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Monitor Archive for September 2, 1983
Staying a step ahead of hurricanes via home computer
Reflections from a school's founderThe Walled Garden: The Story of a School, by Charles Merrill. Boston: Rowan Tree Press (124 Chestnut Street 02108...
Even a garden path promotes composting
Modified sell-it-yourself plan attracts many homeowners
Reagan seeks pay raise for US civilian employees
Next - a US space station?
Edwin Moses streaks on; Replacing Herschel Walker; baseball mysteries
Gems from the nonfiction shelf
Ricardo Bofill
US resumes military aid to Chad government
My very own
Church in Nicaraqua opposes military draft
Soviet downing of jetliner shocks world
A socialist CEO - looking to the long term
France travels rough road to build nationalized industries
At last, a fix-it kit for the schools, How to Fix What's Wrong with Our Schools, by Bertha Davis and Dorothy Arnof. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields. 216...
A revolutionary in education, Neill of Summerhill, by Jonathan Croall. New York: Pantheon Books. 436 pp. $20.
US troops to retaliate if attacked in Lebanon
Poets, camels, tug boats, and more
In Poland, disaffection runs deep
Use care in removing ivy from painted walls
Soviet downing of jetliner shocks world
Druze leader rules out dialogue with Lebanese government
Zimbabwe: a pattern of disregard for courts
A teacher looks at his profession, We, the Teachers, by Terry Herndon. Cabin John, Md.: Seven Locks Press (PO Box 72, 6600 81st Street, 20818). 192...
'A Voice From Russia' - probing the Vysotsky enigma
New form of government proposed for Pakistan
Mideast failure and succession
Celebrating the treaty that ended US War of Independence
Early to rise
Poetry highlight of the month; Pamela White Hadas, Beside Herself: Pocahontas to Patty Hearst, by Pamela White Hadas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 241...
In Florida cane fields, immigration reform bill is hot topic
Nuclear-powered imagination fires novelist, Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 659 pp. $14.95.
Philosophers in black robes
Swallowing up Texas culture; Michener in Lone Star State
NATO missiles damaging W. German democracy?
Remembering Ben Franklin and the example of 1783
'Black dollars' campaign will point up black buying power in 28 cities
Automation turns job security into major union battle cry
Second metamorphosis for well-known actor; Houseman at peak, Final Dress, by John Houseman. New York: Simon & Schuster. 559 pp. $19.95.
Scowcroft: US needs consensus on arms if it wants pact with Soviets
Tales in tradition of Maugham and Dinesen, Mr. Bedford and the Muses, by Gail Godwin. New York: Viking. 205 pp. $14.95.
Unions seek political unity in Labor Day rallies
A fishy tale: US, Canada seek to restock Great Lakes
Human rights group outlawed in Uruguay
Namibia - still no solution
Suppression of Soviet writers prompts retaliation by US publishers
Common sense critique of schools, Free to Teach: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Schools, by Joe Nathan. New York: The Pilgrim Press. 224 pp. $14...
Worth noting
A 'Swedish model' - centralized wage talks - crumbles on the edges
France tightens immigrant policy
Soviet soldier seeks asylum in W. Germany
Strength from God
Indonesia launches drive against East Timor rebels
Scathing re-examination leaves Kissinger tarnished, but not demolished, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, by Seymour M. Hersh....
Labor Day 1983
Being 14 again, dancing, and enjoying it, The Dancers of Sycamore Street, by Julie L'Enfant. New York: St. Martin's Press. 364 pp. $16.95.
Lingua Yankee
Space shuttle apparently performing well again
Pakistan's protests stir up ethnic divisions