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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A surrealistic puzzler-or possibly a parable-about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world...
...ward left and right." King Constantine, Sulzberger speculated, might "even temporarily suspend some of the Constitution" to meet the threat presented by "former Premier George Papandreou, the country's most popular demagogue, and his son Andreas, an engaging but arrogantly ambitious power-seeker, increasingly linked to the far-out left...
...SHORT WALK ON THE CAMPUS, by Jonathan Aitken and Michael Beloff (208 pages; Atheneum; $4.50), is an exuberantly far-out pop portrait of America as seen by two young members of the Oxford debating team that toured...
...Brown's campaign staff has had a field day unearthing and publishing almost every far-out statement that Reagan has ever uttered-and there have been quite a few. A red-bordered pamphlet titled Ronald Reagan: Extremist Collaborator has been widely distributed and lays out-with sources footnoted-various Reagan quotes along with the names of "Fright-Wing" cash contributors and such advisers as Schick Razor President Patrick J. Frawley and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and executive committee, who has been closely affiliated with such way-right causes as Project Alert...
...piece of hardware that can determine a guy's politics." Neither the scientist who indulged in that whimsy last week nor any of his 450 military and civilian colleagues at the joint U.S.-Thailand Military Research and Development Center near Bangkok have any plans to work on such far-out equipment. Detecting and dealing with guerrillas is their basic task, and if they have not yet figured out how to spy on the enemy's innermost thoughts, they have at least gone a long way toward pin pointing his presence. They have built detectors that spot guerrillas...