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 Vol. 046 Issue 009 (September 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 Just War Though I agree with Ken Brown on the immorality often shown by "the good guys" in war ("The Last Just War: How Just Was It?" August issue), I can not agree with his...
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Comment
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COMMENT No Time to Be Respectable According to a recent editorial in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, America's resurgent peace movement is menaced by two imminent threats. The first...
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No Comment
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A o COM \u: \ / Trigger's Last Stand Roy Rogers, the sixty-nine-year-old former cowboy star, says, "They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun." He's been hired by the National Rifle...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Desert Song As the caravan bearing the latest California caliph watered the animals and sank the tent pegs into the shifting sands of Foggy Bottom, questions rose like...
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Datelines
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al., Peter Dreier et
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DATELINES Renters' Revolt BOSTON Tenants, long a sleeping giant in American politics, are beginning to wake up. Today's middle-class renters, with the dream of home ownership slipping away, are...
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OLD MATH AND NEW REALITIES
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MORLAND, HOWARD
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Old Math and New Realities Keeping score in the nuclear game BY HOWARD MORLAND To the genuine astonishment of peace and arms-control advocates, official U.S. opposition to the proposed bilateral...
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THE AFRIKANER BOMB
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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THE Afrikaner BOMB Pretoria marches toward Doomsday (copyright © 1982, the progressive. inc.) South Africa has its own atomic bomb. It was conceived in the mid-1970s as an ace-in-the-hole to...
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COMPUTER REVOLUTION
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Corson, Ross
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COMPUTER REVOLUTION BY ROSS CORSON Time magazine gushes about the "whiz kids" of the "computer revolution." Pop sociologist Alvin Toffler hits us with future shocks and third waves. California's...
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THE LAST BEACHHEAD
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Nelson, Anne
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The Last Beachhead Seventeen years ago Lyndon Johnson sent in the Marines; the Dominicans haven't recovered-and neither have we BY ANNE NELSON Popular fear of an armed plunge into the morass of...
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ADVENTURES IN THE BANANA TRADE
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Fair, Charles M.
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Adventures in the Banana Trade Almost anything can set us old guys reminiscing—train whistles. World War II movies, the sound of Clifford Brown playing Dahoud. In my case, it's political news from...
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REAGAN'S FANTASY ISLANDS
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Algeo, Donald
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Reagan's Fantasy Islands Is tiny Grenada a Soviet surrogate? BY DONALD ALGEO Ayoung man selling toy steel drums on the beach is asked what he thinks of the new government. He looks up and down...
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LIKE GOD IN FRANCE
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Mayer, Milton
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Like God in France Veelson's folly, Bertholet's ice cream, Mayer's hotplate, and a fire at the Hotel de Nice BY MILTON MAYER Montcuq, France Ten, fifteen, make it twenty years ago, Ms. Baby...
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GOODBYE, MR. SCRIPPS
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Steif, William
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VIEWS REV I E W S GOODBYE, MR SCRIPPS BY WILLIAM STEIF suppose I didn't have to wait for the sale of United Press International and the death of The Cleveland Press last June to know that...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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m|fl jM/r/zae/H, Seitz Bob, Garp, and Lola One of the classiest and best-made films to appear this summer was made twenty-seven years ago. It is the 1955 Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler),...
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Kissinger: History and Apologia
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Kissinger, Henry
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BOOKS Kissinger: History and Apologia YEARS OF UPHEAVAL by Henry Kissinger Little, Brown. 1,283 pp. $24.95. The (apocryphal?) story made the rounds that I responded to someone at a dinner party...
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Foxy Prophet
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Robinson, Jo Ann Ooiman
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BOOKS Foxy Prophet ABRAHAM WENT OUT by Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson Temple University Press. 341 pp. $22.50. This biography of A.J. Muste by Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson may come as a revelation to those...
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LBJ, with Waits
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Dugger, Ronnie
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LBJ, with Waits THE POLITICIAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LYNDONJOHNSON by Ronnie Dugger W.W. Norton. 514 pp. $18.95. George Christian, who was Captain Bligh's last press secretary, says his boss...
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Books Briefly
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Books BrieflyIf% Over There THE ATOM BESIEGED: ANTTNUCLEAR MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY by Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Pollak MIT Press. 235 pp. $7.95 paperback. "Nuclear power symbolizes the...
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Report Card
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Corson, Ross
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report card Ross Corson Military Economy THE COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF REAGAN'S MILITARY BUILDUP by The Council on Economic Priorities 84 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. $2.50. NEITHER JOBS...
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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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Walsh, Lawrence
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THE LAST WORD Hates Corners Has a Bomb In It Lawrence Walsh Our man rides the nuclear range on Fat Man, destroyer of Nagasaki. What the subject needed, the man said, was "a touch of objective...
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