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 Vol. 051 Issue 001 (January 1 1987)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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MEMO from the Editor Involuntary Servitude They're beginning to bang the drums again for military conscription and other forms of officially sanctioned involuntary servitude. Who are "they"? The...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor No Ounce of Cure Your remarks on health-maintenance organizations ("No Ounce of Cure," Comment, December issue) did a grave disservice to an industry that may develop into...
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COMMENT
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Comment Government by Plumbers Elsewhere in this issue, Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod tell how Jimmy Carter entered the White House in 1977 determined to end the arms race and cut the U.S....
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Frontiers of High Finance From an article in Chemical & Engineering News: "According to the filing, USX will transfer to Ar-istech substantially all of its USS Chemicals division in...
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DATELINES
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Gannon, Kathy; Schulz, William F.; Jr, Mike Wettstein; Gormican, John
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D A T E L I N E S Caught in the Cross Fire PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN The war in Afghanistan between the Soviet-dominated government and rebels fighting to regain control of their nation spills into...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Persian Diversion Hair in the butter" is what we say in East Texas to describe a sensitive situation. The Great Iranian Arms Caper is not only hair in the butter; I'd say...
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BLACK POLITICS IN CRISIS
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Marable, Manning
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BLACK POLITICS IN CRISIS BY MANNING MARABLE For a quarter of a century, "black politics" has meant Democratic politics, and the black electorate has been the most progressive electoral bloc....
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OR YOUR LIFE
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Downs, Peter
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YOUR MONEY BY PETER DOWNS Joe Allen Bennett lived on a fourteen-acre farm in College Grove, Tennessee, with his disabled wife. They had a combined income of $328 in 1983, and they had no health...
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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
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Kaku, Michio; Axelrod, Daniel
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off BY MICHIO KAKU AND DANIEL AXELROD It is August 1977, and Zbigniew Brze-zinski, President Carter's national security adviser, is chairing a high-level meeting on a top-secret matter: the Carter...
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WHICH SIDE ARE THEY ON?
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Slaughter, Ane
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Which Side Are They On? The AFL-CIO tames Guatemala's unions BY JANE SLAUGHTER If you read the newspapers in Guatemala City, you discover a union federation that criticizes the government...
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DOWN ON MAIN STREET
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Aufderheide, Pat
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FILM DOWN ON MAIN STREET BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE Main Street America: You know it well even if you've never been there. It's the American dream set in concrete—storefronts occupied by genial,...
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BOOKS
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Landau, Saul
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BOOKS Waiting for the Real Castro FIDEL: A Biography of Fidel Castro by Peter G. Bourne Dodd, Mead. 332 pp. $21.95. by Saul Landau In the late spring of 1974, Frank Man-kiewicz and Kirby Jones...
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REPORT CARD
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REPORT CARD Absentee Ballots NON-VOTER STUDY, 1985-1986 Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, 421 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. 5 pp. plus charts. $2.50. Nonvoters...
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PUZZLE
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Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
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T H e P R O G R E S S 1 V u z z L E by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters of clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. First letters of clue...
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THE LAST WORD
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Rocawich, Linda
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THE LAST WORD Linda Rocawich Tubal Ligation When I moved to Wisconsin in November 1985 to work at The Progressive, I left my television set in North Carolina. It wasn't a major life decision,...
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