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Vol. 050 Issue 009 (September 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 Allan Nairn and The Guatemala Connection9 Allan Nairn's article, "The Guatemala Connection" (May issue), illustrates a brand of contentious "reporting" which neither...
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Comment
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Comment Apartheid and Apologia Ronald Reagan's recent apologia for apartheid in South Africa represents the single most repellent utterance on race issues by an elected American official since...
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No Comment
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no Comment Sing Along with Adam Smith From a business newsletter published in Madison, Wisconsin: "St. John's musicologist George Edward Maurer ... has composed music exclusively for senior...
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Small Favors
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins A Grand Month for Sex Good grief, what a hangover. Anyone in the country who didn't overdose on treacle during the Fourth of July weekend, don't speak up now. The rest of...
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Reflections
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Kochis, Bruce
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REFLECTIONS Bruce Kochis AIDS and the Mythmakers AIDS may be the most serious health crisis of the Twentieth Century, but the medical and insurance industries and the various levels of government...
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Datelines
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al., Elissa Dennis et.
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Are the Plumbers Back? CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Three heavy wooden doors, ragged panels gouged out where deadbolt locks and doorknobs should be, lean against the sanctuary wall in the Old...
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FAMILY TIES: FEMINISM'S NEXT FRONTIER
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Walsh, Joan
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Family Ties Feminism's Next Frontier BY JOAN WALSH At the grass roots of American feminism, a great debate is raging: Who is to blame for the deteriorating social and economic condition of many...
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COSTA RICA: SEEDS OF TERROR
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Hopfensperger, Jean
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COSTARICA Seeds of Terror BY JEAN HOPFEN SPERGER ?Y JEAI ^kXox Wolf, a third^jf neration Ger-^km man cattleman, is a successful rancher in northern Costa Rica. Tall and tanned, he loom more like...
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THE GOOD WILL GAMES
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Kutz, Jack
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The GOOD WILL games BY JACK KUTZ In Guatemala, the U.S. Navy is distributing toys and food to orphanages, and U.S. Army doctors are treating Indians. In Panama, U.S. military personnel provide...
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HOOKED ON TANKS
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Moberg, David
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HOOKED ON TANKS BY DAVID MOBERG They used to make the hulls and turrets for the Army's M-60 tank at the cavernous Blaw-Knox foundries in East Chicago, Indiana. But not any more. The tank orders...
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THE CASE FOR CONVERSION
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Gordon, Suzanne
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THE CASE FOR CONVERSION BY SUZANNE GORDON The idea of economic conversion— from military to peaceful production—is under assault. Leading the attack is former conversion advocate Gordon Adams,...
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GORE VIDAL: AN INTERVIEW
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Gore Vidal The writer as citizen BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS For more than forty years, Gore Vidal has made a career of saying things no one else will say and saying them with...
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A World More Human
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Davidon, Ann Morris sett
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BOOKS A World More Human THE CREATION OF PATRIARCHY by Gerda Lerner Oxford University Press. 318 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Ann Morris sett Davidon The fact that women have been...
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Allocating Loss
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Harrington, Mona
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Allocating Loss THE DREAM OF DELIVERANCE IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Mona Harrington Alfred A. Knopf. 308 pp. $19.95. Why, in a nation so laden with inequality and concentrations of power as the...
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Letters Home
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Edelman, Bernard
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Letters Home DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home from Vietnam edited by Bernard Edelman Pocket Books. 316 pp. $6.95 paperback. At a time when mainstream writing on Vietnam is dominated by wishy-washy...
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Report Card
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Solomon, Siddharth Dube and Jeremy
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REPORT CARD Siddharth Dube and Jeremy Solomon Hype and Reality WORLD REFUGEE SURVEY: 1985 in Review U.S. Committee for Refugees, 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. 76 pp. $6.00. In our...
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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 and its author. First letters of clue...
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The Last Word
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Carpenter, Dan
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THE LAST WORD Dan Carpenter Gifts from an Old Soldier His politics were pretty much meat-and-potatoes blue-collar conservative. He didn't like Democrats because they raised taxes, and he didn't...
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