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 Vol. 048 Issue 005 (May 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 More Radical Than NOW In "NOW for Something I Completely Different" (March issue), L.A. Kauff-man spoke clearly and cogently to a serious concern of mine. I consider myself...
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Comment
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Believing the Worst When Vice President George Bush traveled to El Salvador last December to denounce the Death Squads, it was more than a little ironic for—as Allan Nairn reports in this issue—the...
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No Comment
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A () COM ME ST Games People Play New product listing from Update, a monthly publication of CompuServe, Inc., Columbus, Ohio: " 'Grenada, a Nice Little War,' allows you to try your hand at...
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Reflections
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BUELL, JOHN
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REFLECTIONS John Buell Community without Coercion For most of the American Left, the Soviet Union has been a burden and an embarrassment since the late 1930s. The world's first and greatest...
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Datelines
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al., Helen Cordes et.
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The Demon in Devil's Swamp BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA Sixty-five-year-old Dave Ew-ell Jr. shakes his head from side to side as he watches muddy, chemical-laden water gush onto his family's farmland...
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BEHIND THE DEATH SQUADS
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Nairn, Allan
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An exclusive report on the U.S. role in El Salvador's official terror BEHIND THE DEATH SQUADS BY ALLAN NAIRN PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL KIENITZ (Copyright © 1984, The Progressive, Inc.) (Continued...
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THE PRINCIPALS OF CENSORSHIP
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Hentoff, Nat
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The Principals of Censorship BY NAT HENTOFF On a recent Sunday night, I was on a call-in radio program in Indiana. The subject was the high school press and its connection, if any, with the First...
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TV WORTH PAYING FOR?
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Aufderheide, Pat
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VIEWS REVIEWS worth iwing For? BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE The contribution of public broadcasting to society is debatable," the Reagan Administration declared in a 1981 report recommending drastic cuts...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff The Parts They Don't Teach Iwas speaking to an auditorium full of apprentice jazz musicians who attend North Texas State University in Denton, forty miles out of...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Reds Revisited One of my earliest political memories is of my father, who had been denied security clearance for a Government job, nervously gathering up and burning a pile...
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An Economic Agenda
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Lekachman, Robert
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BOOKS An Economic Agenda A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT: THE ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT AFTER REAGAN by Martin Carnoy, Derek Shearer, and Russell Rumberger Harper & Row. 243 pp. $14.95. by Robert...
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People's Lawyer
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Kinoy, Arthur
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People's Lawyer RIGHTS ON TRIAL by Arthur Kinoy Harvard University Press. 340 pp. $20. Huey Long once said, "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag." That...
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1960s' Revolt
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Matusow, Allen J.
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BOOKS 1960s' Revolt THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA by Allen J. Matusow Harper & Row. 542 pp. $22.95. For those of us drifting rapidly into middle age, the decade of the 1960s has become a nostalgic...
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Memories Galore
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Salisbury, Harrison E.
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BOOKS Memories Galore A JOURNEY FOR OUR TIMES by Harrison E. Salisbury Harper & Row. 534 pp. $22.50. This long autobiography, which is subtitled "a memoir" but is a good deal more, gets going on...
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Beyond Arms
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Dellinger, Michael Albert and David
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BOOKS Beyond Arms BEYOND SURVIVAL: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE DISARMAMENT MOVEMENT edited by Michael Albert and David Dellinger South End Press. 365 pp. $8 paperback. Organizers of the massive...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS Words as Weapons THE WRITER AND HUMAN RIGHTS edited by the Toronto Arts Group for Human Rights Anchor Press/Doubleday. 294 pp. $17.95. In October 1981, some seventy writers from many...
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Report Card
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Dreyfuss, Simeon
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REPORT CARD Simeon Dreyfuss Wrestling the Juggernaut HOW TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS TO REVERSE THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE by Matania Ginosar 2645 La Mensa Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. $1.00. UP IN ARMS by...
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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 and its source. The first letters of the...
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The Last Word
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McCarthy, Eugene J.
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THE LAST WORD } Eugene J. McCarthy Going for the Gold No fewer than twenty-nine corporations have paid at least $4 million each to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee to become "official...
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