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 Vol. 042 Issue 012 (December 1 1978)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Nuclear sanity As a subscriber and past contributor to The Progressive, I want to congratulate you on Erwin Knoll's and Theodore A. Postal's article,4'The Day the Bomb Went Off," in the...
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Don't blame the people
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COMMENT Don't blame the people This issue of The Progressive goes to press on the eve of the 1978 elections. Experts predict that fewer than one-third of the eligible voters will bother to go to...
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Double-barrelled pork
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Double-barrelled pork It was inaccurate, it was absolutely dead wrong, to speak — as everyone here was doing in October — of Congress "winding down." There was no "winding...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Grand opening From the Brazil Herald of Rio de Janeiro: "Municipal authorities in Sao Joao de Meriti, state of Rio, where a new cemetery is being planned, felt it necessary the other...
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Curbing the chemical fix
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Zwerdling, Daniel
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Curbing the chemical fix Organic farming: the secret is it works Daniel Zwerdling Del Akerlund's 760-acre farm in the fertile eastern corner of the Corn Belt is a showcase of American...
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A Question of Conscience
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Seeley, Robert A.
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REFLECTIONS A Question of Conscience Robert A. Seeley He is young, and a bit frightened, and trying hard not to show it. It is as if he cannot get comfortable, cannot bear to look at me, cannot...
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Peking's new imperialism
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Grosscup, Beau
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Peking's new imperialism China's leaders turn their backs on the teachings of Mao Tse-tung Beau Grosscup Two years after the death of Mao Tse-tung there is ample evidence that China's Cultural...
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Trouble in Ho Chi Ninh City
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Gale, Roger W.
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Trouble in Ho Chi Minh City The lingering effects of war Roger W. Gale Vietnamese officials say it will take another twenty years before all the lingering maladies of Ho Chi Minh City can be...
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Into the trenches by Christmas
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Mayer, Milton
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Into the trenches by Christmas What news from Cambodia? Milton Mayer Editor's Note: The dispatch below was filed from Washington by United Press International on August 6, 1978, two weeks before...
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The Way We Saw It
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THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
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Japan: the dust behind the bureau
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Ringwald, George B.
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Japan: the dust behind the bureau Social services are not part of the boom George B. Ringwald Jikei University Hospital, in the bustling Shinbashi district of downtown Tokyo, is reputed to be one...
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Radiation: unsafe at any level
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D., Helen Caldicott, M.
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Radiation: unsafe at any level The 'standards7 set by industry and government invite potential catastrophe Helen Caldicott, M.D. Radiation, the particles and waves emitted by unstable elements,...
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One scientist's agony
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Ir., Samuel H. Day
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One scientist's agony Few opinions on the biological effects of radiation are more respected than those of Karl Z. Morgan of the Georgia Institute, of Technology in Atlanta. A founder of the...
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'Little fish' versus 'big dam'
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DERNBACH, JOHN
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'Little fish' versus 'big dam' The snail darter and the TV A— it's not a funny story John Dernbach The snail darter has become a great national joke. The story of the endangered "little fish"...
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Incident in Aiken
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GAILLARD, FRYE
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Incident in Aiken Aiken, South Carolina Five months after the death of Harry McFadden, macabre and unanswered questions still plague this sleepy, tree-shaded town of 16,000. McFadden was a black...
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Eastern Europe's Paradox
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Kramer, Lawrence F.
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Eastern Europe's Paradox A permanent Soviet presence, growing Western influence, and continuing ferment Lawrence F. Kramer Warsaw, Prague, Budapest — a journey to three capitals in an attempt to...
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The Populist Southwest: a lost world
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Ir., Robert C. McMath
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BOOKS The Populist Southwest: a lost world Robert C. McMath Ir. James R. Green describes a lost world, one in which Oklahoma had more Socialists than New York, in which a young Gene Autry...
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The corporate state
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Borkin, Joseph
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The corporate state THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT OF I.G. FARBEN by Joseph Rorktn The Free Press. 250 pp. $10.95. To wage war an industrialized nation obviously requires full cooperation from...
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In search of honorable men
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Stockwell, William Colby and lohn
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In search of honorable men HONORABLE MEN. MT LIFE IN THE CIA by William Colby Simon and Schuster. 474 pp. $12.95. IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES by lohn Stockwell W.W. Norton. 288 pp. $12.95. It is a...
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Moving left
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Thomas, William E. Paterson and Alastair H.
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Moving left SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by William E. Paterson and Alastair H. Thomas St. Martin's Press. 444 pp. $19.95. The Social Democrats who organized the Second...
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Paul Goodman
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Stoehr, Taylor
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Paul Goodman DRAWING THE LINES: THE POLITICAL ESSAYS OF PAUL GOODMAN Edited by Taylor Stoehr Free Life Editions. 272 pp. $11.95. NATURE HEALS: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ESSAYS OF PAUL GOODMAN Edited...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Journey up the Himalayas The Snow Leopard, by Peter Mat-thiessen (Viking Press. 338 pp. $12.95). In the fall of 1973, novelist ahd explorer Peter Matthiessen "strayed into another...
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The Mart
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THE MART ASSOCIATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR AGNOSTICISM! Join the Society of Evangelical Agnostics. Request information from: SEA, Box 612, Fresno, CA 93709. BOOKS ENERGY TEACH-INS: How to organize your...
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Where's the good news?
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Knoll, Erwin
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THE LAST WORD Where's the good news? Erwin Knoll An old friend wrote recently to tell us he was unhappy about The Progressive. He was renewing his subscription, he stressed, and "by no means...
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