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Vol. 051 Issue 006 (June 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 Eye Witness My first issue of In Fact arrived in the mail in July 1947. It was subtitled An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press, and it was like no publication I had...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Yevtushenko's Fresh Wind Never have I read anything to which I reacted so emotionally—and positively—as Katrina vanden Heuvel's interview ("Yev-tushenko Feels a Fresh Wind Blowing," April...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Stagnation and the Nation You don't need to be an economist to know that something screwy is going on in the fabled marketplace. The dollar dives, even as the trade...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment They're at It Again Japanese author Masami Uno has sold 650,000 copies of two books in which he blames a Jewish conspiracy for the surge of the Japanese yen against the dollar, rising...
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DATE LINES
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Ervin, Michael; Franklin, Karen E.; Goodman, David
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DATE LINES Where High School Kids Learn to Think CHICAGO Pedro Albizu Campos High School is housed in an old Walgreen's film-processing plant in Chicago's burned-out West Town neighborhood. That...
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REFLECTIONS
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Schulz, William F.
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REFLECTIONS William F. Schulz The Hunger Artists In one of his simplest and most touching short stories, Franz Kafka told of a "hunger artist" who staged forty-day fasts for the entertainment of...
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NISSAN, TENNESSEE
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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Nissan, Ten It ain't what it's cracked up to be BY JOHN JUNKERMAN Jackie Dixon is a forty-seven-year-old mechanic. He owned an engine-repair shop in Union City, Tennessee, until 1983, when he...
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT SMYRNA
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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Sexual Harassment at Smyrna Four women have sued Nissan and sixteen current and former company employees for sexual harassment and for management's lack of action to prevent the alleged abuse. Each...
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NEW KID ON THE BLOC
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Loory, Stuart H.
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New Kid on the BLOC Gorbachev's reforms spill into Eastern Europe BY STUART H. LOORY About seven years ago, when Poland's free trade union, Solidarity, was flourishing, stories circulated about...
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NUCLEAR PSYCH-OUT
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Kruger, Pamela
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NUCLEAR Psych-Out Flunk this quiz and you're fired BY PAMELA KRUGER Bill Stauffer thought he had done well earning as much as $ 1,300 a week as a construction worker at Toledo Edison's Davis...
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STILL WITHOUT LAND
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Chapman, William
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Still Without Land For Filipino peasants, Aquino brings no change BY WILLIAM CHAPMAN In her first year in office, President Cor-azon Aquino has repeated a pattern that is all too familiar in...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Paradigmatic Metaconsciousness Perhaps the best place in the country to brush up on the latest in jargon, the cutting edge of the buzzword scene, is the Conference on...
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BOOKS
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Steif, William
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BOOKS Holocaust of Our Times CAMBODIAN WITNESS by Someth May Random House. 207 pp. $17.95. by William Steif With my own eyes I have seen only a few of the horrors of the Twentieth Century:...
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PUZZLE
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SOLUTION to last month's Progressive Puzzle "Jazz may be thought of as a current that bubbled forth from a spring in the slums of New Orleans to become the main spring of the Twentieth Century."...
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THE LAST WORD
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Scopes, Jack
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THE LAST WORD Jack Scopes Grandpa's Famous Trial Grandpa never talked to me about the trial. When I was a boy, he taught me how to fish, so we talked fishing. As I grew older, we talked about a...
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