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 Vol. 046 Issue 008 (August 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 Secret Agents Although I'm not a lawyer, it seems to me there will be an unintended consequence of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act ("Darker Cloaks, Longer...
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Comment
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COMMENT 'An Unconscionable Burden9 Early in July, as this issue of The Progressive was about to go to press, a note arrived from a long-time reader and occasional contributor. "I hope," she wrote,...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Watch Out For Falling Rocks Lieutenant General Daniel Graham, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, justifying the overkill capacity in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile:...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON , Arthur Jones Irish Echoes Istarted out for the Versailles economic summit but ended up in the economic abyss, Ballymurphy, Belfast. I wasn't alone. The Congressional Friends of...
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Reflections
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Brown, Ken
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REFLECTIONS Ken Brown The Last Just War: How Just Was It? Few Americans know lhai the Allies, and not Hitler, introduced terror bombing in World War 11. Many of us grew up remembering Rotterdam....
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Datelines
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DATELINES Art of Darkness ALTO RIO MAYO, PERU The Amazon River system carries one-fifth of the river water of the planet, and for that reason alone it is probably worth our interest. Even more...
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BAN THE BOMB
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Lens, Sidney
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BAN THE BOMB BY SIDNEY LENS In an astonishingly short time, a remarkably large number of Americans have recognized the danger of the nuclear arms race and embraced the idea that it must stop. On...
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THE CONVERSION OF BILLY GRAHAM
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GAILLARD, FRYE
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The Conversion of Billy Graham How the Presidents9 preacher learned to start worrying and loathe the Bomb BY FRYE GAILLARD On April 20,1982, shortly before his controversial and in many ways...
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WHO'S ON FIRST!
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Hentoff, Nat
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Who's on First FREE SPEECH AND DOUBLETALK BYNATHENTOFF In 1960, when there were still political blacklists at the networks, though they were not as rigidly enforced as before, I was helping Bob...
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SORE THUMBS
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Mayer, Milton
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Sore Thumbs BY MILTON MAYER Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts —Official state road sign on lnterstate-40 west of Oklahoma City The desert was dusty then; U.S. 66 (buried beneath lnterstate-40...
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JUDGE, JURY, AND SOMETIMES GOD
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Flaherty, Francis J .
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JudgeJury, and Sometimes God The unaccountable power of the prosecutor BY FRANCIS J. FLAHERTY It was 1927, the height of Prohibition. The owners of several American shipping fleets were...
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O PIONEERS
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Denison, Dave A .
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0 PIONEERS A North Country Elegy ^mwwwmffl BY DAVE A. DENISON ehbhbbhbbhhhhh^^ This is a story about invisibility and the Left. It's a story not to be found in most history books, but attention...
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SURF AND TURF MANEUVERS
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SANDERS, JERRY
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SURF AND TURF MANEUVERS ALOHA The military stake out a beachhead in Hawaii BY JERRY SANDERS ASiberian chill swept across the Hawaiian archipelago one day in February when the chief judge of the...
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DOCTOR TO THE HUMAN CONDITION
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us, Claudia Dreif
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VIEWS REVIEWS DOCTOR TO THE HUMAN CONDITION BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS Last March, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Mephisto the best foreign feature film of the year, American...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC NatHentoff An Ellington Bonanza In the early 1940s, I knew a red-bearded soldier of fortune, of indeterminate nationality, who claimed to have every single recording ever made by...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM r Michael H. Seitz Endgames The film world has seen a small but promising breakthrough in the past two years, resulting in occasional theater showings of non-fiction works. Some of these...
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Tangled Vines
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Burns, James McGregor
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BOOKS Tangled Vines THE VINEYARD OF LIBERTY by James McGregor Burns Alfred A. Knopf. 741 pp. $22.95. There were no tape recorders and no oral historians to ride the circuits of the back country...
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Nuclear Risks
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Solomon, Harvey Wasserman and Norman
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Nuclear Risks KILLING OUR OWN: THE DISASTER OF AMERICA'S EXPERIENCE WITH ATOMIC RADIATION by Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon with Robert Alvarez and Eleanor Walters Delacorte Press. 368...
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Goal: Profits
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McGovem, James
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Goal: Profits AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT AMERICA'S RICHEST INDUSTRY: THE OIL GAME by James McGovern The Viking Press. 239 pp. $12.95. The adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies only too...
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A Whole People'
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'A Whole People' THE ROAD TO NUREMBERG by Bradley F. Smith Basic Books. 303 pp. $13.95. AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES by Martin Gilbert Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 368 pp. $15.95. in his defense of...
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A Sleeper
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Campbell, Will D.
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A Sleeper THE GLAD RIVER by Will D. Campbell Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 310 pp. $14.50. Books, observed a New York publisher not long ago, have become the software of the entertainment industry....
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly The Edges of Power A MAN'S LIFE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Roger Wilkins Simon and Schuster. 384 pp. $17.95. Roger Wilkins has written a bittersweet autobiography from the edges of power...
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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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BESSER, JAMES DAVID
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THE LAST WORD James David Besser The Doomsday Decade Since we seem to be fond of attaching titles to entire decades but haven't yet found one for the 1980s, I have a suggestion: Let's call this...
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