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Vol. 051 Issue 012 (December 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 Scoundrel Time Again According to articles published this fall in The Nation and The New Yorker, the FBI and sundry other U.S. intelligence agencies—the CIA, the Immigration...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Just Shut Up and Shop Regarding Keenen Peck's article on free speech in the shopping malls ("Just Shut Up and Shop," October issue)—Tom Paine, Martin Luther, and Haldeman...
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COMMENT
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Comment After the Fall During a plague, everyone's a doctor. And so it's been during the Panic of 1987, which certified anyone with a mouth and a brain to hold forth on the wild rollercoaster ride...
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NO COMMENT
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No COMMENT Frontiers of Technology Procter & Gamble has developed a synthetic food called olestra, which tastes and smells like fat but contains no calories and passes through the body undigested....
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DATELINES
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Juffer, Jane; Perreault, Nancy Hanback; Ruoff, Mary
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DATELINES Reprieves from the War Zone HARLINGEN, TEXAS "We're using the legal system to help oppressed people," says lawyer Rowena Jones, "people who have hardly any constitutional rights." Jones...
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WORKFARE: IT ISN'T FAIR AND IT DOESN'T WORK
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Udesky, Laurie
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WORKFARE BY LAURIE UDESKY Romelia Carrillo is a California suc-cess story. The mother of three children and a six-year welfare recipient, she landed a job as an on-call dietician's aide through...
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THE CROSS AND THE FLAG
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Collett, Merrill
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THE CROSS AND THE FLAG Right-wing evangelicals invade Latin America BY MERRILL COLLETT Chileans got a chance last January to see in the flesh an American who appears on government-controlled...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW MARGARITA PAPANDREOU
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Margarita Papandreou Making the most of 'derived power' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS For decades, being the wife of a nation 's leader has been a dead-end job whose occupant...
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THE BOMB WE NEVER SEE
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Schell, Jonathan
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The Bomb We Never See PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT DEL TREDICI WITH TEXT BY JONATHAN SCHELL IN the hours immedi-ately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, Yoshito Matsushige...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Sympathy for the Devil The trouble with progressives is that they have no idea what to do when they win. We could just gloat, like normal people, but nooooo. ... Our...
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BOOKS
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Landau, Saul
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BOOKS An American Junta VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward Simon and Schuster. 543 pp. $21.95. by Saul Landau The Iran-contra scandals have become old news. But the...
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THE LAST WORD
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Evans, Larry
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THE LAST WORD Larry Evans Making a Career of It On a soggy morning two winters ago, I was confronted by the wide-eyed dissatisfaction of my hungry three-year-old. Upon finding nothing in our...
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