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I asked about the interim Government. ''Duvalier is gone, but the Duvalierists are still here!'' The candidates? ''They think only of power, never of the country!'' ''We want a president who is popular, and revolutionary!'' a young man added, noting that all the talk of ''uprooting'' Duvalier is misleading. ''The Duvalierist system was not uprooted,'' he said. ''Only the top of its head was cut off.'' I drove down to the port to see the statue of Columbus, who discovered the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. Or rather, to see the pedestal, the statue itself having been slung into the sea by unknown parties who left a scrawled message: ''Pas de blancs en Haiti!'' (''No whites'' - or foreigners - ''in Haiti!''). Haiti's first constitution, in 1804, declared that ''no white man will set foot on Haitian soil as owner or master,'' a provision reaffirmed in succeeding documents until the American Marines arrived in 1915, beginning an occupation that would last until 1934. [LESLIE DELATOUR]'s policies have delighted his former employers at the World Bank, as well as officials in the United States and the other countries and international organizations that contribute more than a third of the money Haiti's Government will spend this year. But for many Haitians, this ''Chicago boy'' is the orchestrator of the ''American plan'' for Haiti, the man trying to realize [Jean-Claude Duvalier]'s dream of making Haiti into ''the Taiwan of the Caribbean'' by ''selling the country to the Americans.''

Since the American armies were demobilized after World War II, nuclear weapons have served as a relatively inexpensive means of filling the gap between the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the vast armies of the Warsaw Pact. From the earliest ''ban-the-bomb'' movements, through the halcyon days of arms control during the 1970's, to Mr. [Ronald Reagan]'s vision of a nuclear-free world sheltered beneath a leakproof ''space shield,'' the nuclear guarantee - under which the United States would respond to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe by launching its missiles - has remained the crucial link between America and its allies.

THREE HOURS OUT OF NEW York, I start awake to find myself floating over a grotesque landscape -- the sickly, reddish-brown hills of Haiti, wave upon wave of blood-dark corrugations, thickly marbled with white sand.

It is likely the question was first asked as soon as it could be -- that the hope of abolition followed shortly after the task of creation. J. Robert Oppenheimer, transfixed in the glare of the first atomic explosion in the New Mexico desert, recalled a verse of the Bhaghavad Gita: \"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.\" It is not a role to which man would grow accustomed.

Thomas J. Schoenbaum, author of \"Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson Years,\" spent many long days drawing the story out of Dean Rusk, who swore he would never write his memoirs.

History, it's said, is written by the winners; but perhaps it's truer to say it belongs to the least reticent. Dean Rusk, on becoming Secretary of State, vowed never to write his memoirs. \"He regarded it as a matter of integrity not to 'kiss and tell,'\" Thomas J. Sehoenbaum said in a telephone interview. \"And he would remind people of that -- including Kennedy and Johnson -- so they would speak freely.\" So Mr. Rusk's story has largely been written by others, often people with interests of their own.

On West Germany's \"Day of National Unity\" this summer, a dapper, white-haired, German-born American stood in the Bundestag, facing the President, Prime Minister and other high officials of the West German Government, and spoke about German history.

\"Liberalism,\" says Vassily Aksyonov firmly, \"cannot do without inequality. The existence of a higher level -- in everything -- is very important.\" Speaking by telephone from his Washington home, the Soviet emigre explained, \"I am preoccupied by 'mass culture' and all its peculiarities.\"

\"I don't recognize myself as a satirist,\" said Vladimir Voinovich. \"No, I'm just trying to depict reality.\"

A discussion regarding the US public school system is presented. The participants include Ivan Krakowsky, Floretta D. McKenzie, Albert Shanker, Ernest L. Boyer, Walter Karp, A. Graham Down, Theodore R. Sizer, and Dennis Littky.