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...other powers with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon must have moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon change its political structure. When curing...
...instant bestseller is the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, 393 pages of carefully chosen speeches and interviews by China's political leader. The book assembles Deng's pragmatic prescriptions for reforming China's backward economy and healing social wounds caused by years of fierce ideological persecution under Mao. Publication of the material in collected form gives Deng's thoughts the stamp of official doctrine recalling Mao's notorious Little Red Book first issued...
...handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord, and Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska almost singlehanded shattered the romantic tradition of performing Bach on the piano. "You play Bach your way," she once told a colleague...
...moderate women, middle-class whites and others concerned about civil rights and social justice. But Reagan's handling of the issues last week was often clumsy, and did little to mollify his critics. As one of his top aides lamented, "We took two steps forward and three steps backward...
Moreover, the billions spent in Europe in 1949-52 rebuilt the industrial base of highly developed societies, with skilled work forces and large pools of executive talent. In Central America, the economies are backward to begin with, and the political systems polarized, even without the devastation of warfare. The U.S. is not just dealing with a structure that was damaged, as it was in Europe; a whole infrastructure must be built, practically from scratch. All that is going to take a long, long time, and a lot more money than either the Executive or the Legislative Branch is now willing...