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 Vol. 051 Issue 005 (May 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 Your Papers, Please The line is one of the great movie cliches: A jackbooted Nazi officer, monocle firmly in place, snarls "Where are your papers?" and seals the fate of the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor What's in a Face? I have no quarrel with your characterization of Elliot Abrams as perhaps "the most despicable official of the Reagan Administration" ("Man for All Seasons,"...
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COMMENT
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Comment theProgressive If Gorbachev Loses.... Even if there were a U.S.-Soviet agreement to eliminate medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe," begins a recent dispatch to The Wall Street...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment And Those Caissons Keep Rolling Along A U.S. Army report says twenty-two sleeping soldiers were run over by tactical vehicles in nineteen separate accidents during field exercises...
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DATE LINES
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Chepesiuk, Ron; Mellish, Xander; Burkholder, Steve; Friedrich, Dick
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DATE LINES The Angel of Death Row JACKSON, GEORGIA During the past three years, the Reverend Murphy Davis has mourned the death of several friends. All were death-row inmates executed in Georgia's...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Running on His Rims Ah, such rich and delicious times for those who relish political uproar, for followers of fallout, connoisseurs of cover-up, wallowers of every stripe...
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MEDIA
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Manoff, Robert Karl
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MEDIA Robert Karl Manoff Reinventing Politics in the Soviet Press Americans can hardly open their newspapers these days without encountering another story about reform in the Soviet Union. Even...
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THE BUSH CONNECTION
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Nairn, Allan
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theProgressive May 1987 The Bush Connection BY ALLAN NAIRN In 1983, the office of Vice President George Bush sent a former CIA agent to Honduras to work as a combat adviser for the Nicaraguan...
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CONDITIONS LESS THAN HONORABLE
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Perry, Mark
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Conditions Less than Honorable When veterans come knocking, the VA bars the door BY MARK PERRY In the lobby of the Veterans Administration headquarters in downtown Washington, an impressive...
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IT'S CLOSING TIME
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Stein, Jeff
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It's Closing Time Ifell through the health-insurance safety net late one night last summer, right onto a cold steel gurney in the emergency room of a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. I was,...
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SWORN TO SILENCE
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Demac, Donna
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SWORN TO SILENCE If you work for the Government, leave the First Amendment behind BY DONNA DEMAC Warren Davis, a laser physicist, has worked at major U.S. military installations and...
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WHOEVER SAID TWO CHOICES ARE ENOUGH?
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Whoever said two choices are enough? If s not in the Constitution. The idea that the two party system is the backbone of democracy is a myth—a myth perpetuated by the two parties themselves. The...
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PLOWED UNDER
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Brodner, Steve
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Plowed Under AN ART ESSAY BY STEVE BRODNER Beneath the surface, the tales of debt and displacement, the farm crisis has many elements, each a story unto itself. This one is about people still...
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BOOKS
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Rosenberg, Marjorie
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BOOKS Culture for Sale SELLING CULTURE by Debora Silverman Pantheon Books. 161 pp. $17.95. by Marjorie Rosenberg The shelf-lives of supermarket staples and of newly published books approach...
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REPORT CARD
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Johnston, A. J.
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REPORT CARD A.J. Johnston Pilgrim's Progress NATURE'S UNRULY MOB: Farming and the Crisis in Rural Culture by Paul Gilk North Country Anvil, P.O. Box 37, Millville, MN 55957. 75 pp. $4.00 plus...
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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.The first letters of clue answers spell...
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THE LAST WORD
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SLAUGHTER, JANE
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THE LAST WORD Jane Slaughter A Beaut of a Shiner I have had a black eye for a week now; it's fading and I'm sorry to see it go. People are fascinated by shiners in a way other injuries can't...
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