Clout, not crumbs
COMMENT Clout, not crumbs With the approach of Inauguration Day, the weeping, handwringing, and gnashing of teeth that were so audible and visible among liberal and labor leaders immediately after...
...It is time to look to the rank and file—and to the unorganized—rather than to the comfortable porkchoppers ensconced in the unions' Washington palaces...
...The other object of concern is the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons testing program in southern Nevada...
...And in dehumanizing the workers it has dehumanized us as well, by removing us from involvement in the means of our subsistence...
...In granting the Federal Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) highly unusual powers, the new law sets a precedent for Government bailouts of private utilities and energy construction industries—a precedent which could be applied in the rest of the nation...
...James B. Edwards, the former governor of South Carolina, may not be the worst Cabinet appointee ever proposed—there is much competition for that honor—but he is certainly in contention...
...But the hospitals would be destroyed and most of the doctors dead or disabled...
...The realities of the Reagan Administration provide an opportunity for the debilitated liberal remnants and the ossified, hierarchical labor movement to rediscover the militancy they abandoned long ago...
...Anthropologists say tools are an extension of the human body, but here the workers were extensions of the machine...
...At the same time, he gave copies of the report to workers at the laboratory itself...
...In its recent Christmas message, the church for the first time made nuclear weapons the subject of its annual appeal to the faithful...
...Are spies 'born secret...
...Nor would the mothb?lling of the Nevada test site necessarily put a permanent stop to the proliferation of new nuclear weapons designs...
...The Northwest Power Bill is thus the mechanism for constructing a regional network of large thermal power plants centrally administered from BPA headquarters and a few corporate boardrooms...
...The vehicle for this censorship is the Official Secrets Act, passed during the '"spy fever" era in 1911...
...In the quarter century of relative prosperity that followed World War II, much of the liberal and labor leadership succumbed to the comforting notion that the Federal Government could successfully be lobbied for more and more in the way of social benefits, provided only that the right compromises were struck—especially with respect to preserving peace in the workplace...
...It called on all Mormons and all nations to work for the prevention of nuclear war...
...Consumers are paying a price for this in the form of "vegetable varieties having growth and fruiting characteristics adapted to machine harvest," to use the words of an industry brochure...
...It sounds like the schemes for "^industrialization" being pushed by some influential corporate executives...
...But at least some of it, we suspect, reflects a genuine absence of alternative strategies...
...the cancer rate in other parts of Utah more distant from the Nevada test site is one out of four...
...Utilities are victims of the crisis of capitalism: They can't acquire the capital to build massive energy projects because investors have the good sense to avoid investing in nuclear plants and because capital is scarce, in general, since so much of it is tied up in speculation and corporate mergers...
...Utahans are fighting mad about the Pentagon's proposed MX missile system—a vast complex of 200 intercontinental ballistic missiles and 4,600 concrete silos the Air Force wants to build in their western desert to serve as a "nuclear sponge" in the event of a Soviet attack...
...Food processing took another mighty jump in World War I, and again in World War II, to satisfy the military demand for milk, eggs, vegetables, and other edibles that would last indefinitely...
...A typical Del Monte plant I recently visited in northern Illinois seemed like the inside of a huge, churning machine...
...Attempts at ingratiation with the new Administration offer no promise of clout, and little promise even of the few crumbs that used to drop from the table once in a while in better times...
...They're weapons of national suicide...
...The Committee of Ten Million claims 100,000 members and may actually have 100...
...Nicholas Appert won the prize by inventing a method of bottling food—sterilizing it by heat while excluding air—and modern food processing was born...
...We'll add another thought to that: In figuring these risk analyses, risk analysts take up only one risk at a time...
...Small posters in the plant cautioning safety resemble posters on elementary school walls that remind children to be "good citizens...
...Later, he posted the report and related correspondence on institute bulletin boards...
...Representative Robert Drinan, Massachusetts Democrat, has said, "This could be the first step towards an Official Secrets Act...
...Already the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank influential with the President-elect, has called for a greatly expanded Federal effort to spy on and harass U.S...
...I spent a few days recently in Utah, a state that gave Reagan and the Republicans one of their biggest electoral majorities last November...
...Next month, yet another physicians' group, the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, will hold its first major international meeting...
