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 Vol. 050 Issue 010 (October 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 Bashing the Donkey While the decision of the House of Representatives to provide $100 million in aid to the contras was one of the most dire and damaging votes taken by that...
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Comment
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Comment_ The Age of Hysteria Last year, it was AIDS. The year before that, it was the child abductors. This year, it's drugs. Welcome to the age of hysteria. When news is slow, the media tend to...
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No Comment
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NoCOMMENT Diogenes Among the Contractors Deputy Secretary of Defense William Taft IV, in a letter to military contractors: "Early voluntary disclosure, coupled with full cooperation and complete...
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Media
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Manoff, Robert Karl
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Media Robert Karl Manoff Only in Amerika You have, I am sure, heard about Amerika. Come February, you will also get the chance to see it, and ABC is betting more than $30 million that you and...
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Datelines
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al., Phil Haslanger et.
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A Rival to the Gangs MILWAUKEE On the one hand are the gangs—the Latin Kings and the Cobras. On the other is their rival, Ricardo Diaz, the thirty-five-year-old director of Centro de la Comunidad...
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Reflections
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REFLECTIONS An Open Letter to the Antinuclear Movement Dear fellow supporters of the anti-nuclear movement: We are writing to you today in the conviction that the antinuclear movement will be...
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THE RIGHT: IS THERE LIFE AFTER REAGAN?
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Judis, John B.
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the Right Is there life after Reagan? BY JOHN B. JUDIS Some conservatives believe that when Ronald Reagan leaves office in January 1989, he will take the conservative movement with him into...
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FILED, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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Knoll, Erwin
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But Not Forgotten The FBI and The Progressive BY ERWIN KNOLL On September 30, 1947, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent a downright cordial letter to Morris...
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THE WRONG MARCH: CHINA CHOOSES STALIN'S WAY
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Meisner, Maurice J.
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The Wrong March China chooses Stalin's way BY MAURICE J. MEISNER The People's Republic of China-product of the greatest and most, radical of modern revolutions—has gained some politically...
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WEI JINGSHENG: THE FORGOTTEN MAN
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Dorfman, Ron
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Wei Jingsheng, the Forgotten Man The wall in Peking that used to be called Democracy Wall is now covered with commercial advertising instead of the "big-character posters" on which people debated...
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PLEASE DON'T DRINK THE WATER
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Fruhling, Larry
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Please Don't Drink the Water BY LARRY FRUHLING Lasso, Sencor, Dyfonate, Bladex, Dual—the names are practically household words in the Middle West. As the last snows of winter melt into the rich...
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EARTH: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
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Aufderheide, Pat
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film EARTH Love it or leave it BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE The struggle to be human—something you can't do alone but can only do with other people under considerable stress (an observation that has kept...
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Armageddon in Amarillo
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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BOOKS Armageddon in Amarillo BLESSED ASSURANCE: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A.G. Mojtabai Houghton Mifflin. 255 pp. $16.95. by Samuel H. Day Jr. Each year in early August, to...
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Radical Dreams
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Abrahams, Edward
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Radical Dreams THE LYRICAL LEFT by Edward Abrahams University ofVirginia Press. 265 pp. $20. There is an Emma Goldman T-shirt frequently worn at rallies and demonstrations that reads, "If I can't...
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Bulgarian Myth
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Brodhead, Edward S. Herman and Frank
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Bulgarian Myth THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BULGARIAN CONNECTION by Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead Sheridan Square. 255 pp. $9.95 paperback. In the era of superpower confrontation, how easy is...
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Boon or Bane?
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Carmen, Ira H.
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Boon or Bane? CLONING AND THE CONSTITUTION By Ira H. Carmen University of Wisconsin Press. 223 pp. $22.50 The most important social change of our time," Daniel Bell observed twenty years ago, "is...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Popular Wisdom ARAB FOLKTALES Translated and edited by Inea Bushnaq Pantheon. 387 pp. $19.95 Inea Bushnaq, a native of Jerusalem, graduate of Cambridge University, and resident...
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Report Card
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Solomon, Siddharth Dube and Jeremy
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REPORT CARD Siddharth Dube and Jeremy Solomon Mapping Death MISSILES OF AMERICA Nukewatch, 315 West Gorham Street, Madison, WI 53703. $3.00 per map. Like all good maps, these from Nukewatch...
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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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Urfer, Bonnie
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THE LAST WORD Bonnie Urfer Memoirs of a Normal Childhood Ihad a normal childhood. It was filled with violence and abuse. Most of it I don't remember. Some things I will never forget. The first...
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