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Vol. 047 Issue 011 (November 1 1983)
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Computing the Risks Your October Comment, "Computing the Risks," missed the most obvious and important implications of the inevitable outbreak of "computer crimes." Your...
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Comment
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COMMENT Contempt of Congress On September 29, when the Congress of the United States finished the dirty business of betraying its responsibilities under the Constitution and the War Powers Act,...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Military Science The U.S. Army transferred Sergeant Major Jimmy A. Powell from his ROTC duties at Northern Michigan University after he bit the head off a live chicken and drank the...
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Datelines
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al., Phil Reser et
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The Real Military Intelligence Partlow protesting U.S. policy on Central America. SAN FRANCISCO Twenty-one-year-old Sharlyn Metzger joined the Army in 1982 because it promised to pay her $20,000...
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Our real Strength Is in the Streets
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Lens, Sidney
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Our Real Strength Is in the Streets BY SIDNEY LENS Good people—most of the good people you and I know—are eager to send Ronald Reagan packing in 1984, just as we were eager to retire Lyndon...
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Against Reagan, Any Democrat Will Do
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Walsh, Lawrence
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Against Reagan, Any Democrat Will Do BY LAWRENCE WALSH None of this means that political dissidents have no role to play, that they can bring about no change, that they are doomed to...
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We Need to Reshape the Democratic Party
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al., P. Wellstone et
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We Need to Reshape the Democratic Party BY PAUL WELLSTONE AND TOM O'CONNELL There are advantages and disadvantages to working within the Democratic Party. The advantages: The party is big. Lots...
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Labor Must Build Its Own Party
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al, T. Mazzocchi et
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Labor Must Build Its Own Party BY TONY MAZZOCCHI AND ED OTT During our talks with union members around the country in the past year, the questions we have been asked most frequently are, "What...
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Jackson Could Set a New Agenda
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Conyers, John Jr.
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numbers of poor workers, blacks, and women to the polls. Most of the labor leadership grouped inside the AFL-CIO will come out early for Walter Mondale's Democratic Presidential candidacy. Such an...
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A Liberal Coalition Can Defeat Reagan
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Messinger, Ruth
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A Liberal Coalition Can Defeat Reagan BY RUTH MESSINGER Ronald Reagan scares the hell out of me. In less than three years, he has done devastating harm to America's poor, destroyed both the ideal...
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Libel and Labor
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Hentoff, Nat
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Libel and Labor Bill Johnson's Restaurant serves up a chill BY NAT HENTOFF ill Johnson's Big Apple East is one of four restaurants in a | Phoenix chain. On August 8, 1978, Myrland Helton, a...
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Again the Television War
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Spragens, John Jr.
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AGAIN THE TELEVISION BY JOHN SPRAGENS JR. We sit in the door of a helicopter, looking down as it circles low over a rice paddy, again and again. Below, Vietnamese farmers hunker down in the open...
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A Mirror to the Mountains
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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VIEWS R E V I E W S A MIRROR TO THE MOUNTAINS The Appalshop building of 1972, where young artists set out to chronicle life in Appalachia. BY CAROL POLSGROVE On a hot day last...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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Michael H. Seitz Deaths in the Family Although Daniel was directed by Sidney Lumet, the shape and content of the movie are primarily the work of E. L. Doctorow, who wrote the screenplay based on...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC , Fifty Years ^ Nat Hentojf of Fresh Fiddling Janos Starker, the most powerfully lyrical of all classical cellists, once told an interviewer, "My dream is to one day hear a...
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The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth
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al., R. Radosh et
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THE ROSENBERG FILE: A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 608 pp. $22.50. INVITATION TO AN INQUEST by Walter and Miriam Schneir Pantheon Books....
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The Wizards of Armageddon
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Kaplan, Fred
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THE WIZARDS OF ARMAGEDDON by Fred Kaplan George Kennan, the historian and former diplomat, has asserted that nuclear weapons cannot really be considered weapons at all. A nuclear explosive, he...
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Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood
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Carlson, P.
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IWW's Big Bill ROUGHNECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BIG BILL HAYWOOD by Peter Carlson W. W. Norton. 352 pp. $17.50. Some time ago, my wife and I were asked to write a history of a major labor union....
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Booksbriefly
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Radical Editor IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN by Oscar Ameringer Three years before his death in 1943, socialist editor Oscar Ameringer's autobiography, If You Don't Weaken, was published. It has now been...
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Report Card
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REPORT CARD Worthy Debate A DIALOGUE ON COMPARABLE WORTH by Michael Evan Gold ILR Press, Cornell University, Box 1000, Ithaca, NY 14853. $7.50. The theory of comparable worth—that men and women...
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Puzzle
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al., E. Cox et
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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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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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THE LAST WORD Samuel H. Day Jr. Behind Candied Bars HENRIK. DftESCHER For sheer down-home hospitality in a place you'd least expect it, you could hardly beat the county jail in Boze-man,...
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