The Theatre SELF-SABOTAGE by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. There are few stories as peculiar as the career of the SALT II treaty, whose terms, Reagan recently announced, the U.S. would continue to abide by. The treaty, signed in 1979 by Carter&Brezhnev, seemed to face nothing but trouble. When Russia invaded Afghanistan in late 1979, Carter withdrew...

Fiction Karaghala's Daughter by John Rolfe Gardiner. Karaghala Pronagy was a criminal whose life progressed as an odyssey indifferent to law. As a boy of 16 in Budapest he killed another boy. He was sent to Switzerland&later to live with a family in New Jersey. He left them to become a hustler on the meanest...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. LETTER about the elections in Italy last month, which the writer watched in a little Tuscan town called Castellinain-Chianti. Not voting is illegal in Italy, and voting is done in person. To accommodate the Italians working out of the country, the government pays the fare home. Tells about the...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town A West Side Primer by William McKibben. Talk story about Cyrus Adler, the president of the Shorewalkers, who led a contingent of nearly 100 from the Battery to the George Washington Bridge, and eleven mile stretch. Mr. Adler used to belong the the Morning Glory Underground, a group that planted morning glories all over Manhattan. He said...

The Talk of the Town With Fellini by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Federico Fellini, the moviemaker, and a trip to Connecticut for an afternoon visit. He was in New York to be honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in its annual tribute to a film artist, and here with him were his wife, Giulietta Masina, actor Marcello...

Fiction The Nevada School of Acting by Judy Troy. Yesterday at the laundromat, a man Sherri didn't know asked her to wash his clothes. She tells her mother, Val, about it while they eat lunch with Sherri's brother Sonny and his girlfriend, Irene. Sonny just finished a six month term in jail for robbing a supermarket. Sherri is embarrassed...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Annals of Law THE ASBESTOS INDUSTRY ON TRIAL III-JUDGEMENT by Paul Brodeur. ANNALS OF LAW about the health hazards of asbestos and the lawsuits filed on behalf of workers who developed serious pulmonary disease from exposure to it. In the early 1980's it was recognized that asbestos litigation was going to cause a hemorrhage of serious proportions in the assets of...

Poetry A Hermit Thrush by Amy Clampitt. Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day...

Poetry Sea or Sky by Medbh McGuckian. Small doses, effleurage will do...

Poetry Beginnings by John Harney. In a light mist, in lamplight, your perfect face...