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President: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Editorial Staff: Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Adam K. Goodheart '92 Brian R. Hecht '92 Kelly A. E. Mason '92 Stephen J. Newman '92 Madhavi Sunder '92 Business Manager: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Business Staff: Paul M. Leonard '92 Timothy B. Paydos '92 Photography Editor Ali F. Zaidi...
...INNOCENT by Ian McEwan (Doubleday; $18.95). Set in Berlin in 1955, at the height of the cold war, McEwan's thriller deftly solves the conundrum of writing a spy novel in the era of glasnost...
...April 5, 1986, an 11-lb. bomb killed two U.S. servicemen and injured 230 people in the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin. Ten days later, blaming Libya, President Reagan ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli. Yet investigators were never able to prove conclusively that Libya was behind the attack...
...joint task force set up by the two Germanys to investigate terrorist activities by East Germany's ousted communist government is also examining a suspected Libyan connection. A Palestinian involved in the bombing is reportedly imprisoned for other charges in West Berlin. The East Germans are said to have granted visas to a known Libyan hit man and his Palestinian accomplices even though they knew the Libyans planned a bombing...
...very difficult to describe the quality of this experience because what they actually did was so stunningly ordinary. In effect, they just took a bus from Hackney or Dagenham to Piccadilly Circus, and went shopping in the West End. Berliners walked the streets of Berlin. What could be more normal. And yet, what could be more fantastic! 'Twenty-eight years and ninety-one days,' says one man in his late thirties...Twenty-eight years and ninety-one days since the building of the Wall...