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IssueVol. 044 Issue 004 (April 1 1980)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Afghanistanism With profound reverence I say, thank God for The Progressive, and specifically for the editorial entitled "Afghanistanism" in your March issue. Anyone who cares about the...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO Troublemaker Milton Mayer, The Progressive's roving editor, is a pacifist and a man of peace, but when he rolls a sheet of borrowed paper into his battered typewriter, a perversely bellicose...
Paid articleTMI-ONE YEAR LATER
COMMENT TMI—one year later Early in the morning of March 28,1979, the failure of a valve in the cooling system of an electric generating plant on the Susquehanna River brought America face to face...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Utility English The National Council of Teachers of English has presented its annual Doublespeak Award to the Metropolitan Edison Co., operator of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant,...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Our own underground Jeffrey Stein There was a story in the paper the other day about the apartment of a Russian dissident in Moscow that made me yearn for a visit to the...
Paid articleAT THE FRONT IN AFGHANISTAN
Steif, William
At the front in Afghanistan William Steif One mid-January morning I was having breakfast in Kabul with a well-known American television correspondent. I said: "I don't think the Russian invasion...
Paid articleTHE AFGHAN CONNECTION
Stein, Jeffrey
The Afghan connection For king-makers and con-men, a crisis provides its own opportunities Jeffrey Stein In an apartment on New York's lower East Side, a self-styled Afghan rebel leader...
Paid articleA PRISON ON TRIAL
Nowlen, Chuck
A prison on trial Continuing repression at America's 'new Alcatraz' Chuck No wlen Editor's note: In the January 1977 issue of The Progressive, Tom Miller reported on conditions in the control...
Paid articleCO-OPS COOPTED
Galazen, Thomas
Co-ops coopted Rural electric cooperatives have joined the forces they once fought Thomas Galazen Electric cooperatives, once considered a progressive force in rural America, are increasingly...
Paid articleSCOOP JACKSON: POWER BROKER
Scoop Jackson: power broker Ever since the New Deal threw a series of massive hydroelectric generating dams across the Columbia River, the Pacific Northwest has been an anomaly in the nation's...
Paid articleTHE TROUBLE WITH FUSION
Lens, Sidney
The trouble with fusion It's not the all-purpose cure for our energy crisis Todd Crowell Within the past year it has become obvious to anyone with even a casual interest in science that fusion...
Paid articleTHE CITY THAT DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE
Gunther, Marc
The city that doesn't work any more Chicago in the crunch Sidney Lens Chicago's transit system tied up by a work stoppage. Payless paydays for Chicago teachers. Chicago firefighters out on...
Paid articleGOODBYE TO FAIR HOUSING
Cox, Emily; Von, Henry Rath
Goodbye to fair housing The suburbs fight for the freedom to be white Marc Gunther Manchester, Connecticut, is a pleasant middle-class suburb of 50,000 people, nearly all white, who work in...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
Judis, John
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. The first letters of the fifteen clue...
Paid articleA REPUBLICAN REVIVAL?
Pinsky, Mark I.
A Republican revival? After years of political exile, the party could win a short-lived victory John Judis Republicans have won four out of eight Presidential contests since World War II, but...
Paid articleHELMSMAN OF THE RIGHT
Sender, Henny
Helmsman of the Right A North Carolina Senator packs extraordinary clout on Capitol Hill Mark I. Pinsky For a minority-party Senator just beginning his second term in Congress, North Carolina...
Paid articleIN INDIA, THE UNION LACK STILL FLIES
Smith, Warren Sylvester
In India, the Union lack still flies Britain's lingering colonial legacy Henny Sender Wen Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by Irish terrorists last year, the flag of the Republic of India was...
Paid articleTHEATER
BERGER, JOHN J.
THEATER Shaw's lively ghost Warren Sylvester Smith The thought occurred to me as I left Donal Donnelly's one-man performance of Bernard Shaw—a performance entitled My Astonishing Self , part of...
Paid articleBOOKS
Mayer, Milton
BOOKS The energy tinkerers ENERGY FUTURE edited by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yeryin Random House. 353 pp. $12.95. John J. Berger How can any book on energy win praises from both oilmen and...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
THE LAST WORD Confidential report Milton Mayer During the Second World War of blessed memory—no unemployment, no energy crisis, no uppity minorities, Price Index holding steady—I was a budding...
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