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 Vol. 044 Issue 003 (March 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS The dismal '80s I agree with your solemn and somber editorial comment, "Again the Brink," in the February issue, as I agree with the vast majority of your positions. However, the ninth...
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MEMO
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MEMO Skip most of the aisles One morning several years ago, I had breakfast in Washington with Daniel Zwerdling, whose article, "The Food Monsters," begins on Page 16 of this issue. Danny looked...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Afghanistanism This sentence appeared one recent Sunday on the op ed page of The New York Times: "Today we are confronted by the very real possibility of an honorable limited war." Judging...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Space scabs The RAND Corporation of Santa Monica, California, has issued a study entitled The Economics of Strikes and Revolts During Early Space Colonization. It deals, according to a...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Government by experts Jeffrey Stein Official Washington is rather grim these days. The dreary, rain-sheeted mornings we've had lately seem to fit the mood. There are...
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THE FOOD MONSTERS
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Zwerdling, Daniel
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The Food Monsters How they gobble up each other—and us. Daniel Zwerdling The concentration of wealth, money, and property in the United States under the control and in the hands of a few...
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SALIVATION THROUGH TELEVISION
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Voorhees, Mark
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Salivation through television The music and electronics make the cash registers ring Mark Voorhees A strong, handsome runner strides in slow motion through a forested park as light filters down...
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A BITTER HARVEST
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Chapin, Georganne; Wasserstrom, Robert
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A bitter harvest Pesticide pushers are sowing the seeds of disease in the Third World Georganne Chapin and Robert Wasserstrom Most Americans have little occasion to worry about malaria, but if...
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THE CARTER DOCTRINE
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Judis, John
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The Carter Doctrine Henry Kissinger is alive and well and living in the White House John Judis Jimmy Carter entered the White, House in 1977 with a foreign policy that had been developed in...
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THE SHIFTING SANDS BENEATH THE HOUSE OF SAUD
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Halliday, Fred
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The shifting sands beneath the House of Saud Trouble in America's new Middle East bastion Fred Halliday One year after the fall of the Shah of Iran, there is intense, if stifled, alarm in Western...
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THE 'UNDERWATER SATELLITE'
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Dillon, Jay
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The 'underwater satellite' comes ashore An admiral's key role in nuclear energy Jay Dillon On December 2, 1977, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction and the...
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REFLECTIONS
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS On the uses and abuses of secrecy Sidney Lens In the current climate of international crisis, new cries are being heard for intensification of the secrecy that is already far too...
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IRELAND OVERWHELMED
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Reilly, Deborah
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Ireland overwhelmed The high price of modernization Deborah Reilly Twenty weatherworn farmers and fishermen are the last to arrive for mass on Sunday in Ballydavid. Caps in hand, they file into...
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MOVIES
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Spaced out Kenneth Turan Epicures tend to be cavalier about calories, grand prix drivers don't agonize about the gas crisis, and film critics, by the same token, are not supposed to be...
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
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The Progressive Puzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rath von 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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BOOKS
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MILLER, ARTHUR S.
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BOOKS Puncturing a mystique Arthur S. Miller These quite different books oddly complement each other. In The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, two reporters for The Washington Post, set...
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THE LAST WORD
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THE LAST WORD Anybody for biofeedback? Milton Mayer Ten years ago the country was plunging from literacy to illiteracy, and the young were swept away by the pandemic of y'know. It came out like a...
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