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IssueVol. 044 Issue 007 (July 1 1980)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Pernicious democracy I was somewhat incensed by the article on ACORN ("Born-Again Democracy," May issue), not because of the idea of local community action, but because you laud...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO Honor roll Four years ago, Professor Carl Jensen of Sonoma State University in California hit upon the ingenious and useful idea of compiling an annual list of "best censored"...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT A lack of confidence When a vote of no confidence toppled the Japanese government in mid-May, an Associated Press dispatch from Tokyo cited these reasons: The ruling Liberal Democratic...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Fragrant feet A footwear factory in Canton, China, is producing fragrant shoes which, it claims, not only prevent sweating but "are also helpful in curing beriberi." Going for the...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Men on horseback Jeffrey Stein It would not be unreasonable to describe Washington as a garrison town. The broad avenues which criss-cross the District of Columbia are...
Paid articleWAR FEVER
Lasch, Robert
WAR FEVER The durable myths of the Cold War still cast their spell Anybody who thought the Cold War had been ended by detente and sour memories of Vietnam now knows how mistaken that notion was....
Paid articleBUT CAN WE TRUST THE RUSSIANS?
Lens, Sidney
But can we trust the Russians? The fatal fallacy of a Soviet 'threat' Sidney Lens You can't trust the Russians. When budget time rolls around for the Pentagon each year, that five-word sentence...
Paid articleIS EXXON WORTH DYING FOR?
Klare, Michael T.
Is Exxon worth dying for? The Pentagon's plans for energy wars Michael T. Klare Overcoming the energy crisis, President Carter once proclaimed, "is the moral equivalent of war." His reference was...
Paid articleMORE BUCKS FROM THE BANG
Parenti, Michael
More bucks from the bang It's the profit system, not 'national security,' that demands ever-increasing military budgets Michael Parenti Whether we are fighting in Vietnam or not, whether the...
Paid articleAMERICA'S MYSTERIOUS 'SPACE BASE' DOWN UNDER
Young, Peter L.
America's mysterious 'space base' down under The Aussies are looking the other way Peter L. Young Alice Springs is a desert town in central Australia—one of the few stops on the railroad and...
Paid articlePLAYING POLITICS WITH 'REFUGEES'
MacEoin, Gary
Playing politics with 'refugees' How the U.S. media distorted the Cuban exodus Gary MacEoin Thirty-five years of studying Latin America had, I thought, accustomed me to the failure of the U.S....
Paid articleCUBA PAYS ITS 'DEBT TO HUMANITY'
Suhor, Mary Lou
Cuba pays its 'debt to humanity' The high price of internationalism Mary Lou Suhor Two colorful poster-billboards in Havana capture deep concerns that challenge Cubans as they face the 1980s: To...
Paid articleTHE POISONED LAND
Jacobs, Barry
The poisoned land PCBs: deadly footprints of the chemical industry Barry Jacobs On August 2,1978, fieldworkers on a North Carolina tobacco farm complained that fumes from something spilled along...
Paid articleDIOXINVILLE, U.S.A.
Hamburger, Thomas K.; Macklin, Carol
Dioxinville, U.S.A. Until a year ago, Jacksonville, Arkansas, was known as a quiet town, the home of an Air Force base and a bedroom community for Little Rock, twelve miles away. Now Jacksonville...
Paid articleFARMING THE SOUTH BRONX
Finder, Alan
Farming the South Bronx A new seed is sprouting amidst the urban rubble Alan Finder By midsummer, the marigolds will be golden yellow and the corn will be standing tall on Barretto Street in the...
Paid articleWHAT IF THE RED ARMY INVADED THE SOUTH BRONX?
Lowrey, George
What if the Red Army invaded the South Bronx? For more than a decade, as a resident, organizer, and researcher, I have confronted the problems facing the South Bronx. But only now have I come up...
Paid articleMOVIES
Turan, Kenneth
MOVIES A decade revisited Kenneth Turan Remember when films were fun? Most film critics do not." Those were the first words of film criticism I wrote for The Progressive—and now, almost nine...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
The Progressive Puzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letter of the clue answers spell...
Paid articleBOOKS
Schorr, Daniel
BOOKS Tito's emissary in Moscow Daniel Schorr In the hectic post-Stalin period, when the earth shook under the Kremlin's empire, foreign correspondents often saw Veljko Micunovic at official...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Weisberger, Bernard A.
THE LAST WORD Getting off the merry-go-round Bernard A. Weisberger It's getting to be that time again. As Jimmy Carter moves toward locking up the Presidential nomination, my liberal Democratic...
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