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When the Reagan administration began its war against Nicaragua, I recognized a deeper affinity with that small country in a continent upon which I had never set foor....[A]fter all, I was myself the child of a successful revolt against a great power [and had] at least some knowledge...
Accordingly, these are mostly pictures shot in the semideveloped region between city and countryside, the kind of not quite urban, not quite rural zone that was seized upon by the French impressionist and postimpressionist painters as the quintessential tilting ground between civilization and the natural state. Sternfeld's vision owes...
No grand diplomatic breakthroughs were achieved. But Thatcher, who is ! expected to call elections sometime this year, certainly bolstered her stature among voters at home -- and among Britain's allies on the Continent. Indeed, she had prepped for the trip by meeting with key West European leaders, and she was...
WITH EVERYONE talking about nuclear arms reduction in Europe once again, it's high time that the Western Alliance put some serious effort into upgrading its conventional forces on the Continent. And if NATO strategists are smart, they'll try my solution.
For great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a...