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 Vol. 046 Issue 001 (January 1 1982)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor First Amendment As the attorney for Citizens Against Nuclear Power and the Chicago Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, I was generally pleased with Carol...
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Comment
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COMMENT Still Stick in Death Valky What was most significant about Ronald Reagan's "zero option" arms control proposal for Western Europe was that he made it at all. Evidently, the Administration...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Right to Life but Not Limb Dr. Jeronimo Dominguez, the Right to Life Party's candidate in the recent New York City mayoral campaign, said he would favor amputation as a criminal...
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The Word from Washington
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Stein, Jeff
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THE WORD F ROM WASH INGTON JeffStein DUE PROCESS The people, not the politicians, deserve due process Harrison Williams rubbed the stubble on his upper lip, crooked his elbow on the polished oak...
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Reflections
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Johnson, Phillip
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REFLECTIONS Phillip Johnson A MENACE MISPLACED The tussock moth has been out of the news for some time now. It has been almost a decade since it fluttered through television broadcasts and...
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Datelines
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al., Dan Carpenter et.
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DATELINES PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE BUTTER INDIANAPOLIS For the time being, the Reagan Administration will have to build bombs and train troops without the help of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic...
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WHEN THE 'VISIBLE SAINTS' COME MARCHING IN
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Judis, John
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When the 'Visible Saints' Come Marching In There aren't many in that number BYJOHNJUDIS For a dozen years now the Weather Underground has held a prominent place in the consciousness of the...
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HEAVY LIFTING
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Lens, Sidney
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HEAVY LIFTING Five not so easy pieces for the unions BY SIDNEY LENS If there is a shift to the Right in the United States today, as the mass media and most major party politicians insist, there...
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HARD CHOICES
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Compa, Lance
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HARD CHOICES Porkchops or politics? Organizing or merchandising? Confrontation or accommodation? BY LANCE COMPA The rush of events since the election of Ronald Reagan has forced the trade union...
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REBEL TEAMSTERS
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Hoyt, Michael
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REBEL TEAMSTERS Fighting to reclaim 'Reagan's kind of union9 BY MICHAEL HOYT Everyone at the Teamster convention in Las Vegas last summer wondered how Ronald Reagan would do it—acknowledge his...
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HOLY SMOKE
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MacEoin, Gary
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HOLY SMOKE but no fire BY GARY MacEOIN To treat workers as commodities, as expendables in the cause of productivity, is a perversion of Judeo-Christian values. Such is the basic message of Pope...
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THE PLUNDER UNDER DOWN UNDER
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Saddler, Hugh
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The Plunder under Down Under BY HUGH SADDLER Australia: a continent for sale Twenty years ago the economy of the town of Gladstone on the central coast of Queensland revolved around a meatworks...
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AGAIN, PAYOLA
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Coll, Steve
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VIEWS REVIEWS AGAIN, PAYOLA BY STEVE COLL When Congress came to Hollywood last spring to sniff out rumors of widespread cocaine use and influence-peddling in the film and television industries,...
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Media
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Schorr, Daniel
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MEDIA Daniel Schorr WORDS FIT TO PRINT Author's Note: Last spring, I was invited by Ed Klein, editor of The New York Times Magazine, to write one of five columns on English usage that would...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC NatHentoff THE RUNNING KIND Bob Wills, the Texan who led the most swinging band in country music history, used to ride fifty miles to hear Bessie Smith when he was a teenager....
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz PURPOSEFUL DOCUMENTARY "Below the surface of the modern world lie the actuating economic issues of modern civilization. These are the real materials of purposeful...
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IN LOVE WITH HISTORY
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Tuchman, Barbara W.
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BOOKS IN LOVE WITH HISTORY PRACTICING HISTORY: SELECTED ESSAYS by Barbara W. Tuchman Alfred A. Knopf. 306 pp. $16.50. n Practicing History, Barbara Tuchman has performed a useful service in...
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TO NAIL KING
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Garrow, David J.
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TO NAIL KING THE FBI AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. by David J. Garrow W.W.Norton. 320 pp. $15.95. In November 1963, the FBI's Domestic Intelligence chief sent off an anonymous letter to the...
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SPORTS FOR ALL
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Vincent, Ted
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BOOKS SPORTS FOR ALL MUDVILLE'S REVENGE: THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN SPORT by Ted Vincent Seaview Books. 346 pp. $12.95. The television sports fan nursing a beer on his pot belly has been a...
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IN THE FAMILY
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Irving, John
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IN THE FAMILY THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE by John Irving Dutton. 401 pp. $15.50. Weak writers may repeat themselves in book after book, while great writers, often obsessed, reexamine their subjects...
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PRAIRIE REVOLT
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Wellstone, Barry M. Casper and Paul David
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BOOKS PRAIRIE REVOLT POWERLINE by Barry M. Casper and Paul David Wellstone University of Massachusetts Press. 314 pp. $18.50 hardcover. $7.95 paperback. On January 11, 1978, Nina and Dennis...
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APARTHEID
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Pollak, Richard
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APARTHEID JULY'S PEOPLE by Nadine Gordimer The Viking Press. 160 pp. $10.95. UP AGAINST APARTHEID by Richard Pollak Southern Illinois University Press. 157 pp. $12.95. n one of her early...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Every Sunday Night MASTERPIECES by Alistair Cooke Alfred A. Knopf. 240 pp. $25. In his preface, Alistair Cooke notes that these reminiscences of a decade as the host of BBC...
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Index for 1981
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the Progressive INDEX TO VOLUME 45 1981 SECTION I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec. 19 is page 19 of the December issue. SECTION II lists...
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Puzzle
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE By 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...
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The Last Word
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Rother, Stan
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THE LAST WORD StanRother LAST RITES The Reverend Stan Rother, pastor of the Catholic Chttrch in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, was murdered July 28. He was the fifth priest killed in Guatemala last...
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