Comment Comment, Pt. I by Lawrence Weschler. A comment about El Salvador. Tells about the apparently accidental entrapment of a dozen heavily-armed Green Berets in the San Salvador Sheraton Hotel, by guerrillas. The Green Berets were eventually released unharmed. Nevertheless, Administration officials lost no time in decrying the encounter as an "outrageous act of terrorism," and...

Fiction The Wishes by William Cobb. Story about Lopey, her boyfriend Weaver, 65, her mother Kay, the only family member who is in love--with Leo Abruzzi, a neurophsysiologist, and something of a star in Boulder, Colorado for his expeditions to the Himalayas where he lost fingers to frostbite--and brother Karl for whom Kay and...

The Talk of the Town Heavy Metal by Patricia Marx. Talk story about the Transit Authority's Second Annual Auction and Tag Sale, held last month at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn. Much of what wast for sale was so heavy that many of the buyers seemed to be talking mostly about how to get their purchases home...

Casual The Beautiful Ones by Edward Allen. Casual about living in New York City during the summer months in a ground-floor apartment; that was perhaps the worst time of his life--"all those sleepless hours in bed with no air conditioner." "The strange thing about being in New York is that even when you take time...

The Current Cinema BUSTY, TWISTY, FISHY by Pauline Kael.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment Comment-II by David Daniel. Comment about the recent retirements of two lyric artists, Suzanne Farrell from New York City Ballet and Dame Joan Sutherland from the operatic stage. As a member of the generation of Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, Sutherland is the last of the post-war sopranos, singing for more than forty...

A Reporter at Large BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS-III by Mark Danner. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier. By the end of his 15-year rule, Jean-Claude and his wife had become the ultimate bourgeois, the consummate arrivistes, ready to sell the country to the highest bidder. Tells about his attempts to lure foreign...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry The Only Child Sends a Gift to Her Mother Two Poems by Elizabeth Macklin. What came after me is the point--that one fall...