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 Vol. 045 Issue 012 (December 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO from the Editor
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MEMO from the Editor A MATTER OF TIMING Whatever virtues we may claim for The Progressive (and there are a few), we make no pretense of "objectivity," at least in the sense that the mass media...
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LETTERS to the Editor
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LETTERS to the Editor Animal Rights Acomment on your Comment, "Danger: Animal Lovers" (October issue): I agree that all of us who care about the treatment of living beings must fight to protect...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Cause and Cure The mails recently brought us a handsome brochure from the Riverside Church Disarmament Program—an invitation to a mid-November convocation on "The Arms Race and Us" set...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT IT Penal Reform Philip Weber, Republican counsel to the Illinois state senate and a member of the Illinois Bar Association's prison reform committee, has come up with two plans for...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeff
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Jeff Stein NAMING NAMES have here in my hand a name. It is the name of an undercover CIA agent. Shall I tell you the name? It belongs to a bright, attractive young...
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REFLECTIONS
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BUELL, JOHN
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REFLECTIONS John Buell OUR JOBS, OUR SELVES Shortly after the Arab oil embargo of 1973, a United Auto Workers vice president, Douglas Fraser, remarked that members of his union couldn't be...
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DATELINES
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DATELINES PROTECTING THE AURAL MAJORITY CINCINNATI, OHIO Simon L. Leis Jr. is back in the limelight. Leis, the Hamilton County prosecutor who made headlines in the still-unresolved obscenity...
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Death on the Nile
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STORK, JOE
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Death on the Nile Fear and Thumb-Sucking on the Potomac BY JOE STORK The fusillade of automatic weapons fire that raked a Cairo reviewing stand on October 6 may have taken Anwar Sadat's life and...
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No Room at the Bin
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MARINELLI, JANET
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No Room at the Bin We produce enough solid waste to fil the Superdome from Poor to ceiling twice a day. That's the problem. Is there a solution? BY JANET MARINELLI AND GAIL ROBINSON The Fresh...
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The Trash that Glows
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THIELQUIGG, CATHERINE
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The Trash that Glows The dump-and-run gang is on the prowl again. Is your backyard available? BY CATHERINE THIEL QUIGG Fred Beierle has a business that keeps him on the run. In Illinois, the...
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Deep-Sixing the Atom
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Deep-Sixing the Atom The deep-sea disposal of radioactive wastes is attractive to the nuclear industry in part because there are no mid-ocean farmers or schoolteachers to arouse neighbors and...
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The Immaculate War
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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The Immaculate War BY SAMUEL H.DAY JR. It's fought, ever so neatly, on video display terminals Aripple of approving laughter arose from the audience of neatly suited businessmen, seated at...
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S. I RIDES AGAIN
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Blum, Bill
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S.I RIDES AGAIN Another attempt to codify repression is pending in Congress-and this time it may succeed BY BILL BLUM Like Dracula rising from the crypt, the spirit of Senate Bill One, the...
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Here's Looking at You, Kid
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SCHOONMAKER, MARY ELLEN
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THE BABY FORMULA FIGHT: HOME FRONT NOTES Here's Looking at You, Kid BY MARY ELLEN SCHOONMAKER When a Southeast Asian woman— let's call her Lin—took her new baby home from the hospital not long...
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VETNAM:Still at War
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Lens, Sidney
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VEITNAM: Still at War Now a U.S. economic embargo perpetuates the calamity BY SIDNEY LENS Adecade ago, when the United States still waged war in Indochina, the South Vietnamese economy could...
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TORTURE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU'
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Drelfus, Claudia
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VIEWS REVIEWS TORTURE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU An interview with Jacobo Timerman - BY CLAUDIA DREIFUSW| ith the publication last spring of his best-selling Prisoner Without a I Name, Cell Without a...
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PUZZLE
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation and its author. The first letters of the...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff SONGS OF SOLIDARITY On Labor Day, for the first time in many years, organized workers in New York Citv— 100,000 of them—put on a pa. rade. Among the sights that gave...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael C. Seitz THATCHER IN THE THEATER Chariots of Fire, a British film, was a natural choice for the opening night gala of this year's New York Film Festival. It is an attractive,...
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Books:SINGING OUT
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Dunaway, David King
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BOOKS SINGING OUT HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING: PETESEEGER by David King Dunaway McGraw-Hill. 386 pp. $14.95. The biographer's art is difficult, ever more so when one's subject is alive and...
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UNDERGROUND
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Armstrong, David
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UNDERGROUND A TRUMPET TO ARMS: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN AMERICA by David Armstrong J.P. Tracher. 384 pp. $14.95. David Armstrong's A Trumpet to Arms tells the story of America's underground press of...
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THE 1980 CAMPAIGN
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Witcover, Jack W. Germond and Jules
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THE 1980 CAMPAIGN BLUE SMOKE & MIRRORS by Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover The Viking Press. 337 pp. $14.95. THE HIDDEN ELECTION edited by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers Pantheon. 342 pp....
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Spy Maestro
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Ambler, Eric
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Books Briefly Spy Maestro THE CARE OF TIME by Eric Ambler Farrar Straus Giroux. 277 pp. $11.95. The old maestro of espionage (he prefers "thriller") is back, and as usual Eric Ambler has...
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Mulching It Over
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Perenyi, Eleanor
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Mulching It Over GREEN THOUGHTS. A WRITER IN THE GARDEN by Eleanor Perenyi Random House. 289 pp. $15.50. The author, an editor and writer, grew up in Europe, China, the West Indies, and...
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THE LAST WORD
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Pollock, Richard P.
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THE LAST WORD Richard P. Pollock RECKONING One day last summer I received a check in the amount of $3,245.09 from the Government of the United States in settlement of my claim for damages...
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