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IssueVol. 044 Issue 008 (August 1 1980)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS 'Liberate' There is a kind of intellectual (perhaps political) arrogance or intolerance in two of your editorial comments in the June issue, which I find offensive. It is your use of...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO Strange bedfellows Picture an unlikely spot—picture the unlikeliest spot in the whole world—where the editor of The Progressive might have been espied one recent Thursday, enjoying a...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT A time to say No President Carter has announced his intention to reinstate registration for the military draft, and the Congress of the United States has given its approval by...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Frontiers of free enterprise... Adco International Plastics Corp. of Marietta, Georgia, is marketing a "unique promotional urinal screen" featuring a portrait of the Ayatollah...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Yesterdays Jeffrey Stein Whenever I feel a need for a dose of nostalgia, I go down to the first floor of the Capitol and have breakfast in the U.S. Senate dining room....
Paid articleWHEN THEY CLOSE THE FACTORY GATES
Logue, John
When they close the factory gates How Big Steel scrapped a community John Logue Just west of the Pennsylvania border lies the Mahoning Valley, once the second-leading steel producing area in the...
Paid articleIT PAYS TO GO OUT OF BIG BUSINESS
It pays to go out of big business The nation's fifteenth-largest industrial corporation, U.S. Steel, last year earned a whopping $261 million from its vast and diversified operations. Yet,...
Paid articleFROM FAMILY FIRM TO MINI-CONGLOMERATE
From family firm to mini-conglomerate Small, family-owned companies have been hit hard by the merger wave of the 1960s and 1970s, with countless hundreds of locally owned firms falling into new...
Paid articleAUTO WORKERS VS. THE 'GLOBAL CAR'
Schrade, Paid
Auto workers vs. the 'global car' The first hurdle is the union's own leadership Paid Schrade America's auto workers are fac-ing hard times and an uncer-tain future because of the severe market...
Paid articleBLAMING THE VICTIMS
Lens, Sidney
Blaming the victims 'Social Darwinism' is still the name of the game Sidney Lens Along article in a recent issue of Time magazine addressed the provocative question, "Is Capitalism Working?"...
Paid articleNUCLEAR WAR BY COMPUTER CHIP
Thaxton, Richard
Nuclear war by computer chip How America almost launched on warning' Richard Thaxton Fittingly enough, Dr. Strangelove was showing at the Capitol Hill Cinema in Washington June 6 when a false...
Paid articleTHE DEADLY SPRAY
Zacovic, Beth
The deadly spray Farmworkers at the mercy of the cropduster BethZacovic On a typically sunny November day in southern Florida, as two farmworkers made their way across a field of ripening green...
Paid articleAUGUST 6,1945
Carrington, Ellsworth T.
August 6,1945 Reflections of a Hiroshima pilot Ellsworth T. Carrington From the cockpit of a B-29 bomber 33,000 feet above the ground, Japan looked much like any other distant landscape that...
Paid articleTHE BATTLE FOR RONALD REAGAN
Judis, John
The battle for Ronald Reagan Corporate Republicanism takes over John Judis Ronald Reagan's nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate completes what Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination...
Paid articleRONALD REAGAN AND WORLD WAR III
Ronald Reagan and World War III If Jimmy Carter has his way, the issue of the 1980 Presidential campaign will be whether Ronald Reagan's election will lead straight to World War III. Reagan has...
Paid articleWE MUST TRUST THE IRANIANS'
Stein, Jeffrey
'We must trust the Iranians' An interview with Ramsey Clark Jeffrey Stein He joined the Marines at the age of seventeen. His father, a Supreme Court Justice, pinned the Eagle Scout badge on his...
Paid articleBARBARA TIMM, DIPLOMAT
Day, Samuel H. Jr.
Barbara Timm, diplomat It was an unlikely scene. A middle-aged mother from the American Midwest had traveled half way around the world to see her son, a hostage in the American Embassy in Teheran,...
Paid articleMASSAGING THE NEWS
Mayer, Milton
Massaging the news UPI interviews the huddled masses Milton Mayer Vicente Hernandez, forty-six, came ashore at Key West, probably sprang ashore, and probably kissed the soil (or cement jetty) of...
Paid articleCAMBODIAN CALAMITY
Steif, William
Cambodian calamity The making of a holocaust William Steif My wife chides me for being "morbid," but I remember the scene well. Too well. It was November 2 last year in the Cambodian refugee camp...
Paid articleMOVIES
Wagner, Dave
MOVIES Our Hitler Dave Wagner There hasn't been a voice like Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's in German art for many years. The novelty of it all, the youthful pride and arrogance, and the capacity for...
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 and its source. The first letters of the...
Paid articleBOOKS
BOOKS Why Latin Americans cry Gary MacEoin Penny Lernoux's task in Cry of the People was as difficult as it was necessary. Our Latin American experts, academic and journalistic alike, have...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Dietrich, Jeff
THE LAST WORD The heart of darkness Jeff Dietrich The automatic door slides shut with a cold, resonating clang. Suddenly I am alone and completely terrified. I am cut off from family, friends,...
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