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 Vol. 044 Issue 009 (September 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Accuraiy In "Massaging the News" (The Progressive, August 1980), Roving Editor Martin Mayer accuses United Press International and a client newspaper of carelessness and lack of...
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MEMO
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MEMO Homework It was May 1979, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was about to hold a hearing on Commonwealth Edison Company's application to enlarge the storage capacity of the spent fuel...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Mired in moderation It turns out that the Republican Party hasn't been captured by the Right after all. That reassurance comes first of all from Ronald Reagan's advisers, who urge us to...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Games people play . . . Among microcomputer games offered for Christmas by the Avalon Hill Game Co. of Baltimore are "B-l Nuclear Bomber," "an opportunity to be the pilot of a B-l bomber...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON 'Honorable men' Jeffrey Stein Ihappened to be watching the Republican National Convention in Detroit with a small group of Latin American exiles. When George Bush...
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INCIDENT AT ZION
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Quigg, Catherine
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Incident at Zion The pool held the long-lived radioactivity of 10,000 A-bombs Catherine Quigg It was six in the morning of that memorable Monday—July 10, 1989—and the early risers were...
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BEWARE THE 'FAST FLUX'
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Darby, Creg
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Beware the 'fast flux' Industry is readying a new kind of nuke Creg Darby Creg Darby The battle over breeder reactors—the nuclear power plants of the future—has so far been fought almost...
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ABORTION: THE LIBERALS HAVE ABANDONED THE POOR
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Baldwin, Deborah
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Abortion: The liberals have abandoned the poor Their suffering is testimony to our negligence Deborah Baldwin Imust have been about twelve years old the first time I heard the word "abortion,"...
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ABORTION: THE LEFT HAS BETRAYED THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
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Meehan, Mary
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Abortion: The Left has betrayed the sanctity of life Consistency demands concern for the unborn Mary Meehan Mary Meehan The abortion issue, more than most, illustrates the occasional tendency of...
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TAKING THE PROFITS OUT OF BIRTH CONTROL
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Weisman, Stephanie
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Taking the profits out of birth control The cervical cap may be safer, too Stephanie Weisman Stephanie Weisman When the contraceptive effect of synthetic estrogen was first discovered in the...
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LIBERTARIANISM: WHERE THE LEFT MEETS THE RIGHT
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Judis, John
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Libertarianism: where the Left meets the Right It could be the country's fastest-growing party Johnjudis John Judis In November 1978, Ed Clark, an antitrust lawyer for Atlantic Richfield, won...
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THE IRRELEVANT BALLOT BOX
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Lens, Sidney
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The irrelevant ballot box Vote if you must, but also DO something Sidney Lens Sidney Lens Iend a speech, and as often as not the first question is, "Who's your choice in the Presidential...
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NERVE GAS POLITICS
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Hall, Peter
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Nerve gas politics While decrying Soviet 'atrocities,' the Pentagon readies its own program Peter Hall Peter Hall In the towering, treacherous mountains of Afghanistan, the Soviet invaders are...
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A SPECTATOR CULTURE
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GITLIN, TODD
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A spectator culture The pseudo-participation of rock reflects elements of mainstream politics ToddGitlin Todd Gitlin American culture disgorges spectacles. Super Bowls I, II, III, and IV, Las...
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TROUBLED WATERS
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Thurtell, Joel
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Troubled waters The struggle on the Great Lakes for an ancient way of life JoelThurteU Joel Thurtell Fishing is a way of life for the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians of the Upper Great Lakes....
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WASHINGTON'S FISH WAR
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Faller, Nancy
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Washington's fish war Who will harvest the salmon? Nancy Faller In the 1850s, Indians in the Pacific Northwest put their thumbprints on treaties reserving their right to fish in traditional...
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MOVIES
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Seitz, Michael
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MOVIES Real musicals Michael Seits Michael Seitz By the early 1960s, the musical, one of the liveliest and most distinctive American film forms, seemed to be a thing of the past. Gene Kelly...
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and 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. The first letters of the clue answers spell...
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BOOKS
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Diamond, Edwin
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BOOKS The media and the Left Edwin Diamond Edwin Diamond Back in the Time of the Troubles^—the Vietnam 1960s and the Nixon early 1970s—NBC correspondent John Chancellor suggested that...
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THE LAST WORD
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Wasserman, Harvey
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THE LAST WORD A people's library Harvey Wasserman The Brattle Book Shop was a book lover's paradise. A vintage five-story warehouse tucked away on a sidestreet off the Boston Common, the Brattle...
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