...Fresh fruits and vegetables have come to account for less than 10 per cent of supermarket sales...
...But nowadays it isn't the specter of food stamps, school busing, land use regulation, occupational safety and health laws, or other familiar misdeeds of the Washington bureaucrats that have Utahans and their neighbors up in arms...
...Still, the Department of Energy produces something— something Reagan was probably unaware of when he proposed dismantling the Department...
...Today the Northwest, tomorrow . . .? —Phillip Johnson (Phillip Johnson wrote "Scoop Jackson: Power Broker" in The Progressive, April 1980...
...The institute's director, J.A...
...They are a very serious problem to law enforcement...
...It is not sufficient that each result be taken up, elaborated, and applied by a few specialists in the field...
...Vernon Jordan of the National Urban League has promised to give Reagan "the benefit of the doubt...
...It appears to us that Coulter sinned in another way as well: He attempted to share scientific knowledge with those who needed to know it...
...The paramilitary organizations engaging in comic-book highjinks out in the boondocks of America are tiny fragments compared to the brown-shirt, black-shirt, silver-shirt fascist legions that flourished in the 1930s...
...they are a very serious threat," says Terry McGuiness of the California Department of Justice's Threat Analysis Center...
...But that Faustian bargain was always tenuous, at best, and it was bound to collapse when we entered a period of economic decline...
...The state's two Republican Senators, Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn, both quintessential Pentagon hawks, are showing signs of falling in behind him, as is Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, an intimate of Ronald Reagan...
...Once I stepped over a narrow grating and saw ears of corn passing inches under my feet...
...The problem is they're not...
...The climate may be right for this further erosion of the First Amendment...
...And, in dealing a blow to the nuclear arms race, it would pave the way for an impressive first installment of Ronald Reagan's delivery on one of Jimmy Carter's unfulfilled campaign promises...
...Every inch of space was used...
...Out off the frying pan The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, working hard to solve the nuclear waste problem, has come up with the ingenious idea of turning 31,000 tons of radioactive scrap metal into consumer products, ranging from automobiles to frying pans...
...Like its Rocky Mountain neighbors to the north, south, and west, Utah is anti-Federal Government country...
...It was obvious even in the Carter Administration that the unions and the liberals were squandering time, energy, and resources in lobbying for such pet projects as labor law reform or meaningless and unenforceable "full-employment" legislation...
...it could also be used to impose criminal penalties for publishing any information that might help in such an identification...
...His supporters have called for a public inquiry: They believe Coulter has been punished for his years of outspokenness on environmental and health issues—often, as a private citizen, he spoke at rallies and gave information to trade unions, which also benefited from the services of his unit...
...But the Civil War, like the Napoleonic wars, harnessed technology in its service...
...Duncan Harp is an editorial intern at The Nation...
...Further, as writer Daniel Zwer-dling has noted, processed foods forge "a vital link...
...Most Americans have shown repeatedly that they are admirably immune to such foolishness...
...Full employment, a rational economy, and humane social legislation will not be achieved by pledges of cooperation with the Reagan White House or by lobbying Congress for enactment of labor law reform...
...If this bill passes, we may be saying goodbye to any meaningful discussion of the intelligence agencies, for it is virtually irhpossible to discuss an intelligence operation without giving some clue as to who was involved in it...
...Only you can prevent accidents...
...That it does—but it also may breed more anxiety than the circumstances warrant...
...In southwestern Utah's Escalante Valley (population 1,200), cancer was the cause of forty-eight of the sixty-three natural deaths recorded since 1951...
...It produces nuclear bombs...
...Other types of radioactive research materials (animal carcasses, for instance) would be dealt with just as simply: For regulatory purposes, they would no longer be classified as radioactive at all...
...There is not just one hunter down there banging away at us—but a veritable army...
...John Coulter's case illustrates how scientists who speak out against corporate and bureaucratic vested interests on issues affecting public interest can be stifled," Brian Martin wrote to The Progressive from the department of applied mathematics, Australian National University...
...There is, to be sure, an armed threat that jeopardizes freedom and survival—but that threat is not posed by the bands of loonies who play at being suburban guerrillas while insisting that Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and David Rockefeller are all stooges of the Kremlin...
