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 Vol. 049 Issue 005 (May 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 Medical Miracles I would like to add a footnote to John Buell's articulate plea for serious thinking concerning ethical issues arising from modern medical "advances" ("The...
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Comment
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Comment What We Want from Our Schools Americans care a lot about education. Or at least we talk a lot about our schools, and many of us believe that the schools are education and that ' talking is...
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No Comment
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no Comment Now She Belongs to the Ages Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole has nominated Jeane Kirk-patrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for the 1985 Albert Einstein Peace...
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Datelines
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al., Matthew Rothschild et.
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A Gala Occasion for the Contras LOS ANGELES Beverly Hills doesn't usually draw demonstrators, but on March 6 they came out in droves. A right-wing group headquartered in Washington, D.C., the...
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THE TAKE-CHARGE GANG
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Peck, Keenen
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The Take-Charge Gang BY KEENEN PECK Meet the people who plan to take a charge in case of a national emergency. They are already on the job. They monitor political dissent. They are obsessed...
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GAY POLITICS: A TIME TO TAKE STOCK
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Egerton, Brooks
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GAY POLITICS A TIME TO TAKE STOCK One of our greatest handicaps was the knowledge that homosexuals don't organize. Being thoroughly cowed, they seldom get together. Most feel that as long as some...
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TREASON IN THE STACKS
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Hentoff, Nat
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Treason in the Stacks BY NAT HENTOFF To the dismay of the Reagan Administration's Justice Department, millions of Government employees— and, by extension, the rest of us—have won significant...
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MITTERRAND'S MUDDLE
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Coryell, Schofield
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Mitterrand's Muddle For French Socialists, the bloom is off the rose BY SCHOFIELD CORYELL The French Left is in a quandary. After decades in the wilderness of opposition, the Socialist Party has...
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DISARMING IMAGES
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Felshin, Nina
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VIEWS REVIEWS DISARMING IMAGES BY NINA FELSHIN How does an artist think about nuclear holocaust—an event that has never taken place, whose only reality exists as a threat, albeit a threat that...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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mflf Michael H. Seitz Second-hand Rose It's hard to imagine how anyone—even the Ayatollah Khomeini or Caspar Weinberger—could fail to be charmed and entertained by Woody Allen's new comedy, The...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC , Nat Hentoff A Jazz Revival Meeting It was one of the longest nights of jazz since the glory days of Kansas City and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. The concert at Town Hall in...
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The Right to Know
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Downing, John D.H.
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BOOKS The Right to Know UNINFORMED: GOVERNMENT SECRECY IN THE EIGHTIES by Donna Demac Pilgrim Press. 180 pp. $15.95 hardcover. $5.95 paperback. by John D.H. Downing This timely book, Keeping...
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Feminist Rebel
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Falk, Candace
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Feminist Rebel LOVE, ANARCHY, & EMMA GOLDMAN: A BIOGRAPHY by Candace Falk Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 603 pp. $25. EMMA GOLDMAN: AN INTIMATE LIFE by Alice Wexler Pantheon Books. 339 pp....
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Apocalypse
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Llosa, Mario Vargas
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Apocalypse THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD by Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Farrar Straus Giroux. 568 pp. $18.95. In Mario Llosa's panoramic novel the followers of a saintly...
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Underground
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Green, Gil
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scriptions of former slaves and murderers, deformed and mutilated figures who find a new life in the Counselor's city, Canu-dos. The main theme of the book is the riddle of Canudos. Everyone tries...
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Never Again
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Terkel, Studs
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Books Briefly Mexico Unmasked DISTANT NEIGHBORS by Alan Riding Alfred A. Knopf. 385 pp. $18.95. If you want to learn about Mexico, this book should be first on your list. Alan Riding, a...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Mexico Unmasked DISTANT NEIGHBORS by Alan Riding Alfred A. Knopf. 385 pp. $18.95. If you want to learn about Mexico, this book should be first on your list. Alan Riding, a reporter...
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Report Card
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Doughty, Roger
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REPORT CARD Roger Doughty Coping with Crime LIBERALS AND CRIME: ON CURES AND CAUSES Democracy Project Reports Democracy Project, 145 East 49th Street, Suite 9D, New York, NY 10017. 70 pp. $7...
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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 and its author. The first letters of the...
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The Last Word
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SLAUGHTER, JANE
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THE LAST WORD ^ Sidney Lens Happy Days Are Here Again The last time I played the stock market—the only time, in fact—was back in 1929, just a few months before the Big Crash. I was running...
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