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...espionage in Moscow, the book flashes back to Fascist Italy and fashionable Washington with a romantic side trip to Bermuda. Buckley the novelist, unlike Buckley the columnist and lecturer, is not out to score debating points. But there are some targets of opportunity that are too juicy to overlook. An American Communist lawyer, representing a captured Soviet spy, aggressively defends his client's civil rights in a manner that bespeaks contempt for America and its democratic institutions. Fiction, as the busy Buckley illustrates once again, allows a more leisurely and richer development of irony. - By R.Z. Sheppard
There is no denying the strategic importance of the Golan Heights to Israel or, for that matter, to Syria (see map). Rising to 7,297 ft. above sea level, the heights overlook the fertile Galilee Valley, one of the country's principal breadbaskets. On the Syrian side, they merge into a level plateau-ideal tank country-that stretches 50 miles to Damascus. In 1967 the Syrians used the heights to rain fire on the Israelis at the onset of the Six-Day War. Since Jerusalem's military occupation of the heights, some 6,000 Israelis in 31 settlements...
...Crimson is willing to overlook traditional Bill of Rights guarantees as corruptions of democracy, but refuses to take the essential step beyond into our current society, where Blacks, Chicanos and gays continue to suffer discrimination because they have been effectively shut out of the political process...
...since President Reagan's tax plan has become law, though, Harvard development officials like Boland have been working to come up with their own predictions. Having completed an internal study of the dilemma just last week, they say they are convinced that studies such as the Urban Institute's overlook other key factors. According to Thomas M. Reardon, the University's director of development, the first oversight is economic: Just as taxes will go down, so disposable income will rise. Especially in the 50-per-cent-and-under tax brackets, Reardon insists, this bank balance boost will offset the higher...
...which the French dauphin insults Henry with a present of tennis balls. With more than a dozen important Shakespearean parts under his belt, not to mention other major classical roles. Plummer remains at the height of his phenomenal vocal control and gestic skill; so one is willing to overlook the discrepancy...