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Monitor articles for March 23, 1988

• LAND OF PLANTAIN PLENTY. `Cooking banana' is a traditional main-dish staple in colonial Santo Domingo
• Like to `graze'? Say hola to a tempting tapa meal
• Africa recalled
• Congress may stifle tax-free loan sales pitch for life insurance
• In the czars' shadow
• Will civil rights stand come back to haunt Bush campaign? VETO OVERRIDE
• Veteran Swedish actor ventures onto US stage. Josephson appearing in `The Cherry Orchard'
• SUSPENSE STORIES
• The World Bank and the world's poor. Is `trickle down' still the best policy?
• South Africa closes popular black newspaper
• Don't write off inner-city schools
• The mortgage interest deduction: loophole or noose?
• The triumph of true tone. Slonimsky missed fame but lived a life worth noting
• US looks at Chile as the next place to promote democracy
• Puccini wouldn't recognize it. `M. Butterfly' brings a Chinese spy tale to stage
• VIDEOSCAN
• Contra aid issue bounces back onto the congressional agenda. Conservatives push proposals including military equipment
• Noriega bids for region's support. But offer of `Panamanian solution' finds few takers in Latin America
• Dissolving barriers to achievement
• Soviet artist Bashmet makes whole new instrument out of the viola
• The starchy, not sweet, always-cooked fruit