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IssueVol. 043 Issue 010 (October 1 1979)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Wild life Ted Howard's "Patenting Life" article in the September issue prompts some merrily macabre speculation regarding the future of corporate-controlled genetic engineering. The...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT Ridiculous In his last speech to the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Andrew Young used exactly the right word to characterize his Government's refusal to recognize the existence of the...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Thermal loophole Representative Henson Moore, Louisiana Republican, has proposed a Federal income tax credit for purchasers of thermal underwear. Equal opportunity employer From an...
Paid articleTHE WRONG DEBATE
Lens, Sidney; Ott, George
The wrong debate America is losing the real war Sidney Lens and George Ott Suddenly last summer the debate over ratification of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was transformed into a...
Paid articleTHE FALL OFFENSIVE: TEN YEARS LATER
Debenedetti, Charles L.
REFLECTIONS The Fall Offensive: ten years later Charles L. DeBenedetti Like all great conflicts, the American-Vietnamese war ground to a conclusion through a bloody series of military offensives....
Paid articleTHE PENTAGON GOES TO SCHOOL
Stark, Irwin
The Pentagon goes to school A plan for the militarization of American public education Irwin Stark The Pentagon has a problem. Within the next five years it must recruit more than one out of...
Paid articleGETTING THE LEAD OUT
Harris, Michael
Getting the lead out The energy crisis compounds a threat to public health Michael Harris Anew controversy is brewing over an age-old pollution and public health problem: lead poisoning. Both in...
Paid articleWOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
Lynch, Roberta
Women in the workforce At last, they're beginning to make themselves heard Roberta Lynch The middle-aged woman who sat at the keypunch position next to mine seemed typical in every way. So the...
Paid articleEND OF AN ERA
Mayer, Milton
End of an era A Permanent Probationer sends his regrets to Alma Mater Milton Mayer I hold here in my hand — as the late Joe McCarthy would say — a letter purporting to be from Emmett Dedmon '39,...
Paid articleTHE WAY WE SAW IT
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...
Paid articleHOPELESS IN HAITI
Steif, William
Hopeless in Haiti It is still the country trapped in the pages of 'The Comedians' William Steif It is still the country of The Comedians. The terror has abated. The anarchy has not. Nor has the...
Paid articleTHE IGOROTS AND THE DAMS
Wideman, Bernard
The Igorots and the dams A Philippine tribe's struggle to preserve its ancient culture Bernard Wideman Not long ago I sat in a small circle of men gathered around a fire of blazing pitch pine...
Paid articleILLEGAL ALIENS COME CHEAP
Burnett, Richard
Illegal aliens come cheap South Africa's 'homelands policy' is alive and well in the U.S.A. Richard Burnett What should be done about illegal aliens? Round them up and send them home? Regularize...
Paid articleMUST YOUNGSTOWN ROLL OVER AND DIE?
Must Youngstown roll over and die? How 'big steel' got to Jimmy Carter This could be "a very good year for the steel industry," Business Week predicted last January. With orders piling up and...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLE'S TELEVISION FACTORY
Logue, John
The people's television factory Horsens is a provincial industrial town of 50,000 in Denmark. Despite a Social Democratic city council, it is no center of Labor militance. Quite the contrary: As in...
Paid articleA JOB FOR OLLIE SINDON
Cottle, Thomas J.
A job for Ollie Sindon Hauling pain can be full-time work Thomas I. Cottle Like his older sister Effie, Davey Sindon gave his mother great pleasure. The two children were, in fact, Victoria...
Paid articleBOOKS
BOOKS The genius of Joseph Conrad Thomas Lavoie In 1960 J.B. Priestley wrote that Joseph Conrad was "one of those writers whose importance we find hard to estimate____ He cannot be identified...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
McClellan, Jim
THE LAST WORD Acrophobia Jim McClellan The United States emerged from World War II as the world's greatest power. In fact, considering the devastation of the rest of the planet, the United States...
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