January 1984

In This Issue
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Articles
Dark Valley Destiny
Somme
Night Cats
Art of Limning
Foggage
All the Empty Palaces
My Dear Parents
A Word in Your Ear
The Galapagos Affair
The Galapagos Affair
The Atlantic Puzzler
Buenos Aires: The Weight of the Past
Argentina’s new civilian president must start work on a long, inherited agenda before he can dra w up his own
The Congo: Western Investors Now Welcome
A twenty-year experiment with “scientific socialism” appears in many respects to have failed
Paris: Problems of Punishment
A sharp increase in crime and resistance from the right have the government divided over whether to continue its program of prison reform
What Is It About?
The United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in a competition that threatens both with nuclear annihilation
For the Eating of Swine
Hunktown
Things Seen
Getting Through the Day
Trouble Amid Plenty
A failure to pursue basic plant science may imperil the pre-eminence of American agriculture
Twelve
Solidarity
Listen
Frederick the Great and Voltaire
A Little Help
Guide to Middle Age
Quoting Chanel
Behavior Modification
Dictatorship or Democracy
Writers on How It's Done
