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Vol. 051 Issue 009 (September 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 Secret Government Reagan Advisers Ran 'Secret' Government, read the banner headline in The Miami Herald on July 5. The story, which made front pages all over the country that...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Shredding the Constitution Regardless of political affiliation, most Americans must be alarmed and ashamed at the extent of the Iran-contra fiasco and the far-reaching involvement of the...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive A Brief Against Bork Circuit Court Judge Robert Bork is unfit to serve on the United States Supreme Court. His views on fundamental questions of individual rights and...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment And So It Goes Walter Smith, an operator of Pacific Coast Timber Harvesting, as quoted in The New Settler: "It is natural for man to manipulate his environment and ruin it. And it may...
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DATELINES
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Kilimnik, Karel; Wilson, Jerry W.; Johnston, A.J.; Schultz, And Mark
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DATELINES 'Reagan People Only' PHILADELPHIA "We The People 200"-the various activities commemorating the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution—has overwhelmed Philadelphia this year. But it was...
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GAVEL TO GROVEL
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Gavel to Grovel Why the hearings failed will be free to conduct a great variety of covert wars in the future, so long as a few "trustworthy" Congressional leaders are cut in on the...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW SERGIO RAMIREZ
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Sergio Ramirez The view from Managua BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS Editor's Note: Claudia Dreifus, whose interviews for The Progressive have included such subjects as Ralph...
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ZAP, CRACKLE, POP
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Gibbs, Gary
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Zap, Irradiated foods aren't coming; they're here BY GARY GIBBS The vault has concrete walls twelve to twenty feet thick. A door in the vault opens, and food enters on a conveyor belt. The door...
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NO FRIED FOOD IN NEW JERSEY
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Terry, Ken
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No Fried Food in New Jersey When people get wind of plans to build a food-irradiation plant in their neighborhood, they won't stand for it. At least they didn't in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In...
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FILM BLACK MAGIC
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Aufderheide, Pat
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fILM BLACK MAGIC BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE The pricking satire of Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend's riffs on the stereotyping of blacks in the media, and Spike Lee's comedy She's Gotta Have It were...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Grab the Salt It's been said for months now that when we got to the bottom of the Iran-contra mess, we'd find out the President was either a fool or a liar. According to...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS The Elusive Belle BELLE: The Biography of Belle Case LaFollette by Lucy Freeman, Sherry LaFollette, and George A. Zabriskie. Beaufort Books. 253 pp. $18.95. by David Thelen Abiography...
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THE LAST WORD
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Montague, Joel B. Jr.
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THE LAST WORD Joel B. Montague Jr. Security Risk Today, my "security file" must be gathering dust in a forgotten State Department drawer. Or perhaps it has been fed into a computer under the...
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