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IssueVol. 045 Issue 002 (February 1 1981)
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Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Owls G. William Domhoff, in his article "Politics Among the Redwoods" (January issue), has unwittingly explained the generally unenlightened behavior of our nation's business and political...
Paid articleClout, not crumbs
COMMENT Clout, not crumbs With the approach of Inauguration Day, the weeping, handwringing, and gnashing of teeth that were so audible and visible among liberal and labor leaders immediately after...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Good sports... Guess who didn't boycott the Moscow Olympics? Pepsi-Cola, that's who. According to Soviet Life magazine, only about 1,000 Americans attended the games last summer—but...
Paid articleGod's panhandler
Mayer, Milton
God's panhandler She was one tough, lusty Christian, full of brightness and beans Milton Mayer Among the mitred of the Earth, few since Richelieu have had the clout of the late Francis Cardinal...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Being here Jeffrey Stein The first shock wave from the election has passed over Washington. Those residents who were not busy packing or unpacking spent the last days of...
Paid articleAN ARMY IN SEARCH OF A WAR
Klare, Michael T.
An army in search of a mar IT WAS JUST A SMALL IDEA, AND THEN IT GREW MICHAEL T. KLARE Not since the Green Berets were lionized by President John F. 11 Kennedy in 1961 has a U.S. military unit...
Paid articleWhy not the worst?
Judis, John
Why not the worst? Alexander Haig brings strong-arm diplomacy to a volatile world John Judis "We've got to shed the sackcloth and ashes of our Southeast Asia involvement." —Alexander Haig, July...
Paid articleEl Salvador: the next Vietnam?
Forche, Carolyn
El Salvador: the next Vietnam? An oppressive regime expects help from Reagan Carolyn Forche Last March, when a Congressional subcommittee was considering a proposal to send three twelve-member...
Paid articleThe condor's last flight
Reid, Robert Leonard
The condor's last flight Better a vanished species than a proud bird caged Robert Leonard Reid In the finest T-shirt tradition, the message emblazoned on the shirt-front summarizes a complex...
Paid articleSpecial privilege: Should newsrooms be immune from police search?
Jensen, Dwight
Special privilege: Should newsrooms be immune from police search? Dwight Jensen Police and prosecutors in America have learned that they can obtain search warrants and conduct searches in...
Paid articleSpecial privilege: Should professors keep tenure votes to themselves?
Boiarsky, Carolyn
Special privilege: Should professors keep tenure votes to themselves? Carolyn Boiarsky It started out as a routine civil rights case involving sex discrimination at the University of Georgia....
Paid articleBlood and oil
Milloy, Ross
Blood and oil The perils of offshore petroleum production Ross Milloy At 4 o'clock in the morning on February 3,1974, Heli Ramon Sanchez glanced up from his work aboard an oil production barge in...
Paid articleFarewell, forests
Harris, Michael
Farewell, forests So you think burning wood is ecologically sound? Think again Michael Harris When the 1973 Arab oil embargo cut the pipelines that fuel America, the scramble to find replacement...
Paid articleCitizen power
Graaf, Harry C. Boyte and John de
Citizen power A new movement taps old traditions of community self-help and control Harry C. Boyte and John de Graaf If Ronald Reagan's Presidency signifies the collapse of New Deal Liberalism,...
Paid articleThe Progressive Puzzle
Rathvon, Emily Cox and 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 author. The first letters of the...
Paid articleA different Vietnam
Bradley, Douglas
ART A different Vietnam Douglas Bradley For visitors to the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent art exhibit offered a rare opportunity to confront "The Vietnam Experience" as it is...
Paid articleMusclemen
Seitz, Michael H.
MOVIES Musclemen Michael H. Seilz Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is possibly the best American movie of the past year. It is a work of great intensity, boasting superlative acting in the major...
Paid articleYou just can't keep the music unless you move with it'
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC 'You just can't keep the music unless you move with it' Nat Hentoff I never told him, but Sidney Bechet was responsible for my dropping out of Harvard graduate school. One Sunday...
Paid articleEnergy choices
Sanders, Scott
BOOKS Energy choices ENTROPY: A NEW WORLD VIEW by Jeremy Rifkin, with Ted Howard The Viking Press. 305 pp. $10.95. Scott Sanders Earth is a finite and orderly system . If we mean to survive...
Paid articleWhose land?
Klein, Joe
Whose land? WOODY GUTHRIE: A LIFE by foe Klein Alfred A. Knopf. 476pp. $15.95. One of Woody Guthrie's close friends told me some years ago that when he spotted some erotic materials in a Guthrie...
Paid articleReliving Okinawa
Manchester, William
Reliving Okinawa GOODBYE, DARKNESS by William Manchester Little, Brown. 401 pp. $14.95. Goodbye. Darkness is three books in one. It is William Manchester's account of his own involvement in the...
Paid articleWaiting for jobs
Levison, Andrew
Waiting for jobs THE FULL EMPLOYMENT ALTERNATIVE by Andrew Levison Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 252 pp. $10.50. One of the few "constants" in American economics, at least for several decades,...
Paid articleOpposing a war
Zahn, Cordon C.
Opposing a war ANOTHER PART OF THE WAR: THE CAMP SIMON STORY by Cordon C. Zahn University of Massachusetts Press. 273 pp. $14. Those of us who think of World War II as a "popular" war have a hard...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly Political bombast The Fleecing of America, by Senator William Proxmire (Houghton Mifflin. 238 pp. $10.95). "The mission of this book is to awaken the guards and sentinels of our...
Paid articleTHE MART
THE MART ASSOCIATIONS KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS Information, 625 Post St., No. 888, San Francisco, CA941Q9. ECOLOGISM POLITICAL PARTY (USA). 1801 E. Wilshire, Fullerton, CA 92631. BERTRAND RUSSELL...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Jendrzejczyk, Mike
THE LAST WORD The chair Mike Jendrzejczyk The chair stood, smooth and straight-backed, leather straps hanging from the arm rests and wires dangling from one leg. Two people stood on either side....
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