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May 1979

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Barbara Sandler SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Kissinger, Henry; Portraits PDF IMAGES
7-9	Letters/Department Letters On To the Campanile, from February 1979: Letter By Pamela Wagner On Ordinary miracles, from February 1979: Letter By “The Editors” On One man's nuclear war, from March 1979: Letter By H. Peter Metzger Letter By Christopher B. Timmers Letter By Edward Abbey On Trumping Asian allies, from March 1979: Letter By Kenneth J. Rawson Letter By Leslie H. Gelb Letter By Michael Ledeen On Race relations, from March 1979: Letter By Dennis P. Wilken On Letters, from March 1979: Letter By Louise E. Rorabacher PDF IMAGES
11-12	The easy chair/Article Program notes: The early afternoon of the gods By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; 1980- PDF IMAGES
16-19	Article Childhood's end: A hopeless future inclines the young toward death By Scott Spencer SEE ALSO: Suicidal behavior; Suicide victims; Youth PDF IMAGES
21-29	Article Arms bazaar: SALT was never intended to disarm By Robert C. Johansen SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; Nuclear arms control PDF IMAGES
30-36	Article Killing Jamaica with kindness: An island between the devil and the deep blue sea By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Career as Jamaica prime minister; Caribbean Area; Economic assistance, American; Jamaica; Manley, Michael; 1962- PDF IMAGES
39-109	Collection Dr. Kissinger goes to war PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Campaigns; Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Civil War, 1970-1975; Kissinger, Henry; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the destruction of Cambodia (Book); Shawcross, William PDF IMAGES
40-109	Article Dr. Kissinger goes to war By William Shawcross SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Cambodia; Campaigns; Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Civil War, 1970-1975; Kissinger, Henry; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article Lewis Carroll's letters to little girls By Lewis Carroll SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Jebb, Edith; Harland, Ethel; Simpson, Gaynor; Chataway, Gertrude; Letter writing; Mayhew, Margaret; Crofts, Mary; MacDonald, Mary; Marshal, Mary; Oxford PDF IMAGES
69-78	Fiction Women in a Roman courtyard: A short story By Nancy Hallinan PDF IMAGES
79	Other things being equal/Article Eyes only By David Suter SEE ALSO: Ford, Gerald R.; Carter, Jimmy; Kennedy, John F.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Portraits; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
80-81	Article The mistresses of Singer: A fantasy By Tova Reich SEE ALSO: Authors, Yiddish; Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Mistresses; Relations with women; Relations with women—Humor PDF IMAGES
82	In our time/Article The national pastime By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Baseball fans; Baseball players PDF IMAGES
83-86	Books/Review Goodness incarnate: Sheltering Jews in Vichy France By Terrence Des Pres SEE ALSO: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Lest innocent blood be shed (Book); Hallie, Philip Paul PDF IMAGES
88-90	Books/Review Impetus and invention: Poetic tradition and the individual talent By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: Ai; American poetry; Ray, David; Wagoner, David; Wilson, Keith; Killing floor (Book); Rukeyser, Muriel; Praise (Book); Shelton, Richard; Hass, Robert; Gallagher, Tess; The bus to Veracruz (Book); The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser (Book); The tramp's cup (Book); Under stars (Book); While dancing feet shatter the earth (Book); Who shall be the sun? (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-94	Books/Review Victims of Yalta: The fatal repatriation of Russian soldiers By Andreæi Amaly`rik SEE ALSO: Forced repatriation; Tolstoy, Nikolai; The secret betrayal, 1944-1947 (Book) PDF IMAGES
95-96	In print/Review Biological imperative: Writing about science for laymen By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Conquering cancer (Book); Judson, Horace Freeland; Pinkham, Joan; Collis, John Stewart; Miller, Jonathan; Thomas, Lewis; Living with a stranger: a discourse on the human body (Book); Israël, Lucien; The body in question (Book); The eighth day of creation (Book); The medusa and the snail: more notes of a biology watcher (Book) PDF IMAGES
97-102	The fourth estate/Article Invitation to a hanging: An encounter with Islamic justice By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: Career in Pakistan politics; Foreign correspondents; Hanging; Islam and politics; Zia ul-Haq, Mohammad; Pakistan; Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali PDF IMAGES
102	Poem This ego in the wilderness By Geof Hewitt PDF IMAGES Poem Zimmer's last gig By Paul Zimmer PDF IMAGES
103-105	Article An eye for an eye: Reflections on equality By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Diseases; Equality before the law; Eye; Social justice PDF IMAGES
105	Poem Thirty childbirths By Millen Brand PDF IMAGES Poem Yes, we can stand all these Nobel prizes, comets, universes, epics, they keep coming our way By John Tagliabue PDF IMAGES
106-109	American miscellany/Article Cleveland without tears: Remembering the Mistake on the Lake By Ann Bayer SEE ALSO: Bayer, Ann; Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio); Early memories; Homes and haunts—Ohio—Cleveland PDF IMAGES
107	Poem Crocus By Joan Murray PDF IMAGES Poem 15, rue du Sommerard By DeWitt Beall PDF IMAGES
112	Puzzle/Department Free association By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES