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Vol. 050 Issue 004 (April 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 The Party's Over* Iwas happy to see Stanley Aronowitz's "The Party's Over: Farewell to the Democrats" (February issue). It should be apparent to all that...
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Comment
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Comment Imperialism with a Human Face The unlamented departure of Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines has occasioned an outburst of self-congratulation in Washington. The Reagan Administration...
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No Comment
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no Comment The Five Per Cent Solution The Gallup Poll reports that "there is no credibility crisis for the nation's media," because the great majority of Americans have a high opinion of...
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Datelines
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al., Sue Davidson et.
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Vindication, Forty-four Years Later SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Gordon Hirabayashi is an unlikely hero, a gentle, humorous, low-key man who has spent forty-four years in righteous battle. On February 10,...
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THE GREAT INSURANCE SCAM
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Peck, Keenen
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The Great Insurance SCAM BY KEENEN PECK Joe Mohker is covered if someone springs a leak. He purchased insurance to protect his family-operated plumbing business in Miami. Last year, he paid...
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CHILE: WAITING FOR THE FALL
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Beam, John M.
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CHILE Waiting for the Fall BY JOHN M. BEAM SEPTEMBER 2 Our two-person invasion force enters Chile through a tunnel boring into the highest section of the Andes. At the tunnel's end, a new...
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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Phillips, Jennifer Stoffel and Stephen
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY Asbestos is a hazard that Just won't go away ¦ BY JENNIFER STOFFEL AND STEPHEN PHILLIPS Abarricade of black plastic draped from floor to ceiling blocks the end of a stark-white,...
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THE BUS-AND-BUSHEL- BASKET LINE
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Marquis, David Davis and Chris
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The Bus-and-Bushel Basket Line Stoop labor is for city folks, too BY DAVID DAVIS AND CHRIS MARQUIS Three hours before dawn, a mist starts to roll in from the river, shrouding the toll plaza of...
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PETE SEEGER'S HOMEMADE MUSIC
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Ervin, Mike
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VIEWS REVIEWS PETE SEEGER'S HOMEMADE MUSIC BY MIKE ERVIN If you're one of the many who still think of Pete Seeger as a lanky youngster strumming a banjo and belting out songs at a peace rally or...
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Media
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Manoff, Robert Karl
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MEDIA Robert Karl Manoff Journalists Aboard Something went wrong with the Shuttle Challenger only fractions of a second into its January Florida launch. But the problems with the journalism that...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz The Stuff of Nightmares People tend to have extreme reactions to Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Two of my friends hated it, thought it was strikingly ugly, more gross than comic,...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Singing, Strutting Horns Jazz was not born in New Orleans—it has many homes—but the Crescent City played a large, flavorful part in laying down many traditions of the...
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Do We Want to Know?
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MILLER, ARTHUR S.
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BOOKS Do We Want to Know? UNTENDED GATES: THE MISMANAGED PRESS by Norman E. Isaacs Columbia University Press. 258 pp. $20. INVENTING REALITY: THE POLITICS OF THE MASS MEDIA by Michael...
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Last Resort
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Tribe, Laurence H.
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BOOKS Last Resort GOD SAVE THIS HONORABLE COURT by Laurence H. Tribe Random House. 171 pp. $17.95. In this serviceable but slightly overdone book, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe claims...
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Last Frontier
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Noble, David W.
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BOOKS Last Frontier THE END OF AMERICAN HISTORY by David W. Noble University of Minnesota Press. 166 pp. $25 hardcover. $14.95 paperback. In The End of American History, historian David W. Noble...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Antiwar Activism THE PHOENIX TRIP: NOTES ON A QUAKER MISSION TO HAIPHONG by Elizabeth Jelinek Boardman Celo Press (Route 5, Burnsville, NC 28714). 174 pp. $22.50 hardcover. $9.95...
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Report Card
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Fiefer, William Paul
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REPORT CARD William Paul Fiefer AIFLD Rides Again ARE NICARAGUA'S TRADE UNIONS FREE? A Response to the American Institute for Free Labor Development Report, 'Nicaragua, a Revolution Betrayed:...
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Puzzle
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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THE PROGRESSIVE 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 spell out...
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The Last Word
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Wilkerson, Michael
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THE LAST WORD r Michael Wilkerson Nuclear Bluegrass When I firsi met Darrell, Vivian, Bill, and Glenda Breeden, I thought they were the kind of country people who always sat in the back rows of...
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