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 Vol. 048 Issue 008 (August 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 The Jackson Candidacy Iwas shocked and appalled by your intemperate attack on the candidacy of Jesse Jackson ("The Jackson Controversy," Comment, June issue). As a Jew born...
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Comment
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COMMENT Keeping the Taboo One pesky problem has vexed U.S. policymakers since the dawn of the atomic age: the perverse unwillingness of Americans to embrace the option of nuclear war. Despite the...
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No Comment
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AO COMMENT Someplace to Hide Real estate ad published under the heading U.S.A. Residential in the International Herald Tribune. "High Security Retreat-architecturally designed to be aesthetically...
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Datelines
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Marcus, Nick Blake, Kenneth W. White, Margaret Talbot, Joseph A. Blum, and Sybil
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No Rest for the Weary COLOMONCAGUA, HONDURAS This town is less than four kilometers from the border, and sometimes you can feel the thud of bombs falling in El Salvador—dull blasts that bounce...
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IRAN: A GREAT LEAP BACKWARD
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Motavalli, Mansour Farhang and John Hossein
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IRAN A Great Leap Backward Khomeinis revolution devours its children BY MANSOUR FARHANG AND JOHN HOSSEIN MOTAVALLI As Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was preparing to leave Paris for Teheran in...
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KAMPUCHEA: AN ORPHAN NATION'S STRUGGLE
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Spragens, John Jr.
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KAMPUCHEA An orphan nation's struggle BY JOHN SPRAGENS JR. Two children from each long table lined up at the kitchen in Phnom Penh's Orphanage No. 2, filled kettles of food, and returned to their...
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LABOR FORSAKES THE FARM
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Hallauer, Robert
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Labor Forsakes the Farm BY ROBERT HALLAUER In all the recent debates about immigration reform, one important fact has been ignored by Congress, the Administration, and the media: Farm workers of...
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ISRAEL AT WAR WITH ITSELF
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Sifry, Micah L.
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Israel at War with Itself Lebanon puts old loyalties to the test BY MICAH L. SIFRY Israelis will go to the polls late in July under circumstances that differ markedly from those of earlier...
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DISAPPEARING RAILROAD BLUES
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Dorgan, Byron L.
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Disappearing Railroad Blues Track right-of-ways were an investment in our future BY BYRON L. DORGAN Denton, Montana, is a town in trouble. Wheat is the lifeblood of the community, and railroads...
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THE NIGHTMARE OF CENSORSHIP
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Byington, Kaa
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The Nightmare of Censorship The Progressive's prize-winning essay on tfly Stake in the First Amendment* BY KM BYINGTON ewspaper headline: 54 Per Cent Approve of Press Censorship. In Newsweek's...
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BREAD, AND ROSES TOO
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Meyer, Marsha
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VIEWS REVIEWS BREAD. AND ROSES TOO It is true, indeed, that they can execute the body, but they cannot execute the idea which is bound to live9 —Nicola Sacco BY MARSHA MEYER It was an unlikely...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff An Early Jazz Christmas During the late 1930s, the three or four kids in my neighborhood who knew the difference between Billie Holiday and Sophie Tucker didn't dream...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Lit Flicks t has often been said that good books | tend to make bad movies and that good movies are more easily fashioned from I pulp literature. But a new crop of "lit...
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Uneasy Trio
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Falk, Richard A.
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BOOKS r Uneasy Trio THE ALLIANCE: AMERICA-EUROPE-JAPAN, MAKERS OF THE POSTWAR WORLD by Richard Barnet Simon and Schuster. 511 pp. $19.95. by Richard Falk Richard Barnet has an uncanny gift...
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Stage Shows
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Herman, Edward S.
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Stage Shows DEMONSTRATION ELECTIONS: U.S.-STAGED ELECTIONS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, VIETNAM, AND EL SALVADOR by Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead South End Press. 270 pp. $20 hardcover. $8...
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A New Cold War
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Halliday, Fred
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A New Cold War THE MAKING OF THE SECOND COLD WAR by Fred Halliday Verso/Schocken. 280 pp. $8.95 paperback. Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union have continued to...
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Report Card
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LUEDERS, BILL
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REPORT CARD Bill Lueders Sword Mightier Than Pen? SURVEY OF PRESS FREEDOM IN LATIN AMERICA by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and the Newspaper Guild Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 1900 L...
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Puzzle
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon The pROGRESSIVE PUZZLE 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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The Last Word
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Aufderheide, Pat
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THE LAST WORD Pat Aufderheide 'Arab': Did You Flinch? Ithought I was taking a part-time job, but it turned out I was joining a crusade. What's more, everyone knew it but me. You, too, might have...
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