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 Vol. 048 Issue 012 (December 1 1984)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Who Watches the Weapons? Your article on the Plowshares Rebellion (Datelines, November issue) made it appear that the protesters had surreptitiously entered the Griffiss Air...
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Comment
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Four More Years Democracy is that system of government which holds that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. —H.L. Mencken You can't fool all of the people all of...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Crime of the Century In Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, James Francis Polarine faces charges of conspiracy and mischief calling for a maximum of 476 years in prison and a $ 1 million fine...
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Datelines
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Blodgett, Donna Lauren Gold, Bruce Johansen, and Nancy
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DATELINES A Guatemalan Woman's Grief NEW YORK CITY When Irma Leticia Chavez speaks, she gesticulates with one arm and moves her other shoulder as if it, too, had an arm attached. Six years ago,...
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SHOWDOWN IN THE PHILIPPINES
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Bello, Walden
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Showdown in the Philippines U.S. policy points toward intervention BY WALDEN BELLO While public attention in the United States and around the world focuses on steadily increasing U.S. military...
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FAILING HEALTH
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Steinberg, Jon
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FAILING HEALTH A sick medical system's Band-Aid solutions BY JON STEINBERG The American health-care system is undergoing a massive transformation on a scale not seen since the mid-1960s. New...
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Hospitals in Chains
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Hospitals in Chains Dwight McKenna used to be a staff physician at Dillard University's Flint-Goodrich Hospital in New Orleans. The eighty-seven-year-old teaching hospital was "the life's blood to...
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SILENT NO MORE
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O'Neill, Diane
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Silent No More The disabled move to the front of the bus BY DIANE O'NEILL We deserve a break today We deserve a seat today We deserve a ramp today at McDonald's —sung by disabled persons...
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The New Bigotry
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The New Bigotry Bigotry isn't dead, though it has taken on a more subtle identity. The old shrines of passionate ignorance, the Colored Only fountains and washrooms of the South, have been replaced...
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APOCALYPSE NOW AND AGAIN
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Greve, Frank
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APOCALYPSE NOW AND AGAIN BY FRANK GREVE Welcome to World War IV. Even as hundreds of millions of people around the world hope it may be possible—by prayer, protest, or sheer dumb luck—to avert...
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FEAR BUT NOT LOATHING
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Lens, Sidney
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Fear But Not Loathing The empire isn't evil, it's scared BY SIDNEY LENS The young man we met outside the Intourist Hotel one evening last summer was a specialist in Third World languages who also...
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STOP THE PRESS
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Steiff, William
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STOP THE PRESS To African regimes, no news is good news BY WILLIAM STEIF Gwen Lister and Ken Best have never met. She is a white South African; he is a black Liberian. But their stories...
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Black and White News
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Black and White News The government of South Africa keeps a careful watch on English-language and Afrikaans-language newspapers in that country. "We can't put a picture of a jailed person in the...
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THE FOURTH 'R'
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST The Fourth BY NAT HENTOFF To many liberals, including many civil libertarians, there is no place for religion in the public schools. Not only does the First Amendment forbid prayer...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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Michael H. Seitz School Daze The crisis in American education, big news in the media, is good news to Hollywood filmmaker Arthur Hiller. His Teachers, which looks at the contemporary urban high...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC, Nat Hentoff A Hidden Jazz Giant It was a summer afternoon, and I was playing the clarinet next to an open window in our first-floor apartment in Boston. I was about thirteen....
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'Supply-Side Arms Control'
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Morrison, David C.
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BOOKS 'Supply-Side Arms Control' DEADLY GAMBITS: THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION AND THE STALEMATE IN NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL by Strobe Talbott Alfred A. Knopf. 380 pp. $17.95. by David C....
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Doctor to 10,000
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Clements, Charles
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BOOKS Doctor to 10,000 WITNESS TO WAR: AN AMERICAN DOCTOR IN EL SALVADOR by Charles Clements, M.D. Bantam Books. 268 pp. $15.95. Amidst all the political debate about U.S. intervention in El...
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Electronic Clergy
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Siegelman, Flo Conway and Jim
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Electronic Clergy HOLY TERROR: THE FUNDAMENTALIST WAR ON AMERICA'S FREEDOMS IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND OUR PRIVATE LIVES by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman Dell. 496 pp. $ 17.50 hardcover. $ 10.95...
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World of Foes
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Kwitny, Jonathan
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World of Foes ENDLESS ENEMIES: THE MAKING OF AN UNFRIENDLY WORLD by Jonathan Kwitny Congdon & Weed. 435 pp. $19.95. The ubiquitous term "national security" sums up one of the great ironies of our...
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Books Briefly
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Powledge, Fred
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Books Briefly Food and Consumers FAT OF THE LAND by Fred Powledge Simon and Schuster. 287 pp. $15.95. Fred Powledge, a widely experienced journalist, examines the increasingly complex processes...
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REPORT CARD
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Nelson, Marcia Z .
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REPORT CARD Marcia Z. Nelson The Missiles Next Door THE MILITARY IN YOUR BACKYARD by Randy Schutt Center for Economic Conversion, 222 View Street, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94041. $14.20...
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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 of 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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McNaughton, Terry
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THE LAST WORD ^ Terry McNaughton License to Spiel The badge pinned to the man's jacket indicated thait he had some sort of official standing, but I knew a police officer wouldn't be passing out...
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