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THE YOUNG VISITORS by John Wain. 214 pages. Viking. $4.50.

What happens when Moscow girl delegate meets local London Red? Twistski in a Soho bar, for one thing. But not really a new twistski. He explores her Communist lines, they go off to his flat to have their own Communist party, social realism ensues, and almost everyone ends up hating Communism. End of story. Save the $4.50.

ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE by Heinrich Boell. 148 pages. McGraw-Hill. $3.95.

In these two novellas Germany's Heinrich Boell (The Clown), like a brain surgeon performing an exploratory operation, opens up two representative Germans of the war generation: one a merchant, one a soldier. Without comment he inspects the devastation within them. Without comment he sews them up again. Diagnosis: something is rotten in the State of Germany.

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