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 Vol. 045 Issue 005 (May 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Moles Sometimes the pieces just fall together. While reading the "Nuancing in the Dark" piece about General Haig's peculiar use of English (April issue), I was struck by the similarity to...
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Comment
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COMMENT Buying time Just a few days before the attempt on President Reagan's life pushed most of the Administration's foreign and domestic policies off the front pages and out of public...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Gab from the grave ... Stanley Zelazny, a manufacturing engineer in Sunnyvale, California, has invented a solar-powered plexiglass "electronic tombstone" which broadcasts up to ninety...
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The Word from Washington
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Black spring Jeffrey Stein The Senate Dining Room is a fairly sedate place, as a rule, filled with the low buzz of tourists taking a break from the foot-pounding Capitol...
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HARD TIMES FOR THE AMERICAN FAMILY
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ELSHTAIN, JEAN BETHKE
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HARD TIMES for the American family JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Devoted as our society is to an idealized picture of the family, we have made it more and more difficult for families to survive as intact,...
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LOST CHILDREN
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Medsger, Betty
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Lost Children Foster care is a 'last resort' that lasts and lasts BETTY MEDSGER Martha, the mother of three pre-schoolers, received Federal welfare assistance for herself and her children until...
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BREAKING THE INCEST TABOO
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Yudkin, Marcia
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Breaking the incest taboo Those who crusade for family 'love' forget the balance of family power MARCIA YUDKIN Vice is nice, but incest is best." When I was young, my girl friends and I used to...
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TURBULENCE AHEAD FOR THE CLEAN AIR ACT
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O'Donnell, Francis J.
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Turbulence ahead for the Clean Air Act But its skies have never been clear Francis J. O'Donnell Burning eyes. Coughing. Nose bleeds. Asthmatic attacks for some, pneumonia for others. More than a...
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KEEP THE LAWSUITS COMING
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Bonner, Ray
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Keep the lawsuits coming People without political clout need to have their day in court Ray Bonner We hear the cry throughout the land: "Too many lawsuits and too many lawyers." According to one...
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WHEEL RIM TRAGEDY
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Lewin, Tamar
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Wheel rim tragedy Government investigations have faltered, but manufacturers face liability claims Tamar Lewin It can happen on the road or in the shop—wherever the metal ring that locks a truck...
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SLAVE LABOR IN THE CANE FIELDS
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Mulligan, Joseph
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Slave labor in the cane fields The threat of deportation keeps the workers quiet Joseph Mulligan The windowless van bounced along a back road, carrying its 130 passengers, packed like cattle,...
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MARXISM IN MOZAMBIQUE
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Talbot, Stephen
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Marxism in Mozambique: In the shadow of South Africa, a young country struggles to make revolutionary change Stephen Talbot rlying into Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, is like approaching a...
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ALL THE BEST FOR THE BRIGHTEST
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Remley, Anne Gardner
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All the best for the brightest But what about the other 95 per cent? Aline Gardner Remley The Great Gifted Hunt is on. Across the nation, hundreds of new public school programs are springing up...
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WARHEADS INTO PLOWSHARES
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Davidon, Ann Morrissett
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The Progressive Puzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rath von Clues A. Military aggression is repugnant B. Spy is not shot: he developed way of using solar energy C. Dental implement makes you shout...
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WHY WE SEIZED THE HAMMER
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Berrigan, Philip
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Warheads into plowshares When is a 'crime' a prophetic act? Ann Morrissett Davidon When the "Plowshares Eight" trial was over and Philip and Daniel Berrigan and their companions had been...
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Puzzle
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Why we seized the hammer Philip Berrigan They will hammer their swords into plowshares. —Isaiah 2:4 The instrument we employed at General Electric's Re-entry Division Plant in King of Prussia,...
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Indigenous Music
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Max Roach: the unsubservient drummer NatHentoff He always looks ready. Physically ready to expend the habitual enormous energy he puts into each piece he plays. It is a fiercely...
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Movies
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MOVIES_ Two cheers for democracy Michael H. Seitz You've almost got to be crazy to make an independent documentary film. The problems of financing are horrendous, even for relatively low-budget...
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Two ahead of their times
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Bluestein, Gene
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BOOKS Two ahead of their times Gene Bluestein ZORA NEALE HURSTON: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY by Robert E. Hemenway University of Illinois Press. 371 pp. $15 hardcover. $8.95 paperback. CONSTANCE...
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Gutting the arts
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Mooney, Michael M.
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Gutting the arts THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE by Michael M. Mooney Wyndam Books. 427 pp. $14.95. Metaphors are double-edged swords, capable of honing large ideas into sharp images, or stabbing them to...
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On other planets
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Lessing, Doris
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On other planets THE SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS by Doris Lessing Alfred A. Knopf. 288 pp. $11.95. In this third volume of Doris Lessing's series of "space fiction," she has created an imaginary realm in...
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Books briefly
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Books briefly Egotrip Buy This Book, by Pete Wagner (Me Publications, P.O. Box 14004, Minneapolis, MN 55414. 216 pp. $6.95 paperback). You can tell right away that this is Pete Wagner's book: With...
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THE MART
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THE MART __ASSOCIATIONS_ ECOLOGISM POLITICAL PARTY (USA), 1801 E. Wilshire, Fullerton, CA 92631._ BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY. Information; PR, RD1, Box 409, Coopersburg, PA 18036._ THE INDUSTRIAL...
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THE LAST WORD
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Pollak, Felix
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THE LAST WORD Request denied Felix Pollak Steven T. Judy, the twenty-four-year-old convicted murderer who died in the electric chair shortly after midnight on March 9,1981, ordered steak with...
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