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 Vol. 045 Issue 007 (July 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Railroads Frank Browning's "Murder of the Sunset Limited" in the June issue is probably the finest article I've read in recent times about our privately owned railroads and their...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Reagan's options—and ours It was something less than the Second Coming, but you'd never have guessed that from the way the press treated Congressional approval of Ronald Reagan's budget...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Comparative literature... When the Patriot-News in Har-risburg, Pennsylvania, announced it would drop "Dick Tracy" because of excessive violence in the comic strip, creator Max Collins...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeffrey
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Night rider Jeffrey Stein Iesse Helms was clearly pleased with himself. The Senator from tobacco country knew he had the votes and wanted to dispose of the matter. The...
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Swastikas in Spain
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MacKay, Ruth
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Swastikas in Spain Six years after Franco's death, fascism is more than a memory RuthMacKay rorty years of fascism. For some Spaniards—those who decided not to question too much, or who had never...
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DRAINING AMERICA DRY
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Opie, John
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DRAINING AMERICA DRY What will we do when the water runs out? John Opie When I was growing up in Riverside, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the dominant landmark was a five-story tower housing the...
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Poaching on the public preserve
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Buell, Carol Polsgrove and John
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Poaching on the public preserve It is commonplace to blame our deepening water problems on a single economic fact: Water users do not pay the full cost of the water they use and abuse. For years,...
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MAKING DESERTS BLOOM
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Reid, Robert Leonard
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MAKING DESERTS BLOOM When Californium need more water, they take it from their neighbors Robert Leonard Reid In 1893 Major John Wesley Powell, pioneer explorer of the Colorado River and director...
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ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL
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Randal, Judith
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul Although the reference dates back to the Renaissance, when a British king sold off the lands surrounding one cathedral to finance the building of another, the principle of...
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VICTIMS OF RAPE: WHERE CAN THEY TURN?
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Shuchman, Miriam
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Victims of rape: Where can they turn? Crisis centers falter as the money runs out Miriam Shuchman Ioanne B. is a light sleeper. One Saturday morning last spring she awoke early, while it was...
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A SECOND ASSAULT
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Faller, Nancy
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A second assault The lie detector has long been opposed by civil libertarians and has received a sound debunking from Congressional committees. Lie detector findings are inadmissible as courtroom...
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'DISINFORMATION' FROM THE TIMES
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Judis, John
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'Disinformation' from The Times A disturbing drift toward the Right John Judis Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss had two principal targets in their CIA white paper masquerading as a novel, The...
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LOWELL'S LABORS LOST
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Sylvester, David
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Lowell's labors lost Will our first national park for the worker tell the whole story? David Sylvester Yvonne Hoar started working sixty-hour weeks in the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, a...
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ARMS ACROSS THE SEA
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Wennersten, John R.
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Arms across the sea Margaret Thatcher's government holds the U.S. military in fond embrace John R. Wennersten Afilm made almost fifteen years ago has been playing of late to large audiences...
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BRITAIN'S MUDDLED MIDDLE
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Peterson, Tony
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Britain's muddled middle When Margaret Thatcher stood beside Ronald Reagan to promise that Great Britain would love, honor, and obey the United States until the nuclear holocaust doth us part, she...
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OUR NEW 'SURROGATE' IN THE PERSIAN GULF
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Volman, Daniel
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Our new 'surrogate' in the Persian Gulf Can Sadat fill the late Shah's shoes? Daniel Volman At first glance, President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt would seem to be an unlikely successor to the late...
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FOR A HAZARDOUS JOB, TRY THE POST OFFICE
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Lazare, Dan
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For a hazardous job, try the post office 'Management killed our brother' Dan Lazare The outskirts of Jersey City give way to one of the grimiest industrial landscapes in the country—miles of...
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SMALL FARMERS NEED NOT APPLY
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Barnett, Mary
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Small farmers need not apply The Government helps those who need help least Mary Bamett For more than forty years, Ian McMillan has raised cattle and grain on 1,360 acres of dry, rolling farmland...
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Movies
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Seitz, Michael H.
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MOVIES Hollywood history Michael H. Seitz Even after it is cooked and carved, a turkey is still a turkey. Heaven's Gate was released in New York last November, and promptly withdrawn from...
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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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Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Toshiko Akiyoshi: Triple outsider NatHentoff t twenty-seven, pianist Toshiko IM Akiyoshi was Japan's reigning ¦ A jazz luminary. It was 1956, and then as now, the music was taken...
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Beyond the H-bomb case
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Bagdikian, Ben H.
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BOOKS Beyond the H-bomb case Ben H. Bagdikian BORN SECRET: THE H-BOMB, THE PROGRESSIVE CASE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY by Alexander DeVolpi, Gerald E. Marsh, Theodore A. Postal, and George S....
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Veterans/victims
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Baker, Mark
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Veterans/victims NAM by Mark Baker Morrow. 324 pp. $12.95. EVERTHINC WE HAD edited by AlSantoli Random House. 265 pp. $12.95. WOUNDED MEN, BROKEN PROMISES by Robert Klein Macmillan. 304 pp....
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Inflation primer
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Case, John
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Inflation primer UNDERSTANDING INFLATION by John Case Morrow. 228 pp. $9.95 Here is a book so blatantly at odds with conventional economics, so ludicrously out of fashion with what passes for...
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Growing up
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Willis, Ellen
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Growing up BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: PIECES OF A DECADE by Ellen Willis Alfred A. Knopf. 317 pp. $12.95. FLOWERS OF EMPTINESS by Sally Belfrage Dial Press. 240 pp. $10.95. Though it can take...
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Southern protest
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Miller, Marc S.
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Southern protest WORKING LIVES: THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE SOUTH edited by Marc S. Miller Pantheon. 431 pp. $17.95 hardcover. $7.95 paperback. Working Lives puts the...
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Books briefly
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Books briefly Behind a disaster Three Mile Island: An Hour By Hour Account of What Really Happened, by Mark Stephens (Randojn House. 245 pp. $11.95). Three Mile Island demonstrated much more than...
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The Mart
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THE MART __ASSOCIATIONS_ UNION DEMOCRACY CONFERENCE— Minneapolis Leamington Hotel June 13-14. Unionists, lawyers, civil libertarians—strengthen unions by democratizing them. Meet with Victor...
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The Last Word
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THE LAST WORD A tale of two cities Jonathan Schlefer Iohn Portman, Atlanta architect and developer, believes the architect should be "total master of the physical environment." That's what he...
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