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Some November Titles: John F. Stacks argues in Watershed: The Campaign for the Presidency, 1980 (Times Books, $16.95) that the election of Ronald Reagan marked the end of the “great age of social engineering,” the beginning of “a new course of caution and restraint” in American governance. . . . According to William H. Sullivan, former U.S. Ambassador to Iran and author now of a memoir, Mission to /ran (Norton, $14.95), the Carter Administration resolutely ignored warning upon warning of impending disaster. After siege was laid to the American Embassy, Zbigniew Brzezinski asked Sullivan to look into the possibility of a reverse coup d’etat, a request which the Ambassador—he thinks, to his credit—rebuffed with vile oaths.

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RANDOM NOTES

Some November Titles: John F. Stacks argues in Watershed: The Campaign for the Presidency, 1980 (Times Books, $16.95) that the election of Ronald Reagan marked the end of the “great age of social engineering,” the beginning of “a new course of caution and restraint” in American governance. . . . According to William H. Sullivan, former U.S. Ambassador to Iran and author now of a memoir, Mission to /ran (Norton, $14.95), the Carter Administration resolutely ignored warning upon warning of impending disaster. After siege was laid to the American Embassy, Zbigniew Brzezinski asked Sullivan to look into the possibility of a reverse coup d’etat, a request which the Ambassador—he thinks, to his credit—rebuffed with vile oaths.