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IssueVol. 048 Issue 001 (January 1 1984)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS to the Editor Readers' Comments on Which Way in '84?' The Progressive's short essays about political options ("Which Way in '84?" November issue) make it apparent that certain fissures...
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The Day Before The Reagan Administration was, according to Time magazine, "fearful of the political fallout" from the ABC television movie The Day After, and therefore "launched a counteroffensive"...
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The Higher Learning Students at the University of Texas in Austin can wage war against the Soviet Union in their campus video arcade. "Ro-botron" has been reprogrammed to tell players they can save...
Paid articleDatelines
Colhoun, Mona Hochberg and Ed Feigen, Bill Yoder, Alan Ramo, James C. Schwab, and Jack
A Union that Works MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS The football stadium in Tampa, Florida, was packed with fans when a skywriter spelled out a slogan above the field: Save Our Jobs. The talented aviator...
Paid articleTHE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Barnet, Richard J.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK A pitiful, helpless giant goes to war BY RICHARD J. BARNET The surge in Ronald Reagan's popularity after the U.S. invasion of Grenada raises some fascinating questions:...
Paid articleREAGAN'S ISLAND
Steif, William
REAGAN'S ISLAND BY WILLIAM STEIF S ix days after the Marines landed on Grenada, I approached two men at the Carenage Market on the waterfront of St. George's, the island's capital. Before they...
Paid articleA REVOLUTION THAT COULD HAVE WORKED
Zunes, Stephen
A REVOLUTION THAT COULD HAVE WORKED BY STEPHEN ZUNES The revolution in Grenada was an accessible one, occurring nearby, spoken in our own language, and influenced more by New Left politics and the...
Paid articleNICARAGUA: THE OTHER WAR
Strogoff, Nancy
NICARAGUA: THE OTHER WAR BY NANCY STROGOFF The Reagan Administration's war against Nicaragua can hardly be described as "secret." Many months ago, The Washington Post proclaimed on its front...
Paid articleEXPORTING JOBS: HOW BEST TO STANCH THE FLOW? In autos, domestic content points the way
Price, Lee
How Best to Stanch the Flow? Many of America's smokestack industries are crumbling. As they collapse, communities and, indeed, entire regions are being devastated by unemployment. In the debate...
Paid articleEXPORTING JOBS: HOW BEST TO STANCH THE FLOW? Domestic content legislation I leads to fa dead end
Parker, Michael Urquhart and Michael
Domestic content legislation leads to a dead end BY MICHAEL URQUHART AND MICHAEL PARKER Multinational corporations are blackmailing American workers and their communities. The increasing mobility...
Paid articleTHE GRIM REAPER
Knapp, Fred
The Grim Reaper How International Harvester held two towns hostage BY FRED KNAPP All across Springfield, Ohio, drivers leaned on their horns to celebrate the announcement that International...
Paid articleFilm
Seitz, Michael H.
tatmm Michael H. Seitz The Real and the Imagined Under Fire is, in many respects, this year's Reds—a big, flashy film with a complex historical plot laid under a love story. Like Reds, it features...
Paid articleIndigenous Husic
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC ^ Nat Hentoff Midwestern Heart She has a rainbow voice of such strength and tenderness that it would have been a sign, in the old fairy tales, of a special presence having...
Paid articleAndropov: A Double Take
Fireside, Harvey
Andropov: A Double Take YURI ANDROPOV: A SECRET PASSAGE INTO THE KREMLIN by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova Macmillan. 302 pp. $15.95. ANDROPOV by Zhores A. Medvedev W.W. Norton. 227 pp....
Paid articleIn the Grip of Agent Orange
Wilcox, Fred A.
In the Grip of Agent Orange WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIE by Fred A. Wilcox Random House. 222 pp. $ 15.95 hardcover. $6.95 paperback. In Waiting for an Army to Die, Fred A. Wilcox has compiled a...
Paid articleStyron as Muse
Styron, William
Styron as Muse THIS QUIET DUST AND OTHER WRITINGS by William Styron Random House. 305 pp. $17.50. This collection of William Styron's essays and reviews is well worth having in print under one...
Paid articleFelicities of Observation: THE FORTIES
Wilson, Edmund
Felicities of Observation THE FORTIES by Edmund Wilson edited by Leon Edel Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 369 pp. $17.95. Literary critic Edmund Wilson, who died in 1972, was forty-five when the...
Paid articleLabor in Wartime: LABOR'S WAR AT HOME: THE CIO IN WORLD WAR II
Lichtenstein, Nelson
Labor in Wartime LABOR'S WAR AT HOME: THE CIO IN WORLD WAR II by Nelson Lichtenstein Cambridge University Press. 319 pp. $29.95. Labor militancy is a sometimes thing. It reached a modern peak in...
Paid articleReport Card
REPORT CARD r Behind Closed Doors A WORLD OF PREFERENCE: BUSINESS ACCESS TO REAGAN'S REGULATORS by Robert Nelson Democracy Project, 145 East 49th Street, Suite 9D, New York, NY 10017....
Paid articleIndex for 1983
INDEX TO VOLUME 47, 1983 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 books reviewed,...
Paid articlePuzzle
Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
t h e progressive P u z z l e 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...
Paid articleThe Last Word
Burack, Jonathan
THE LAST WORD Jonathan Burack Kid Stuff Iremember experiencing stark terror at the age of nine. The year would have been 1951. American troops were fighting in Korea, and a war map appeared on...
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