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 Vol. 050 Issue 005 (May 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 Cuomo on the Contras Lest readers of The Progressive be misled as to my views regarding President Reagan's policies toward Nicaragua, a possibility which might have arisen...
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Comment
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Comment Looking Out for Number One No less an authority than the Mobil Oil Corporation assures us, in one of those slick, chatty op-ed ads that purvey the petroleum line, that "the buzzword of the...
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No Comment
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no Comment Pay as You Flow Representative Fred May, a member of the Washington state legislature, proposed a 6 per cent sales tax on toilet tissue to pay for cleanup of the state's polluted...
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Small Favors
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The Front Line Y'all can stop worrying. Ever since the President told us they were comin' in at Harlingen, everybody in Texas been gettin' ready. "The Red tide," said...
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Datelines
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al., Marc Sills et.
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Trail of Tears, Revisited BIG MOUNTAIN, ARIZONA As July 1986 draws near, so too does the deadline for enforcement of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act. Passed in 1974 and apprehensively awaited...
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THE GUATEMALA CONNECTION
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Nairn, Allan
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The Guatemala Connection While Congress slept, U.S. arms merchants delivered the goods BY ALLAN NAIRN In the spring of 1982, as Washington debated whether to restore military aid to Guatemala,...
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PRESUMPTION OF GUILT
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Hentoff, Nat
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Presumption of Guilt BY NAT HENTOFF "/ don't take drugs and I don't believe I have to piss in a bottle to prove I don't." —Bob Stanley, pitcher, Boston Red Sox "If you hang all the people,...
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CO-OPTED
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Rothburd, Carrie
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CO-OPTED Food co-ops put their politics back on the shelf BY CARRIE ROTHBURD Up and down the aisles of the Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin, customers chat with one...
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
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Stevenson, John
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THE YOUNG AND THE BY JOHN STEVENSON Last April 29 was "No-Business-as-Usual Day" in Chicago, and hundreds of people gathered in the Loop for marches, "die-ins," chants, and guerrilla theater....
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ONE WHO MADE A REVOLUTION
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Daniel Cohn-Bendit One who made a Revolution BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS He represents all the youthful optimism of the international political generation of the 1960s: Daniel...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Depriving Kids of Their Heritage Jazz: An American Idiom" was the topic of a four-day session held in Denver recently by the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. I...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Forster's 'Nicest' It seems to me that I've seen more interesting and praiseworthy films so far this year than in all of the last few years combined. Among the most...
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The Real Bad Guys
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Landau, Saul
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BOOKS The Real Bad Guys WITH THE CONTRAS: I ^^^^^^^^^^m A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua by Christopher Dickey Simon and Schuster. 327 pp. $18.95. by Saul Landau In February, Secretary of...
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Islam's Message
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Wright, Robin
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Islam's Message SACRED RAGE: The Wrath of Militant Islam by Robin Wright Linden Press/Simon & Schuster. 315 pp. $17.95. The people of Nabatiyeh, an important Shiite town in southern Lebanon,...
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Taming the Tube
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Postman, Neil
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Taming the Tube AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH by Neil Postman The Viking Press. 184 pp. $15.95. Universal suffrage has been closely allied, historically, with the idea of universal education. The...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly A Special Friendship DARLINGHISSIMA: Letters to a Friend by Janet Flanner Edited and with commentary by Natalia Danesi Murray Random House. 507 pp. $24.95. For fifty years, from...
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Report Card
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Fiefer, William Paul
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REPORT CARD William Paul Fiefer Coming Home LAND VIETNAMESE IN THAILAND: An Inadequate Response by Representative William McCollum The U.S. Committee for Refugees, 815 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite...
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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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HOCHSCHILD, ADAM
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THE LAST WORD Adam Hochschild Moment in the Sun Aforeign visitor rarely gets 10 see much of rural Russia, except from behind the windows of a lour bus. The hotels where Westerners can stay are...
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