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 Vol. 046 Issue 011 (November 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 Regaining Perspective Tiank you for giving me a good swift kick in the butt with your Comment on the threats to the nuclear freeze movement ("No Time to...
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Comment
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COMMENT After Sabra and Shatila Consider these dramatically divergent reactions to the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps—both from...
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NO COMMENT A Dog's Life An airborne corps spokesman at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, explaining why only limited use of parachuting dogs is contemplated by the Army: "We have soldiers here in...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones A Few Words from the Sponsor There's scarcely a comfortable chair in the White House. President Reagan occasionally sits in one of the pink high-backed chairs by...
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Reflections
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS Sidney Lens Turning Off the Tap Judging from the polls and the primaries, Americans who vote in November will certainly send to the House of Representatives enough new members to...
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Datelines
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al., John Logue et.
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Social-Democratic Comeback in Sweden STOCKHOLM In a campaign fought on economic issues, the Swedish Social Democrats won a clear victory in the September elections, an appropriate way to...
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RELUCTANT WARRIORS
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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RELUCTANT WARRIORS Will Japan be yanked back into uniform? ====== BY JOHN JUNKERMAN ====== The Marines retook Iwo Jima this spring. From amphibious assault ships poised offshore, 800...
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NO QUIET ON THE WEST BANK
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Steif, William
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No Quiet on the West Bank How much more blood for a place of rocks and sand? BY WILLIAM STEIF Like any tourist, I stand on a wall of the Old City of Jerusalem. Inside, in Moslem, Christian,...
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THE WEIRTON STEEL THAT WAS AND MAY YET BE
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Williams, Mary
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The Weirton Steel that Was and May Yet Be AN ESOP FABLE BY MARY WILLIAMS William Johnson was sitting on a metal chair on the bare earth of his yard, watching a team of roofers pound away at...
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A PATENT HUSTLE
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Hines, Judith Randal and William
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A PATENT HUSTLE The drug makers' hype has serious side effects BYJUDITH RANDAL AND WILLIAM HINES The anti-arthritis medicine Oraflex isn't exactly what the pharmaceutical industry has in...
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TALKIN' UNION (BUT NOT TOO LOUD)
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Hentoff, Nat
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Talkie Union (But Not Too Loud) BY NAT HENTOFF Iorganized my^first shop—a string of three candy stores—when I was fourteen. The boss paid us high school and college students with an eye to...
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THE DESPERATE MIGRANTS OF DEVIL'S CANYON
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Foster, Douglas
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THE DESPERATE MIGRANTS OF DEVIL'S CANYON BY DOUGHS FOSTER The drive from San Diego Inter• national Airport to Devil's Canyon is twenty miles along Highway 5, then four miles or ^ so along...
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PROFESSOR FROM PLEASANTVILLE
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Mayer, Milton
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VIEWS REVIEWS PROFESSOR FROM PLEASAN7VILLE BY MILTON MAYER Of all the slaphappy swindles of the age the happiest, by far, is the Reader's Digest, Placebo Purveyor to the Gee-Whiz Trade the...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC NatHentoff The Exultant Return of the Klezmorim The young boy, a Jewish boy, in Eastern Poland could not get the wild and sweet sounds of the fiddle out of his head. He had...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Low Budgets, High Achievements One of the best films of the year is Chilly Scenes of Winter, written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, and based on a novel by Ann...
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The Notorious Baiter
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Reeves, Thomas C.
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BOOKS The Notorious Baiter THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOE MCCARTHY: A BIOGRAPHY by Thomas C. Reeves Stein and Day. 819 pp. $19.95. On February 9, 1950, an obscure young Republican Senator...
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Global Pursuits
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Calleo, David
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Global Pursuits THE IMPERIOUS ECONOMY by David Calleo Harvard University Press. 265 pp. $17.50. The failure of Ronald Reagan's supply-side economics and Cold War foreign policy to...
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Blocking Reform
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Kinzer, Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen
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BOOKS make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.' " —Steve Burkhoi.der (Steve Burkholder, a free-lance writer, has studied and traveled throughout Central America. He is...
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Job Blackmail
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Grossman, Richard Kazis and Richard L.
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Over the long term, democratic trade unions, with their millions of members, must provide the overall leadership for a progressive coalition to succeed. At the end of Fear at Work, Kazis and...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Self-ruin THE SPORTY GAME by John Newhouse Alfred A. Knopf. 242 pp. $14.95. In 1965, after Boeing lost the contract for the C-5A, the Pentagon's new leviathan, it decided to...
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Report Card
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Corson, Ross
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REPORT CARD Ross Corson To Serve and Protect KNOW YOUR LOCAL POLICE: A GUIDE FOR CITIZENS by Mae Churchill of the Urban Policy Research Institute National Council on Crime and Delinquency,...
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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...
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The Last Word
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Pollak, Felix
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THE LAST WORD Felix Pollak Never Say Die As always, the language itself gives the show away. The evasions we employ in our references to old age expose us, revealing our fears, our hypocrisy,...
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