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 Vol. 050 Issue 003 (March 1 1986)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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LETTERS to the Editor Progressive Graphics Iwant to see The Progressive survive its financial problems, so here's some valuable advice: Please change your horrible artwork. The illustrations are...
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Comment
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Comment_ Beauty and the Beast Why is Ronald Reagan so popular? All of the major polls show him enjoying an approval rating of about 65 per cent—an extraordinary, almost unparalleled endorsement....
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no Comment First Things First Pam Blessinger, president of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association, as quoted in The New York Times: "We had a Buddhist monk who wanted to put a peace monument...
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Small Favors
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins How to Survive Reagan Many citizens of progressive political persuasion are finding that, soul-wise, these are trying times. To be a liberal in the Reagan Era—not to...
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Reflections
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Rothschild, Matthew
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RKFLKCTIONS Matthew Rothschild One Step Backward One of the Nineteenth Century Rus^ sian anarchists, I think it was Ba-kunin, claimed that if he could spend just five,minutes talking to every...
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Datelines
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al., Francesca Lyman et.
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Workers Treated Worse Than Turkeys DAYTON, VIRGINIA Stephanie Rose took her first assembly-line job at the Mar-val Poultry Company in Dayton, Virginia, for one reason: the money. At $5.60 an hour,...
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LETHAL DOSE
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Blitt, Dennis Bernstein and Connie
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BY DENNIS BERNSTEIN AND CONNIE BLITT The first Saturday of the new year brought a crisp, nearly cloudless morning to Gore, Oklahoma, with a twenty-five-mile-an-hour wind moving from the north. The...
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CONFESSIONS OF A DEATH SQUAD OFFICER
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Nairn, Allan
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Confessions of a Death Squad Officer BY ALLAN NAIRN ^ A Salvadoran army officer has come forward with new information about the workings of El Salvador's Death Squads and their links to U.S....
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GOING FOR BROKE
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Flaherty, Francis J .
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GOING ¦FOR BROKE The lottery craze makes for lots of losers BY FRANCIS j. FLAHERTY ay the fours be with you!" So goes a Star Wars-styk television commercial for Pennsylvania's state...
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WOMEN'S WORK
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Bradley, Elizabeth Durbin and Doug
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VIEWS REV I E W S WOMEN'S WORK BY ELIZABETH DURBIN AND DOUG BRADLEY Two women stared at the delicately colored, strikingly unusual wall hanging. "I can't believe it," said the...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC , Nat Hentoff Recollections of an A&R Man Ajazz buffs perennial fantasy is the magical chance to make his own recordings of his favorite musicians. It's a marginal way of...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Japan Now, Germany Then We watch what seems to be a typical Japanese family—lively pubescent daughter, studious son, homemaking mother, conscientious, hardworking...
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The Dalkon Shield Outrage
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Randal, William Hines and Judith
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BOOKS The Dalkon Shield Outrage AT ANY COST: CORPORATE GREED, WOMEN, AND THE DALKON SHIELD by Morton Mintz Pantheon. 308 pp. $17.95. NIGHTMARE: WOMEN AND THE DALKON SHIELD by Susan Perry and...
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Time Capsule
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Doctorow, E.L.
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BOOKS Time Capsule WORLD'S FAIR by E.L. Doctorow Random House. 258 pp. $17.95. Novelist E(dgar) L(awrence) Doctorow likes to mention that he was named after Edgar Allan Poe. He doesn't usually...
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Race and Class
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Lukas, J. Anthony
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Race and Class COMMON GROUND by J. Anthony Lukas Alfred A. Knopf. 659 pp. $19.95. The eruption of violence that greeted the advent of school busing to achieve racial balance in Boston in the...
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Radical Past
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Howe, Irving
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BOOKS Radical Past SOCIALISM AND AMERICA by Irving Howe Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 225 pp. $17.95. Irving Howe, veteran democratic socialist, literary critic, editor of Dissent, and author of...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly One Big Union SOLIDARITY FOREVER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE IWW by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer Lake View Press (P.O. Box 578279, Chicago, IL 60657). 248 pp. $25...
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Report Card
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Fiefer, William Paul
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REPORT CARD William Paul Fiefer Military Meddling INVASION: A Guide to the U.S. Military Presence in Central America by the American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry...
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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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Egerton, Brooks
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THE LAST WORD , Brooks Egerton Big Brother on Guard Like the telescreen in George Orwell's 1984, the posters are everywhere. Help, they say in large block letters above a small boy's forlorn...
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