THE OTHER SIDE : A Vietnam War Memoir LE LY HAYSLIP and JAY WURTS, This is adapted from "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey From War to Peace" by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts, copyright 1989, which will be published in May by Doubleday.
California High Court Needs Female Perspective JANICE KAMENIR-REZNIK, Janice Kamenir-Reznik, an attorney in Sherman Oaks, is president of California Women Lawyers, a statewide women lawyers organization
Charges Pinpoint North's Deceit of Everyone in Sight PHILIP B. HEYMANN, Philip B. Heymann, a professor at Harvard Law School, was assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division from 1978 to 1981
When The U.S. Drops Its Defenses Kevin Phillips, Kevin Phillips is publisher of the American Political Report and Business and Public Affairs Fortnightly
A Chinese Half-Century of Satire and Dissent Kyna Rubin, Kyna Rubin is a professional associate at the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China at the National Academy of Sciences. The views in this article reflect those of the author and not those of the committee, its sponsors or the National Research Council
U.S. Competitiveness and New TVs LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, With this column, Laura D'Andrea Tyson joins the Times Board of Economists. A professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, she is also research director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. She received her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been on the faculty at UC Berkeley since 1977. A member of the Cuomo Commission on Trade and Competitiveness and the Leadership Council of Rebuild America, she is the author of "Politics and Productivity: The Real Story of How Japan Works" with Chalmers Johnson and John Zysman. and
No Need to Go Cross-Country for This Gold ELLIOTT ALMOND and VALYRIE ICE, Almond is a Times staff writer in Sports and Ice is a free-lance writer living in Fountain Valley. and
Strolling Through New York's Greenwich Village LESLIE GOURSE, Gourse is a New York City free-lance writer and author of a forthcoming book, "Guided Walking Tours of New York City" (Globe-Pequot Press, $10.95), due out in May.