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THERE ARE WORSE BOOKS than Fanny to read when you're 14 years old and babysitting and the late show is over. Problem is, most quasi-liberated housewives won't have them, being just with-it enough to fill their bookshelves with Erica Jong but not serious enough to challenge their minds with something truly bad, truly thought-provoking. The acceptable suburban raunch used to be The Happy Hooker, pure and wholesome smut, until women's lib hit the suburbs and Fear of Flying replaced the dog-eared Xaviera Hollander paperback because Erica had something important to say. This...
Never mind that no one quite figured out what it was. Some people pretended that Jong was harnessing women's repressed sexual drives, that she liberated The Woman from her self-image as passive, submissive receptor for The (horny) Man. Let's face it, Erica said, women are horny too, and they're even foul and raunchy and wicked and deliciously naughty sometimes. He's OK, She's OK--so let's all deal with it and come to grips with it and relax. The happy hooker didn't cut it because she was young and beautiful; Flying's Isadora...
...happens, Kim Jong II is very much alive and well in Pyongyang. The Sixth Congress of the North Korean Workers' Party last week anointed him as heir apparent of his dictatorial father. From the outset of the congress, when the 29 members of the Communist Party Presidium took their seats on the stage of Pyongyang's Cultural Palace, the purpose of the conclave was clear. When Kim Jong II was introduced to the 3,230 party delegates, there was a perceptible stir in the hall: the young Kim was accorded no less than fifth place in party precedence...
What was behind Kim Jong Il's eclipse-and his subsequent emergence into party leadership? Observers could only guess. Many noticed that Kim II Sung's younger brother, Kim Yong Ju, once considered a possible successor, was nowhere evident on party rosters. One guess was that Kim Yong Ju had lost out to his nephew, the President's son, in an internal party struggle...
Pyongyang watchers predicted that Kim II Sung will concentrate on foreign affairs, his son on domestic problems. If he is elevated to the presidency, Kim Jong II is not likely to soften his father's hard line toward South Korea. He is feared as a hawk in Seoul, where one analyst said darkly: "Our relations with North Korea are about to enter a new era of cold...