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Critics of conglomerates argue, without conclusive evidence, that it is now harder to get serious, noncommercial books published. Yet excellent work is still published by conglomerate-owned houses, notably Knopf, a subsidiary of Random House, which in turn is owned by Newhouse Publications; badly written, poorly edited work still pours forth from privately owned houses -Doubleday, for example. A more justified complaint is that the huge bookstore chains, B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, give limited shelf space to titles with less than mass appeal...
...widespread use of torture in the postcoup crackdown as well as the random arrests by roving civilian goon squads suggest that the junta has been getting some expert help in repression from the outside. The most likely accomplice is military-ruled Argentina, which was the first nation to recognize the new regime in La Paz. For years Argentina has maintained a mission of slightly more than a dozen intelligence officers in Bolivia, ostensibly to teach at Bolivian military institutions. Their ranks almost doubled before the coup...
...Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss (7) 3. Random Winds, Plain...
...some random reflections on what has surely been a strange summer in the world of sports...
...random sampling of national post offices--including main branches in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Denver--indicates that postal officials--who were not required to tally the number of postcards they processed--did not record figures...