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Vol. 041 Issue 002 (February 1 1977)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here
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COMMENT Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here Early in 1968, the Pentagon's own history of the Vietnam war recalls, "the country was becoming increasingly divided over and disenchanted with the current...
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The Word from Washington
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON It was the political equivalent of The Twelve Days of Christmas — a Yuletide stocking filled with Cabinet appointees. Almost every morning in Plains, President-elect Jimmy...
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Chemical Catastrophes
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Zwerdling, Daniel
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Chemical Catastrophes DANIEL ZWERDLING The troubling news came to us anesthetized in dry statistics. Seventy-nine of eighty women tested in eleven states, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Reflections: On Consuming the Surplus
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Freeman, Harold
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REFLECTIONS On Consuming the Surplus HAROLD FREEMAN To survive, any social system must feed, clothe, and house most of its members. Capitalism does that. But in an era of advanced technology,...
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Congress: A Great Beached Whale
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MILLER, ARTHUR S.
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Inauguration of a new President heralds no reassertion of Congressional power Congress: A Great Beached Whale ARTHUR S. MILLER There is a myth abroad in the land that with the departure of...
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Fiasco
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Mayer, Milton
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Fiasco MILTON MAYER "... So when the Vietnam fiasco came, undermining our confidence... " Soon or late it was bound to — as William F. Buckley would say — surface. What was bound to surface was...
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Death on the Reservation
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Spake, Amanda
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For native Americans in need of medical care the Government pursues a policy of neglect Death on the Reservation AMANDA SPAKE Farmington, New Mexico Harry's Lounge in Farmington is a one-story,...
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'Coexistence' after Mao
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Clubb, O. Edmund
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Peking's foreign policy is likely to assume a 'revisionist' cast 'Coexistence' after Mao O. EDMUND CLUBB When the Nixon Administration embarked on its policy of "detente" with the People's...
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Out There in America
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Polsgrove, Richard C. Kelley, Edward Cobble, Mark Pinsky, Fry e Caillard, and Carol
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OUT THERE IN AMERICA Grand Jury Abuse Seattle On January 23, 1976, four Seattle radicals attempted to rob the Tukwila branch of the Pacific National Bank of Washington. The money was apparently...
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Bolivia: Andean Power Shift
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Kohl, James
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Problems of economic development, political intrigue, and social instability beset Bolivia's military dictatorship Bolivia: Andean Power Shift JAMES KOHL The Bolivian military is a curious...
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Let the Sun Shine In
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Berger, John
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Solar energy could liberate the United States from dependence on nuclear power Let the Sun Shine In JOHN BERGER Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles in the town of Atascadero is a plain...
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Public Control of Public Money
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Rowen, James
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Creation of state-owned banks may be a first step toward coping with urban fiscal needs Public Control of Public Money JAMES ROWEN George Starr, a pleasant, gray-haired retired railroad conductor...
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College for Convicts
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Cuddy, Edward
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College for Convicts EDWARD CUDDY For Carlos Mendoza, a college education was always a dream just beyond reach. But in 1975, at age thirty-six, he finally got his chance — as a prisoner in Attica...
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The Populists: Their Rise and Fall
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ROSENSTONE, ROBERT A.
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The Populists: Their Rise and Fall ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE Mention the word "Populism" to any student who has recently struggled through a freshman course in American history and you are likely to...
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Our Veiled Past
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Burnside, Gordon
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Our Veiled Past AMERICA IN OUR TIME, by Godfrey Hodgson. Doubleday. 564 pp. $12.95. GORDON BURNSIDE As I write this in late November, U.S. steel companies have just announced a 6 per cent price...
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Working Women
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CUNNINGHAM, ANN MARIE
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Working Women AMERICA'S WORKING WOMEN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY — 1600 TO THE PRESENT, edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby. Random House. 421 pp. $15 hard cover. $6.95...
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Unlocking Two Lives
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HUBENSTEIN, ROBERTA
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Unlocking Two Lives OCTOBER LIGHT, by John Gardner. Alfred A. Knopf. 434 pp. $10. ROBERTA HUBENSTEIN John Gardner's wonderfully rich new novel, October Light, begins with the description of an...
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Monster and Hero
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BURNHAM, ALEXANDER
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Monster and Hero ADOLF HITLER, by John Toland. Doubleday. 1,035 pp. $14.95. WINSTON CHURCHILL, by Henry Pelling. E.P. Dutton. 724 pp. $12.95. ALEXANDER BURNHAM The study of ambitious men who...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly SPEEDBOAT, by Renata Adler (Random House. 178 pp. $7.95). This first novel by Renata Adler, formerly a writer for The New Yorker and a film critic for The New York Times, is a...
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Letters
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LETTERS Wind Power I was greatly interested in David Inglis's article, "The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind," in the January issue. Inglis states, "It is a hallmark of our time that industrial...
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End Game: Tour
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Lipez, Richard
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END GAME Tour RICHARD LIPEZ Our holiday historical tour of some lesser known national shrines commences, folks, as we move up Day-Old Abalone Street past the lovingly restored little house of...
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