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IssueVol. 043 Issue 002 (February 1 1979)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS The good life I'd like to respond to Robert Lunch's letter in the November issue. Because I don't have 73 cents plus tax to buy a box of Kleenex or any other well known brand of tissues,...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT The thermonuclear society To some it may always have been obvious, and others will continue to regard it as preposterous, but we can no longer sustain a reasonable doubt about a simple...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Soda pop A Dayton, Ohio, judge declared a mistrial when two bottles of Pepsi-Cola exploded in his courtroom. The bottles had been entered as exhibits in a $500,000 damage suit filed by...
Paid articleULTIMATE TERRORISM
Barnet, Richard
Ultimate terrorism Security for none in a world bristling with nuclear weapons Richard Barnet The era of nuclear terrorism began with an attack without warning on the civilian populations of...
Paid articleTRITIUM: THE NEW GENIE
MORLAND, HOWARD
Tritium: the new genie Inside every living cell, a piece of the H-bomb Howard Norland On the banks of the Savannah River in a remote corner of South Carolina, one of the largest industrial...
Paid articleBURY MY LUNGS AT RED ROCK
Barry, Tom
Bury my lungs at Red Rock Uranium mining brings a new peril to the reservation Tom Barry Betty Yazzie, a forty-eight-year-old Navajo Indian, keeps two Social Security cards in her wallet. The...
Paid articleFORTY ACRES WITHOUT THE MULE
Lazarus, Bill
Forty acres without the mule Alaska's giveaway for the rich Bill Lazarus In a vote promising the largest land rush in U.S. history, Alaskans have decided to carve as much as thirty million acres...
Paid articleNERVOUS OVER NITRITE
Light, Larry
Nervous over nitrite Once burned, twice shy at the FDA Larry Light With catlike steps and nervous glances over its shoulder, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly announced late on a...
Paid articleREFLECTIONS
BUELL, JOHN
REFLECTIONS The 'sovereign' consumer John Buell It did not occur to me, when I joined the staff of The Progressive three years ago, that I was entering into a conspiracy. The ambience in this...
Paid articleA SUBURB OF MUNICH
Mayer, Milton
A suburb of Munich And the bands played on Milton Mayer All in all, Munich is probably the loveliest town in Europe. And the liveliest. "... In no other city in Germany are as many festivals...
Paid articleWOMEN FIGHT BACK
MacLean, Judy
Women light hack ERA extension has given the feminist movement a second wind Judy MacLean At twenty-three, Wanda earns more than $15,000 a year driving a bus in a large metropolitan city. To...
Paid articleA YEAR ON THE LINE
Amate, Joseph; Nass, David; Radzialowski, Thaddeus
A year on the line The women of Willmar still walk and wait Joseph Amato, David Nass, and Thaddeus Radzialowski Winter has come again to Willmar, Minnesota, and still the eight women of the...
Paid articleFRIENDS OF APARTHEID
Zunes, Stephen
Friends of apartheid U.S. corporations shore up the racist regime of South Africa Stephen Zunes That black majority rule will come eventually to the Republic of South Africa is beyond doubt....
Paid articleTHE DESTRUCTION OF PARADISE
Alexander, William J.
The destruction of paradise America's legacy in Micronesia William J. Alexander At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in control of the islands of Micronesia, stretched...
Paid articleEBEYE AND KWAJALEIN
Johnson, Giff
Ebeye and Kwajalein A tale of two islands Giff Johnson Ebeye is the sixty-six-acre island home of 8,000 Marshallese, many of whom work at the Kwajalein Missile Range. Most of the trees on Ebeye...
Paid articleDISENCHANTMENT IN THE RANKS
Conrad, Thomas; Marchino, Michael
Disenchantment in the ranks Congress zaps the GI activists Thomas Conrad and Michael Marchino Congressional hawks, concerned about growing disenchantment in the ranks of the new "volunteer" armed...
Paid articleTHE ARTS
Getlein, Frank
THE ARTS Cast in bronze Frank Getlein Things got so dry in the news business during the midwinter slump that The Washington Post felt compelled to confect its own scandal. Newspapers have always...
Paid articleMOVIES
Turan, Kenneth
MOVIES Nine ten-best films Kenneth Turan As America is buffeted by waves of inflation, it is only fair that film critics do their bit to stem the tide. Though President Carter did not...
Paid articleBOOKS
BOOKS Changing sell-perceptions ol the middle-class woman Ann Norrissett Davidon WOMAN'S PROPER PLACE: A HISTORY OF CHANGING IDEALS AND PRACTICES, 1870 TO THE PRESENT by Sheila N. Rothman Basic...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Lens, Sidney
THE LAST WORD Reunion Sidney Lens Most of the middle-aged or elderly men and women who assembled one recent Saturday evening at Chicago's Midland Hotel had not seen each other for decades....
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