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Vol. 053 Issue 001 (January 1 1989)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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MEMO
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MEMO from the Editor Banned in Britain The December issue of Harper's magazine has been banished from British newsstands by official decree of Her Majesty's Government—a development that should...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor What's Best for the Child? As the owner and director of three small preschools for children between the ages of one and four, I have often had to confront the issues Dorothy...
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COMMENT
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Comment The Challenge to Bush in the Middle East DAVID SUTER lot many weeks into his first term as President, I Ronald Reagan outlined a proposal for a possible peace settlement in the Middle...
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No Comment A Heartbeat Away Vice President-elect Dan Quayle, ruminating on the meaning of Thanksgiving in a talk to schoolchildren: "I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that...
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DATELINES
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Davis., William Steif, Michael Ervin, Tony Depaul, And Cheryl A.
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Date Lines A Doctors Dilemma ST. GEORGE'S, GRENADA Terry Marryshow is a thirty-five-year-old physician who has been home in his native Grenada for more than two years. But he can't practice...
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STOPPING THE WAR AGAINST THE THIRD WORLD
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Klare, Michael T.
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What Next for the Peace Movement Stopping the War Against the Third World BY MICHAEL T. KLARE For many years now, the peace movement has been preoccupied with one overwhelming threat: the risk of...
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REJECTING COLD WAR POLITICS
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Solo, Pam
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What Next for the Peace Movement Rejecting Cold War Politics BY PAM SOLO Peace Through Strength Works was George Bush's slogan, and he succeeded in imposing the old politics of the Cold War on...
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SHAPING A PEACETIME ECONOMY
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Cortright, David
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What Next for the Peace Movement Shaping a Peacetime Economy BY DAVID CORTRJGHT The American peace movement faces a dilemma—a dilemma of success. Because of changes we helped bring about-the INF...
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CONTAMINANT COVE
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Milich, John E.
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CONTAMINANT Where polluters defile Mohawk land BY JOHN E. MUCH The St. Regis Mohawk Reservation meets industrial America at Ra-quette Point, a wedge of earth on the St. Lawrence River near...
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A FRESH CROP OF IDEAS
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Demarco, Susan
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A FRESH CROP OF ideas BY SUSAN DeMARCO The drought that scorched America's countryside last summer put farmers on the nightly news and set off a new round of concern about the plight of farm...
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UNION BLUES
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Downs, Peter
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Union Blues In the UAW, democracy is on the line BY PETER DOWNS There was a time when the United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers—the UAW—enjoyed a reputation as...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Kick 'em While They're Down Well, the election is over, the Christmas tree will soon come down, you're in debt, you've gained weight, and here comes January, February,...
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SAINT OF THE RADICAL RIGHT
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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Books Saint of the Radical Right WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives by John B. Judis Simon & Schuster. 528 pp. $22.95. by Bernard D. Nossiter Arguing for George Bush in...
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CENSORS AT WORK
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Mencken, H.L.
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Censors at Work THE EDITOR, THE BLUENOSE, AND THE PROSTITUTE by H.L. Mencken Roberts Rinehart. 175 pp. $19.95. In the preface to his history of the "Hatrack" censorship case, written in the 1920s...
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DEAD CENTER
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Karp, Walter
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Dead Center LIBERTY UNDER SIEGE: American Politics 1976-1988 by Walter Karp Henry Holt. 255 pp. $19.95. One quotation in Walter Karp's new book best summarizes its theme. The time is November...
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OUR SECRET POLICE
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Cox, Athan G. Theoharis And John Stuart
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Our Secret Police THE BOSS: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition by Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox Temple University Press. 489 pp. $27.95. Like every other President who...
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MANAGUA LIBRE
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Sklar, Holly
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Another Country THE WAR YEARS 1939-1945: A Nonconformist History of Our Times by I.F. Stone Little, Brown. 351 pp. $18.95. I.F. Stone hit his stride, many fans will tell you, in the mid- and...
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WOBBLY WISDOM
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Kornbluh, Joyce L.
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Wobbly Wisdom REBEL VOICES: An IWW Anthology edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh Charles H. Kerr, 1740 W. Greenleaf Avenue, Suite 7, Chicago, IL 60626. 464 pp. $37.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. Awaiting...
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THE WHITES AT WORK
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Russell, Isabel
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The Whites at Work KATHARINE AND E.B. WHITE: An Affectionate Memoir by Isabel Russell W.W. Norton. 269 pp. $18.95. Isabel Russell was personal secretary to Katharine and E.B. White from 1970 to...
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INDEX FOR 1988
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the Progressive INDEX To Volume 52, 1988 Section I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec 19 is Page 19 of the December issue. Section 2 lists...
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THE LAST WORD
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Guthrie, Margaret E.
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THE LAST WORD Margaret E. Guthrie Margaret E. Guthrie, a free-lance writer in Madison, Wisconsin, is the author of a series of state cookbooks and is now working on a book about Middle Western...
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