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Monitor articles for August 10, 1981
- Airports, airlines face costly transition as strike drags on
- Child's story of bygone era; Letters from Carrie, by Janet D. Harder. Illustrated by Bonney C. Schermerhorn. Sylvan Beach, N.Y.: North Country Books...
- Case against the MX, a shell game that could misfire; MX: Prescription for Disaster, by Dr. Herbert Scoville Jr. Cambridge: The MIT Press. $6.95 (pa...
- Book briefing: varied smorgasbord from independent publishers; Cocktails at Somoza's, by Richard Elman. Cambridge, Mass.: Apple-wood Books (Box 2870...
- Paris faces unpleasant choices over African Crackdown
- Record unemployment heats W. German summer of fiscal discontent
- N-bomb signal: there'll be no European veto
- Voting Rights Act gains surprise backers in Washington
- Poland: hopes of compromise endure despite angry words
- Sleek Broadway comedy with a roman a clef plot
- Bowles: a master of bizarre exotica, irony; Collected Stories 1939-1976, by Paul Bowles. Introdcution by Gore Vidal. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Pr...
- Spruce up a dull summer with offbeat holidays
- Storm brewing over South African Rugby team's US tour
- The neutron bomb -- how it works
- It's free, so; Looking Back, Moving Ahead: A Decade of School-FinanceReform, by James A. Kelly. Ford Foundation, Office of Reports, 320 East 43rd St...
- Even 9th graders have to go to work
- Eerie poetry from northwest England's woods; Ways Through Bracken, by Thomas A. Clark. The Jargon Society (distributed by Gnomon Distribution, PO Bo...
- Mayor Byrne defends payments to family
- Travel club helps teens discover their city
- Prisons: view from behind the bars; In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison, by Jack Henry Abbott. With an Introduction by Norman Mailer. New...
- Iraq to build oil pipeline to a Red Sea terminal
- Fine Blend: suspense, decency; The Clowns of God, by Morris West. New York: William Morrow & Co. $14.95
- Leaning our ears to committed voices
- The Monitor's View: Quote
- INSECTUS ex MACHINA (or, Wildlife translated)
- Reagan another Franklin Roosevelt?
- As its trade deficits mounts, India is seeking record-breaking, multibillion dollar IMF loan
- Trend of the economy; Reagan's dilemma: balancing third-world aid with jobs at home
- Hopes for liberalizing reform in South Africa fizzle
- The new playoffs schedule
- Thought and feeling joined
- Per capita income rose 10.2% -- prices did too
- Soviet 'peace drive' seen which could shake NATO
- An Olympian peers at 1984 games and perceives 'winners' everywhere
- US governors cast wary eyes at 'New Federalism'
- Book briefing: varied smorgasbord from independent publishers; Editing Your Newsletter: A Guide to Writing, Design and Production, by Mark Beach. Po...
- Pushcart's delectable sampling; The Pushcart Prize VI: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson. Wainscott, N.Y.: The Pushcart Press (Box...
- Beep! Basic skills Beep! Basic skills Beep!
- Miss Piggy as oracle; Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, as told to Henry Beard. New York: Muppet Press/Alfred A. Knopf. $12.95.
- The sage of West Falmouth
- California spray acreage doubled as flies spread
- Mideast twist: Israeli recognition
- Lull ends, Soviets renew pressure on Poles
- Drawing new lines against drunk drivers
- The price of making the parched West bloom; A River No More, by Philip L. Fradkin. New York: Afred A. Knopf. $15.95.
- Using the buddy system helps family enjoy museum expeditions
- Book briefing: varied smorgasbord from independent publishers; The Road to Gdansk: Poland and the USSR, by Daniel Singer. New York: Monthly Review P...
- We haven't been working on the railroad
- Poorer nations ride out storms
- Some Du Pont shareholders see wrong mix in merger
- US neutron bomb decision puts Schmidt in the hot seat
- Washington's Star sets, and with it, competition
- Doubt sounded on ability of US arsenal to expand
- More 'Show and Tell' with entry-level, hourly wage employees
- South has a large share of 'death row' inmates
- State lawmakers' sticky task: enacting new taxes to fill void left by shrinking federal aid
- Soviet farce with twist of lemon; Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, by Vladimir Voinovich. Translated by Rich...
- Britain fed up with Soviet diplomat-spies in London
- Book briefing: varied smorgasbord from independent publishers; Black Superstars: Getting Ahead in Today's America, by Bernard Mackler. Buffalo , N.Y...
- Mexico's Lopez Portillo tries to draw skittish Castro, Reagan closer
- Book briefing: varied smorgasbord from independent publishers; The Baseball Catalog, by Dan Schlossberg. Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David Publis...
- Boston police, fire departments in clash with US judge -- yet again
- Califano memoir: the staging of how many exit scenes?; Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet, by Joseph A. Cal...
- Split-season plan widens pennant race
- Unexpected job in jobless is puzzling to economists
- Maxims for a short career
- Saudis may force OPEC price cuts, drop own output
- Breaking barriers to progress
- Wind power waits on decisions by government, industry
- For two Greek heroes from the sea -- home at last
- Portuguese premier says he can't handle party foes
- Simon Bolivar born in the '60s
- The years at Monticello; For a monumental Jefferson biography -- a grand finale; The Sage of Monticello, Vol. VI, Jefferson and His Times, by Dumas...
- Why it is hard to build up America's defense
- Advancing the cause of bookwormishness
- Of Zanzibar, slaves, improbable romance; Trade Wind, by M. M. Kaye. New York: St. Martin's Press. $15.
- Basic points from 'MX: Prescription for Disaster'
- The neutron bomb decision
- Red Brigades' tactics send shock waves through Italy
- Why US labor unions don't picket with PATCO
- Inside story of Wounded Knee; Sitanka: The Full Story of Wounded Knee, by Forrest W. Seymour. West Hanover, Mass. The Christopher Publishing House (...
- Just what is a small press?
- Airline pilot group seeks AFL-CIO aid in union fight
- Saving the wilds begins with caring; Common Ground, A Naturalist's Cape Cod, by Robert Finch. Boston: David R. Godine Inc. $12.95.
- Two killed in Ulster riots after ninth striker dies