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 Vol. 048 Issue 009 (September 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 Seventy-fifth Anniversary Congratulations on your first seventy-five years and on your Seventy-fifth Anniversary issue. Your magazine has strengthened the progressive and...
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Comment
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Much Sound, No Fury Election Central, the nerve-center of The Progressive's Democratic Convention coverage, was sparse but functional. It contained one television set, a Royal 440 manual typewriter...
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No Comment
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\() COM ME ST A Rose by Any Other Name The Strand Theater in Madison, Wisconsin, calls its trash cans "patron assistance containers." More Bad News Headline in The New York Times:. Report Sees...
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Datelines
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Hopfensperger, Harvey Wasserman, Bill Blum and Gina Lobaco, Charles Bruner, Jane Slaughter, and Jean
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Hawaii Salvo KAHO'OLAWE, HAWAII Every two years, the unrivaled sunsets of this Pacific paradise, an island six miles west of Maui, are blackened by bombing raids that shatter the peace. But a...
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PRISONS FOR PROFIT
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Kroll, Michael A .
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PRISONS FOR PROFIT BY MICHAEL A. KROLL When Richard Nixon called the American prison system "a convincing case of failure" fifteen years ago, he was restating an oft-repeated and voluminously...
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CONVENTIONAL POLITICS
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Brodner, Steve
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Conventional Politics ft A ftARftvMAtlARAftlft WftftftAftAAflftftftAftAftW A A A ft A At A t A BY STEVE BRODNER It was a media event, plain and simple. How else can one explain a purported...
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ELECTING MONDALE MATTERS LEAST
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Lens, Sidney
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Conventional Politics Electing Mondale Matters Least BY SIDNEY LENS Q. PFe mwrt do a// we caw to prevent the reelection of Ronald Reagan. Doesn't that mean liberals, radicals, and peace...
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DEFEATING REAGAN MATTERS MOST
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Conventional Politics ****************************************************????¦*? Defeating Reagan Matters Most BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD Walter Mondale is not Robert LaFollette. He is not Eugene...
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SOLAR POWER: THE PROMISE FADES
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Pollak, Roger
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SOLAR POWER The Promise Fades BY ROGER POLLAK Cocktails in hand, hundreds of conservatively dressed men and a few women milled about Marriott's South Ballroom in Anaheim, California. Young...
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ON THE MARGINS OF WAR
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McCONAHAY, MARY JO
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On the Margins of War In tin-and-cardboard settlements, Salvadoran refugees sustain dignity and hope BY MARY JO McCONAHAY Spring in El Salvador is the season of cicadas. Their piercing drone...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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indigenous music mmmtmmim One More Time for the Count It was a little before ten in the morning on a dark Saturday. The rain had been coming down so hard so long that subways and roads were...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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UlSi Michael H. Seitz Trouble in Paradise? Improper Conduct is a difficult film to judge. As a description of social and political oppression in Cuba, it is impressive; as an analysis of the...
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Corporate Science
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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BOOKS Science Corporate THE NEW POLITICS OF SCIENCE by David Dickson Pantheon Books. 304 pp. $19.95. by Samuel H. Day Jr. In 1975 a giant chemical firm, Monsanto, signed a ten-year,...
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Indian Betrayal
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Matthiessen, Peter
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Indian Betrayal INDIAN COUNTRY by Peter Matthiessen The Viking Press. 338 pp. $17.95. For twenty-five years, Peter Matthiessen has been reporting from the longest and most destructive of all...
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Sorehead
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Powell, Jody
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Sorehead THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY by Jody Powell William Morrow and Company. 322 pp. $15.95. With The Other Side of the Story, Jody Powell joins the sorehead school of American letters. It was...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly The Unmaking of Appalachia THEIRS BE THE POWER by Harry M. Caudill University of Illinois Press. 190 pp. $13.95. Since the publication of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Harry M....
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Report Card
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Hoekstra, Steven J.
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REPORT CARD Steven J. Hoekstra Cruel and Inhuman TORTURE IN THE EIGHTIES by Amnesty International Amnesty International U.S.A., 304 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019.263 pp. $5.95. According...
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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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Mayer, Milton
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THE LAST WORD Milton Mayer Oil Slick Jack Harms and I are both small operators on the lookout for a good deal. He calls me. I call him. This time he called me. The Thrifty supermarket had a hot...
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