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 Vol. 044 Issue 006 (June 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Dove candidate I want to report having created my own dove Presidential candidate and having easily found thirty-five registered Democrats here to support him. The candidate is...
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MEMO
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MEMO Unrepentant radical In November 1950, toward the back of what was then a thirty-six-page magazine, Sidney Lens's byline appeared for the first time in The Progressive. His article was...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Carter's 'worthy effort' President Carter calls his aborted attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran by military means "a worthy effort." Worthy of whom? Worthy of what? In a single...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The forgotten vets Jeffrey Stein In September 1973, after months of fruitless jobhunting in California, I packed up my master's degree, a few books, and a suitcase of...
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VOICES FROM THREE MILE ISLAND
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Mills, Susan
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Voices from Three Mile Island A foretaste of the nuclear society Susan Mills Wat is it like to live through a nuclear disaster? Six months ago, when my husband and I set out to find the answer,...
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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE ANIMALS?
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Wasserman, Harvey
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What is happening to the animals? Central Pennsylvania's silent spring Harvey Wasserman Central Pennsylvania is a place where some of the world's richest soil yields to the plow of the world's...
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HOT CARGO
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Lens, Sidney
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Hot cargo The growing menace of nuclear transportation Sidney Lens The nuclear industry is like an artichoke: You peel away one problem only to encounter another at the next level. At the...
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A PETITION FROM AKBARA
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Davis, Bob
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A petition from Akbara Arab villagers want Israel to return their loyalty Bob Davis While reports from Israel have focused on Jewish settlements in densely populated Palestinian areas of the West...
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A SHOWCASE OF REPRESSION
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Zinn, Howard
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A showcase of repression Boston University curbs its'excess of democracy' Howard Zinn Think a bit about the history of these past twenty-five years in the United States—the years of the black...
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BIRTH PANGS ON THE LEFT
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Judis, John
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Birth pangs on the Left The Citizens' Party has everything but a constituency John Judis America's two-party system has proven itself to be a remarkably flexible instrument of political change,...
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HELL, NO
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Mayer, Milton
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Hell, no Milton Mayer Three or four wars ago, a handful of young men showed up—or refused to show up—who called themselves conscientious objectors. A conscientious objector was first of all...
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THE PEN VERSUS THE SWORD
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The pen versus the sword Until early this year, the all-but-forgotten Selective Service System had been basking in the solitude of "deep standby" status, quietly developing new plans to exhume its...
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RINGKNOCKING
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Roane, Stephen
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Ringknocking A guide to the folkways of the United States Navy Stephen Roane The Navy is a strange place, a little world of its own with all the foibles and failings of the society around it....
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A BITTER SEASON IN SOUTH AFRICA
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Adams, Megan
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A bitter season in South Africa 'It's like having a ghastly disease' Megan Adams Wat is most surprising in one's first view of Johannesburg is how typically American it appears. The wide highway...
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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 Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation and its source (the title of a speech). The...
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BOOKS
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Lewis, J.Patrick
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BOOKS Marxism for today J. Patrick Lewis Iohn Maynard Keynes once called Karl Marx's Capital "an outmoded economics textbook ... not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or...
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THE LAST WORD
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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THE LAST WORD Under twenty Samuel H. Day Jr. There was a time about two decades ago when "over thirty" became the way of delineating the generation gap in America. It was the age—give or take a...
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