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 Vol. 041 Issue 012 (December 1 1977)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Even for Nazis
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Lens, The Editors and Tod Ensign and Michael Uhl, Michael Klare, Murray Kempton, and Sidney
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COMMENT Even for Nazis About a dozen years ago, Martin Luther King's civil rights coalition conducted a series of open-housing marches in white working-class neighborhoods on the South Side of...
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The Word from Washington
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Getlein, Frank
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON There is a feeling, just beginning to find its way into private conversations here in the capital, that what has really been born again in the Carter Administration is the...
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Who Should Play God?
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Howard, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted
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Who Should Play God? JEREMY RIFKIN and TED HOWARD On a few momentous occasions in mankind's history, the body of accumulated human knowledge has spawned dramatic new inventions and discoveries...
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At Our Expense
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Galazen, Thomas
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At Our Expense While questions concerning the safety and value of recombinant DNA activity receive increasing debate in scientific circles, the Federal Government continues to provide heavy...
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Surgery to the Rescue
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Surgery to the Rescue "Each violent young criminal incarcerated from twenty years to life costs the taxpayers perhaps $100,000," reports a California surgeon. "For roughly $6,000, society can...
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Reflections: On Civil Disobedience
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McGehee, Edward
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REFLECTIONS On Civil Disobedience EDWARD G. McCEHEE Editor's Note: On July 29, 1977, Professor Edward G. McGehee, a member of the English faculty at Kent State University in Ohio, was arrested,...
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The Bakke Case: Affirmative Distraction
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Cleverdon, Stephanie A.
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The Bakke Case: Affirmative Distraction STEPHANIE A. CLEVERDON Allan Bakke, one of the 26,000 applicants rejected by America's medical schools in 1973, wanted to study medicine "more than anything...
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A Landscape of Nuclear Tombs
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Parks, Alexis
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What will we do with deactivated reactors and who will pay for doing it? A Landscape of Nuclear Tombs ALEXIS PARKS Imagine a global landscape dotted with radioactive tombstones — the concrete...
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Tough Tomatoes
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Barnett, Paul
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Trouble on the Land Tough Tomatoes PAUL BARNETT Until a year ago last summer, Flavio Martinez made his living in the cannery tomato fields of the Sacramento Valley. Though he found work thinning...
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As Jamaican as Apple Pie
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Egerton, John
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Trouble on the Land: As Jamaican as Apple Pie JOHN EGERTON In the southeast corner of the nation's capital, according to a mid-September story in The Washington Post, an estimated 15 per cent of...
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Confrontation on the Prairie
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Tarbox, Paul David Wellstone and Lamont
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Trouble on the Land: Confrontation on the Prairie PAUL DAVID WELLSTONE and LAMONT TARBOX Farmers in western Minnesota are up in arms. Their anger is directed not against low crop prices or bad...
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After the Floods
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McCarthy, Colman
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Trouble on the Land: After the Floods colman McCarthy When Jimmy Carter warned last April that we would have "a national catastrophe" if we did not adopt a new energy ethic, many citizens in...
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Around the World
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Land, Clark Norton, Ronald E. Santoni, and Thomas
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AROUND THE WORLD Before the Fall Victoria Falls, Rhodesia Less than two miles from here, the Zambezi River meanders peacefully downstream with only an occasional ripple from a surfacing hippo....
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Dance: Twyla Tharp, Maverick
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Rosen, Lillie F.
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DANCE Twyla Tharp: Dance Maverick LILLIE F. ROSEN Unquestionably Twyla Tharp, the petite, perky dancer/choreographer, is sui generis. She astounds with her daring originality, galvanic movement,...
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Hunger around the Globe
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Hertsgaard, Mark
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BOOKS Hunger around the Globe MARK HERTSGAARD During the early 1970s, when famine swept across the Sahel region of Africa killing thousands, production of food crops for local consumption dropped...
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Principle Alone
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MCDONALD, HENRY
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Principle Alone hearts and minds: the common journey of simone de beauvoir and jean-PAUL sartre, by Axel Madsen. William Morrow & Co. 320 pp. $10.95. henry Mcdonald The May 1968 uprising in...
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Free to Work
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SCHWARTZ, WENDY
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Free to Work WORKING IT OUT, edited by Sara Ruddick and Pamela Daniels. Pantheon Books. 349 pp. $11.95. WENDY SCHWARTZ For women, any accomplishment beyond a marriage that lasts and several...
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A Living Legend
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BRESLER, HARVEY
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A Living Legend ROGER BALDWIN: FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, by Peggy Lamson. Houghton Mifflin. 304 pp. $12.50. THE GREAT RIGHTS OF MANKIND: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BILL OF...
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'War' on Drugs
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McAUUFFE, KEVIN
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'War' on Drugs AGENCY OF FEAR, by Edward Jay Epstein. CP. Putnam's Sons. 352 pp. $9.95. KEVIN McAUUFFE In this season of instant, self-serving Watergate revisionism, Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly LETTERS ON LITERATURE AND POLITICS: 1912-1972, by Edmund Wilson. Edited by Elena Wilson. Introduction by Daniel Aaron. Foreword by Leon Edel (Far-rar, Straus and Giroux. 768 pp. $20)....
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Letters
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LETTERS Gays and Laws Almost instinctively we react to campaigns like that of Anita Bryant by joining the opposition. ("Anita Bryant's Hollow Victory," September issue.) The fact that homosexuals...
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End Game: Option
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Lipez, Richard
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END CAME Option RICHARD LIPEZ One of the unilateral executive actions President Carter might take to help alleviate the energy crisis was suggested to him by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a...
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