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 Vol. 048 Issue 006 (June 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 Trashing NOW As a long-time member of the National Organization for Women and an activist in the women's movement, I was distressed to read L.A. Kauffman's "NOW for...
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Comment
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COMMENT The Fearmonger's Shop National Security Decision Directive 138, which President Reagan signed on April 3, is a secret document. What little we know about it—the fact that we know about it...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Don't Let the Greenery Spoil the Scenery A high-rise dweller on Manhattan's Upper East Side, protesting to the press against opening of a gourmet food shop: "Do the residents of Park...
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Reflections
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Falk, Richard A.
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REFLECTIONS Richard Falk Curbing a Lawless Government There was something hypocritical about the righteous reaction of Congressional liberals to the Reagan Administration's repudiation of World...
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Datelines
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al., Jonathan Tasini et.
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J. Edgar Hoover's Dress Rehearsal LOS ANGELES The large crowd at Liberty Hall had come to hear a speech by Marcus Garvey, champion of black pride and advocate of emigration to Africa by blacks in...
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THE NEW POPULISM
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Goodwyn, Lawrence
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A hell-raising tradition waits to be reborn BY LAWRENCE GOODWYN Populism" is a uniquely American linguistic phenomenon—a word used to describe a variety of bizarre and conflicting...
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TEXAS MAVERICKS TAKE ON THE BIG BOYS
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Rips, Geoffrey
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Texas Mavericks Take on the Big Boys BY GEOFFREY RIPS For forty years, progressives in Texas suffered a dry spell. Business interests dominated the political climate by painting Big Government...
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DEMOCRACY: WHAT NEIGHBORS ARE FOR
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Boyte, Harry C.
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Democracy: What Neighbors Are For BY HARRY C. BOYTE Atruly pluralistic and humane society must be undergirded and overarched by a common vision of the public good," theologian and civil rights...
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CITIZEN POWER FINDS ITS VOICE
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Kelsey, Heather Booth and Janet
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Citizen Power Finds Its Voice BY HEATHER BOOTH AND JANET KELSEY The term "grass roots" conjures up images of something democratic, self-reliant, feisty, egalitarian, distinctly American, and...
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ECONOMICS FOR THE GRASS ROOTS
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Shearer, Derek
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Economics for the Grass Roots BY DEREK SHEARER Populism grows in the soil of hard times. When the political center collapses, usually in economic downturns, forward- as well as backward-looking...
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CAN CONGRESS FIGHT FOR FAIRNESS?
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Evans, Lane
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Can Congress Fight for Fairness? BY LANE EVANS In the American economy of the 1980s, the rich get richer, the big get bigger, and the average citizen suffers the consequences. The pattern may...
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CLASS ACT: CASTING BALLOTS FOR A CHANGE
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Piven, Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox
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Class Act: Casting Ballots For a Change BY RICHARD A. CLOWARD AND FRANCES FOX PIVEN Why has the United States, one of the most industrialized nations in the world, never seen the emergence of a...
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LONG TIME PASSING
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MacPherson, Myra
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Long Time Passing Eddie's lasting nightmare of Vietnam BY MYRA MACPHERSON One cool, sunlit September Sunday in 1981, South Boston, the Massachusetts Irish district known as "Southie," unveiled a...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC, Nat Hentoff Jazz That Never Dies When I was growing up, in the 1940s, just about every city and some towns, too, had a local jazz band that passionately adhered to the...
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FILM
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Third World Views Americans, unfortunately, have relatively few opportunities to view Third World motion pictures—that is, movies made in so-called underdeveloped countries...
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Impasse in the Middle East
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Steif, William
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BOOKS r Impasse in the Middle East THE FATEFUL TRIANGLE: THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, AND THE PALESTINIANS by Noam Chomsky South End Press. 481 pp. $25 hardcover. $10 paperback. by William...
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Fellow Traveler
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Keyssar, Tracy B. Strong and Helene
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Fellow Traveler RIGHT IN HER SOUL: THE LIFE OF ANNA LOUISE STRONG by Tracy B. Strong and Helene Keyssar Random House. 399 pp. $22.95. Cast many times from the heights to the depths in the...
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High School Star
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Morris, Willie
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High School Star THE COURTING OF MARCUS DUPREE by Willie Morris Doubleday. 456 pp. $15.95. There are two central themes braided together throughout Willie Morris's new book, The Courting of...
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A Ruling Class?
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Domhoff, William
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A Ruling Class? WHO RULES AMERICA NOW? A VIEW FOR THE '80s by G. William Domhoff Prentice-Hall/Spectrum. 230 pp. $15.95 hardcover. $6.95 paperback. In the vacuous dialogue of what passes for...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly A Celebration of Trees A COUNTRYMAN'S WOODS by Hal Borland Photographs by Les Line Alfred A. Knopf. 184 pp. $25. Hal Borland, naturalist and writer, died in 1978 in his adopted...
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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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Report Card
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Pollak, Roger
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REPORT CARD Roger Pollak Economic War HOW TO WIN STRIKES by Teamsters Local No. 115 2833 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19149. Free. A failed strike can demoralize or even destroy a union; a...
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The Last Word
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Koppel, Tom
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THE LAST WORD Tom Koppel Norman Thomas Slept Here Election Day, 1952. In the yard of my Bronx elementary school, campaign buttons had sprouted like mushrooms. I Like Ike was the most popular...
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