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 Vol. 046 Issue 006 (June 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 Fathers and Sons Here's a toast to Lawrence Walsh's "Fathers and Sons" (May issue). It is probably only an apparent paradox that American writing, coming out of a culture...
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Comment
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COMMENT Putting Congress to the Test Among the hundreds of thousands of Americans who took part in Ground Zero Week actions in April or are otherwise involved in the current surge of opposition to...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Corporate Accountability From a Newsweek account of a dispute within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over improper currency transactions by Citicorp, the nation's...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Walter's Warning Walter Cronkite opposed it. Nonetheless, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA)—which makes it a crime to divulge the identity of American...
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Datelines
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al., Liva Baker et
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DATELINES Even the Least among Us WASHINGTON, D.C. On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. gunned down the President, his press secretary, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer in front of...
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ON TO WORLD WAR IV?
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Dugger, Ronnie
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QntoWorldWarlV? Still AU the Way with LBJ AN EXCERPT FROM The Politician The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson BY RONNIE DUGGER We have a natural tendency to think of the Presidencies or the...
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SPACE WARS
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Siegel, Lenny
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SPACE WARS The Air Force readies a grand finale untouched by human hands BY LENNY SIEGEL In the San Francisco Peninsula town of Sunnyvale, nestled in the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company...
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SPACE WARS: The old college try.
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Burkholder, Steve
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The Old College Try At the University of Michigan, hard hit by the worst recession in forty years, the Geography Department was one of the first to feel the ax last year. But the budget-cutters...
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BREAKING RANKS
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Compa, Lance
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TRUTH TECHNOLOGY1 Who detects the lies of the lie detectors? 'Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of...
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DARKER CLOAKS, LONGER DAGGERS
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MacKenzie, Angus
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Breaking Ranks On military spending, unions hear a different drummer BY LANCE COMPA Something extraordinary happened when the executive council of the AFL-CIO met in Florida last February. For...
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THE VICTIM SYNDROME
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ELSHTAIN, JEAN BETHKE
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Darker Cloaks, Longer Daggers A new law protects spies' identities and covers up their dirty work BY ANGUS MACKENZIE Soon President Reagan will sign the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and...
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ART WHERE YOU ARE
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Goldbard, Don Adams and Arlene
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THE VICTIM SYNDROME troubling turn in feminism BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Consider these five assertions: 1. Violence against women is dramatically on the rise. 2. The rape rate shows a steady...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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VIEWS ART WHERE YOU ARE REV I E W S BY DON ADAMS AND ARLENE GOLDBARD Don Adams was a musician who started out to be a psychologist. "But I began to realize," he says, "that in South...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC . NatHentoff A Big Handful of Keys When I was a schoolboy, a Boston disk jockey had a commendable habit of playing a Fats Waller recording every morning just before eight...
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Media
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BROWNING, FRANK
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HUHfMfrfae/tf-Seta ~ A Few Laughs f it can be proud of anything, Hollywood ought to be pleased with itself for the rich lode of comic invention and talent that veins American movie history. But in...
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Brave New Dogma
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BROWNING, FRANK
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MEDIA Frank Browning Brave New Dogma Inquiry, the national magazine that was "too left to be right and too right to be left," has gone into rhetorical metastasis. Its Libertarian overlords have...
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When the Light Went Out
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Pryce-Jones, David
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BOOKS When the Light Went Out PARIS IN THE THIRD REICH by David Pryce-Jones Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 295 pp. $25. In the summer of 1942, in German-occupied Paris, the collaborationist French...
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Policies Askew
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Lekachman, Robert
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Policies Askew GREED IS NOT ENOUGH: REAGANOMICS by Robert Lekachman Pantheon Books. 213 pp. $13.50. Six years ago, in Economists at Bay, Robert Lekachman noted that "ignorance of the real world...
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Expanding Empire
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Rosenberg, Emily S.
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BOOKS Expanding Empire SPREADING THE AMERICAN DREAM: AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL EXPANSION, 1890-1945 by Emily S. Rosenberg Hill and Wang. 258 pp. $16.95. n the 1920s, Charles Beard, the...
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City Folklore
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Dorson, Richard M.
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City Folklore LAND OF THE MILLRATS by Richard M. Dorson Harvard University Press. 215 pp. $22.50. For many reasons it has been difficult to acknowledge the existence of a native tradition of...
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Why Vietnam?
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Maclear, Michael
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BOOKS Why Vietnam? THE TEN THOUSAND DAY WAR by Michael Maclear St. Martin's Press. 288 pp. $16.95. f there is a thesis in Michael Maclear's The Ten Thousand Day War it is that the original sin...
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Novels, Yes
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Dillard, Annie
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Novels, Yes LIVING BY FICTION by Annie Dillard Harper & Row. 192 pp. $12.95. Writer and critic Annie Dillard has made a careful study of modern writing in Living by Fiction, an impressive but...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Staying Put DISPLACEMENT: HOW TO FIGHT IT by Chester Hartman, Dennis Keating, and Richard LeGates, with Steve Turner National Housing Law Project, 2150 Shattuck Ave., No. 300,...
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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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Richardson, Laura
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THE LAST WORD What About the Children? One day in April, midway through Ground Zero Week, a letter arrived at The Progressive from Glenn W. Hawkes, a visiting professor of sociology at Norwich...
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