Coup in Algeria

CORRECTION: 28 percent of registered voters chose the Islamic Salvation Front. (3/2/92).

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Yeltsin in Dubious Battle

For once Boris Yeltsin was true to his word. He had said in public that August would be the month of “artillery preparations” and September the time of the clash. On September 21, at 8 P.M.

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Mitterrand Le Petit

The longest reign in the history of the French Republic is coming to an end, possibly a premature one, with a sense of drama.

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The Bloody Cul-de-Sac

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Socialism Takes Two Steps Back

The French socialist saga makes awkward reading for left-wingers. It has a wistful air of déjà vu.

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Looking for a ‘Historic Compromise’

Four drunken Polish youths, four distant, misty figures, acrobatically avoid a fall, then vanish mysteriously into the fog.

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Stalin’s Grandchildren

“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.” The Polish author of these lines tried to convey the idea that the former practitioners now

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Putsch in Moscow

Capitalism is re-entering Russia dripping with blood. Whether Boris Yeltsin’s successful putsch will extend his reign remains to be seen.

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Ex-Communists and Rough Beasts

Capitalist euphoria proved short-lived in Europe. Five years ago we witnessed the collapse of the post-Stalinist empire, which folded with unexpected ease.

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How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?

“Oh God,” Heinrich Heine wrote, “how big is your zoo!” This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II’s journey throug

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