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 Vol. 045 Issue 003 (March 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Fascism John Judis's article, "Can Reagan Keep the Promise of Liberalism?" (January issue), is a fine analysis of contemporary American liberalism. But two of the causal connections...
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A moment of community
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COMMENT A moment of community There was a report, perhaps apocryphal, that one grocery chain, stuck with a glut of wilting houseplants, tied yellow ribbons around them, called them "freedom...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Christmas past... Because of deteriorating U.S.-Soviet relations, the Soviet guards outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow have been dropped from the Embassy's Christmas gift list, according...
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War capital
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON War capital Jeffrey Stein It was just after midnight on the Saturday of the Inaugural Weekend when the singing began in one of Georgetown's fashionable French...
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The power of James Watt
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Zwerdling, Daniel
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The power of James Watt He could transform the West —and he'll probably try Daniel Zwerdliitg What is the real motive of the extreme environmentalists, who appear to be determined to accomplish...
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Condo Mania
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Atlas, Peter Dreier and John
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Condo Mania Across the country, it's pay up or move out Peter Dreier and John Atlas Marie Abbott was frightened. The seventy-two-year-old Boston woman, living on a fixed income and partially...
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For rent, cheap, no heat
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Koeppel, Barbara
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For rent, cheap, no heat A third of all renters live in substandard housing in Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago____ Barbara Koeppel In the heart of East Baltimore's black ghetto, the brick on the...
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The neighborhood movement
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Rubenstein, David
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The neighborhood movement Rent control can help preserve communities David Hubenstein Rent control is often thought of as a means of preventing excess profits, but this definition is incomplete...
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Welcome to Peking...
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Dorfman, Ron
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Welcome to Peking... ... Where some are more equal than others Ron Dorfman Ihad been in China about six weeks when my interpreter, Liu Zon-gren, accompanied me to Sun Yat-sen Park for an open-air...
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Gendarme of Africa
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Volman, Daniel
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Gendarme of Africa The empire is dead— long live the empire Daniel Volman Once France was the proud con-querer of a vast African colonial empire, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Congo...
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No nukes' is not enough
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Moyer, Pamela Haines and William
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'No nukes' is not enough The need for a new energy strategy Pamela Haines and William Moyer The anti-nuclear power movement is at an exciting crossroads. Either it assumes that past successes...
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Labor's disenchantment with nuclear power
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Askin, Steve
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Labor's disenchantment with nuclear power The honeymoon may be coming to an end Steve Askin The kooks want to take your jobs away," Peter Brennan warned demonstrators outside the Rocky Flats,...
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Watchdog of Congress:
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Engel, Peter M.
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Watchdog of Congress: Its bark is worse than its bite Peter M. Engel Quick—who is Elmer B. Staats? You don't know? Then here's a clue: When he retires in March, he will leave what may be the most...
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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 Rath von Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letters of the clue answers...
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BuellKazee: 'we just sang by nature'
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC BuellKazee: 'we just sang by nature' Nat Hentoff I first came to the music of Appala-chia through Library of Congress recordings of singers who sounded like ancient balladeers....
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Now and then
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Seitz, Michael H.
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MOVIES Now and then Michael H. Seitz Two of the most compelling films in current release are imports from countries where state financing has contributed to a recent flowering of feature films:...
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Bard of America
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Tucker, Chris
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BOOKS Bard of America Chris Tucker WHITMAN by Justin Kaplan Simon and Schuster. 432 pp. $15. Emerson said that "to be great is to be misunderstood." Walt Whitman (1819-1892) may be the...
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Judging Truman
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Ferrell, Robert H.
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Judging Truman OFFTHE RECORD: THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF HARRY S. TRUMAN edited by Robert H. Ferrell Harper & Row. 448 pp. $15. Rarely has a public figure undergone a more dramatic metamorphosis in...
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Legal foibles
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Stern, Philip M.
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Legal foibles LAWYERS ON TRIAL by Philip M. Stern Times Books. 265 pp. $12.50. Writer Philip Stern has discovered Thorstein Veblen—but without attribution. In 1899 Veblen maintained that the...
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Reporter at large
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Sokolov, Raymond
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Reporter at large WAYWARD REPORTER: THE LIFE OF ?.J. LIEBLING by Raymond Sokolov Harper & Row. 354 pp. $16.95. Not long ago in the Treasury Department press room, a group of reporters chose to...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly The remarkable St. Francis The Francis Book, compiled and edited by Roy M. Gasnick (Macmillan. 211 pp. $19.95 hardcover. $12.95 paperback). In 1982 it will be 800 years since...
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End of a dream
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SCHWARTZ, WENDY
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THE LAST WORD End of a dream Wendy Schwartz Shortly after the turn of this century, my grandfather left Rumania in search of the freedom and economic independence denied to him there because he...
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