| MEMO | 5 | 
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| LETTERS | 6 | 
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| COMMENT | 9 | 
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| NO COMMENT | 13 | 
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| THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON | 14 | 
| Stein, Jeff | 
| REFLECTIONS | 16 | 
| Parenti, Michael | 
| DATELINES | 18 | 
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| The Palestinians | 22 | 
| Steif, William | 
| Strange Bedfellows | 28 | 
| Zunes, Stephen | 
| For Old People, A New Kind of Neglect | 30 | 
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| Those most in need of nursing home care are least likely to find it | 31 | 
| BRAIT, SUSAN | 
| Does Anyone Care? | 32 | 
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| Hooker's Other Love Canals | 35 | 
| TALLMER, MATT | 
| Cancer and the Way We Live | 38 | 
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| Chemicals in the World of the Unborn | 40 | 
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| Hungary and Hope | 43 | 
| Lens, Sidney | 
| Fear in the Prague Air | 45 | 
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| THE GAY WRITER | 46 | 
| POWELL, LESLIE | 
| INDIGENOUS MUSIC | 48 | 
| Hentoff, Nat | 
| FILM | 50 | 
| Seitz, Michael H. | 
| BOOKS:ATOMIC VETERANS | 52 | 
| Freeman, Leslie J. | 
| RED SCARE | 53 | 
| Bayley, Edwin R. | 
| WARRIOR ADRIFT | 54 | 
| McFeely, William S. | 
| POLITICAL WAR | 55 | 
| Cook, Blanche Wiesen | 
| NEW SPY | 56 | 
| Mitgang, Herbert | 
| QUEBEC VISTAS | 57 | 
| Jacobs, Jane | 
| Books Briefly | 59 | 
| Mille, Agnes de | 
| Life in Television | 59 | 
| Reason, Harry | 
| No Alternative | 60 | 
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| Threesome | 60 | 
| Gray, Francine du Plessix | 
| THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE | 62 | 
| Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry | 
| THE LAST WORD | 66 | 
| Leopold, George |