...Understandably, such activities prompt concern...
...Restricting the body of knowledge to a small group deadens the philosophical spirit of a people and leads to spiritual poverty...
...Their proposed measure would not only outlaw the identification of an intelligence agent...
...It has been growing ever since...
...Neither the Congress nor the Reagan Administration is likely to prove educable—and most union members are appropriately apathetic about such efforts on the leadership's part...
...Coulter gave the institute's safety committee a report on the mutagenic and potentially cancer-causing properties of ethylene oxide, a substance used in an institute laboratory...
...Other belts whisked the corn to the de-cobbers, the canning room, the cookers, and the warehouse...
...Such easy answers Xo difficult questions are firmly in the tradition of nuclear regulation in this country...
...its fuehrer is Robert Bolivar DePugh, who ran the same scam for the so-called Minutemen in the 1960s...
...It is time to look to rallies, marches, demonstrations, rather than to bureaucratic blandishments...
...The sky would be the limit on what the CIA would be able to censor—and it is worth noting that the agency takes the position that virtually any kind of disclosure impairs and impedes its activities...
...The operator worked a pedal, her face expressionless...
...Physicians in growing numbers have begun to envision what nuclear war would be like...
...So they are preparing to practice politics as usual—even if that means collaborating with the ultra-conservative Reagan regime...
...Industrial food processing has brought undoubted benefits: wider availability of foods supplying vitamins rare in local produce, and freedom for women from the tyranny of the kitchen...
...But it also has produced one of the country's most highly mechanized industries...
...Paranoia breeds some disturbing activities...
...That is what it is and that is how it should be discussed...
...In the canning room, a cagelike chute snaked down to the filling machine...
...As if turning over 24,000 square miles of Utah and Nevada grazing lands to Government bulldozers weren't enough, residents of the two states also are increasingly upset over the doings of another Federal agency in the name of "national defense...
...In June 1980, Coulter was told he no longer had a job at the institute...
...Lysbeth K. B. Borie (Lysbeth K. B. Borie, a free-lance writer in Haverford, Pennsylvania, is a former editorial intern at The Progressive...
...They had turned off their minds, but their bodies had to stay in gear—for the machines can maim...
...It also uses Government power to force consumers (in this case, ratepayers) to provide funds for capital investment over which they have no meaningful control...
...It designs, develops, and builds them—all of them...
...There is a tendency to think of nuclear weapons as just big guns with which we can defend ourselves," says Dr...
...Aside from that, and his former practice as an oral surgeon, he is known primarily for his deep devotion to the racist regime of South Africa, and for a tendency to lapse into racist rhetoric here at home...
...Between 1860 and 1870, consumption of canned goods increased sixfold in the United States: from five to thirty million cans a year...
...Labor, the national newspaper of airline and rail workers, pledges that the unions, while continuing to pursue their own goals, will "work with the new Administration to achieve what is best for America...
...They stem primarily from concern over economic and cultural values close to home...
...political dissidents...
...In Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, the fires of hostility to the MX and to the nuclear testing program are feeding on each other...
...If the idea flies, the scrap now piling up at the Federal uranium enrichment plants—with further contributions still to come from dismantled nuclear power stations—could be put through an Oak Ridge smelter that may be in operation as soon as this year...
...Reagan's wonderful idea In the course of his eminently successful Presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan came up with one truly wonderful idea...
...This regional plan will work even better if it is meshed with other such plans...
...The Northwest Power Bill has put in place a regional model for the use of public credit to underwrite private investment and provide the infrastructure for private development...
...The worker who lifts the shield to unclog it while it is running must remember that this machine can cut off a finger as easily as it cuts an ear of corn...
...Duncan Harp (S...
...An electronic machine delivers the mind-numbing message: "Watch out for yourself every day...
...The U.S...
...But in at least one respect, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act is even worse than Britain's law...
...in the chain of corporate control...
...The legislation, proposed by New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Senate and Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland in the House, would have outlawed the "naming of names" by anyone—even if such information were derived from unclassified public sources...
...The bill thus taps a new source of capital by using the public credit of the entire region to make investment in nuclear plants and other projects fail-safe...
...Government wide latitude to classify intelligence-related information at birth...
