Washtington-USA PLAYING THE DEBT CARD BY ANDREW J. GLASS TIME WAS when newspapers routinely published the size of the U.S. public debt down to the last dollar. But Treasury officials put a halt...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Prague Summer BY ELIAHU SALPETER PRAGUE HAVING MY pocket picked in the subway here a few weeks ago, just after a nostalgic tour of my old student haunts, was an unpleasant...
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GONZALEZ ON THE BRINK Terror and Politics in Spain BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL BARCELONA FELIPE GONZALEZ, who became General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Parry (PSOE) in 1974 at age...
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TO STAY OR QUIT? The Question in Quebec BY HAROLD M. WALLER MONTREAL FOR THE THIRD TIME in the past four years, the United Nations Human Development Report has ranked Canada first among 174...
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GUARDED OPTIMISM Tomorrow's Leaders on the UN BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS UNITED NATIONS ON June 26, 1945, representatives of 50 nations gathered in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter. Its...
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Second Thoughts THE IVORY TOWER UNDER SIEGE BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN DURING a hot summer of budget debate, Congressman David Obey (D.-Wis.) announced irately on the floor of the House that the...
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Writers & Writing THE INQUISITION INQUISITED BY ROGER DRAPER FOR THE JEWS, as for the peoples of Africa and America, modern times were ushered in by disaster: In 1492, while Columbus sailed...
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Too Polite to Act A Culture of Deference: Congress's Failure of Leadership in Foreign Policy By Stephen R. Weissman Basic. 254pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Alton Frye National Director. Council on...
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Our Age After Innocence In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur—The Generation that Changed America's Role in the World By David Fromkin Knopf. 618pp....
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On Stage AUTUMN IN NEW YORK BY STEFAN KANFER ATRIM, MIDDLE-AGED MAN, Greg (John Cunningham), enters his West Side apartment with a nubile female in tow. Sylvia (Sarah Jessica Parker), who has...
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