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 Vol. 047 Issue 001 (January 1 1983)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Reluctant Warriors Ifound John Junkerman's "Reluctant Warriors" (November issue) rather disturbing. All the world needs is another country spending its resources on war....
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Comment
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COMMENT Now That We Understand A scene in the documentary film The War at Home shows a college professor in animated debate with a State Department official sent from Washington to a Midwestern...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Call Your Mother— If You Can Ma Bell wants to talk. AT&T has devised a "Let's Talk" line that offers Bell System customers the toll-free chance to chat with company representatives....
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones The New Class For the eighty-one new members of the House of Representatives elected on November 2, the period from election night to opening day of the Ninety-eighth...
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Reflections
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Pinsky, Mark I.
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REFLECTIONS Mark I. Pinsky From a New China Hand More than a little wistfulness is to be expected from a journalist coming to a big story forty-five years late, which may account in part for the...
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Datelines
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Hughes, Tom Chaffin, Keenen Peck, Mike Jendrzejczyk, John Stamets, Bev Fingerhood, and Kathleen
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DATELINES Mom & Pop's Power Shop TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA From high in the timberlands of California's Klamath Mountains, rains cut streambeds through granite and serpentine. For Barbara...
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THE RIGHT AND THE WRONGS OF REAGAN
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Judis, John
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The Right and the Wrongs of Reagan Two years that didnt shake the world BY JOHN B. JUDIS In the 1940s and 1950s, American conservatives saw themselves as part of what Albert Jay Nock called "the...
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FEIFFER'S REAGAN
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Feiffer, Jules
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Feiffers Reagan BY JULES FEIFFER Ronald Reagan, with his deep-creased handsomeness, stands tall in the White House, John Wayne's answer to our problems. In his wrinkles you can chart the tracks of...
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THE KREMLIN STAYS THE COURSE
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Grosscup, Beau
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The Kremlin Stays the Course After Brezhnev, no deluge BY BEAU GROSSCUP One line of speculation was conspicuously absent from the thousands of words written about the future of the Soviet Union...
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THE CIRCLE GAME
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Hansen, Mike Parker, Dwight
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The Circle Game BY MIKE PARKER AND DWIGHT HANSEN Every Wednesday, at a stamping plant in Dearborn, Michigan, twelve of the 120 workers and one of the five foremen interrupt what they are doing...
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LAST MAN AT THE DEPOT
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Mayer, Milton
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Last Man at the Depot BY MILTON MAYER She wrote Girls' Athletics for The E Weekly—E for Englewood High School—and I did "The Vertebral Column—The Backbone of the Paper." ("There's something in...
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AN AFRICAN DILEMMA
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Sylvester, Christine
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An African Dilemma Will Zimbabwe take a chance on democracy? BY CHRISTINE SYLVESTER Please, you must go up the street—the real story is happening there." The small group of American journalists...
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THE CELLULOID WAR
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Hoeffel, Paul Heath
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VIEWS REVIEWS THE CELLULOID WAR PAUL HEATH HOEFFEL t's nearing the end of the twenty-five-minute documentary Attack on the Americas! and the high-powered narration is moving in for the kill. We...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM MICHAEL H. SEITZ Light of a New Day For most film distribution concerns, political rumblings may occasionally make for a popular movie—one that packs theatres and fills out ledgers. But for...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff The Hottest Horn in Any Town t was two years ago and Wild Bill was seventy-four, standing in the prow of a boat, his trumpet gustier than the winds. This wasn't one...
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The Making of a Great Communicator
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Morgan, Edward P.
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BOOKS The Making of a Great Communicator REAGAN by Lou Cannon Putnam. 464 pp. $18.95. By Edward P. Morgan To borrow from the E.F. Hutton ad, when Lou Cannon talks, his White House press corps...
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Dangerous Wastes
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Pope, Samuel S. Epstein, Lester O. Brown, and Carl
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Dangerous Wastes HAZARDOUS WASTE IN AMERICA by Samuel S. Epstein, Lester O. Brown, and Carl Pope Sierra Club Books. 592 pp. $27.50. Samuel Epstein, Lester Brown, and Carl Pope have written what...
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Law and Politics
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Ostrow, Griffin B. Bell with Ronald J.
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Law and Politics TAKING CARE OF THE LAW by Griffin B. Bell with Ronald J. Ostrow William Morrow. 254 pp. $13.50. n this pettish memoir of his two and a half years as Attorney General, Griffin...
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Then as Now
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Brinkley, Alan
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Then as Now VOICES OF PROTEST: HUEY LONG, FATHER COUGHLIN AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Alan Brinkley Alfred A. Knopf. 348 pp. $18.50. n William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, Gavin Stevens...
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Three Sisters
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Shange, Ntozake
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Three Sisters SASSAFRASS, CYPRESS & INDIGO by Ntozake Shange St. Martin's Press. 266 pp. $10.95. Once you have heard Ntozake Shange read, it is impossible not to hear her voice in anything she...
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BOOKS BRIEFLY
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Books Briefly Odd Couple MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE by Graham Greene Simon & Schuster. 221 pp. $12.95. Like Hemingway, whose search for a code of secular honor led to the simplicity of ritual (The Old...
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Report Card
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Corson, Ross
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REPORT CARD Ross Corson An Old Deal THE REAGAN EXPERIMENT edited by John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037. $12.95 plus $2.00...
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Indexfor 1982
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the Progressive INDEX TO VOLUME 46 1982 SECTION I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec 19 is Page 19 of the December issue. SECTION II lists...
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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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O'Malley, Becky
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THE LAST WORD Becky O'MAlley Don't Just Sit There____ It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing. —Gertrude Stein We took our youngest out of the...
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