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Monitor Archive for December 5, 1983
The palace of Moscow's 'privileged class'
Smithsonian recalls 1st manned (balloon) flight
Building a backyard skating rink requires care and patience
Speaker O'Neill opens House door to immigration reform
Family history -- a ready source of heroes, heroines for children
New Zealanders protest nuclear weapons with canoes and zoning
News In Brief
Barbara warned us
US signals Syria with an air strike
US unemployment rate drops; need for work skills persists
Maine Democrats hunt Senate candidate to challenge Republican Cohen in '84
Black boycott of Soweto election rebuffs South African 'reform'
A look at the life of a science fiction writer
Israel holds secret talks on pullback in south Lebanon
'Batter up' at 1984 Olympics for tournament field of six teams
Love notes help kids learn to write
Little Baby Robin
News In Brief
Will computers squeeze out books by 1990?
Good: it's already yours
It'll be a Hollywood film - with Chinese stars
Uncle Roland: the almost perfect guest, but not necessarily the best example; Uncle Roland, the Perfect Guest, by Phyllis Green. Illustrated by Mary...
A bizarre but resonant saga of a country that's not quite Pakistan; Shame, by Salman Rushdie. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 319 pp. $13.95.
Plan to thin deer herd sparks moral debate
The Met brings opera to schoolchildren
News In Brief
That year-end rally may be averted by longer-range doubt
Corruption in Nigeria: can it be ended in land of greased palms?
On the road in Sri Lanka: bridging a divide
News In Brief
Keeping Pentagon out of wild blue yonder. Escalating arms costs have experts hunting ways to wring out excesses
Winter
The cliche competition awards
Mrs. Malaprop would mark them 'A'
In Bay State, persistent Republican takes on Democratic senator
Well-intentioned 'Choices' lacks credibility
Teacher fellowships
News In Brief
Peace Corps volunteer's life in Botswana: hard, but happy
News In Brief
Own your own home? Fewer Japanese can
Favored nations
News In Brief
Arms and politics
The brilliance that is Dance Theater of Harlem
Women state legislators compare gains at nationwide caucus
Phone-age beeps and blares
News In Brief
Tentative settlement in Greyhound strike
Yugoslav government foots the bill for private enterprise
Las Vegas computer show has exploded into biggest of them all
An exceptional gallery - and realism vs. abstraction
US-USSR summit urged by Europeans - analysis
Film bureaus successfully lure moviemakers out of Hollywood
Rediscovering what makes a classic
Possible successors to Marcos: wife, technocrat, business crony
It takes courage to be a poet during China's decades of tumult
Crime is widespread, but not thriving unchecked, study shows
Korchnoi's victory over Kasparov in Round 1 of the semifinals
An invasion of analogy
How Schools Change
How to boost US productivity: produce more pragmatic engineers
A guided tour through the powerful poetry of Langston Hughes
In Brazil's northeast desert, it rains only at election time
'Hallelujah! Hallelujah!': sing-along choruses tune up for season's joyous 'Messiah'
News In Brief
Smithsonian, other groups, reach out to seniors
Spacelab know-how likely to help West Europeans in the future
California farmers find that what helps workers helps productivity
Popular marine studies program stays afloat through cooperation
Romanians harvest Yugoslav crops - then go shopping
David Edgar's powerful mix of politics, drama
Arafat bearded
News In Brief
California to hit bad-check writers in wallet
Soviet violinist: taxi was the first step to freedom