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 Vol. 043 Issue 012 (December 1 1979)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Homer nods What ever happened to Milton Mayer, the professor of English? I see you now have a writer of the same name trying, in the October Progressive, to stand in the shoes of the...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT NATO's overdue crisis If Europe and the world are to be spared another round of deadly escalation of the nuclear arms race, it may well depend on the support that can be mustered in the...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Sign of the times The Mutual Insurance Company Ltd. of Bermuda is offering newspapers a "First Amendment defense" insurance policy covering legal costs of cases involving reporters'...
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MORE AND MORE PRISONS
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Willson, S. Brian
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RE PRISONS The Olympic village is just part of the building boom S.BRIAn wiuson The Olympic village Sergio In-sunza toured early last August looked more like a prison than a home away from...
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PLAYING GOD
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Schmolesky, John; Reilly, Deborah
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PLAYING GOD Inmates at the mercy of the parole board JOHN SCHmOLESKY AND DEBORAH REILLY Dale Edward Dray entered the Federal Correctional Institution — the Government's current euphemism for...
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THE MOVEMENT FOR PRISONERS' RIGHT
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Siegel, Dan
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The movement for prisoners' rights The 1970s have left it in disarray Dan Siegel Early on the morning of May 28, California attorney Fay Stender, a prominent advocate of women's rights and prison...
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GEORGE MEANY'S TROUBLED LEGACY
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS George Meany's troubled legacy Sidney Lens As he retires from his quarter-century stewardship of the AFL-CIO, George Meany leaves a troubled legacy. The united labor federation over...
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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, J909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
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1929 REVISITED
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Hentoff, Nat
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1929 revisited World capitalism is preparing for a new crash and depression John Judis To herald the fiftieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression, The Wall Street...
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THE PRESS AND NUCLEAR 'SECRETS'
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The press and nuclear 'secrets' A silent pact between the media and the Government excludes the people Nat Hentoff There was a dark, closing chord of dangers to come, but the main text of The...
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INSIDE AT LOS ALAMOS
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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Incident at Los Alamos Officials of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory faced a ticklish problem one morning last May when an American Civil Liberties Union researcher, Dmitri Rotow, discovered...
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LETTERS ON THE H-BOMB CONTROVERSY
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LETTERS ON THE H-BOMB CONTROVERSY I just received my copy of The Progressive containing the Morland article. The magazine is dated November. It was my understanding that this article was supposed...
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THE POLITICS OF HUNGER
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Freund, Ron
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The politics of hunger 'Food for peace' is part of the American arsenal Ron Freund Food has become a weapon of diplomacy. Food is persuasive. Food is power. —former Secretary of Agriculture...
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HOW THE FBI 'GOT ITS MAN'
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Gutman, Richard
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How the FBI 'got its man' A picture of police-state tactics Richard Gutman New details of the FBI's COIN-TELPRO domestic political disruption program continue to surface through documents...
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HUSTLING DRUGS TO THE THIRD
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Bader, Michael
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Hustling drugs to the Third World 'Let the buyer beware' Michael Bader Mention the term "international health" and the jungle hospital of Albert Schweitzer comes to mind — along with white-coated...
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COMMUNITY SELF-INSURANCE
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Squires, Gregory D.
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Community self-insurance An answer for the victims of 'redlining' Gregory D. Squires Communities without insurance are communities without hope. — Report of the President's National Advisory...
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THE BEST-LAID PLANS
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Conrad, Thomas
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The best-laid plans While the draft debate continues. Selective Service is ready to go Thomas Conrad Nuclear issues are not the only ones the Government has lately swept under its rug of secrecy....
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MOVIES
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Apocalypse Now Kenneth Turan Say what you like about Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam extravaganza, it has certainly given a whole new meaning to the phrase "long-awaited."...
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BOOKS
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Davidon, Ann Morrissett
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BOOKS The new women Ann Monrissett Davidon WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE: THE MIDLIFE SEARCH FOR SELF by Lillian B. Rubin Harper & Row. 309 pp., with bibliography and index. $10.95. Avery honest...
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THE LAST WORLD
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Neher, Jacques
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THE LAST WORD Gentlemen, start your engines Jacques Neher After a series of fizzlers, President Carter's race track scheme for deploying the MX missile borders on sheer brilliance. Unlike his...
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