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Vol. 050 Issue 011 (November 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 The Age of Hysteria Your editorial "The Age of Hysteria" (Comment, October issue) presented a timely counterbalance to the antidrug mania that has swept the nation. As you...
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Comment
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Comment Of Spies and Spying Allegations of espionage lend themselves so readily to propaganda exploitation and have so great a potential for disrupting civil international discourse that rational...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT State of Confusion New Mexico was admitted to statehood in 1912, but there's always someone who doesn't get the word. In Albuquerque, former Governor David F. Cargo received the...
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Small Favors
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Oil on the Rocks Texas is going broke in style. We make jokes all the way to the bankruptcy court and keep making them while we're standing in line to file. Since we know...
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Datelines
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al., Mark G. Judge et.
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Hunger Strike for Peace WASHINGTON They have risked their lives for their country in Germany, France, and Vietnam. Now they are making the sacrifice again on the steps of the Capitol here in...
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THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JAMES EARL RAY
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Egerton, John
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The Enduring Mystery of James Earl Ray BY JOHN EGERTON In a decade of cataclysmic turmoil, 1968 was a year like no other. It began with the United States mired knee-deep in the Big Muddy of...
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STUDY WAR NO MORE
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McCarthy, Colman
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STUDY WAR NO MORE BY COLMAN MCCARTHY Like tattooing on the body of education, Bill Tisherman, the student in the front row of my class, had fine markings. He had majored in English at Harvard....
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MORE ANTI-RED THAN THOU
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Gordon, Suzanne
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More ANTI-RED Than Thou The peace movement plays it safe BY SUZANNE GORDON On August 15, 1985, the new Secretary General of the, Soviet Communist Party took an unexpected and decisive step...
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FRANK ZAPPA: REVOLT AGAINST MEDIOCRITY
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Lyons, Batya Friedman and Steve
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Frank Zappa Revolt against mediocrity BY BATYA FRIEDMAN AND STEVE LYONS Frank Zappa is a rock musician who seems to defy categorization. He writes symphonic music,...
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The Curious Case of Flight 007
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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BOOKS The Curious Case of Flight 007 "THE TARGET IS DESTROYED" by Seymour M. Hersh Random House. 282 pp. $17.95. SHOOTDOWN: The Verdict on KAL 007 by R.W. Johnson Viking Press. 335 pp....
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Policy Elites
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Blumenthal, Sidney
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Policy Elites THE RISE OF THE COUNTER-ESTABLISHMENT by Sidney Blumenthal Times Books. 384 pp. $19.95. It is a remarkable story. A political ideology once considered so extreme and archaic that...
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Peace Leaders
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DeBenedetti, Charles
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Peace Leaders PEACE HEROES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA edited by Charles DeBenedetti Indiana University Press. 276 pp. $22.50. This country desperately needs peace heroes, especially now that...
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Free Speech
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Bollinger, Lee C.
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Free Speech THE TOLERANT SOCIETY by Lee C. Bollinger Oxford University Press. 285 pp. $19.95. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter put it nicely: "It is a fair summary of history to see that...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Affirmation WARTIME WRITINGS 1930-1944 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 237 pp. $12.95. Nearly fifty years ago, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's books, Wind, Sand...
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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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Lancaster, Roger N.
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THE LAST WORD Roger N. Lancaster The Festival of Disguises It's late May, and the Yankees are coming," sighed a Nicaraguan grandmother in her mid-thirties. "Of course, we welcome tourism because...
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