...The Department, he charged, spends a lot of taxpayer money and produces no energy...
...Under the Act, a judge can declare a fact "secret" whether it is or is not...
...Department of Shellology has determined that 0.01 of a pellet of lead is harmless to a duck...
...Union chiefs are raising their voices in a chorus of sweet reasonableness...
...It is time to look to action in the plants, in the neighborhoods, in the communities, rather than in the corridors of Congress...
...Samuel H. Day Jr...
...In surrendering our food to machines, we have surrendered part of ourselves...
...Let's hold him to it...
...11n Kansas City, Missouri, a new group that calls itself the Committee of Ten Million announces it will provide guerrilla warfare training for the coming showdown with the "communist-socialist conspiracy...
...The United States has never had an "official secrets act"— but our situation will be comparable to Britain's if legislation proposed in the last Congressional session becomes law in the next...
...It also lays the foundation for a Government-corporate partnership to generate capital, centralize both authority and physical development, assure unfettered load growth, and, through the regional planning aspect of the bill, determine the availability of services so that the corporate community can plan without consulting potentially recalcitrant local communities...
...for sheer insanity the backwoods vigilantes cannot compare to those who preside over that lunatic enterprise...
...A month later...
...Bonnin, suggested that if Coulter wanted to spread his views, he should not do it "at the expense of his official duties...
...We cannot turn the clock back to the days of Napoleon, but we can free ourselves a little every time we buy directly from a farmer, preserve our food at home, participate in a food cooperative, bake our own bread...
...Translated, this means that we end up with tomatoes and other produce grown not for the taste but for standard weight and ease in processing and packaging...
...Napoleon kept the process a military secret as long as he could...
...Utah's Governor Scott M. Matheson is fighting the Utah-Nevada MX basing mode tooth and nail...
...About the only thing that has changed: Now the NRC comes up with numbers that purport to minimize the risks entailed by its modest proposals...
...But now there is another reason—Reagan's designated Secretary of Energy...
...What does this sound like...
...Probably its most dangerous feature is that, like the Atomic Energy Act used in 1979 against The Progressive, it would allow the U.S...
...We applaud the physicians' efforts to inject a dose of reality into the recent talk of using nuclear arms as tactical weapons, as if they were just another set of cannons...
...Says author Sol Yurick, "The Intelligence [Identities Protection] Act allows for what is, in effect, an invasion of the mind itself, for one is enjoined to forget what one has learned...
...In Cedar City, Utah, a fifth of the male graduates of the high school classes of the 1950s and early 1960s are sterile...
...The physicians speak of nuclear war in terms of blood and burns and death on a scale we can scarcely imagine...
...Edwards at its helm, the Department of Energy would need shutting down even if Ronald Reagan had not promised to do so...
...The BPA can commit itself to purchase the full, rated capacity of a power plant for its projected life, even though the project turns out to be a complete failure which never produces a kilowatt...
...He was right about that, though he could have gone on to add that by actively promoting and subsidizing dangerous, dead-end nuclear technology, the Department has actually stood in the way of developing safe and economically sound alternative energy sources...
...It was, in fact, more than an idea...
...With Dr...
...One gets the feeling that accidents are the workers' fault, and that the company's responsibility ends once it has issued a warning...
...According to the magazine's editors, their identifications are made entirely on the basis of public information...
...A dozen workers, mostly Mexican women in aprons and hard plastic caps, stood like automatons at the de-cobbing machines, handling 100 ears a minute in ten-hour shifts, with just one fifteen-minute break for lunch...
...But we take all the risks put together...
...But as commander-in-chief, he may find himself ordering one—and perhaps even two—of the most far-reaching cutbacks in the history of the nation's atomic weapons buildup...
...A group called Physicians for Social Responsibility, almost 3,000 strong, has led the medical movement against nuclear arms...
...Therefore, in one million years of banging away at that flock I might get one duck...
...Our daily bread When Napoleon was conquering Europe 180 years ago, he won many battles but lost many soldiers to diseases such as scurvy: Fresh food would not keep during the long marches...
...If it hit Boston, 90 per cent of the city's people would die or need immediate medical attention...
...There is a deeper message in all this: In freeing some women from the necessity of home food processing, industry has transferred the drudgery—and the danger—to others...
