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Vol. 038 Issue 001 (January 1 1974)
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The People of the United States of America v. Richard Milhous Nixon
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Smith, The Editors and Austin C. Wehrwein, Walter Cronkite, Ferret Guillory, and Winston
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-COMMENTThe People of the United States of America v. Richard Milhous Nixon It was barely six years ago, though somehow it seems much longer; we have been through a lot in those six years....
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The Word from Washington
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The National Coalition of American Nuns, with some 1,800 members in Catholic religious orders across the country, has called for the impeachment of Richard M. Nixon,...
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Energy: the Crisis Behind the Crisis
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Love, Sam
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Power and fuel shortages demonstrate the urgent need to restructure the nation's economy ENERGY The Crisis Behind the Crisis SAM LOVE How could it happen in America? Homes without heat . . ....
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Four-Year Score on the Environment
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Miller, Judith
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FOUR-YEAR SCORE ON THE ENVIRONMENT JUDITH MILLER Skeptics predicted that the environmental legislation passed overwhelmingly by Congress in the early 1970s would be "politically degradable" when...
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The Holy War against Heroin
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Slade, Steve
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The myths of heroin addiction make the problem worse and prevent a rational solution The Holy War against Heroin STEVE SLADE Drug abuse is America's public enemy number one. It is an...
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Gentlemen and Scholars
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Dugger, Ronnie
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GENTLEMEN AND SCHOLARS RONNIE DUGGER I try to read the serious new books about power in America, about the way the country is run and the realities of the major industries and financial systems...
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Yugoslavia Turns Back the Clock
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Homan, Richard L.
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Tito and his men tighten the reins to end their country's experiment in decentralization Yugoslavia Turns Back the Clock RICHARD L. HOMAN "The Yugoslav experiment is undoubtedly the most advanced...
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Billion-Dollar Loophole
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Aspin, Les
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BILLION-DOLLAR LOOPHOLE LES ASPIN Nearly unnoticed amid the rush of events last fall, Congress has passed another whopper of a defense authorization bill. (That is the part of our $80 billion-plus...
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How Congressmen Manage the News
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Gruenstein, Peter
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Taxpayers foot the bill for the elaborate publicity machine that glorifies their Representatives Press Release Politics: How Congressmen Manage the News PETER GRUENSTEIN There are about a half...
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A Free and Accessible Press
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Duscha, Julius
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A FREE AND ACCESSIBLE PRESS JULIUS DUSCHA One day last fall The Los Angeles Times ran an unusual editorial. Prosaically headed "Some Changes in the Editorial Pages," it reported the decision of...
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A Look Back at the Year Ahead
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Lipez, Richard
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A GLANCE BACK AT THE YEAR AHEAD RICHARD LIPEZ We will soon be reading and hearing a lot about the most newsworthy events of 1973, as well as the least newsworthy events of 1973 that made news...
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A Trapped Generation on Trial
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Schipper, Henry
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The horrors of Vietnam are revisited during a mitigation hearing in Wisconsin's campus bombing case A Trapped Generation on Trial HENRY SCHIPPER Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Sachtjen...
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Eleven Ten-Best Films
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Turan, Kenneth
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ELEVEN TEN-BEST FILMS KENNETH TURAN In January, traditionally a cheerless time, film critics, of all people, burst into a certain kind of bloom. Criticized themselves all year round as tendentious...
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An Opera for Today
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McDaniel, Charles-Gene
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Menotti's "opera for the whole world" is art devoted to a noble human cause An Opera for Today CHARLES-GENE McDANIEL Gian Carlo Menotti's latest opera, Tamu-Tamu, is as contemporary and...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Aid for Vietnam Children A letter in the December issue captioned "Friends of Vietnam Orphans" brought attention to Bill HR5159, introduced by Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii, which...
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THAT FIRST AMENDMENT
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UNGAR, SANFORD J.
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BOOKS THAT FIRST AMENDMENT SANFORD J. UNGAR What a crisis it was, ten years ago in college, when someone in the Young Democrats invited maverick George C. Wallace to speak on campus. Hundreds of...
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Power to Persuade
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Paper, Lewis J.
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Power to Persuade PRESIDENTIAL TELEVISION, by Newton Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and Lee Mitchell. Basic Books. 232 pp. $8.95. reviewed by Lewis J. Paper In his 1960 book, Presidential Power,...
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Women in Politics
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Nies, Judith
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Women in Politics a minority of members: women in the u.s. congress, by Hope Cham-berlin. Praeger. 374 pp. $10. reviewed by Judith Nies Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress....
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A Bill Gets Passed
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Sturges, Gerald D.
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A Bill Gets Passed THE DANCE OF LEGISLATION, by Eric Redman. Simon & Schuster. 319 pp. $7.95. reviewed by Gerald D. Sturges It can be disconcerting to tell someone that you are a...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly the price of vision: the diary of henry a. Wallace, 1942-1946, edited and with an introduction by John Morton Blum (Houghton Mifflin. 707 pp. $15). This volume should do much to...
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