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Vol. 049 Issue 012 (December 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 Readers Respond to Reflections on Radicalism was surprised to learn from Stanley Aronowitz's "Are We Afraid to Be Radical?" (Reflections, September issue) that if leftists...
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Comment
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Comment Read Me My Rights Sooner or later, a government—any government—grows infatuated with its power and the rights of the governed, if they ever existed at all fade like so many discarded New...
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No Comment
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no Comment Not to Worry George Kopp, legislative candidate in Suffolk County, New York, and supporter of the Shoreham nuclear power plant: "Actual meltdown takes three to five days, and that's...
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Media
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Dexter, Gerry L.
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MEDIA Gerry L. Dexter Riding the Shortwaves I'm about to pick on Peter Jennings. Nothing personal, understand. He's just the one I watch most nights; you can substitute your own anchorman if you...
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Datelines
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al., David Davis et.
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The Homeless Elect an Ambassador PHILADELPHIA The street people march in a tight cricle in front of the Arrow Employment Agency in downtown Philadelphia, carrying signs that read We Tired, Poor,...
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WAR OF ATTRITION
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Armstrong, Robert
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War of Attrition BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Washington turns the screws on the Sandinistas Invasion, war of attrition, negotiation. Those are the three options the Reagan Administration has in...
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LIFE UNDER SIEGE
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Krajick, Kevin
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Life Under Siege A Nicaraguan family contends with the numbing routine of war BY KEVIN KRAJICK Each morning around two or three, the roosters in Managua begin to crow. First, you hear just an...
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ISRAEL'S NEW RIGHT
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Ruby, Walter
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ISRAEL'S NEW RIGHT BY WALTER RUBY American Jewish organizations, staunch defenders of the state of Israel, tend to focus on Israel's external enemies. They often ignore the more pernicious—and...
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GOSPEL OF CHANGE
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MacEoin, Gary
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Gospel of Change BY GARY MacEOIN This is a time of turbulence for the Christian churches in the United States, and especially for the religious enterprise that was once deemed the most staid and...
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ANGUISH IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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DeCesare, Donna
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ANGUISH in Northern Ireland BLOOD in the streets TYRANNY in court BY DONNA DeCESARE On Belfast's Crumlin Road, a surveillance tower rises above black corrugated iron and barriers of wire...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz See How They Grow It tells us something about the state of the movie business that the two most compelling films released in the United States this year are documentaries....
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Country in Some twenty million people were watching the nineteenth annual Country Music Awards on CBS television in October when Ricky Skaggs of Kentucky won the...
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Rites of Power in Africa
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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BOOKS Rites of Power in Africa AFRICA: THE PEOPLE AND POLITICS OF AN EMERGING CONTINENT by Sanford J. Ungar Simon and Schuster. 527 pp. $19.95. by Carol Polsgrove About two-thirds of the way...
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Bad Choices
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Lessing, Doris
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Bad Choices THE GOOD TERRORIST by Doris Lessing Alfred A. Knopf. 375 pp. $16.95. Conservatives will happily find their worst suspicions and stereotypes of radicals confirmed in this bitter new...
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Survival Tactic
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Lester, Julius
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Survival Tactic DO LORD, REMEMBER ME by Julius Lester Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 210 pp. $ 13.95. The chief character in Do Lord, Remember Me is a black preacher, the Reverend Joshua Smith, who...
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Stormy Seas
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Preusch, Tom Barry, Beth Wood, and Deb
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BOOKS Stormy Seas THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE: FOREIGN CONTROL IN THE CARIBBEAN by Tom Barry, Beth Wood, and Deb Preusch Grove Press. 405 pp. $17.95 hardcover. $7.95 paperback. The long...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Searching for a Father IN COUNTRY by Bobbie Ann Mason Harper & Row. 245 pp. $15.95 Bobbie Ann Mason won acclaim with her first book, Shiloh and Other Stories. Her first novel, In...
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Report Card
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Schonemann, Natalie Pearson and Raoul
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REPORT CARD Natalie Pearson and Raoul Schonemann Surviving the Recovery THE UNDERBELLY OF THE U.S. ECONOMY: JOBLESSNESS AND PAUPERIZATION OF WORK IN AMERICA by Ward Morehouse and David Dembo...
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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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Baldwin, W. Andrew
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THE LAST WORD W. Andrew Baldwin Wilderness Disneyland Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and wilderness which surround it. H e need the tonic of the...
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