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Monitor articles for August 16, 1989

  • The Press: A Slanted Image?
  • Soviet Data Base Aids Research
  • Collecting the Best of the West
  • Botha's Contradictions
  • There's More to Vivaldi Than `Four Seasons': A Guide to His Best on CD
  • Polls Show Drugs Are Top Concern in US
  • The Influence of the Stars in the USSR
  • D'Amato: Skating on Ethics Edge?
  • BREEDEN PICKED TO HEAD SEC
  • Two Jewish Families in the Nazis' Wartime Shadow
  • Bursting the Bubble
  • Changes in the Phone Company Landscape Continue
  • Flipper's Burden
  • Refugee Flood Engulfs Camps
  • Don't Forget Hunger
  • A Rare Friend of Rare Plants
  • BUSH APPROVES DROUGHT RELIEF
  • BURKINA FASO GRANTS AMNESTY
  • After 20 Years, British See No End to Troops in Ulster
  • Women Are Big Force in Car Sales
  • The Tobacco Industry's Smoke Screen
  • To Swing Like a Woodsman
  • Things Of The Earth Call Our Names
  • POLITICAL STANDOFF IN POLAND
  • The Dream of New York
  • Moving Day
  • Science Lessons Made Elementary
  • Senate Mulls Changes in Jobs Act
  • WORTH NOTING ON TV
  • Economy, Language Drive Quebec Election
  • Indians Cool to Venezuelan Plan
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