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 Vol. 049 Issue 002 (February 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 Some Call It Junk was glad to see Erwin Knoll's frank acknowledgement of The Progressive's practice of exchanging mailing lists with other junk-mail distributors (Editor's...
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Comment
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comment Secrets in Space At first glance, the secrecy flap that erupted a few days before Christmas 1984 might well have been dismissed as a bit of holiday-season tomfoolery. Perhaps a Pentagon...
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No Comment
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\<> COM M l? ST Games People Play A new sport in Santa Cruz, California, United Press International reports, is "trollbusting," denned as "the physical abuse of transients, street people, and...
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Datelines
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al., Thomas J. Long et.
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Arafat's Last Stand? OCCUPIED WEST BANK The Arab taxi driver spins the cab around just before reaching an orange van parked along the road that borders the De-heishe refugee camp near Bethlehem....
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SOUTH AFRICA: THE CYCLONE IS COMING
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Davis, Jennifer
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_ South Africa_ THE CYCLONE IS COMING BY JENNIFER DAVIS South Africa's apartheid government is like a man who owned a house besieged by a cyclone, says a representative of the African National...
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TALES OF APARTHEID
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Steif, William
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South Africa TALES OF APARTHEID BY WILLIAM STEIF SOUTH AFRICA'S information ministry tries hard to shield visiting reporters from the facts of life in that country, but sometimes reality...
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THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED SYMPHONY
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Hentoff, Nat
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who's on first: The Case of the Frightened Symphony BY NAT HENTOFF In the late 1940s, when I was working for a Boston radio station, the boss was seized with a fierce desire to fire me. He said...
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HIGH AND DRY
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Lanner, Devorah
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High and Pry Prudential's neighbors wonder where the water went BY DEVORAH LANNER Prudential Insurance Company owns more than a piece of the rock; it holds title to a sizable chunk of American...
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INDIRA'S TARNISHED LEGACY
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Omvedt, Gail
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Indira's Tarnished Legacy BY GAIL OMVEDT It feels as if the earth has been removed from under our feet, as if we as a nation are suspended in mid-air with nothing to lean on." So commented the...
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THE 'PATRIOTIC PROSTITUTE
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Gay, Jill
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The 'Patriotic* Prostitute_ Her country promotes her as an economic asset BY JILL GAY Germany's Rosie Travel sells sex tours to Thailand. "Anything goes in this exotic country," says the...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz A Turkey in Space To its misfortune, 2010 begs comparison with 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 film to which it is the sequel. The pre-credit sequence of 2010 presents a...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Mingus Unabridged The phone would ring and instead of a voice on the other end, there would be music. Explosive, shouting music but then, sometimes, fragile,...
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On Being Young in the 1960s
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Armstrong, David
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BOOKS On Being Young in the 1960s THE HAIGHT-ASHBURY: A HISTORY by Charles Perry Random House. 306 pp. $16.95. THE '60s WITHOUT APOLOGY edited by Sohnya Sayres, Anders Ste-phanson, Stanley...
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Crusader
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Brady, Kathleen
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Crusader IDA TARBELL: PORTRAIT OF A MUCKRAKER by Kathleen Brady Seaview/Putnam. 286 pp. $17.95. How many Americans remember when our country produced its own oil and manufactured its own goods?...
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Bohemian Josie
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Langer, Elinor
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Bohemian Josie JOSEPHINE HERBST: THE STORY SHE COULD NEVER TELL by Elinor Langer Atlantic-Little, Brown. 374 pp. $19.95. ElinorLanger's JosephineHerbst: The Story She Could Never Tell has aroused...
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Racial Injustice
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Irons, Peter
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Racial Injustice JUSTICE AT WAR by Peter Irons Oxford University Press. 407 pp. $18.95. In 1942, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent, 70,000 of whom were American citizens, were...
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Unions' Role
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Medoff, James L.
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Unions' Role WHAT DO UNIONS DO? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff Basic Books. 293 pp. $22.95. What do unions do? It's a good question. And to the extent that statistical analysis of data...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Attitudes toward Sex SEX AND DESTINY: POLITICS OF HUMAN FERTILITY by Germaine Greer Harper and Row. 541 pp. $19.95. One takes notice when an early voice of the women's movement...
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Report Card
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Nelson, Marcia Z.
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REPORT CARD Marcia Z. Nelson Unnatural Acts NATURAL DISASTERS: ACTS OF GOD OR ACTS OF MAN? by Anders Wijkman and Lloyd Timberlake Earthscan, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC...
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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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Hoekstra, Steven J.
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THE LAST WORD Steven J. Hoekstra Reader, Stay Home As I approached the space-age equivalent of a turnstile at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library, the entrance guard sighed, "ID."...
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