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...that appears in this week's issue. For Reporter-Researcher Sally Donnelly, the task of verifying the story was made even more challenging by the fact that the author could not be reached. Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount...
...American industry, faced with relentless pressure from Japan and other Asian industrial countries, inevitably washed up? Can the U.S. slash its record trade deficit without further depreciating its currency and building higher barriers to imports? New books by two veteran American journalists contain widely differing reflections on these pressing economic issues of the '80s. According to David Halberstam's The Reckoning (Morrow; $19.95), the U.S. has every reason for pessimism about its industrial future. But Robert Christopher's Second to None: American Companies in Japan (Crown; $16.95) presents an argument for pragmatic optimism: many U.S. companies are competing on their...
...best time of my life during the war," maintains the author. And, alluding to the substantial royalties the book continues to bring in, he adds, "I'm still making a good living from World War II." Was he worried about chumming with future versions of the relentless Colonel Cathcart? "This is a once-in- a-lifetime experience, and I hope I'll be back in another 25 years," said Heller, employing the kind of logic that his reluctant hero Yossarian would understand...
LaRaja said the key to the game was the relentless Harvard pack, which repeatedly pushed Babson back. "Our pack totally dominated them," LaRaja said. "Things are really starting to click...
...shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder trial, relentless public glare...