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No One Leaves Lebanon

Charles Glass Beirut 'No government is unwilling to make allies. But when these allies send large armies, over which it has no control, to in- vade its territory, expecting to......

The Armenian Recovery

Bohdan Nahaylo I n 1930 the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam went on a long pilgrimage to the portion of the ancient land of Armenia which in the early 1920s had become part of the......

One Hundred Years Ago

Sir, — I think the question has beep mooted in your columns as to whether dogs sometimes understand our lan- guage. A circumstance that has just oc- curred leads me to think......