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Vol. 045 Issue 009 (September 1 1981)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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BANNED IN MOSCOW
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MEMO from the Editor BANNED IN MOSCOW (And elsewhere) The trans-Atlantic telephone con-nection was a poor one, but I had no difficulty hearing the anger in Sid Lens's voice. "They turned me...
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Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Ivory Tower To find "The Pentagon in the Ivory Tower" of our universities (June issue) should come as no surprise. Social critics have been telling us for more than twenty...
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Comment
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COMMENT The CIA: Incorrigible The dispute over CIA Director William J. Casey's fitness to hold that exalted office has, almost coincidentally, turned up new evidence that the agency is still in...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT The Power of Positive Thinking Two electric co-ops in Minnesota, the United Power Association of Elk River and the Cooperative Power Association of Minneapolis, have ear-marked up to...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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Stein, Jeff
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON , Jeff Stein WIND POWER Fairly or unfairly, Lowell Weicker, the Republican Senator from Connecticut, has gained the reputation over the years of being a flake. Perhaps it...
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REFLECTIONS
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS Sidney Lens POLAND: IS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE? Warsaw There was quiet anger in Poland as the Ninth Congress of the Com-munist Party—more precisely, the Polish United Workers' Party—...
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DATELINES
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DATELINES CHEERING VETS austin, texas What does a U.S. veteran who may have been exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam war have to cheer about? Not much, until September 1, when a new law is...
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The Day of Reckoning Is Coming
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Stein, Jeff
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The Day of Reckoning Is Coming' An Interview with Robert E. White, Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador BY JEFF STEIN In February, the Reagan Administration removed career Foreign Service...
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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
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Judis, John
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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. The Consummate Conservative BY JOHN JUDIS 'Au great Biblical stories begin with Genesis,' Washington Post columnist George Will Jr. said at National Review's twenty-fifth...
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Free Enterprise-Buckley Style
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Free Enterprise—Buckley Style Most of the Buckley family's notoriety has derived from William F. Buckley Jr.'s career as an editor, writer, and tele-vision personality, and from James Buckley's...
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Life on the Margin
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BROWNING, FRANK
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Life on the Margin Atlanta is not the only city where black children are dying BY FRANK BROWNING Late one August afternoon, a truck pulled up to the corner of Tracey and Clinton Avenue. It was...
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What's Happening in 'Murder City'
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VIVIANO, FRANK
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What's Happening in 'Murder City' The cops help those who help themselves BY FRANK VIVIANO These are not the best of times for the city of Detroit. At rush hour, the four expressways feeding...
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Violence in Detroit: A Bleaker View
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Violence in Detroit: A Bleaker View The police unit called STRESS (Stop the Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets) came into existence in Detroit in 1971, and in two short years had twenty-two killings...
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Crimes That Dont Count
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ELIAS, ROBERT
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Crimes That Don't Count BY ROBERT ELIAS They're saying it again: We must do something about violent crime. Attorney General William French Smith has announced that violent crime is the Reagan...
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Toward Industrial Democracy
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Logue, John
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Toward Industrial Demoeraey Are Western European workers taking control or being coopted! BYJOHN LOGUE We are all democrats in theory. It is just our practice that is Schizophrenie. Democracy...
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The Scandinavian Way
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The Scandinavian Way The push for economic demoeraey in Scandinavia has been shaped by some key economic and political factors: Ii Welfare and taxes cut enthusiasm for raising money wages....
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MAKING BOOKS
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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VIEWS REVIEWS MAKING BOOKS In the Publishing business, small can be beautiful BY CAROL POLSGROVE n 1971, Phil Wood set himself up as a publisher. He had an author, a manu-script, and...
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MEDIA
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d'Adesky, Serge
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MEDIA Serge d'Adesky MUCKRAKING MASTER Journalist Guenter Wallraff makes the mighty ofEurope tremble n 1976, West German Journalist Guenter Wallraff lured Portugal's former President to...
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC, Nat Hentoff YIDDISH SWINGERS Two summers ago, on a Sunday af-ternoon, I went to a Dave Tarras concert on the lower East Side. You don't know the name? What Benny Goodman was to...
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FILM
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM MichaelH-Seitz LOVE... German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder has been one of the most strikingly original filmmak-ers of the past decade, and by all counts the most prolific (now...
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RUFFLING THE STATUS QUO
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
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BOOKS RUFFLING THE STATUS QUO A LIFE IN OUR TIMES by John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin. 563 pp. $16.95. For visibility in public life, few can match the prodigious presence of John Kenneth...
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HARLEM HEYDAY
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Lewis, David Levering
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HARLEM HEYDAY WHEN HARLEM WAS IN VOGUE by David Levering Lewis Alfred A. Knopf. 381 pp. $17.95 Peopled by fascinating figures both black and white, elegantly written and lavishly illustrated,...
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MOSCOW MURDERS
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Smith, Martin Cruz
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MOSCOW MURDERS GORKY PARK by Martin Cruz Smith Random House. 365 pp. $13.95. We are numbly aware that somewhere in a Pentagon inner sanctum generals are planning nuclear war. In the Kremlin,...
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PARADOX
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Shi, David E.
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PARADOX MATTHEW JOSEPHSON: BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN by David E. Shi Yale University Press. 314 pp. $19.95. No one even vaguely acquainted with the life of Matthew Jo-sephson (1899-1978) can fail to...
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Theology Revived
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Kueng, Hans
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Books Briefly Theology Revived DOES GOD EXIST? by Hans Kueng (Doubleday. 702 pp. $17.50). "The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations,...
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Race and Class
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Morrison, Toni
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Race and Class TAR BABY by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf. 306 pp. $11.95) This multi-layered novel explores modern-day race and class relations and demon-strates how the personal frequently...
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PUZZLE
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Cox, Emily
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the ap-propriately numbered Squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letters of the clue answers...
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THE LAST WORD
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Reid, Robert Leonard
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THE LAST WORD , Robert Leonard Reid ON OUR BACKS I heard the news over the telephone. My friend at the other end of the line was crying. "This is it," she said. "They're going to spray us." In...
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