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Vol. 053 Issue 010 (October 1 1989)
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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 Hard Times Summer time does not mean easy living at The Progressive. Our financial position is always precarious, but in the vacation months it verges on the utterly awful....
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers React to Bookchin's 'Death of a Small Planet' Murray Bookchin's Cassandra cries against growth ("Death of a Small Planet," August issue) obscure more than they...
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COMMENT
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the Progressive Comment Phony War on Drugs 'In key ways today, the American people are in a wartime mode and sense a national emergency in the drug crisis.' —George Gallup, on a poll showing...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Games People Play Available from Nightingale-Conant Corporation of Chicago, a package of four audiocassettes and a poster entitled Leadership Secrets ofAttila the Hun. According to the...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Where Is the Rage? Even among people who still use the "L word" to describe themselves, trashing the 1960s as some kind of huge, juvenile mistake has become quite...
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OUTSIDER
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Johnstone, Diana
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OUTSIDER Diana Johnstone Converts to Conversion Conversion is an idea whose time has come. Although the idea was pioneered by such Americans as Seymour Melman, credit must go to Mikhail Gorbachev...
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DATE LINES
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Steif, William; Helmberger, Marshall; Schulze, David; Selvin, Paul
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DATE LINES The Dictator and the Journalists ASUNCION, PARAGUAY Alejandro Mella Latorre, now thirty-nine, had been in Paraguay for forty-two days when he was arrested and jailed. That was on...
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THIRD PARTY TIME?
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Is now the time for a third party? That's the question of the day for progressives. Seldom in the last forty years has discontent with the two-party system been so great. Seldom have so many on the...
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REAL NASTY STUFF'
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Huebner, Albert L.
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'Real Nasty Stuff' After three decades of secrecy, a tale of radioactive poisoning starts leaking out BY ALBERT L. HUEBNER Each evening after work, commuters by the tens of thousands return to...
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THE END OF A WAR BEGINNING
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Jordan, Rosa
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The End of a War Beginning Ten years ago, the Sandinistas thought they had won BY ROSA JORDAN In 1989, ten years after the fall of Nic-araguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, the U.S. Congress...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW SUSAN SARANDON
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Susan Sarandon 'I don't pick issues. They pick me.' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS If Jane Fonda was the political actress of the 1960s and 1970s, then the title passes to Susan...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Too Wussy for Texas Biggest fight we've had all summer here in the Great State is over what motto to put on our license plates. The Highway Commission voted early this...
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BOOKS
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Schorr, Daniel
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BOOKS Russia's Uneasy Balance SKETCHES FROM A LIFE by George F. Kennan Pantheon. 365 pp. $22.95. THE LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM by Walter Laqueur Macmillan. 315 pp. $21.95. by Daniel Schorr In his...
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THE LAST WORD
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Norton, W.P.
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THE LAST WORD W.P. Norton Border Crossing On this typical, sweltering morning in the best-known of West Texas border towns, thousands will cross the Bridge of the Americas, a monster concrete...
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