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 Vol. 047 Issue 002 (February 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 Nobel Prize Cut-ups If Lawrence Walsh handles a camera as well as he writes, we have much to look forward to from both of his skills. His Vietnam meditation ("Vietnam for a...
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Comment
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COMMENT The Peacekeepers President Reagan is disappointed. In us, the American people. It seems to happen, sooner or later, to every President who sticks around long enough. Lyndon Johnson,...
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No Comment
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N0 COMMENT Boys Won't Be Boys Topic of a discussion program at a community health center in Madison, Wisconsin: "Circumcision—A Health Care Issue for Baby Men." Not to Worry The Reverend Billy...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones The Thin Man The education of a President while he holds office is an important part of the democratic process. As 1982 drew to a close, Ronald Reagan was doing remedial...
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Reflections
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS Sidney Lens Making Marx Respectable When mainstream economists gather to rehash their theories about the causes of our current economic distress, the worst in more than forty years,...
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Datelines
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Duffy, Matthew Rothschild, Irwin Nesoff, Joe Volz, Samuel H. Day Jr., and Michael
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DATELINES Apartheid's Baton Twirlers WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan Administration calls its policy toward South Africa "constructive engagement." That's one of those meaningless terms so...
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: CAN POLAND STEER A MIDDLE COURSE?
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Bernstein, Paul
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The Road Not Taken: Can Poland Steer a Middle Course! BY PAUL BERNSTEIN Poland seems to be shifting gears again, decelerating from the charged atmosphere of daily political confrontation to a...
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HANS BETHE'S SILENT WHISTLE
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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HANS BETHE'S SILENT WHISTLE BY SAMUEL H.DAY JR. For many who follow the politics of nuclear weaponry, and especially for those who follow the politics of nuclear weaponry from a liberal...
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A BLAST FROM THE PAST
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Morrissey, David H.
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A BLAST FPOM THE PAST BY DAVID H. MORRISSEY The weather was nice that spring morning in Mobile, Alabama. It was the kind of balmy March day when schoolchildren hanker for an afternoon out of the...
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A NICKEL'S WORTH OF JUICE
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GAILLARD, FRYE
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A Nickers VNforth ofJuice BY FRYE GAILLARD Unless something changes, they're going to kill Bill Grose-close before very much longer. It'll go something like this: Some people he barely knows will...
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WHEN NICE PEOPLE BURN BOOKS
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Hentoff, Nat
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When Nice People Burn Books BY NATHENTOFF It happened one splendid Sunday morning in a church. Not Jerry Falwell's Baptist sanctuary in Lynchburg, Virginia, but rather the First Unitarian Church...
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CABLE TV'S MISSED CONNECTION
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Corson, Ross
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VIEWS REVIEWS CABLE'S MISSED CONNECTION A revolution that won't be televised BY ROSS CORSON Last November, meeting in the shadow of Disney's Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, California, cable...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Gandhi for Today Richard Attenborough's Gandhi is an extraordinarily impressive and affecting motion picture—a huge, expansively drawn work utilizing eighty-seven settings,...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff A PASSIONATE SURVIVOR She was never tractable. In 1960, the year after she became a soaring phenomenon to the young because of her startling debut at the Newport Folk...
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For a Non-nuclear Future
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Sanders, Scott
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BOOKS For a Non-nuclear THE NUCLEAR DELUSION: SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE ATOMIC AGE by George F. Kennan Pantheon. 208 pp. $13.95. INDEFENSIBLE WEAPONS: THE POLITICAL...
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At the Top
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Easton, Ronald Brownstein and Nina
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At the Top REAGAN'S RULING CLASS: PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENT'S TOP 100 OFFICIALS by Ronald Brownstein and Nina Easton Presidential Accountability Group. 747 pp. $24.50. Most policy development...
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Precious Water
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Powledge, Fred
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Precious Water WATER: THE NATURE, USES, AND FUTURE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS AND ABUSED RESOURCE by Fred Powledge Farrar Straus Giroux. 423 pp. $14.95. Fred Powledge has written a thoughtful and...
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On the Left
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Howe, Irving
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On the Left A MARGIN OF HOPE: ANINTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Irving Howe Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 352 pp. $14.95. While he was stationed in the Alaskan wilderness during World War II, Irving...
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Super Spy
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Bamford, James
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Super Spy THE PUZZLE PALACE by James Bamford Houghton Mifflin. 465 pp. $16.95. The CIA's incompetence and indifference to democratic practice have been brought to light in various Congressional...
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BOOKS BRIEFLY
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Books Briefly Social Oddities A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SOCIAL CHANGE edited by Louis Filler Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co. (Malabar, Florida). 256 pp. $18.50. This updated revision of A...
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Report Card
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Corson, Ross
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REPORT CARD Ross Corson Porkbarrels and People THE PRICE OF THE PENTAGON and BANKRUPTING AMERICAN CITIES by Employment Research Associates 400 South Washington Avenue, Lansing, MI 48933. $2.00...
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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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Davis, Rod
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THE LAST WORD Rod Davis Victims of Our Noble Cause What will we do with all those crazy Vietnam veterans? Of the 8.5 million who served in the military during the Vietnam era, of the 2.7 million...
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