Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A Whiff of Watergate After weeks of twisting in the wind, Anthony Lake withdrew his nomination as Director of Central Intelligence, a victim of the...
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INVITING THE DELUGE Power Plays in Moscow By Robert V. Daniels The Russian political scene is beginning to look the way it did in the years between the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917....
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Second Thoughts MUNICH IN BEIJING By Christopher Clausen Fifty-two years after it ended, the Holocaust remains a conspicuous and reproachful presence in American public culture. The...
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The Dismal Science THE LIE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND By George P. Brockway The recent four-cents-a-pack boost in the wholesale price of RJR Nabisco's line of cigarettes, the reactions of...
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Writers & Writing EPISTOLARY EAVESDROPPING By Phoebe Pettingell Who among us hasn't wished at some point to eavesdrop on the conversation of great writers? Those evenings in Switzerland or...
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Wichita Party-Line Man Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism ?y James G. Ryan Alabama. 332 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Richard Gid Powers Professor of history; City University of...
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Tickle Me Alamo The Alamo: An Epic By Michael Lind Houghton Mifflin. 351 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Robert McDowell Executive director, Story Line Press When I was a boy in the early '60s,...
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On Television THERE IS NO LOCAL NEWS By Reuven Frank History may after all include more than one "date which will live in infamy." Take September 20, 1995, for instance, a day when the...
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On Stage THE MAN IN THE BRIGHT NIGHTGOWN By Stefan Kanfer John Barrymore was fond of saying that an actor's life is writ on water. Perhaps that was why he decided to write his on alcohol....
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Dear Editor Shanker's Credo May I congratulate The New Leader for the splendid and sensitive manner in which it celebrated the life of my colleague and comrade for over 50 years—Al Shanker....
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