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Vol. 051 Issue 004 (April 1 1987)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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MEMO THE EDITOR
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MEMO the Editor Horsewhipped In an earlier and more colorful era, an occasional irate subscriber would show up at a publication's office, horsewhip in hand, to thrash the Editor. Today's readers...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor The Media and the Scandal Your editorial on the Iran/ contra arms scandal ("Sifting the Debris," Comment, February issue) treats the news media, of which you and I are a...
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COMMENT
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Comment Process, Not People What a repulsive pack of mountebanks and scoundrels has infested the Government's national-security apparatus in these late days of the Reagan Administration! The...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Devil's Advocate In Little Rock, Arkansas, Ralph P. Forbes has filed suit against various local, state, and Federal education officials, the Communist Party, and "Satan, the...
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DATELINES
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Boroughs, Don L.; Bruggers, James; Barnett, Tracy L.; Johansen, And Bruce E.
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DATELINES Torturers Saved by the Bell, Almost BUENOS AIRES For three years, President Raul Alfonsin stood up to the armed forces of Argentina, trying military officers for crimes of kidnapping...
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REFLECTIONS
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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REFLECTIONS Samuel H. Day Jr. Be Your Own Peacemaker In the pile of newly arrived mail on my desk is an invitation to a march and rally in Washington, D.C.—one of many such invitations I have...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Unsung Heroes We've been neglecting the minor players in the national farce, a shameful oversight given their stellar contributions to the boffo burlesque in Washington....
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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Nairn, Allan
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THE White House Japes, Agin BY ALLAN NAIRN Until this January, the phones at the Bethesda, Maryland, residence of former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane were being monitored by...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW YEVTUS FEELS A FRESH WIND BLOWING
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Heuvel, Katrina Vanden
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview YEVTUS FEELS A FRESH WIND BLOWING BY KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the Soviet Union's most famous and controversial poet. Born in Siberia in 1933,...
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FUGITIVES FROM APARTHEID
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Arditi, Lynn
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FUGITIVES FROM APARTHEID They find no refuge here BY LYNN ARDITI Alux Nguane was sixteen when he fled South Africa. There was a miners' strike, and he was marching beside his father, a member...
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TEX MESS
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Northcott, Kaye
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TEX MESS Austin finds its city limits BY KAYE NORTHCOTT The sad thing is that so many Aus-tinites detested boom towns. We were attracted to this city because it didn't exhibit the raw ambition of...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS A Human Hero BEARING THE CROSS Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow William Morrow and Company. 800 pp. $19.95. by Fred Powledge It is...
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REPORT CARD
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Johnston, A.J.
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REPORT CARD , A.J. Johnston The Bottom Line RATING AMERICA'S CORPORATE CONSCIENCE by Steven Lydenberg, Alice Tepper Marlin, Sean O'Brien Strub, and the Council on Economic Priorities...
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THE PROGRESSIVE 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 clue answers spell...
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THE LAST WORD
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Wehle, Michael
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THE LAST WORD Michael Wehle Costs of a Flimsy Card With the coming of the new year, the first generation of draft registrants since the Vietnam war finished its passage through the Selective...
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