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 Vol. 044 Issue 002 (February 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Old soldiers It's about time somebody suggested using older folks as soldiers (James Stegenga's "Middle-Aged Soldiers Never Die. . . ."in the January issue). But he's omitted the best...
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Comment
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COMMENT Again the brink Purists tell us that 1980 is not the first year of a new decade but the last year of an old one. It's just as well. We would not want a new decade to open in such ominous...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENTfDear old Dad According to Advertising Age, television commercials prepared by the Reagan for President Committee "are aimed at giving Ronald Reagan a fatherly image rather than one that...
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THE CANCER ESTABLISHMENT
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Moss, Ralph W.
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The cancer establishment Whose side are they on? Ralph W. Moss What has gone wrong with the "war on cancer"? The National Cancer Act of December 23, 1971, presented as Richard M. Nixon's...
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TED KENNEDY'S FALTERING CAMPAIGN
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Judis, John
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Ted Kennedy's faltering campaign The myth in search of a candidate John Judis Last summer, Senator Edward M. Kennedy seemed to be most people's choice for President in 1980. Opinion polls showed...
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THE OPEC REVOLUTION
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Collins, Frank
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The OPEC revolution The world will never be the same Frank Collins t Ras Tanura, the port of Saudi IB Arabia, Arabian Light M Bl Marker crude oil now sells at an officially set price of $24.00...
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NUCLEAR NEVADA
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Landau, Fred
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Nuclear Nevada The stakes are high in America's atomic playground Fred Landau s soon as they began taking II measurements with their ¦TA geiger counters, the officers knew they had a serious...
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DOWNWIND FROM GROUND ZERO
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Udall, Denis
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Downwind from ground zero In the desert hamlets they once trusted the AEC Denis Mall "No one likes to admit a mistake when the consequences have been monstrous." —Dr. Harold Knapp, former AEC...
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THE DEADLY CLOUDS
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Ensign, Tod
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The deadly clouds "The evidence shows a willful refusal to investigate threats to human health. It also shows a conscious suppression of important information on health dangers. ... An all-out PR...
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'THE NUKE IS KILLING ME
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Solomon, Norman
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'The nuke is killing me' Harry Coppola waits for the end Norman Solomon Near death, Harry Coppola has become famous. He is well aware of the irony that only his proximity to death has enabled him...
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DOUBLE DUTY AT ROCKY FLATS
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Jendrzejczyk, Pam Solo and Mike
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Double duty at Rocky Flats Nuclear weapons contracts help keep the dream of nuclear power alive Pam Solo and Mike Jendrzejczyk Felix Owen, an electronics engineer in the nuclear industry, once...
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NURSING HOME WATCHDOGS
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Hering, Karen
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Nursing home watchdogs Citizen advocates are confronting America's long-buried scandal Karen Hering rur flights up from the well-appointed lobby of the Americana Health Center in Madison,...
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EXXON, COPPER, AND THE SOKAOGAN
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AlGedicks
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Exxon, copper, and the Sohaogon Tightening the corporate grip in Chippewa country AlGedicfcs An American Indian legend tells of a young boy so sleepy and slow that he was the laughingstock of his...
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Puzzle
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|12 M 13 B 14 0 15 Nl 27 D 28 G 29 C 30 A 43 J 44 B 45 L ¦ The Progressive Puzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rath von Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately...
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THE TROUBLE WITH THE ACLU
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Mayer, Milton
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The trouble with the ACLU It calls for equal justice 'under law' —and there's the rub Milton Mayer Igrow—if grow may be said of a biodegradable man— I grow daily more desperate as I see my own,...
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AT WAR IN THE MOVIE
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SAYRE, NORA
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At war in the movies Film teaches us—sometimes— to know our enemies or ourselves NoraSayre It's said that a scene in The Deer-hunter was shot on the River Kwai. That rather astonishing notion...
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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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THE MAN WHO KEPT THE SECRETS.RICHARD HELMS AND THE CIA
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Powers, Thomas
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BOOKS America in the spy business Jeffrey Stein One breezy day in 1967, while I waited with the usual crowd of tourists to take the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument, three U.S. Army...
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BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG: THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY
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Litwack, Leon F.
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Beyond slavery BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG: THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY by Leon F. Litwack Alfred A. Knopf. 651 pp. $20. Leon Litwack's massive book, Been in the Storm So Long, is a triumph in...
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CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY
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Dairies, Cedric Watts and Laurence
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With a swagger CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Cedric Watts and Laurence Dairies Cambridge University Press. 333 pp. $27.50. T.E. Lawrence once wrote that anything about R.B....
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GOOD WORK
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Schumacher, E- F.
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Quiet revolution GOOD WORK byE- F. Schumacher Harper & Row. 223 pp. $9.95. Thomas Paine called his revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense because he believed that once the reasons for rebellion...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Long ago in the 1950s The Fifties, by Peter Lewis (Lippin-cott. 256 pp. $10.95). Lewis, an English journalist, does a remarkable job of recapturing the significant ideas, events,...
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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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THE LAST WORD
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THE LAST WORD Superhype JohnBuell It waisThanksgiving Day, and I was just settling down to watch what promised to be—on paper, as the oddsmakers say—a good football game between Dallas and...
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