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Monitor articles for August 12, 1983
- For better or worser the SCRABBLERS are massing in Chicago
- Best of the new soft-covers; Atomic doubletalk; Nukespeak, by Steven Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, and Rory O'Connor. New York: Penguin Books. 282 pp...
- The Craft case: a goad to better TV news
- From Moscow: fiction, poems, and more; Metropol: Literary Almanac, edited by Vasily Aksyonov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, and Ye...
- Emerging poets with vision and imagination; Sad Days of Light, by Peter Balakian. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press (145 Central Park West, 10023). 8...
- Best of the new soft-covers; Naylor's fluent, stark novel; The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor. New York: Penguin Books. 192 pp.
- SOLIDARNOSC THREE YEARS LATER; Polish hopes for normalcy do not include a relaxed rule
- Reagan begins campaign to attract Hispanic voters
- Pansies by the yardful reward a winter's care
- Multiple listing service upheld in new legal test
- Question please, Mr. Gallup
- Turkish generals keep tight grip on election preparations
- Reviewer's choice: the five best magazines
- State legislators debate pros, cons of user fees as revenue source
- Sampling of new nonfiction; Is pro-tennis corrupt?; Short Circuit, by Michael Mewshaw. New York: Atheneum. 306 pp. $13.95.
- US will not prosecute former EPA officials
- Soviet A-powered sub sank at sea in June
- The great race
- Buzzati stories -- in English; Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, chosen and translated by Lawrence Venuti. Berkeley, Calif.: Northp...
- Nigeria's election returns Shagari to power, bolsters fragile democracy
- Best of the new soft-covers; Loony Latin 'soap-opera'; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Helen R. Lane. New York...
- Healing those stubborn traits
- Sampling of new nonfiction; Fighting age discrimination; All the Justice I Could Afford, by Eugene B. Goodman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich....
- A milestone found
- Sampling of new nonfiction; Lloyd, forgotten funnyman; Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock, by Tom Dardis. New York: The Viking Press. 231 pp. $19.95.
- Jobless aid requests sink to 2 1/2-year low Countercoup attempt fails in Upper Volta
- For golf's Hal Sutton, PGA title an indication of things to come
- Sampling of new nonfiction; Data on each of the fifty states; The Book of America, by Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom. New York: W.W. Norton & Co....
- The hot summer of August 1923
- London's financial sanctum sniffs the breeze of change
- Rescue plan for Everglades
- Tibet awaits Dalai Lama as incense fills temples anew
- West German central bank stands pat on dollar
- ''FROZEN MUSIC.'' ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- The US as Europe's nuclear hostage
- La Guardia: man of integrity, honesty, perseverence
- Boston's 'dirty water' is not so dirty today
- Eskimo sculpture from an icy world; Lords of the Stone, by Alistair Macduff. North Vancouver, British Columbia: Whitecap Books (Suite One, 431 Mount...
- US advisers in Chad: how many are there, what are they doing?
- Libyans force Chadian retreat
- Why the Saudis are disappointed
- What's in a color?
- New recognition for small presses
- As Reagan plays the China card, Moscow looks as if it wants to deal
- Best of the new soft-covers; The spirit of the Gold Rush; The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, by J.S. Holliday. New York: Touc...
- Polls, pundits run politics as voters drop out
- Sampling of new nonfiction; A pioneer of fact, not fiction; Westering Man, by Bil Gilbert. New York: Atheneum. 339 pp. $17.95.
- Erasing the label 'retarded'; Tales from a Human Warehouse, by Marion Welsh. Brookline, Mass.: Branden Press Inc. 134 pp. $5.95.
- The family as a unit is the Disney Channel's target
- Spain's lost children of the civil war slowly return
- Monthly Poetry Highlight; Roland Flint; Resuming Green: Selected Poems, 1965-1982, by Roland Flint. New York: The Dial Press. 80 pp. $6.95 (paperbac...
- Union leader in Bell strike unexcited about mediator
- Best of the new soft-covers; The Invisible Bankers, by Andrew Tobias. New York: Pocket Books. 404 pp. $3.95 .
- Buckie's chowder
- Best of the new soft-covers; FBI case on King revisted; The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., by David J. Garrow. New York: Penguin Books. 320 pp. $5....
- Adelman's blitz on arms control
- Check use may decline before end of decade
- CAB spotlights airline reservation services
- Victorian women explore the world; Victorian Lady Travellers, by Dorothy Middleton. Chicago: Academy Chicago. (425 North Michigan Ave., 60611). 182...
- Desert shale
- Drop goes on in the ratio of males to females in US
- Columnist: US A-missile came close to launching
- Pushcart anthology of small-press favorites; The Pushcart Prize, VIII: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize e...
- America's farm problem
- Lebanon: the politics behind gunfire and kidnapping
- Leaving his fingerprints
- Another triumph for space cooperation