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Vol. 049 Issue 008 (August 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 Final Solution Matthew Rothschild and Keenen Peck make a persuasive case against Star Wars in their article, "Star Wars: The Final Solution" (July issue). They show...
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Comment
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Comment Terrorism Begins at Home As the cycle of international violence spirals upward, the distinction between "terrorist" and "counterterrorist" becomes blurred: Israeli troops occupy Lebanon...
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no Comment Godzilla Rides Again An advertisement for the new Yamaha V-Max motorcycle describes it as a "vicious cycle" with power "that's delivered to the street with all the subtlety of a...
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Reflections
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS Sidney Lens Preventing World War II All of history," said Napoleon, "is a lie agreed upon." In our time no less than in his, historians and entire nations distort or misrepresent the...
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Datelines
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al., Michael T. Klare et.
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Lightning Rod for Protest AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS Like many towns and cities across America that have become "nuclear-free zones," Amherst thought its 1984 declaration was a purely symbolic act—a...
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ASSAULT ON SANCTUARY
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Nairn, Allan
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Assault on Sanctuary A church rallies * to protect a Salvadoran whistleblower BY ALLAN NAIRN One winter morning, agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) came to the door...
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THE POLITICS OF ASYLUM
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Ebert-Miner, Allan
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The Politics of Asylum Malf a million Salvadorans have fled to the United States since 1979. Most arrive without papers; some try to avoid detection, and some petition our Government for political...
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SNOOPS IN THE PEWS
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Hentoff, Nat
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Snoops in the Pews BY NAT HENTOFF America has seen no ecumenical phenomenon quite like the sanctuary movement. More than 200 Roman Catholic parishes, Quaker meetings, Protestant congregations,...
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FORGOTTEN BOMB, FORGOTTEN CITY
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Mitchell, Greg
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FORGOTTEN BOMB FORGOTTEN CITY BY GREG MITCHELL Two atomic weapons have been used in warfare, and Kenshi Hirata, a short, slight, sixty-five-year-old resident of Nagasaki, Japan, experienced both...
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BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN
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McGehee, Ralph
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Back in the Saddle Again A former CIA officer sees a new binge of illegal activity BY RALPH McGEHEE In 1975, I worked in the CIA's International Communism Branch as the East Asia Division...
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ERRORS OF ENTHUSIASM'
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Dreifus, Claudia
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'Errors of Enthusiasm' A former CIA chief frets about the Agency's abuses EDITOR'S NOTE: It isn't every day that a former Director of Central Intelligence admits that the CIA supports murderers...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Looking for Ms. Goodbody Popular culture has become preoccupied with the human body—or at least with model figures and taut physiques. These can bring satisfaction,...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Levine and His Flying Machine Every year at the beginning of summer, New York City's Fifth Avenue is closed off from 82nd Street to 105th for the Museum Mile...
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Humanistic Economics
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
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BOOKS Humanistic Economics ECONOMICS: WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHY AND SOME THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT by George P. Brockway Harper & Row. 224 pp. $18.50. by John Kenneth Galbraith Books on economics...
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Pacific War
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Spector, Ronald H.
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BOOKS Pacific War EAGLE AGAINST THE SUN: THE AMERICAN WAR WITH JAPAN by Ronald H. Spector Free Press. 590 pp. $24.95. In 1950, recalling his elation when Pearl Harbor brought about the formal...
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Hispanic Saga
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Allende, Isabel
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BOOKS Hispanic Saga THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende Alfred A. Knopf. 368 pp. $17.95. This is the way history should be written. With passion and compassion, with wit and imagination...
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Blacks in War
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Terry, Wallace
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BOOKS Blacks in War BLOODS by Wallace Terry Random House. 311 pp. $17.95. In 1967, Wallace Terry, then a correspondent for Time, was assigned to cover the war in Vietnam from the viewpoint of...
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Report Card
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Erdman, Karen
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REPORT CARD Karen Erdman Toward Safety PREVENTING ILLNESS AND INJURY IN THE WORKPLACE by the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402....
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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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Twopines, Carol
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THE LAST WORD Carol Twopines My Life in Crime Since 1970,1 have been a criminal, violating both state and Federal law. I'm risking my freedom and custody of my daughter so my family can enjoy...
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