Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Peanut Diplomacy in Haiti GIVEN THE strong opposition to a Haiti invasion in Congress and among Americans generally, President Bill Clinton was probably...
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ELDER STATESMAN Playing with Posterity BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL PARIS IT WAS A depressing evening. On September 12, France's Socialist President, Francois Mitterrand, appeared...
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WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WANT? The Russian Enigma BY MARK HOPKINS MOSCOW WHEN IS SETTLED IN here three years ago this was the capital of the Soviet Union, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was President, the...
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The Dismal Science PRACTICING 'ESCALATIO' ON THE ECONOMY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY WHEN ALAN BLINDER, the new vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, happened to suggest last month that the rate...
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Writers &Writing VOICES FROM STRIVER'S ROW BY ROGER DRAPER UNTIL THE 1950s, most American blacks lived in the parts of the South best suited to plantation agriculture. Even if racial separation...
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Where the Bullies Have Won Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War By Ed Vulliamy Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan St. Martin's. 376 pp. S22.95. Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition...
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A Carnival of One's Own Trans-Atlantyk By Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Carolyn French and Nina Karsov, with an Introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak Yale. 122 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Betty...
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On Television 'QUIZ SHOW' FOLLIES BY REUVEN FRANK ERRORS BECOME immortal. An axiom of the publicity trade holds that once even small mistakes get into print, they enter permanent files and...
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On Stage PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SELVES BY STEFAN KANFER BRIAN FRIEL's gift is an ability to write big parts for actors. His curse is the inability to give them enough that is worth saying. The...
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Dear Editor Major Doubts Norman Gelb is right to hedge his bets while suggesting that the Labor Party's new leader, Tony Blair, may well be Britain's next Prime Minister ("Mining the Middle in...
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