Viewers Go for Laughs By Lee Margulies, \o7 Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press\f7
Debt Fever Erupts : Democratic Latin America Can't Sustain Lenders' Terms By Jorge G. Castaneda, \o7 Jorge G. Castaneda is a professor of political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and co-author (with Robert A. Pastor) of "Limits to Friendship, the United States and Mexico" (Knopf, 1988)\f7
A Palestinian Settlement Requires Local Elections--Which Require U.S. Support By James George and Hoda Elemary, \o7 James George, a retired Canadian ambassador to the Middle East and South Asia, is president of the Sadat Peace Foundation, based in New York. Hoda Elemary, the daughter of former Egyptian Prime Minister A. G. Elemary, established the foundation in 1984 with the assistance of Presidents Reagan and Carter. \f7