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 Vol. 046 Issue 003 (March 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 A New Party All too often, even the activists reject any suggestion of an independent political party. But the January issue of The Progressive gives us several articles...
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Comment
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COMMENT Of the Marhet Prominent among the quaint myths that make up the Reagan Adminstration's cosmology is the notion that an unfettered market economy is history's great engine of economic...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Different Strokes Newmarket Press has published a 152-page book called Dr. Michael Fox's Massage Program for Cats and Dogs. Going My Way? From the student handbook at fundamentalist...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Cries and Whispers OWashington, what's new? I've been long gone. The last fifteen months of a lengthy absence were spent mainly in another foreign capital: London. My...
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Reflections
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Mayer, Milton
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REFLECTIONS Milton Mayer Staying with the Reagans We split a quarter-pounder and a milkshake at McDonald's, $1.96 for the two of us. On to Motel 6, $20.31, including seventy-five cents for...
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Datelines
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al., John Junkerman et.
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DATELINES Specializing in Waging Peace BOSTON Following the lead of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Union of Concerned Scientists, a wide range of professionals—from teachers and...
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SECOND ACT IN THE SECOND WORLD
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Lens, Sidney
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SECOND ACT in the SECOND WORLD Despite the setback in Poland, world communism is moving toward decentralization BY SIDNEY LENS When General Wojciech Jaru-zelski placed Poland under martial law in...
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CAN WE SAVE THE SCHOOLS? (Yes, but there isn't much time.)
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Egerton, John
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Can We Save the Schools? ? Yes, but there isn't much time. BY JOHN EGERTON Anyone who doubts that public education in the United States is in deep trouble has not been paying attention. Beyond...
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CAN WE SAVE THE SCHOOLS? (No, and they're not worth saving)
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Holt, John
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Can We Save the Schools? ? No, and they're not worth saving. A COMMENT BY JOHN HOLT I have to decline your kind invitation to submit a companion article to John Egerton's. I am finishing a book...
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THE GOOD EARTH UP FOR GRABS: Wilderness: Lusting after the last acre.
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Reid, Robert Leonard
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WILDERNESS: Lusting after the Last Acre BY ROBERT LEONARD RED The preservationists of the 1950s were a small and unorganized group, crying in the rapidly shrinking wilderness during a decade of...
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THE GOOD EARTH UP FOR GRABS: Farmland: Force-feeding the world.
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Doyle, Jack
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FARMLAND: Force-feeding the World BY JACK DOYLE They call themselves the "farm export community," but very few of them come to work in bib overalls. In three-piece suits and studied demeanor, they...
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HUDDLED MASSES DEPARTMENT: Some boat people are more equal than others.
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Zucker, Naomi Flink
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HUDDLED MUSSES DEPARTMENT: Some Boat People Are More Equal than Others BY NAOMI FLINKZUCKER Ahalf-starved band of Haitians was found marooned on the island of Cayo Lobos more than a year ago....
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HUDDLED MASSES DEPARTMENT: The Haitian migrants stoop, the growers conquer.
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Koeppel, Barbara
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HAITIANS: LATEST IN AN OLD AMERKAN TRADITION The Migrants Stoop, the Growers Conquer BY BARBARA KOEPPEL It is a hot day in September, the sort that feels more like July. Rodolphe Francois, Civil...
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IF YOU KNEW WHAT SUBARU KNEW, YOU'D BLOW A GASKET
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Ramo, Alan
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If You Knew What Subaru Knew, You'd Blow a Gasket BY ALAN RAMO It was the summer of 1978, and Moshe Hirschberger, a thirty-four-year-old Israeli physician, had just completed a graduate fellowship...
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ART NOTES
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NOTES, ART
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VIEWS REVIEWS ART NOTES From the bureaucratic front BY BOB ARNEBECK In the mid-1970s, sociologist Richard Orend studied "The Quality of Navy Life" for the Naval Personnel Research and...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC f NatHentoff 'Let Me Hold You for a While This City Is So Cold' • • • I have little patience with revivalism— religious, political (Mondale/Kennedy), or musical. There was a...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Small Pleasures Executives at the major motion picture studios think of the period between New Year's and Easter as the doldrums. Movies they regard as potential...
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Vicious Trivia
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Ehrlichman, John
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BOOKS Vicious Trivia WITNESS TO POWER by John Ehrlichman Simon and Schuster. 417 pp. $17.50. This year brings us the tenth anniversary of Watergate, if one takes the first exposed symptom—a...
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New Deity
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Wicklein, John
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New Deity ELECTRONIC NIGHTMARE by John Wicklein The Viking Press. 282 pp. $14.95. The title of his book notwithstanding, John Wicklein is not a pessimist about the onslaught of technology....
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Radiation
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Sternglass, Ernest
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BOOKS Radiation SECRETFALLOUT by Ernest Sternglass McGraw-Hill. 306 pp. $5.95 paperback. In his introduction to Secret Fallout by Ernest Sternglass, Nobel Laureate George Wald suggests that...
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Women's Roles
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ELSHTAIN, JEAN BETHKE
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Women's Roles PUBLIC MAN, PRIVATE WOMAN by Jean Bethke Elshtain Princeton University Press. 378 pp. $25 hardcover. $6.95 paperback. The first 200 pages of Public Man, Private Woman are bound to...
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Foul Play
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Kohn, Howard
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BOOKS Foul Play WHO KILLED KAREN SILK WOOD? by Howard Kohn Summit Books. 462 pp. $8.95. The basic features of the Karen Silk-wood case are by now well-known. "Someone" ran the young Oklahoma...
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Injustice
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Jackson, Brian
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Injustice THE BLACK FLAG by Brian Jackson Routledge & Kegan Paul. 208 pp. $12.95. Brian Jackson introduced himself to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van-zetti in the course of research on...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS Books Briefly Experiment in Learning THE EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE by Alexander Meiklejohn Edited and abridged by John Walker Powell Seven Locks Press (Cabin John, MD). 185 pp. $11.95. At a...
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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 and its author. The first letters of the...
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The Last Word
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Heymont, George
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\THE LAST WORD George Heymont Parents Come Out This time, I was lucky: I escaped unhurt. It was a Friday night and I was walking toward San Francisco's Castro District for a hamburger. Suddenly,...
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