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April  1987  Issue
 
 
Misleading Parallels: Nicaragua and Vietnam

 
SPECIAL REPORT--CHINA'S 'NEW DEMOCRACY': RISE AND FALL?
Introduction
Editor
Deng: Seeking Middle Ground
Harold C. Hinton
The Power of the Military
June Teufel Dreyer
A Nation at the Crossroads
David Chen
The Duties of Young Intellectuals in Our Time
Fang Lizhi
Why They Want Democracy
Wang Bingzhang
Can Marxism-Leninism Survive Economic Reform?
Franz Michael

SPECIAL FEATURE--THE PHILIPPINES' FUTURE
The Impending Crisis in the Philippines
Ray S. Cline
How to Preserve Philippine Democracy
Morton A. Kaplan interviews Philippines President Corazon Aquino and others

ANALYSIS
Tax Reform Comes to Europe
Bruce Bartlett
Chad: A Divided Nation Uniting Against Qaddafi?
Michael Radu and Adam Garfinkle
The Hungarian Illusion
James Bovard

COMMENTARY
Toward True Welfare Reform
Robert B. Carleson
Bleak Prospects for Welfare Programs
William P. O''Hare
How to Respond to the Soviets' Economic Initiative
Roger W. Robinson
Vietnam: Who Will Succeed?
Douglas Pike
Why Is the U.S. Saving a Dying Communist Regime?
Dan Burton

 

 
ADVENTURE
Muzo: Mountain of Green Gold in the Andes
Jane Dolinger

CHILDREN
Junk TV: Program-Length Commercials
Leil Lowndes

GOURMET
Feasting on Flowers
Rosemary G. Rennicke

HOME
Swedish Housing: As Snug as a Cocoon
Miles Cunningham

HUMOR
Jewish Humor
Barry Farber

PERSONALITY
Bea Wapshare: A Satisfied Life
Carole Ottesen

SPORTS
The Ambassadors of Cabrini
David Louis Caprara

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: Philip Roth's The Counterlife
Introduction
Editor

The Ultimate Ironist
Lionel Abel

Art as Impersonation of Oneself
Bernard Rodgers

REVIEWS
Genuine Gifts
James J. Thompson Jr.
THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES
Arnold Rampersad

Criminal Justice on Trial
Graham Hughes
ESCAPE OF THE GUILTY
Ralph Adam Fine

Rock 'n' Roll Graduate School
Alexander Bloom
THE TRIUMPH OF VULGARITY
Robert Pattison
SWEET SOUL MUSIC
Peter Guralnick
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Davin Seay with Mary Neely

Cities of Memory
Thomas Molnar
THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART
Donald J. Olsen

The Computer Blues
Robert L. Ashenhurst
LESSONS
An Wang, with Eugene Linden
BIG BLUE
Richard Thomas DeLamarter

Heavy Shtetl
Edward S. Shapiro
JEWISH WRY
Sarah Blacher Cohen, ed.

Castro: El Supremo
Dolores Moyano Martin
FIDEL
Tad Szulc
FIDEL
Peter G. Bourne

Mr. Conservatism
W . Wesley McDonald
THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
Russell Kirk
THE WISE MEN KNOW WHAT WICKED THINGS
Russell Kirk

Famine or Genocide?
Paul Robert Magosci
THE HARVEST OF SORROW
Robert Conquest

Russia's Grim Famine History
W. Bruce Lincoln
The HARVEST OF SORROW
Robert Conquest

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Antonio Gaudi: The Pride of Barcelona
Juan Bassegoda Nonell

ART
Flowers of the Moon: The Art of Kaii Higashiyama
Betty Rogers Rubenstein
Art Overlooked: The Neglected Art of Women
Louise Sheldon

CRAFT & DESIGN
Seventeenth-Century Embroidery of Quebec
Joyce Taylor Dawson

DANCE
Balanchine's Spirit Infuses New York City Ballet
Barbara Binkley

FILM
Saints Into Cinema: Half a Century of Religion on Film
Tom O'Brien

INTERARTS
What Do Fred Astaire, Jacqueline du Pre, and Noel Coward Have in Common?
John Elsom

MUSIC
The Passion Tradition
Tom Pniewski

PHOTOGRAPHY
Celebration of the Individual Through Photography: Alfred Eisenstaedt, a Pioneering Master Craftsman
Lloyd Eby

POETRY
Poets at the Front in Iraq
Michael Waters

THEATER
Yuri Lyubimov: World-Class Director
Curtis Cate

 

   
AT THE EDGE
The National Aero-Space Plane
Walter Froehlich
The Rediscovery of Agroforestry
Barbara Tufty
Machines That Hear
Phil Cohan

NATURE WALK
Tree Flowers
Frederick D. Atwood

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Religious Dimensions of Modern Physics
Roy Abraham Varghese

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Importance of Bats
Merlin D. Tuttle

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Aldo Leopold: Pioneer Conservationist
Susan Flader

 

   
CROSSROADS
Diversity in Turkey's Eastern Black Sea Region
Paul J. Magnarella

FOLK WISDOM
Islamic Tales of King Solomon
Jan Knappert

HERITAGE
The 'Mystery of the Hungarian Talent,' Part Two: Hungarian Intellectual and Political Immigration to America
Steven Bela Vardy
New Jersey's Cossacks
Merlinda Fournier

PEOPLES
The Kalingas: People of the North Luzon Highlands
Robert Lawless
Cave Dwellers of the Tunisian Desert
Ernestine A. O'Connell

 

   
AN ASSESSMENT OF POSTWAR JAPAN
Social Change in Postwar Japanese Society
Hideo Ibe

SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE BALTIC
The Nazi-Soviet Alliance and the Fate of the Baltic States
Alexander Shtromas
Comments on Shtromas
Morton Kaplan

THOUGHTS ON THE HOLOCAUST
The South Encounters the Holocaust: William Styron's Sophie's Choice
Richard L. Rubenstein
The Ashes Still Burn: Perspectives on the Holocaust
Milton Birnbaum

VIETNAM RECONSIDERED: LESSONS FROM A WAR
Introduction
Friction: War's Forgotten Dimension
Harry G. Summers, Jr.
Why Our Vietnam Strategy Failed
Bruce Palmer, Jr.
Television Reporting of the Vietnam War; or Did Walter Cronkite Really Lose the War?
Lawrence W. Lichty and Edward Fouhy
Lessons From the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
David Horowitz
The Vietnam War and Mao's Struggle for Power
F. Charles Parker
Since the Fall of Saigon
Nguyen Van Canh

 
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