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 Vol. 049 Issue 004 (April 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 The Library Elite Once again, as it has so often in the past, The Progressive has reported on something I've felt strongly about for a long time. I'm referring to Steven J....
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Comment
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The Lion and the Nice The cat's finally out of the bag. After four years of hemming and hawing, hedging and hinting, Ronald Reagan owned up: Yes, by golly, he does want to overthrow the Sandinista...
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No Comment
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\() ( (>\t Ml \ / Vanished Without a Trace The state of Israel does not appear on maps of the Middle East published by the Arabian-American Oil Company in its magazine, Aramco World. Strictly...
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Reflections
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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REFLECTIONS Samuel H. Day Jr. Taking the Arecent issue of Sojourners, the highly respected Christian evangelical monthly, reports that 42,352 Americans have signed a pledge to resist escalation...
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Datelines
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al., Craig Allen et.
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No Smoking, Standing, or Slandering MILWAUKEE Each day, a quarter of a million passengers ride the Milwaukee County bus system. They pass the time reading newspapers or staring at advertising...
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WHO KILLED MANUIL BUENDIA?
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Rothschild, Matthew
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May 30,1984, Mexico City. The moon passed between the Earth and the Sun. It was the day of a solar eclipse. At 6:30 p.m., fifty-eight-year-old Manuel Buendia, Mexico's preeminent journalist, walked...
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RUMBLINGS ON THE RIGHT
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Kurlansky, Mark J .
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RUMBLING ON THE RIGHT Mexico feels the tremors of discontent BY MARK J. KURLANSKY 1985 may be the most important political year in two generations for Mexico. In the fifty-six-year history of...
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A FREEZE ON FACTS
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Peck, Keenen
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A Freeze on Facts They need not be classified to be kept secret BY KEENEN PECK Agroup of truck drivers—the ones who haul nuclear weapons across the country—had a dispute with their employer, the...
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DOE'S BIG CHILL
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Bothwell, Anthony P.X.
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DOE'S Big Chill The U.S. Department of Energy spends about $10 billion a year on thousands of contractors that employ millions of Americans. Some of the nation's top experts in science, technology,...
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A MATTER OF PRIDE AND PRINCIPLE
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Cornford, Adam
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BY ADAM CORNFORD Our backs are against the wall," says Beryl Fury, who runs the Gwent Food Centre for the striking miners in this steep-sided Welsh valley. The collieries sunk in the narrow valley...
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SAND, SURF, AND AUSTERITY
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Steif, William
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SAND, SURF, AND AUSTERITY Jamaica has troubles the tourists don't see BY WILLIAM STEIF Cynthia Martin stands at the end of a conveyor line in a large packing shed at Spring Plain, a 3,600-acre...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Endangered Species The abstruse yet intriguing title identifies Where the Green Ants Dream as a work of the visionary German filmmaker Werner Herzog (Even Dwarfs Started...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff The Foremothers^o l.iving gone to a Greenwich Village I p^ja/z club recently lo hear a pianist 11 know. I Mated for the other combo. hearts themselves reminisce on...
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A Sacred Trust'
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Wyant, William K.
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BOOKS * A Sacred Trust' THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND by Bernard Shanks Sierra Club Books. 320 pp. $19.95. by William K. Wyant Bernard Shanks is not afraid of using the broadsword when he talks about...
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Labor Martyrs
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Avrich, Paul
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Labor Martyrs THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY by Paul Avrich Princeton University Press. 536 pp. $29.50. Recently I stood by the monument of the Haymarket anarchists in Forest Home Cemetery—better known as...
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New Gospel
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Berryman, Philip
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BOOKS New Gospel THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF REBELLION: CHRISTIANS IN CENTRAL AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS by Philip Berryman Orbis Books. 452 pp. $19.95. Philip Berryman has written the most valuable book to...
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Rebuttal
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Lasch, Christopher
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Rebuttal THE MINIMAL SELF: PSYCHIC SURVIVAL IN TROUBLED TIMES by Christopher Lasch W.W. Norton. 317 pp. $16.95. I confess a certain liking for Christopher Lasch. His willingness to make sweeping...
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Peril of Power
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Schmookler, Andrew Bard
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Peril of Power THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES: THE PROBLEM OF POWER IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION by Andrew Bard Schmookler University of California Press. 400 pp. $19.95. Aparable, my dictionary tells me, is...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS Books Briefly A Novelist's Ruminations THE FRIDAY BOOK by John Barth G.P. Putnam's Sons. 281 pp. $17.95. Novelist John Barth exudes a certain charm, mostly on the strength of his wit...
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Report Card
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Rothburd, Carrie
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Report Card Carrie Rothburd Gimme Shelter RUNNING FOR SHELTER: TAX SHELTERS AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY by Richard Meyer Public Citizen's Tax Reform Research Group, 215 Pennsylvania Avenue SE,...
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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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Mack, John
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TH F LAST WORD John Mack Taconic Correctional Facility is a small medium-securilv prison in Bedford Hills. New York. Most of the 350 inmates arc serving short sentences or arc approaching release...
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