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The New York Times In the correspondence section of the venerated Times one o f Anthony Lewis's casualties cerebrates: To the Editor: While the successful mission of the American forces in...
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...Not even the Gringo "La Pasionaria" is immune: "Ultimately, if we want to eliminate rape, we must replace our system of monopolistic capitalism with socialism," political activist Angela Davis said in Kresge Auditorium last night...
...She explained that the crime of rape is still perceived to be a crime committed against the husband, adding that the "working class man has no power" to fight rape since working class husbands must always work...
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...November 9, 19831 The Stanford Daily A leading campus gazette provides evidence that the Reaganite law-andorder hysteria is spreading like AIDS in a San Francisco steam room...
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...One woman told me her husband used a board with a nail in it to beat a cow so badly the cow had to be destroyed...
...We judge presidents not by their characters, but by what they did do or didn't do--by their conduct, in other words . . . . But on broader questions of character and the impact of that character on society, Nixon and Reagan would certainly be among the poorer presidents...
...9 . . It does not surprise me that when the President of the United States has his customary weekend off, he dresses like a cowboy--it is both a measure of his insecurity and his willingness to please . . . . It was my guilty secret, because being a writer was incompatible with being a man...
...There's no way we would come down here and invade this place...
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...The New York Times In the correspondence section of the venerated Times one o f Anthony Lewis's casualties cerebrates: To the Editor: While the successful mission of the American forces in Grenada has for many sparked a sense of renewed pride in our armed forces, for this old soldier the sight of the new G.I...
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...The bourgeoisie are much more able to fight back," Davis said...
...October 5, 1983] The Bloomington Herald-Telephone A conscientious American repeats the term "war toys" seven times pursuant to, so to speak, rendering inoperative, in a manner of speaking, which is to say, "the giant toy conglomerates": I would like to comment on recent news articles that state the sale of war toys like "G.I...
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...The armed forces of Grenada are kids, just kids...
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...It appears to me that increased sales of these toys are not the result of increased popularity but are the result of intensive marketing strategies that primarily target young children in our community via television advertising...
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...Any objective study would find the quest for manliness essentially right wing, puritanical, cowardly, neurotic and fueled largely by a fear of women...
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...We have initiated a campaign to oppose the sale of these kinds of toys that will run concurrently with the holiday shopping season_9 The Christmas season should be a time for joy, peace and caring for others_9 The world has enough real war and killing without encouraging war-like posturing on the part of children too young to understand the real mraning of war...
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...The two paratroopers you showed in a photo on Nov_9 5 could easily, under a much earlier dateline, have been Wehrmacht soldiers like those we encountered in World War II...
...Bonnie Lindgren Menomonie, Wis_9 [November 1983] Time Hugh Sidey reels across the page after copious draughts of Old Kennedy I00 Proof: He was the greatest actor of our time, dimming those mere celluloid performers like Ronald Reagan...
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...Political science professor Jack Soule blasted the decision by President Reagan to send a combined strike force of Marines and elite U.S...
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...November 3, 1983] The San Diego Union The lowdown on o u r r e c e n t geopolitical atrocity as perceived by Prof...
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...Jack Soule, world traveler: The American invasion of Grenada was "big bullyism at its worst," said a San Diego State University professor who visited the island nation last summer...
...Library Journal The Law of Return by Alice Bloch [Alyson Publications, 1nc.--1983] USA Today During an interview with Dr...
...HELEN LONGINO Oakland [November 3, 1983] The New York Times Magazine Confessions of a drug addict, Paul Theroux's cacelocutions for the "About Men" section of the New York Times Magazine: I regard high-school sports as a drug far worse than marijuana, and it is the reason that the average tennis champion, say, is a pathetic oaf...
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...The fact is that, in violation of treaty agreements and international law, the United States invaded Grenada with no sound justification at all...
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...I didn't see a single Cuban or a single Russian," he said...
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...While in Israel, several unsatisfying relationships with men lead her to also reexamine her identity and feelings as a woman...
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...War toys do not develop a strong sense of patriotism, but they do make killing seem fun and exciting_9 The sale of war toys does not develop a greater commitment to good citizenship and concern for others, but it does make a profit for large toy manufacturers...
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...Speaking before a crowd of nearly 300, Davis, a professor at University of California at San Francisco, blamed the present "epidemic of rape" on racism and its relationship to "the kind of society we live in...
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...When the one man she feels she could marry turns out to be gay, Elisheva begins also to slowly acknowledge her own sexual feelings for women...
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...In his three-week visit to Grenada, Soule said he found the people warm and receptive toward Americans...
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...Hodding Carter tenders yet another compliment to the fierce Reagan: The war in Grenada was waged much more effectively against the American people than against the world-wide Communist conspiracy the Reagan administration claimed to he challenging...
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...October 26, 19831 The San Francisco Chronicle On a Frisco correspondence page still more grumbling directed against President Reagan's fact-finding mission to Grenada, this time from the illustrious Helen Longino, logician: Editor--Last Friday the front page of The Chronicle featured a U.S...
...The reintroduction of war toys into our lives serves no useful purpose except increased profits for a handful of giant toy conglomerates_9 Consumers "Opposed to War Toys is a group of people who feel the same as I do...
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Vol. 17 • February 1984 • No. 2
