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 Vol. 044 Issue 001 (January 1 1980)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Goats and SALT Alice Q. Howard's letter in the October issue praises the Navy's efforts to eradicate the wild goats on San Clemente Island. It seems these goats cause considerable damage...
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Comment
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COMMENT Hostages The confrontation between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran is in its fifth week as this issue of The Progressive goes to press, and it grows more...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Two-China policy If you should happen to visit the People's Republic of China, and if you should happen to be invited for cocktails at the U.S. Embassy in Peking, be sure to read the...
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NUCLEAR BIG BROTHER
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Solomon, Norman
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Nuclear Big Brother The seeds of repression have begun to sprout Norman Solomon In a suburban Washington office building of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a guard is stationed at the...
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MUSIC AND THE MOVEMENT
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Rosen, Jay
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Music and the Movement MUSE represents a happy match between rock 'n roll and resistance to nuclear power fay Rosen All afternoon, the 200 young people who had volunteered to solicit donations,...
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JOE HARDING'S DEATH LIST
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Moore, Taylor G. III
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Joe Harding's death list The growing toll of workers in the uranium enrichment industry Taylor G. Moore III Ioe Harding took another long drag on his cigarette and read the next entry from the...
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THE REAL PROLIFERATORS
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Lens, Sidney
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The real proliferators America, not Pakistan, is spreading the Bomb Sidney Lens In the dark of a moonless Mediterranean night, three young Palestinians steer their boat toward a beach near Haifa....
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LETTERS ON THE H-BOMB CONTROVERSY
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LETTERS ON THE H-BOMB CONTROVERSY Your super issue on the H-bomb (November) must be considered a classic. Good work! Morland researched The Weapon. Now we need to research the motivators and the...
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DECLINE AND FALL
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Judis, John
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Decline and fall Cleveland says No to Kucinich's experiment in 'urban populism' John Judis "The November 1977 Cleveland mayoral election brought about a shift in the center of power, from the...
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IN POLITICS, TOO, YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
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Whitmire, James
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REFLECTIONS In politics, too, you are what you eat fames M. Whitmire It was noted long ago by that tiresome but perceptive sage, Aristotle, that each polis produces a unique form of government,...
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ARGENTINE TERROR: AN ECONOMIC POLICY
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Chevigny, Bell Gale
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Argentine terror: an economic policy The profit in suppressing human rights Bell Gale Chevigny Every Thursday for more than two years now, eight women whose children have "disappeared" since the...
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PUZZLE
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The Progressive UPuzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation and its source. The first letters of the...
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ELEVEN TEN-BEST FILMS
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Eleven ten-best films Kenneth Turan Looking back on the cinematic benchmarks of 1979 is more satisfying in many ways than the act of living through them was. So far as film was concerned,...
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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....
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BREAKING RANKS:A POLITICAL MEMOIR
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Podhoretz, Norman
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BOOKS A poisoned pen Alan Wolfe BREAKING RANKS: A POLITICAL MEMOIR by Norman Podhoretz Harper & Row. 375 pp. $15. Why is Norman Podhoretz so unhappy? After all, he wanted to "make it" so badly...
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LETTERS
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Barth, John
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Reorchestration LETTERS by John Barth Putnam, 772 pp. $16.95. For anyone not familiar with John Barth's work, Letters is a great place to begin. As he tells us several times in this epistolary...
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PBB: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
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Chen, Edwin
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Chemical scourge PBB: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Edwin Chen Prentice-Hall. 317 pp. $10.95. The national debate over environmental contamination is being dominated more and more by unpronounceable...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Reformation or repression? The Emerging Order: God in the Age of Scarcity, by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard (Putnam. 302 pp. $10). In a wide-ranging survey, Rifkin and Howard explore...
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Index for 1979
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The Progressive: Index to Volume 43—1979 Section I and the Special Section list authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec 19 is Page 19 of the December...
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The Mart
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THE MART ASSOCIATIONS JOIN THE PEACE EXCHANGE, INC. Working to make peace the top priority. Send $1.00 for information to THE PEACE EXCHANGE, INC. Box 882, Lincoln City, OR 97367. CATHOLIC...
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MIDDLE-AGED SOLDIERS NEVER DIE
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Stegenga, James A.
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THE LAST WORD Middle-aged soldiers never die.... fames A. Stegenga ¦M 11 the schemes suggested so far Agm for reviving the draft envisage m mm calling up nineteen-year-olds to meet the military's...
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