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 Vol. 045 Issue 004 (April 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Hostages I was truly unhappy to see The Progressive glorify the hostage release whoop-de-doo as "A Moment of Community" in an editorial in the March issue. The response to their return was...
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Reagan's 'day of reckoning'
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COMMENT Reagan's 'day of reckoning1 One of the more pathetic political spectacles presented to the American people in recent years has been the wholly ineffectual response of Congressional...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Sterile contents... In Newport, Tennessee, a jury ordered the Stokely Van Camp Corporation to pay $2,500 to a consumer who found a condom in a can of pork and beans. The jury called it...
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Moles
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Moles Jeffrey Stein The chill wind blowing in Washington did not begin with Ronald Reagan's inauguration. There was an early blast about two years ago, when right-wing...
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Why pray for peace while paying for war?
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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Why pray for peace while paying for war? Tax resisters seek the path of conscience JOHNJUNKERMAN When agents of the Internal Revenue Service first encountered tax resister Paul Monsky, they must...
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Politics among Friends
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SMITH, WARREN SYLVESTER SMITH AND SELDEN WAYNE
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Politics among Friends For the Quakers, it was a tough issue: Were their investments supporting apartheid? WARREN SYLVESTER SMITH AND SELDEN WAYNE SMITH Tom Brown, presiding Clerk, looked out...
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The genteel subversives
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WILLIAMSON, J. W.
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The genteel subversives Seeking survival, swapping zucchini, finding moral uplift and profit J. W. WILLIAMSON Barter has come back, at least as buzz word. Hardly a Sunday supplement in the...
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Setting the stage for repression
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Judis, John
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Setting the stage for repression A new red scare is waiting in the wings Johnjudis There have been two great red scares in America in our century—one after World War I, led by Attorney General A....
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The high cost of deregulation
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The high cost of deregulation Would you trust your health and safety to Mobil? Have you heard the drums beating? The war on regulation is on. Business declared it, Carter's Administration...
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THE BEST-KEPT SECRET IN HEALTH CARE
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Balter, Michael
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The best-hep secret in health care A hospital law s>u're not supposed to know about Michael Baiter In January 1978, twenty-three-old Candida Casas was brought to the emergency room of San...
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Blood money
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Kaufer, Beth Baker and Stuart
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Blood money A 'noble experiment' turns a profit on the pain of kidney patients Beth Baker and Stuart Kaufer They were called, simply enough, "death boards," and for the first dozen years after...
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Revolt at Big Mac's
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Kotlowitz, Alex
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Revolt at Big Mac's Fast food for everyone, peanuts for the workers Alex Kottewitz Hot grease from the french fry vats leaves blisters on your arms and hands. You rub on some salve, and go back...
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A big job for a little town
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Egerton, John
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A big job for a little town The people of Erwin may be giving more than their share for national security' JohnEgerton When the Davison Chemical Division of the W.R. Grace Company decided to...
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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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Stuffed eagle
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Seitz, Michael H.
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MOVIES Stuffed eagle Michael H. Seitz It was the cinematic event of the decade: the triumphant presentation of French filmmaker Abel Gance's long-lost 1927 "masterpiece," Napoleon. Presented by...
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Dizzy Gillespie: the deep sound of joy
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Dizzy Gillespie: the deep sound of joy NatHentoff Some people, just by coming into the room, make you feel good. Fats Waller was like that. And so is John Birks "Dizzy"...
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Roots of racism
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Roediger, David R.
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BOOKS Roots of racism David R. Roediger WHITE SUPREMACY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY by George M. Fredrickson Oxford University Press. 356 pp. $19.95. We are...
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The new Chinese
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Schell, Orville
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The new Chinese "WATCH OUT rOR THE FOREIGN GUESTS" byOrvilleSchell Pantheon. 178 pp. $8.95. For most of its first thirty years, the People's Republic of China was, to Western observers, akin to...
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Facing nuclear war
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Beres, Louis Rene
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Facing nuclear war APOCALYPSE: NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE IN WORLD POLITICS by Louis Rene Beres University of Chicago Press. 315 pp. $20. Political scientist Louis Rene Beres, through his...
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Living the 1930s
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Banks, Ann
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Living the 1930s FIRST-PERSON AMERICA edited and with an introduction by Ann Banks Alfred A. Knopf. 287 pp. $13.95. What did the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s really accomplish? First, it...
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Unique artist
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Lisle, Laurie
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Unique artist PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST: A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA O'KEEFFE by Laurie Lisle Seaview Books. 384 pp. $14.95. Georgia O'Keeffe was born liberated, not only as a woman but as a human being...
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A CIA apologia
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Meyer, Cord
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A CIA apologia FACING REALITY: FROM WORLD FEDERALISM TO THE CIA by Cord Meyer Harper & Row. 433 pp. $15.95. When he was a young Marine officer on Guam in 1944, Cord Meyer was blinded in one...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Supporting apartheid Decoding Corporate Camouflage: U.S. Business Support for Apartheid, by Elizabeth Schmidt (Institute for Policy Studies, 1901 Q Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009....
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The delivery
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Norman, Liane Ellison
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THE LAST WORD The delivery Liane Ellison Norman It was not yet a godly hour. I was still groggy with sleep, not entirely sure whether I had really heard the doorbell or had merely dreamed it. But...
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