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 Vol. 043 Issue 009 (September 1 1979)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Nark of Cain On page ten of the July Progressive there is an editorial statement that we all are "tainted with the mark of Cain" if we believe in capital punishment. If the writer of that...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Carter's crisis — and ours President Carter's peculiar performance in July — his abrupt cancellation of his major energy speech, his ten days of mysterious mountain-top musings, his purge...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT No place to hide A Texas state legislator, Representative Ron Waters, has introduced a bill that would require utilities to store their nuclear wastes in their corporate executive...
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RIPPING OFF THE SUN
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Munson, Richard
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Ripping off the sun Big oil, with a boost from the Government, is sinking its hooks into solar power Richard Munson Not a month goes by without one large corporation or another offering Tony...
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A 'CLARIFICATION'
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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A "clarification" How Westinghouse helped the AP rewrite a nuclear article Samuel H. Day Jr. The editor's note came right to the point — an alarming point — when a story about a little-known and...
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WHAT MAKES NITZE RUN?
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Lens, Sidney
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What makes Nitze run? The Committee on the Present Danger pursues a thirty-year-old dream of Victory' Sidney Lens For sheer chutzpah, nothing beats the performance of General David C. Jones and...
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HARRY THIBEDEAU TO THE RESCUE
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Williams, Mary
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Harry Thibedeau to the rescue A one-man crusade to save the Navy's beleaguered 'ELF' project Nary Williams For more than two decades the U.S. Navy has been looking for a place to put a vast...
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TRIDENT II: A LOCAL NUISANCE
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McManus, Phil; Kennedy, Scott
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Trident II; a local nuisance A neighborhood up in arms about the nuclear arms race Phil McManus and Scott Kennedy Like its counterparts in other communities, the county planning commission in...
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THE BOAT PEOPLE
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Luce, Don
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The boat people America can best help them by recognizing its complicity Don Luce Several grandparents got off the plane with me in Danang at the end of the trip from Hanoi. They hurried,...
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CARTER'S PROBLEM IN RHODESIA
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Grosscup, Beau
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Carter's problem in Rhodesia How to make a white policy look black Beau Grosscup American foreign policy is at the crossroads in southern Africa. The 64.5 per cent voter mandate that created the...
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BUSINESS IS BOOMING WITH SOUTH AFRICA
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Kramer, Reed
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Business is booming with South Africa While diplomatic relations between the United States and South Africa have plummeted in recent months, aggravated by South Africa's latest rejection of the...
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PATENTING LIFE
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Howard, Ted
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Patenting life A major corporate breakthrough toward genetic engineering Ted Howard Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any...
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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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MOVIES
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MOVIES Horrors Kenneth Turan English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth engaged in a bit of friendly rivalry toward the end of the Eighteenth Century that is curiously relevant...
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THEATER
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Bayless, Pamela
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THEATER Walking a tightrope in Chile Pamela Bayless Since the military overthrow of Salvador Allende's government in 1973, a cultural blackout has stifled the media and the arts in Chile. All...
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THE WAR AGAINST THE EASTERN COYOTE
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Harris, Michael
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The war against the Eastern coyote New species is the victim of propaganda Michael Harris Suddenly, but quietly and all but unnoticed by the swirling tides of humanity flooding across the land,...
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THE HEART OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT'
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'The heart of the First Amendment' Excerpts from the appeals brief in The Progressive's prior restraint case "Defendants have stated that publication of the article will alert the people of this...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS An energy platform lor the '80s Nark Northcross THE POLITICS Or ENERGY by Barry Commoner Alfred A. Knopf. 101 pp. $10 hardcover. $4.95 paperback At face value The Politics of Energy would...
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THE LAST WORD
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Getlein, Frank
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THE LAST WORD Pattitude Frank Getlein Back in the days when Polish jokes were Irish jokes, Pat and Mike were digging a ditch, which is what the Irish did a lot of in those days. Mike was swinging...
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