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IssueVol. 053 Issue 004 (April 1 1989)
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Paid articleOUR OWN AYATOLLAHS
MEMO from the Editor Our Own Ayatollahs What a great and salubrious wave of righteous indignation washed across our land in response to the anathema pronounced against author Salman Rushdie by the...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Witch Hunt at Parris Island Jim Lynch's "Witch Hunt at Parris Island" (March issue) was enlightening, particularly for those who read the roadside billboards recruiting...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT Reaganism with a Human Face When George Bush gave his budget speech before Congress in February, some Democrats opined that it could have been delivered by Michael Dukakis—that it was, in...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
m Comment Making Mushroom Soup The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given permission to the operators of the Three Mile Island power plant to boil away 2.3 million gallons of radioactive water...
Paid articleJUST INSIDE THE DOOR
Jordan, June
JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan No Chocolates for Breakfast Valentine's Day, 1989: Actually, any Valentine's Day of any year is something of a sore point for black women in white America....
Paid articleDATELINES
Steif, Jack Miller, Chris Bright, Jessica Jiji And Dennis Bernstein, And William
Rural Exchange Program Makes Links LA VALLE, WISCONSIN John and Jean Kinsman have raised ten children on a 150-acre farm, making a solid living without having to sell their souls. While Jean...
Paid articleOUTSIDER
Johnstone, Diana
OUTSIDER Diana Johnstone The War Inside NATO Any other country might tremble upon learning that the United States was sending General Vernon Walters as ambassador. As top American military spook...
Paid articleNO PAYMENT ENCLOSED: WHY I RESIST WAR TAXES
Ayvazian, Andrea
NO PAYMENT ENCLOSED Why I resist war taxes BY ANDREA AYVAZIAN When I first heard about war-tax resistance, it seemed to me that it was something for hard-core, committed activists. It was...
Paid articleBLUE-COLLAR SCHOLAR
Evans, Larry
Blue-Collar Scholar A former steelworker hits the books BY LARRY EVANS The first time I heard the curious term "labor intellectual," it burned in my cranium. "No!" I protested. "Don't call me...
Paid articleTHE PHONY CASE AGAINST RENT CONTROL
Dreier, John Atlas And Peter
The Phony Case Against RENT CONTROL BY JOHN ATLAS AND PETER DREIER The nation's housing crisis is a manageable problem. It is simply a matter of national priorities. In 1980, for every dollar...
Paid articleROUNDUP ON THE RIO GRANDE
Juffer, Jane
Roundup on the Rio Grande BY JANE JUFFER It has never been easy for a Central American entering the United States in southern Texas to pursue a claim to political asylum. But as of February 21,...
Paid articleSAVING THE PLANET
Durning, Alan B.
Saving the Planet In the Third World the action starts where people live BY ALAN B. DURNING Women on the banks of the Ganges may not be able to calculate the infant-mortality rate, but they know...
Paid articleSMALL FAVORS
Ivins, Molly
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins State of the States Good news from the Southwest! The New Mexico legislature is about to make the biscochito the State Cookie—as soon as they figure out how to spell it....
Paid articleTHE CONDITION OF THE LEFT
Rothschild, Matthew
BOOKS The Condition of the Left MAKING HISTORY: The American Left and the American Mind by Richard Flacks Columbia University Press. 313 pp. $35.00. by Matthew Rothschild Once in a great while,...
Paid articleHEROIC LIVES
Hall, Frye Gaillard And Wade
Heroic Lives THE DREAM LONG DEFERRED by Frye Gaillard University of North Carolina Press. 182 pp. $19.95 hardcover. $9.95 paperback. THE REST OF THE DREAM: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson by...
Paid articleLETHAL CASE
Brownmiller, Susan
Lethal Case WAVERLY PLACE by Susan Brownmiller Grove Press. 294 pp. $18.95. As you read this, thousands of men are battering women and children to the point of hospitalization and, in some cases,...
Paid articleSISTERHOOD
Rampton, Liz Chilsen And Sheldon
BOOKS BRIEFLY Sisterhood FRIENDS IN DEED: The Story of U.S.-Nicaragua Sister Cities by Liz Chilsen and Sheldon Rampton Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, P.O. Box 1534, Madison, WI...
Paid articleREISSUED NOVEL
Sinclair, Harold
Reissued Novel AMERICAN YEARS by Harold Sinclair University of Illinois Press. 411 pp. $9.95 paperback. Harold Sinclair wrote eight novels and numerous other works of fiction and nonfic-tion...
Paid articleFURY IN THE FIELDS
Schwab, Jim
Fury in the Fields RAISING LESS CORN AND MORE HELL: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out by Jim Schwab University of Illinois Press. 301 pp. $24.95. Conventional wisdom has it that farmers are...
Paid articleTHE PUBLIC BAR
Aron, Nan
The Public Bar LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond by Nan Aron Westview Press. 166 pp. $29.95. "The intention of this book," writes Nan Aron, "is to provide a...
Paid articleA GHOST OUTSIDE THE FENCE
Ranney, Jonathan
THE LAST WORD Jonathan Ranney A Ghost Outside the Fence It was one of those steaming tropical afternoons in eastern Thailand. Six sanitation workers and I were rebuilding a section of the...
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