The New Leader back issues from July 1986:
Tax reform in nasty universe.
Jul 14, 1986; ... Tax Reform in a Nasty Universe PRESIDENT REAGAN almost swoons over the Senate tax bill. What delights him most is its contemplated top rate of 27 per cent applicable to individual taxpayers. By every account, Ron has never gotten over the 90 per cent marginal bite on his income ...
Thatcher tales on the Commonwealth: staving off sanctions. (against South Africa; Margaret Thatcher)
Jul 14, 1986; ... Thatcher Takes On the Commonwealth "A WHITE MAN'S gang" was how the sports columnist of the London Daily Express described the Commonwealth games when they opened in Edinburgh on July 24. The quadrennial competition is supposed to symbolize the amity that ideally prevails among ...
A way out in South Africa. (race relations)
Jul 14, 1986; ... A WAY OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA NO HISTORIAN faults Neville Chamberlain for wanting to avoid war at Munich in 1938. Rather, he is scored for believing this goal was possible, indeed that he had achieved it. President Reagan, Secretary of State George Schultz and Assistant Secretary ...
Undermining the WHO: attack from the right. (World Health Organization)
Jul 14, 1986; ... Undermining the WHO RONALD REAGAN'S Administration is on the offensive against the World Health Organization (WHO). Warning shots were fired in Geneva last May at the 39th session of its supreme policy-making body, the World Health Assembly. U.S. representatives declared in no ...
Cutting the cost of 'free trade'. (job security)
Jul 14, 1986; ... Cutting the Cost of 'Free Trade' IN JAPAN, an auto worker helps put together a Toyota; across the Pacific, his American counterpart tends to finishing a Ford. Each fears the other may cost him his job. They are not alone: Garment, steel, shoe, textile, and similar workers worry ...
Learning from Macy's. (U.S. should maintain petroleum reserve for bargaining power)
Jul 14, 1986; ... LEARNING FROM MACY'S LIKE THE Ancient Mariner, we war veterans have a glittering eye. (I have seen mine reflected, dully, in my grandchildren's eyes as they prepare to listen dutifully.) We could tell you a tale or two--and we will. Indeed, I will, here and now, tell you a war ...
The marble queen.
Jul 14, 1986; ... The Marble Queen HENRI COLE'S The Marble Queen (Atheneum, 64 pp., $15.00) is so polished, we might easily take it to be the latest collection by an established writer. But the biographical information on the dust jacket assures us that although the 30-year-old poet has had some ...
Cats of the temple.
Jul 14, 1986; ... Cats of The Temple BRAD LEITHAUSER is a poet of the same generation and shares certain characteristics with HenriCole. They are both formalists, their concern extending equally to the poem's sense, sound and appearance on the page. Their prosody employs elegant manipulations of ...
Selected letters of Charles Baudelaire: the conquest of solitude.
Jul 14, 1986; ... Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude BAUDELAIRE was the great advocate of Dandyism, the prince of the Decadents, the spiritual father of the Symbolists, and the first of the moderns in his ruthless self-awareness as much as in his insistence that there ...
The burning forest.
Jul 14, 1986; ... The Burning Forest THE TITLE of his latest book, Simon Leys tells us in the Foreword, is taken from a fable written by a 17th-century Chinese scholard A flock of wild doves passed over a forest engulfed in flames. Rushing to a nearby stream, they dipped their wings in the water ...
Blues at 'The CBS Morning News'.
Jul 14, 1986; ... BLUES AT 'THE CBS MORNING NEWS' ONE OF MY favorite pastimes, next to sleeping late when I should be watching the network TV offerings, is reading about all the goings-on at The CBS Morning News. Now scheduled for extinction in December, this program has for five years been a ...