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Vol. 044 Issue 005 (May 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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LETTERS
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LETTERS First choice In the coming Presidential election, we must pick one candidate out of the bunch now run-nihg. While Senator Kennedy's record is not perfect and he has his faults, I feel that...
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MEMO
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MEMO On the bus "You're either on the bus or off the bus," Ken Kesey observed in one of the more memorable epigrams of the 1960s. Mike Konopacki is on the bus; in fact, he drives it, five days a...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT On the road to recession President Carter began his mid-March press conference on his Administration's latest anti-inflation program with the solemn announcement that the budget cuts he...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Frontiers of free enterprise Pookki Designs of Encinitas, California, advertises a "Chi Energy Shirt" that "utilizes oriental acupressure and color system" to "increase meridian energy...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Leak soup Jeffrey Stein The U.S. Capitol is a marvelous place to go exploring, and the halls are again filled with the throngs of tourists and high school students making...
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SELLING THE MX
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Schoenberger, Erica; Glasmeier, Amy K.
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Selling the MX The air force asks Nevada to move over Erica Schoenberger Amy K. Glasmeier The scene is vaguely reminiscent of an earlier time: a thousand people crowded into an auditorium, some...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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FROM THE ARCHIVES Conscription—an act of war Thirty-two years ago, amidst the rising winds of the Cold War, America debated a return to the military draft, which had been terminated at the end of...
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BEHIND THE PUSH TO REVIVE THE DRAFT
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Kelley, Joseph
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Behind the push to revive the draft The Army needs 'the right kind of people' Joseph Kelley Uncle Sarn does want you—if you're white, bright, and ready to fight. And that may be why he's thinking...
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PINK ELEPHANT
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Judis, John
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Pink elephant John Anderson: a different kind of Republican, but still a Republican John Judis Last fall, Representative John Anderson, Illinois Republi- can, was sitting in a Boston restaurant...
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BEYOND THE LOVE CANAL
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NADER, RALPH; Brownstein, Ronald
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Beyond the Love Canal Bureaucracy has compounded the chemical mess Ralph Nader and Ronald Brownstein In the neighborhood where Lois Gibbs lives, only one of the fifteen pregnancies begun last...
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NUCLEAR CASUALTY
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Iii, Taylor G. Moore
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Nuclear casualty Joe Harding is dead, but the fight for a hearing goes on Taylor G. Moore III Despite the relatively good telephone connection between us, Joe Harding sounded terribly weak as he...
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THE APARTHEID BOMB
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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The Apartheid Bomb The world may never know the precise nature of the mysterious flash that lit the skies off South Africa six months ago, but there is no mystery about who is responsible for the...
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AN AMERICAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
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Dobrin, Arthur
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An American prisoner of conscience The saga of Martin Sostre Arthur Dobrin Last year, when former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young outraged many of his fellow Americans by charging that there are...
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BORN-AGAIN DEMOCRACY
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Adamson, Madeleine
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Born-again democracy ACORN attempts to build a nationwide community movement Madeleine Adamson The beat was staccato, the mood infectious: "The People . . . United . . . Will Never Be Defeated....
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NICARAGUA REBUILDS
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Koeppel, Barbara; Harvey, David
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Nicaragua rebuilds A new model is emerging from the ruins left by Somoza and civil war Barbara Koeppel and David Harvey On July 19, 1979, Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza, packed his...
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TRAGEDY IN EL SALVADOR
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Tragedy in El Salvador In stark contrast to Nicaragua, the tragedy in El Salvador deepens. Each day, between fifteen and twenty people are murdered by the military, the police and, most of all, by...
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
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Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
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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. The first letters of the clue answers...
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NEWS FROM THE TIMBER COUNTRY
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Harris, Michael
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News from the timber country On tour with the American Forest Institute Michael Harris Ouick: What industry controls 22 per cent of the land area of the United States, registers annual sales of...
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MOVIES
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Sex without joy Kenneth Turan ¦^¦¦othing in Hollywood is so scarce W^M and therefore so valued as a mmi spanking new idea. In a society that places so much emphasis on being eternally...
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BOOKS
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Bluestein, Gene
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BOOKS Woodstock, where are you? Gene Bluestein Entering the 1980s, it is no surprise that we find ourselves looking at the 1960s wistfully. The decade was clearly a watershed, turbulent as well...
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THE LAST WORD
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Lacey, Margaret
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