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"United States National Interests in the Middle East: A New Approach for the 1980s."
Prepared for the International Security Studies Program, The Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. 16 pp.
Author: Les Janka
In a controversial paper presented at the Wilson Center, Janka, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1976 to 1978, argues that American energy security and reduced Soviet in- fluence in the Middle E...
Leo Tolstoy's reputation rests primarily on two great novels- War and Peace and Anna Karenina-written during his middle years. But Count Tolstoy was a man of unconventional beliefs. A would-be social reformer in tsarist Russia, ever at war with himself and his family, he died in 1910 trying to escape home, fame, and fortune. Critic Martin Green looks at the evolution of Tolstoy's disruptive ideas, which came to influence, in turn, Ma- hatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although most people would r...
In 1940, poet T. S. Eliot, then a London editor, commissioned historian Muriel St. Clare Byrne to undertake the first annotated edition of England's illuminating 16th-century Lisle Letters -the personal and official correspondence of Arthur Plantagenet (Viscount Lisle), his wife, and his friends. The product of Byrne's scholarship will be published, in six volumes, on May 31, by the University of Chicago Press. The 3,000 Lisle Letters cover the most memorable seven years (1533-40) in the reign...