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 Vol. 047 Issue 006 (June 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 The Power of the Fed Tie Power of the Fed," by Mark Breibart and Gerald Epstein (April issue), was informative and useful. The authors are to be congratulated for throwing...
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Comment
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COMMENT An Echo, Not a Choice Let's give credit where credit is due: When Ronald Reagan spelled out his Administration's Central America doctrine at the end of April before an extraordinary joint...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose In official U.S. State Department terminology, the American military serving with Salvadoran armed forces are "trainers." The old word, "advisers," has been...
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O Washington
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Jones, Arthur
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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones The Bishops in Retreat The Reagan Administration liked it. That unanticipated benediction summed up reaction to the third— and perhaps final—draft of the U.S. Catholic...
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Reflections
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Lobaco, Bill Blum and Gina
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REFLECTIONS Bill Blum and Gina Lobaco The Left and the Law In 1905, at the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, the credentials committee refused to seat socialist lawyer...
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Datelines
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Ellner, Samuel H. Day Jr., Jonathan Tasini, Aaron Epstein, Dan Mintie, and Steve
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DATELINES Bringing the War Home AMES, IOWA "It was the most successful speech I ever made." Dave Dellinger, a political activist who has made many of them, was reminiscing in the student...
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WASTING SPACE
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Kaku, byMichio
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Wasting Space Countdown to a First Strike BY MICHIO KAKU The "space wars" speech delivered by Ronald Reagan on March 23 may represent the most enormous gamble of his Administration—and of our...
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SENDING IN THE MACHINES
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Stone, I. F.
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Sending in the Machines Soon we will have no say BY I.F. STONE T| he clouds are gathering. Our / planet has never been in greater peril. Time is running out for the human race. From its first day...
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UNFATHOMABLE RISK
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Lens, Sidney
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Unfathomable Risk Stumbling into the Twilight Zone BY SIDNEY LENS From 1945, when the first atomic bomb was exploded at Alamo-gordo, New Mexico, until 1963, when a treaty between the United...
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A COMPANY TOWN MAKES PEACE WITH POISON
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Peck, Keenen
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A Company Town Makes Peace with Poison In Midland they say, 'But for Dow we'd be a speck of nothing9 BY KEENEN PECK Herbert Henry Dow had a problem. One of the two workers at 'his newfangled...
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PARADISE LOST
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Butler, Francelia
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Paradise Lost A family search for the Ruskin commune, a Utopia that was to be BY FRANCELIA BUTLER Anoise woke me at about 3 a.m. I glanced around the small studio apartment. The window was open...
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A TAX ON DISSIDENTS!
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Flaherty, Francis J .
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A Tax on Dissidents! IRS rules leave room for political harassment BY FRANCIS J. FLAHERTY The lawyer for the Center on Corporate Responsibility knew something was amiss. More than two and a half...
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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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MONROE DOCTRINE
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Schneider, Karen A.
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VIEWS REVIEWS MONROE DOCTRJNE BY KAREN A. SCHNEIDER Women: Toss aside your business suits. Kick off those comfy flat shoes. Gray flannel? Forget it. Pink is in, and so are spike heels, sorority...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Grand Illusions Though it has found new life in the television mini-series, the historical costume drama has rarely been seen in recent years on the motion picture screen....
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC, Nat Hentoff Songs of Lost Freedom According to a decree of June 7, 1981, the citizens have to stand at attention when they see the head of state, General Kenan Evren. Not...
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Nuclear Cover-up
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READER, MARK
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BOOKS Nuclear Cover-up THE CULT OF THE ATOM: THE SECRET PAPERS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION by Daniel Ford Simon and Schuster. 273 pp. $13.95. by Mark Reader Daniel Ford's book, The Cult...
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A Garland for Sakharov
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Babyonoshev, Alexander
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A Garland for Sakharov ON SAKHAROV edited by Alexander Babyonoshev Alfred A. Knopf. 283 pp. $15.95 hardcover. $6.95 paperback. This is a literary tribute by some forty contributors whose lives...
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Before Vietnam
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Miller, Stuart Creighton
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Before Vietnam "BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION": THE AMERICAN CONQUEST OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1899-1903 by Stuart Creighton Miller Yale University Press. 340 pp. $25. When the United States sent its troops...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly From the Soviet Underground SAMIZDAT REGISTER 2 edited by Roy Medvedev W.W. Norton. 323 pp. $24.95. Despite recent warnings from Soviet authorities, Roy Medvedev continues to edit...
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Report Card
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Doenges, Judy
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REPORT CARD Judy Doenges A Gentle Agreement SEIZING THE INITIATIVE: FIRST STEPS TO DISARMAMENT by Paul Walker The Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee, 1501...
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The Last Word
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Illich, Ivan
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THE LAST WORD Ivan Illich The Silent People Last winter,Visitors to a certain city in Germany witnessed an unusual scene. At selected times, people gathered at busy intersections and remained...
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