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 Vol. 050 Issue 008 (August 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 O Patriots: An Exchange In their debate on patriotism ("O Patriots: An Exchange," July issue), both John Buell and Matthew Rothschild seem to equate patriotism with...
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Comment
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Comment Launch and Leave So-called smart bombs are no longer smart enough to carry out the death wishes of the U.S. military. "In a move to boost American capacity to wage modern warfare," Reuters...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise Eagle Anti-Terrorism and International Security Corporation of Vancouver, British Columbia, offers bus excursions featuring simulated terrorist attacks by...
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Media
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Manoff, Robert Karl
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MEDIA Robert Karl Manoff Soviet Sensibilities In the end, Alexander Bovin, the Izvestia columnist, told his readers—much to my surprise—that "our American colleagues chairing the panels allocated...
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Datelines
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al., Greg Mitchell et.
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The Boy with the Raw Back NAGASAKI Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Army caused a sensation in Japan when it sent over the official photographs taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki right after the atomic...
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Reflections
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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REFLECTIONS Samuel H. Day Jr. Showdown at Cheyenne The judge accused Calkins of "infantilism" and "exhibitionist blackmail" and fined him $104. Calkins refused to pay, electing to serve out the...
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THE WAY OF THE SANDINISTAS
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Landau, Saul
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THE WAY OF THE SANDINISTAS At the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, a well-dressed man in his seventies begins a conversation with a young woman as they wait in line to board the Aeronica flight to...
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A CONTRA'S STORY
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Drucker, Linda
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A CONTRA'S STORY / first met Miguel in 1983 while I was accompanying the contras on a military mission into Nicaragua. Months later, I ran into him again in the airport at San Salvador after he had...
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HAYMARKET
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Lens, Sidney
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Haymarket BY SIDNEY LENS May 1, 1886, was a beautiful Saturday in Chicago—clear, with a bright sun beaming on the quiet panorama below. On Michigan Avenue near the lake, thousands of men, women,...
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THE BIG SHILL
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Rothschild, Matthew
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The Big Shill Star athletes are the army's first draft choice BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD It's the fifth game of the NBA championship. Ralph Sampson has just acted out his Joe Frazier fantasy, and the...
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BY INVITATION ONLY
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Levy, Deborah M.
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By Invitation Only America's gatekeepers won't let you in unless your name is on the guest list BY DEBORAH M. LEVY March 28, 1938 My dear uncle, I suppose you will be astonished to receive a...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Hard Traveling Hard Traveling, written and directed by Dan Bessie, his first feature work, is a good-looking independent production that questions, in a heart-felt manner,...
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Economic Metaphors
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Lewis, J. Patrick
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BOOKS Economic Metaphors DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Basic Books. 256 pp. $16.95. by J. Patrick Lewis Werner Sombart once said that socialism in America came to...
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Female Roles
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Female Roles WOMEN: A World Report Oxford University Press. 376 pp. $18.95. She rises at 3 a.m., pounds yam, walks miles in search of wood and water. She works all day in the fields hoeing,...
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Folk Plus Black
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Rosenberg, Neil V.
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Folk Plus Black BLUEGRASS by Neil V. Rosenberg University of Illinois Press. 447 pp. $24.95. Neil V. Rosenberg's history, Blue-grass, tells you everything you have ever wanted to know about...
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Renewal
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Berger, John
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Renewal RESTORING THE EARTH by John Berger Alfred A. Knopf. 241 pp. $16.95. Books written for the general public on environmental issues tend to be gloomy, even apocalyptic. They are that way for...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Poking Fun THE PATIENT HAS THE FLOOR by Alistair Cooke Alfred A. Knopf. 204 pp. $16.95. Journalist Alistair Cooke, the urbane host of Masterpiece Theatre, has selected some of his...
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Report Card
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Solomon, Jeremy
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REPORT CARD Jeremy Solomon Touring the Wasteland CUTTING CHEMICAL WASTES: What Twenty-Nine Organic Chemical Plants Are Doing To Reduce Hazardous Wastes by David J. Sarokin, Warren R....
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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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Richardson, Laura
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THE LAST WORD Laura Richardson The Twain Meet Some months before I moved to India, my Hindi teacher in Texas tried to explain what it was like, coming to the United States from India, and meeting...
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