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Vol. 049 Issue 010 (October 1 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Playing Soldier I was pleased to see the article by Carl Hoffman on ROTC in high schools ("Playing Soldier," September issue). Unfortunately, the situation is a little more...
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Comment
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Comment Under the Volcano Ronald Reagan has cast a shadow of shame over the American people. After months of brutal repression by the South African police and armed forces, after a bull-necked...
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No Comment
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no Comment The Miracle Worker Evangelist Oral Roberts plans to develop a seven-acre, $15 million Christian theme park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It will use special effects to re-create miracles from the...
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Datelines
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al., Andrea Bernstein et.
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Battle in the Black Belt BIRMINGHAM Two decades after passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Federal Government is back in town—but this time it is on the other side. "Twenty years ago, the...
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DEAD END IN SILICON VALLEY
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Hembree, Diana
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DEAD END IN SILICON VALLEY The high-tech future doesn't work IN THE HIGH-TECH FEVER that's sweeping the United States, California's Silicon Valley stands out as a vision of the future—a...
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THE CHIP IS HERE TO STAY
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Siegel, Lenny
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THE CHIP IS HERE TO STAY Just the glitter is gone BY LENNY SIEGEL Three years ago, a group of up-and-coming politicians proudly proclaimed themselves "Atari Democrats." They believed that...
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ST. LUCIA'S SCRAMBLE
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Beers, Deirdre Kelly and David
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ST. LUCIA'S SCRAMBLE A Caribbean island hustles for high tech BY DEIRDRE KELLY AND DAVID BEERS It is early morning in Patience, a community of twenty shacks balanced neatly atop one of the...
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THE BOUNDS OF THINKABLE THOUGHT
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Chomsky, Noam
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The Bounds of Thinkable Thought NOAM CHOMSKY In May 1983, a remarkable incident occurred in Moscow. A courageous newscaster, Vladimir Danchev, denounced the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in five...
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FIGHTING BACK
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Compa, Lance
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Fighting Back Workers challenge plant shut-downs BY LANCE COMPA Union workers had little trouble reaching a contract settlement with Black & Decker in April 1984 after the company took over...
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PARK SERVICE LAND GRAB
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Weiss, Michael J .
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PARK SERVICE LAND-GRAB The Rangers put people out to pasture BY MICHAEL J. WEISS For most of her thirty-five years, Amy Anderson has lived in the same house in the lush woodlands of northeastern...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC 1 Nat Hentoff The Survivors on. One of her most satisfying sets, originally recorded in Tokyo in 1977, has been picked up here by the invaluable George Buck Jr. and his...
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Our Man in Chile
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Winner, Lawrence S.
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BOOKS Our Man in THE LAST TWO YEARS OF SALVADOR ALLENDE by Nathaniel Davis Cornell University Press. 480 pp. $24.95. by Lawrence S. Winner For more than a decade. Nathaniel Davis has lived...
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One-time Rebels
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Albert, Judith Clavir and Stewart Edward
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One-time Rebels THE SIXTIES PAPERS: DOCUMENTS OF A REBELLIOUS DECADE edited by Judith Clavir and Stewart Edward Albert Praeger. 549 pp. $32.95 hardcover, $16.95 paperback. The history of...
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Via a Guitar
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Smith, Gerald Stanton
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Via a Guitar SONGS TO SEVEN STRINGS: RUSSIAN GUITAR POETRY AND SOVIET 'MASS SONG' by Gerald Stanton Smith Indiana University Press. 271 pp. $25. Gerald Stanton Smith's book, Songs to Seven...
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Underground
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Mattera, Philip
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Underground OFF THE BOOKS: THE RISE OF THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY by Philip Mattera St. Martin's Press. 156 pp. $25. In his good-humored study, Off the Books: The Rise of the Underground Economy,...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Machine Malfunction CHICAGO DIVIDED: THE MAKING OF A BLACK MAYOR by Paul Kleppner Northern Illinois University Press. 313 pp. $26 cloth; $9.50 paper. Chicago's politics are at once...
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Report Card
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Kane, Matt
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REPORT CARD Matt Kane Circle Games INSIDE THE CIRCLE: A UNION GUIDE TO QWL by Mike Parker Labor Notes, P.O. Box 20001, Detroit, MI 48220. 160 pp. $10 plus $1 shipping. Mike Parker has...
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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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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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THE LAST WORD Samuel H. Day Jr. NATO Blues Aditty composed by a fellow soldier captured the excitement I experienced thirty-four years ago as a young draftee in the U.S. Army. I had been ordered...
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