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 Vol. 051 Issue 002 (February 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 Four-letter Words William Safire, whose observations on language for The New York Times Magazine are generally more interesting (and always more persuasive) than his...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor How Soon We Forget Your brief review of Studs Terkel's Chicago (Books, January issue) referred to the late Mayor Richard 5. Daley. How soon we've forgotten the mayor so many...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Sifting the Debris It took an astonishingly short time for the Reagan Administration to disintegrate. Richard Nixon, after all, was reelected in a landslide four months...
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NO COMMENT
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No COMMENT A Date to Remember The label on pitted dates packed by Bordo Products Co. of Chicago states, Product of Iraq/Iran. The dates are kosher. Nobody Here but Us Peaceniks An anonymous Air...
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DATE LINES
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Brubaker, Charmayne Denlinger; Motavalli, Jim; Wittman, S.A.; Schultz, Mark
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DATE LINES U.S. Bases Spread AIDS Virus OLONGAPO, THE PHILIPPINES Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has now spread to the Philippines— specifically to two towns near the major United...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The Year That Was People used to tell good news/bad news jokes. Last year, it got hard to tell the difference. In Texas, for example, 1986 was our Sesquicentennial—or, as...
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PLAYING WITH POISON
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Dobie, Kathy; Goodman, Amy
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PLAYING WITH POISON BY KATHY DOBIE AND AMY GOODMAN In a Brooklyn factory, deadly mercury takes its toll Kathy Dobie is a free-lance journalist who teaches writing at the Borough of Manhattan...
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THE CAREFUL COMMUNISTS
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Steif, William
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The Careful Communists Conversations with Filipino insurgents BY WILLIAM STEIF Over the narrow stairway leading to the second floor of a rickety building is a sign that reads Aniban ng Manggagawa...
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ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
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Peck, Keenen
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First Freedoms On the Way to the Forum BY KEENEN PECK In the continuing struggle for the hearts and minds of high-school students, peace is beginning to get more of a chance. The Atlanta Peace...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW EDWARD SAID
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Stevenson, Matthew
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Edward Said An exile's exile BY MATTHEW STEVENSON Edward Said is an exile's exile. Born in Jerusalem in 1935, he speaks as a Palestinian for Palestinians. His latest...
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THE LONE DRIVER RIDES AGAIN
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GITLIN, TODD
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televIsion THE LONE DRIVER AN ELECTRONIC THROB comes across the screen. Through a blue-black, haze-shrouded city night wanders the solitary figure of a young blond man. He is handsome in a blank...
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BOOKS
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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BOOKS Surviving the Blunders BLUNDERING INTO DISASTER by Robert S. McNamara Pantheon Books, 219 pp. $14.95. by Samuel H. Day Jr. It was shortly after seven in the morning on June 6, 1967....
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
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Cox, Emily; Rathvon, 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. First letters of clue answers spell out...
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THE LAST WORD
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Pearson, Natalie
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THE LAST WORD Natalie Pearson Murder as Usual I work at a daily newspaper on Main Street and live in a neighborhood called North Hill, up from the one street that constitutes downtown Burlington,...
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