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 Vol. 049 Issue 006 (June 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 Why Americans Can't Read In your Comment "What We Want from Our Schools" (May issue), you say, "School critic Jonathan Kozol, among others, suggests that as many as sixty...
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Comment
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Comment The Echo Chamber When the Ninety-ninth Congress rejected President Reagan's request for $14 million in aid to the contras fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the great torpid...
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No Comment
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no Comment No Problem In Branford, Connecticut, where blacks were excluded from membership in Rainbow Girls, a community service group, Pearl Neilson explained to the New Haven Register. "We...
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Datelines
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al., Tim Evans et.
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A Bomb in the Garage LOS ANGELES One day, Fred Iverson was shown a classified advertisement in Shotgun News. Among the offers of Uzis and .38s, Iverson saw an advertisement that read: "For Sale:...
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A MAYOR'S DILEMMA
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Lens, Sidney
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A Mayor's Dilemma In Chicago, the system fights City Hall BY SIDNEY LENS Chicago's small revolution is in midterm limbo. It was two years ago that Harold Washington became mayor by slaying...
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A FRESH START IN BOSTON, TOO
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Blodgett, Mindy
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A Fresh Start in Boston, Too Tonight, Boston made history," declared Raymond Flynn, the city's newly elected mayor, at his victory party in 1983. "We've proven that the hopes that unite us are...
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RIGHT TO LIFE OR RIGHT TO LIE!
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Abas, Bryan
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Right to Life or BY BRYAN ABAS When Jane Ashley of Fort Worth, Texas, went to get an abortion last December, there was a crowd of demonstrators outside the clinic. Right to Lie? PP may not mean...
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THE UNIONS AND SOUTH AFRICA
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Bass, Carole
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THE UNIONS AND SOUTH AFRICA How the AFL-CIO betrays black labor BY CAROLE BASS It has become a familiar scene on the nightly news: A group of demonstrators approaches the South African...
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WOBBLIES STILL
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Ervin, Michael
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wOBBLIES STILL BY MICHAEL ERVIN Praise boss when morning work bells chime, Praise him for bits of overtime. Praise him whose wars we love to fight, Praise him, fat leech and parasite. —IWW song,...
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THE CHINA SYNDROME
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Yudkin, Marcia
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THE CHINA SYNDROME Potholes on the capitalist road BY MARCIA YUDKIN As the biting winds of late January blew through the battened windows of Beijing's Foreign Languages Press, where I worked last...
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NO PEACE IN GALILEE
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Steiff, William
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No Peace in Galilee BY WILLIAM STEIF Our Israeli escort officer, a captain, is getting nervous. He is a Jerusalem lawyer and serves one month of reserve duty every six months. "1 have six months...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC . Nat Hentoff Only in America Ihad the Des Moines Airport blues. A snowstorm had stranded me there when I should have been in Omaha giving a lecture. The lost bread and the two...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Profiting from Hunger Adespairing dust farmer addresses the banker who has delivered a foreclosure notice: "I'm here to tell you, mister, there ain't nobody gonna push me...
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Power Struggle in Yugoslavia
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Petrovich, Michael B.
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BOOKS Power Struggle in Yugoslavia RISE AND FALL by Milovan Djilas Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Fiske Loud. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 432 pp. $24.95. by Michael B....
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War Protest
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Sullivan, Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald
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War Protest WHO SPOKE UP? by Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan Doubleday. 460 pp. $18.95. Late in the afternoon of November 2, 1965, a thirty-two-year-old Quaker named Norman Morrison walked...
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Military Might
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Gervasi, Tom
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Military Might ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY III: AMERICAS WAR MACHINE by Tom Gervasi Grove Press. 334 pp. $14.95. THE PENTAGON AND THE ART OF WAR: THE QUESTION OF MILITARY REFORM by Edward N....
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Texas Humor and Folklore THE UNCENSORED JOHN HENRY FAULK by John Henry Faulk. Foreword by Louis Nizer. Texas Monthly Press. 164 pp. $16.95. In the 1950s, John Henry Faulk was...
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Report Card
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Rothburd, Carrie
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REPORT CARD Carrie Rothburd Give Peace a Chance THE PEACE CATALOG by Duane Sweeney Press for Peace, Inc., 5621 Sea view Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107. 288 pp. and a 74 pp. directory of peace...
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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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Colburn, Robert
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THE LAST WORD Robert Colburn In the Belly of the Beast On September 8, 1983, a Cessna 404 Titan loaded with explosives set out to attack Nicaragua's main air force base in Managua. Before the...
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