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Vol. 040 Issue 011 (November 1 1976)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Voting for What We Want
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COMMENT Voting for What We Want When Richard M. Nixon campaigned for the Presidency in 1968, he solemnly assured his audiences that if he were elected, he would appoint a new Attorney General. The...
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The Word from Washington
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON After the kind of ballyhoo and build-up normally associated with a championship boxing match, the first of the Great Debates came off as scheduled on September 23. For...
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There Are Alternatives
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Anderson, Jim McClellan and David
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There Are Alternatives JIM McCLELLAN and DAVID E. ANDERSON Johnnie Mae Hackworthe of Brenham, Texas, Americus Liberator of Valentine, Nebraska, and Princess Fifi Rich-wildlyrunningwaters...
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Does God Have a Candidate?
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Boyd, Malcolm
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Does God Have a Candidate? MALCOLM BOYD When a television interviewer asked Richard J. Daley to comment on Jimmy Carter's campaign emphasis on religion, Chicago's perpetual mayor replied, "It's...
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None of the Above
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Mayer, Milton
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None of the Above MILTON MAYER A pacifist is a doctrinaire — a man or woman with a doctrine. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, with its sixty-three High Contracting Signatories, renounces war as an...
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Reflections: On Making Work Meaningful
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Peterson, Brent
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REFLECTIONS On Making Work Meaningful BRENT PETERSON From where I sit in West Germany, it is almost laughable to read that Leonard Woodcock, head of the United Auto Workers, recently asked for...
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Japan's Nuclear Crisis
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Wasserman, Harvey
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Poor performance and local resistance have dispelled enthusiasm for nuclear power in Japan Japan's Nuclear Crisis HARVEY WASSERMAN Nuclear power has become a global issue. Some 150 reactors are...
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Out There in America
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Kovler, Michael True, Alvin P. Sanoff, Alan Minskofi, and Peter
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OUT THERE IN AMERICA Digging in on the Potomac Alexandria, Virginia The brown spots, where the protesters dug holes in the lawn near the River Entrance to the Pentagon, have practically...
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The Friends and The Feds
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Bacon, Margaret
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The Friends and The Feds MARGARET H. BACON In February 1922, an FBI agent in Philadelphia sent a confidential and rather plaintive memorandum to his superior in Washington about the American...
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Professors on the Take
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Bohm, Benjamin Rosenthal, Michael lacobson, and Marcy
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Financial ties to huge food corporations may shade the 'expert testimony' of nutritionists Professors on the Take BENJAMIN ROSENTHAL, MICHAEL JACOBSON, and MARCY BOHM "Whose bread I eat, his song...
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Opening' the Suburbs: Does Hartford Point the Way?
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McAULIFFE, KEVIN
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'Opening' the Suburbs: Does Hartford Point the Way? KEVIN McAULIFFE Hartford, Connecticut The Supreme Court had barely announced its decision earlier this year "opening" the suburbs to low-income...
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The Uphill Battle Against Bureaucratese
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Ensor, David
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The Uphill Battle against Bureaucratese DAVID ENSOR Have you ever tried to read The Federal Register? It comes out every weekday — a thick and verbose Government publication containing all the...
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Movies: Festival
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Festival KENNETH TURAN Telluride, Colorado Film people who dabble in festivals are like surfers seeking the perfect wave or neurotics diligently checking out therapy after therapy, looking...
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Puncturing the Nuclear Power Controversy
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READER, MARK
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BOOKS Puncturing the Nuclear Power Controversy MARK READER In this original paperback, Unacceptable Risk: The Nuclear Power Controversy, McKinley C. Olson has written a highly needed book on...
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Keys to the South
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PINSKY, MARK
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Keys to the South THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTHERN P0UTICS: SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES SINCE 1945, by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries. Basic Books. 532 pp. $15.95. MARK PINSKY At the...
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George Ball's Credo
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WITTNER, LAWRENCE S.
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George Ball's Credo DIPLOMACY FOR A CROWDED WORLD, by George W. Ball. Atlantic-Little, Brown. 356 pp. $12.95. LAWRENCE S. WITTNER If the Democrats recapture the White House this November, a...
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The Irish Tragedy
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SPINNER, THOMAS J. Jr.
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The Irish Tragedy THE DAMNABLE QUESTION: A STUDY OF ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS, by George Dangerfield. Little, Brown. 400 pp. $14.95. THOMAS J. SPINNER JR. Writing to his wife from Dublin, a few weeks...
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'Love' Underground
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SCHWARTZ, WENDY
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'Love' Underground TO AMERICA WITH LOVE: LETTERS FROM THE UNDERGROUND, by Anita and Abbie Hoffman. Stonehill. 206 pp. $7.95 hardcover. $3.95 paperback. WENDY SCHWARTZ Abbie Hoffman was the court...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Volume Six, 1955-1966. 414 pp. $12.95). In this past decade of renewed feminism, many women have become...
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Letters
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LETTERS McGovern on Sayre As a regular reader of The Progressive, I note that Nora Sayre ("The Democrats: Winning Is the Only Thing," September issue) says she "had always thought that he...
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End Game: Gubble
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Lipez, Richard
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END GAME wonderful squinty eyes, and he said, 'Hi there, buckeroo.' Except this man wasn't squinting. He had this powerful concentrated wide-open gaze full of understanding and reassurance, and he...
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