...a fall-back position already is being prepared around the Minuteman missile sites in Montana, North and South Dakota, Missouri, and Texas...
...It is a place where political speeches routinely begin and end with a promise to "get the Government off our backs...
...Lay that pistol down Scattered news reports originating here and there convey the impression that paramilitary and vigilante groups of one sort or another are springing up all over America, heading into the woods every weekend for target practice, and laying away grenades and graham crackers for a siege they are sure will come...
...Samuel H. Day Jr., a contributing editor of The Progressive, is a special representative of the Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...The bill channels all major decisions on energy for the region across the BPA administrator's desk, superseding local control even over publicly owned utilities...
...Organized liberalism and organized labor have become so thoroughly dependent on the notion of achieving their goals by lobbying at the Federal level that they can conceive of nothing else...
...It spends almost half of that budget about which Reagan properly complained on building bombs—and that alone is a sufficient reason for shutting the Department down...
...Perhaps Air Force Doesn't Know Its Basin MX Plan Is Dead," cried The Salt Lake Tribune in an editorial headline that greeted me one morning...
...Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers, offers assurances of cooperation with the Reagan White House, while reserving the right to present "constructive" criticism...
...If labor and the Left are to reverse the steady drift toward economic collapse, they must begin to develop a mass movement that has its own clout to impose curbs on corporate power...
...Until the mid-Nineteenth Century, Americans ate their food fresh, or preserved it by drying, pickling, salting, or home jarring...
...Because the shell contains 10 pellets which means that each duck will be hit with 0.01 of a pellet...
...In Fredonia, Arizona, the death rate from leukemia—a disease linked closely with atomic radiation—is four times normal...
...Conveyor belts rumbled by at waist level and overhead, spilling endless streams of corn into chutes, where the ears dropped onto spinning wheels that ripped the husks off...
...Rebellion in the Rockies As candidate for President, Ronald Reagan promised to retrieve "nuclear superiority" for America...
...Utah's rejection of MX wouldn't necessarily kill the Pentagon's dream of a multi-billion-dollar mobile missile system...
...The bombs go off every three or four weeks whenever the winds are right—that is, when they are blowing toward the wide open spaces of Utah and northern Arizona...
...So he offered a 12,000-franc prize for a way to preserve food for his troops...
...Opponents of MX see the system as an economic monster that would siphon out 112 billion gallons of the region's scarce water (more than five times the annual consumption rate of the city of Las Vegas), swell the area's tiny communities to five or six times their normal size, and then leave them ghost towns after the silos had been built...
...New techniques of canning, drying, and freezing had marked impact on the foods we eat and the way we prepare them...
...The de-cobber, the size of a loaf of bread, covered by a metal shield, contains spiked rollers and six whirling blades to cut the kernels from the cob...
...And it has now been joined by the giant American Medical Association, which has asked Ronald Reagan to discuss with its leaders the consequences of nuclear war...
...He is a zealous, mindless advocate of nuclear power in all its forms...
...Among the reasons given for his dismissal were his small number of journal publications (three in about two years...
...The real threat comes from a nuclear arms race out of control...
...James Muller, Harvard heart specialist and secretary of that group...
...The most intensively processed foods are the most heavily advertised and the most profitable...
...The ability to disseminate information on such activities is vital if we are to have any hope of stopping them...
...Moreover, he learned, the institute had decided to close the unit he had founded to test substances for their capacity to cause mutations...
...In the process, they lose much of their texture, taste, and nutritional value...
...Some perspective is in order before the Left succumbs to paranoia of its own: The United States of 1981 is not the Weimar Republic of 1932...
...Bailing out utilities The significance of the Northwest Power Bill, signed into law before President Carter left office, might have been better understood if the bill had been titled the Prototype National Power Bill...
...In Britain, at least the authorities must go through a defined legal process before information can be censored...
...BPA Deputy Administrator Ray Foleen has already given strong indication that the agency will use its financing powers to back nine nuclear power plants in Oregon and Washington...
...Both seem deeply rooted in the region's rural, conservative temperament...
...Much of this is, of course, nothing more than the usual "honeymoon" blather that greets every incoming Administration...
...Doctors' warning It would be, they say, the greatest health hazard that humanity has ever faced—"the final medical epidemic...
