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 Vol. 050 Issue 001 (January 1 1986)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Respond to Chomsky's Thinkable Thought* Noam Chomsky's description of how societies set their own terms of debate and marginalize contributions outside the bounds of...
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Comment
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Comment Friends to the End Some time in 1986, if the tentative agreements reached in Geneva are honored by both sides, the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, will visit the United States. And...
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No Comment
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NO C OMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise The New York Times reports business is booming in $60,000 stretch limousines that come equipped with color television, video cassette recorder, cellular...
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Datelines
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al., Tom O'Connell et.
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Less Corn, More Hell ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA In the decades since Populist Party leader Mary Lease advised farmers to "raise less corn and more hell," rural America has fought a rearguard battle to...
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Media
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Manoff, Robert Karl
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MEDIA Robert Karl Manoff He'd Rather Be Right Armed Forces Journal ("an independent, monthly defense news magazine that believes in honest, impartial reporting") knows how to sell subscriptions...
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Reflections
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Armstrong, Robert
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REFLECTIONS Sidney Lens Hold That Line Time was when working men and women, liberals, and radicals of all persuasions, held one rule sacred and inviolable: Never cross a picket line. It wasn't a...
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UNNATURAL SELECTION
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Corea, Gena
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Unnatural Selection BY GENA COREA Awoman sits down before a white-coated authority figure who tells her, with great sympathy in his voice, that there is a slight problem with her eggs—they carry...
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LITTLE REAGANS
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Bello, Walden
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LITTLE REAGANS Liberal Democrats re-enlist in the Cold War BY WALDEN BELLO Nine long years ago, President Jimmy Carter said it was time Americans shed their "inordinate fear of communism." For a...
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LES IS LESS
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Leventhal, George L.
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Les Is Less Les Aspin was elected to Congress in 1970 from Wisconsin's First District and quickly cultivated a reputation as a thoughtful critic of Pentagon excess. When he ran for reelection in...
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HEARTS AND MINDS AGAIN
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Guyot, Erik
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Hearts and Minds (again) There's something familiar about the Pentagon's strategy in the Philippines BY ERIK GUYOT Agood example of what may happen here is Nicaragua," says Philippine Colonel...
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MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
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Kurlansky, Mark J.
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Man Without a Country Fourteen years ago he stole a plane BY MARK J. KURLANSKY Michael Finney doesn't look like someone the FBI has been trying to get its hands on for fourteen years. He doesn't...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff The Passionate Gentleman Eighteen years after Edmond Hall's death at the age of sixty-six, hardly anyone under thirty can tell you who he was. He never was known to...
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Capital Calls the Tune'
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Lewis, J. Patrick
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BOOKS 'Capital Calls the Tune' THE NATURE AND LOGIC OF CAPITALISM by Robert Heilbroner W.W. Norton. 225 pp. $15.95. by J. Patrick Lewis Five years ago, in Marxism: For and Against, Robert...
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Mixed Values
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al., Robert N. Bellah et.
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Mixed Values HABITS OF THE HEART by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton University of California Press. 255 pp. $16.95. According to the five...
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Power Stakes
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Munson, Richard
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Power Stakes THE POWER MAKERS by Richard Munson Rodale Press. 260 pp. $16.95. The electric utility industry is in trouble. Having sailed through a period in which consumption doubled every decade...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Minnesota Americana LAKE WOBEGON DAYS by Garrison Keillor The Viking Press. 337 pp. $17.95. Regular listeners to Garrison Keillor's public radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion,"...
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Report Card
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Schonemann, Natalie Pearson and Raoul
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REPORT CARD Natalie Pearson and Raoul Schonemann Beyond Crayolas STAR WARS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SPACE WEAPONS DEBATE by Sandra Sedacca and Robert DeGrasse Common Cause Guides, 2030 M...
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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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Index for 1985
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INDEX TO VOLUME 49, 1985 SECTION I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec 19 is Page 19 of the December issue. SECTION II lists books reviewed,...
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The Last Word
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Rothschild, Matthew
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THE LAST WORD Matthew Rothschild G-Man at the Wedding After the white-gowned Catholic ceremony, the wedding party repaired to a nearby American Legion hall. Around long tables designed for...
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