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 Vol. 042 Issue 009 (September 1 1978)
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••Contents••
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COMMENT Icing Up the Cold War Under pressure from Ronald Reagan and the hard-core Republican Right, Gerald R. Ford announced, during the 1976 Presidential campaign, that the word detente would be...
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The Word from Washington
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON It was one thing to learn that the FBI had been a den of thieves for all these years, breaking and entering and breaking and entering and breaking and entering the...
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Letters from a Czech Prison
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Hochman, Jiri
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Letters from a Czech Prison: The 'Prague Spring' Remembered Despair — and hope — behind the iron gates of Ruzyn JIRI HOCHMAN EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years ago, in August 1968, Soviet tanks rumbled...
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Reflections: On the Confraternity of Power
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Knoll, Erwin
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REFLECTIONS On the Confraternity of Power ERWIN KNOLL "I am not particularly well acquainted with the articles of the law, having come into personal contact with them only under Hitler.... I have...
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Now It's a 'Naval Gap'
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Ott, George
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Now It's a 'Naval Gap' Our admirals are drawing a new bead on an old target — the U.S. Treasury GEORGE OTT The Pentagon is crying wolf again — and this time the wolf is a bear in a sailor suit....
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The Only Magazine of Its Kind
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Blumenthal, Sidney
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The Only Magazine of Its Kind SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL The week after Richard Nixon resigned as President, a peculiar statement appeared in the Congressional Record under the name of Representative Earl...
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Seabrook: A Turning Point
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Zunes, Stephen
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Seabrook: A Turning Point In victory, the Clamshell Alliance faces new pressures and new opportunities STEPHEN ZUNES The June 30 announcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) suspending...
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Nuclear Showdown in the Northwest
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Solomon, Norman
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Nuclear Showdown in the Northwest Just before the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament was to begin Shis summer, 300 people climbed over the fence of the Trident nuclear submarine base...
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The Bottom of the Pork Barrel
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Mitzman, Barry
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The Bottom of the Pork Barrel In the Pacific Northwest, a three-state contest over the dregs of the Federal hydropower subsidy BARRY MITZMAN Among the Pacific Northwest's many natural assets,...
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The Greening of the Sunbelt
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PINSKY, MARK
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The Greening of the Sunbelt This fall's elections may move the U.S. Senate a notch or two to the left MARK PINSKY In a year when the mass media keep telling us that America is turning toward the...
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Movies: Contrived, for Better or Worse
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Contrived, for Better or Worse KENNETH TURAN It is important to remember that when you talk about the making of theatrical motion pictures, you are really talking about the making of...
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A Retrial of Alger Hiss
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Kutler, Stanley I.
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BOOKS A Retrial of Alger Hiss STANLEY I. KUTLER PERJURY: THE HISS-CHAMBERS CASE, by Allen Weinstein. Alfred A. Knopf. 674 pp. $15. Alger Hiss has had a special place among the statuary of the...
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Vietnam Resisters
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Colhoun, Jack
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Vietnam Resisters CHANCE AND CIRCUMSTANCE: THE DRAFT, THE WAR, AND THE VIETNAM GENERATION, by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss. Alfred A. Knopf. 312 pp. $10. JACK COLHOUN With this new...
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Iconoclast at Large
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HOCHSCHILD, ADAM
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Iconoclast at Large TOWARD A HISTORY OF NEEDS, by Ivan lllich. Pantheon. 143 pp. $7.95. ADAM HOCHSCHILD On the conventional spectrum of Right to Left, Ivan Illich is off the chart, but usually...
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Moral Gadfly
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Santoni, Ronald E.
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Moral Gadfly ONCE TO EVERY MAN: A MEMOIR, by William Sloane Coffin Jr. Atheneum Press. 344 pp. $12.95. RONALD E.SANTONI When the indefatigable William Sloane Coffin Jr. announced, after fifteen...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly THE LANDED GENTRY, by Sophy Burnham (G.P. Putnam's. 311 pp. $10). A provocative, personalized survey of those who own America's land and how they still live and control much of our...
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Letters
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LETTERS 'Sideshow Polities' Though I've only recently come to The Progressive, I've been an avid reader of the Left press for over a quarter of a century; I think that in all this time, I've never...
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End Game
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Lipez, Richard
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ENDGAME Give RICHARD LIPEZ Good evening. I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'd like to welcome you all to America's first annual fund-raising telethon. As you can see on the tote board up there behind me,...
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