father what "business ethics" means. The man responds: "Someone comes into my shop, hands me a bill, buys a...
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