...consciously and intelligently, the efforts and results of scientific research...
...A more fundamental function of the bill is to provide for greater centralization of control over energy decisions...
...1 In Los Angeles, the Jewish Defense League trains children not yet in their teens to fire rifles, shotguns, and pistols at swastika-emblazoned human-silhouette targets...
...The new Administration and the new Congress will, of course, be even less responsive to liberal and labor lobbying...
...Today, when business is determined to rebuild its profits by creating a "disciplined" workforce with a reduced standard of living, the Government has ears only for the pleas of capital...
...The BPA administrator is now one of the most autonomous Federal bureaucrats since General MacArthur returned the governance of Japan to the Japanese...
...For thirty years the weapons designers have been setting off blasts—first in the atmosphere and now underground—at Yucca Flats, a testing site in the desert north of Las Vegas...
...House and Senate bills collectively known as the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act" would set criminal penalties for the public identification of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents...
...The plan is consistent with others emanating from the NRC these days...
...Suppressing science In March 1980, John Coulter, a pathologist on the staff of Australia's Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, received the unsettling news that he was being demoted, with an annual salary cut of $10,000...
...Salt Lake City's other daily newspaper, The DeseretNews, and the state's leading television station, KSL-TV, both owned by the influential Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), have been unleashed against the MX and in support of the Nevada nuclear testing radiation victims...
...The NRC proposes to solve the radioactive biomedical waste problem by letting research laboratories dump more radioactive solutions down the drain...
...An acronym on a poster in the nurse's office at Del Monte spells out "health...
...The primary targets of the two bills, certain to be reintroduced in the Reagan Congress, are such organs as the Washington-based Covert Action'Information Bulletin, which identifies CIA agents in each issue...
...Reagan's reason for doing away with the Department of Energy was sound, if somewhat incomplete...
...Information on the intelligence community is hardly ever published in Great Britain, and with good reason: The government is able to exact criminal penalties for the release of state information it does not wish to be made public...
...It is, therefore, pathetic to hear the president of the AFL-CIO, Lane Kirkland, offer the solemn assurance that labor will continue to play its traditional role "as an advocate eager to inform and educate the Congress...
...See "The Food Monsters," in the March 1980 issue of The Progressive...
...If it happens—and some believe it could come rather early in his Administration—it won't be because of any change of heart on Reagan's part, or because of pressure from disarmament activists, pacifists, arms controllers, or any other bleeding-heart liberals...
...We wouldremind Bonnin of a statement by another scientist: "It is of great importance," wrote Albert Einstein, "that the general public be given the opportunity to experience...
...Carelessness does not pay...
...Dolph Honicker of Nashville, Tennessee, who wrote the NRC a letter protesting the frying-pan plan, had something to say about such hocus-pocus: "In layman's language," he wrote, "you are telling me that if a neatly stacked formation of 1,000 ducks flies directly over my head and I fire one blast from a shotgun into that flock, none of the ducks will be harmed...
...A few recent news items: 1f In Houston, Texas, an instructor at a Ku Klux Klan "survival camp" has been teaching Boy Scouts and Civil Air Patrol cadets how to fire semi-automatic weapons and strangle people...
...The Northwest Power Bill solves this problem through its "guaranteed purchase clause...
...it was a promise: If elected, Reagan said, he would abolish the Department of Energy...
...But a successful Rocky Mountain rebellion would seriously set back both programs...
...The current object of their hostility is a Federal agency seldom challenged by Reagan and his conservative soulmates—the Pentagon...
...While consumers' nutrition and wallets have suffered, the corporate push toward food mechanization has affected workers as well...
...It will be because of what is happening in one of the most rock-ribbed bastions of the new President's rock-ribbed conservative constituency...
...After all, the old Atomic Energy Commission, the NRC's predecessor, allowed contractors to use radioactive tailings from early uranium mills in constructing homes and sidewalks...
...COMMENT Clout, not crumbs With the approach of Inauguration Day, the weeping, handwringing, and gnashing of teeth that were so audible and visible among liberal and labor leaders immediately after Ronald Reagan's election triumph have given way to "pragmatic" attempts to live with the new Republican Administration...
Vol. 45 • February 1981 • No. 2
