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Vol. 053 Issue 005 (May 1 1989)
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••Contents••
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Caught Red-Handed
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Memo from the Editor ~ Caught Red-Handed Senate Chamber State of Colorado Denver Editor The Progressive P.O. Box 4615 Boulder, CO 80321 Dear Sir: I recently received a solicitation from The...
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Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor No Payment Enclosed Andrea Ayvazian's "No Payment Enclosed" (April issue) reminded me of many of my own feelings and experiences as a war-tax resister. Since I began...
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Comment
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COMMENT More than 150 demonstrators were arrested on March 20, a day of national protest against U.S. aid to El Salvador. 'We are sending a clear message to the Government that if they escalate...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Faithless Alumni John Greany, director of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, commenting (in Newsday) on former CIA agents who have denounced and exposed the agency: "Shark...
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Free Speech on the Campus
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff Free Speech on the Campus A flier distributed at the University of Michigan some months ago proclaimed that blacks "don't belong in classrooms, they belong hanging...
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Datelines
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Steif, Mary C. Turck, Lincoln S. Bates, Joan Conrow, and William
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DATE LINES Campesina Fights Hunger and Its Causes TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS Elvia Alvarado is a fifty-year-old Honduran peasant woman with a second-grade education who, like many campesinas, was...
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Prisoner of Conscience
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Urfer, Bonnie
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Prisoner of Conscience BY BONNIE URFER Six of us were sitting in a circle, our hands clasped one to another. Some of us were calm, some visibly shaken. We sang in the blistering heat of that...
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Toxins on Tap?
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Rocawich, Linda
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Toxins on Tap BY LINDA ROCAWICH A letter arrives from a man incarcerated at the U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Illinois: "There are prisoners here with skin problems, some who suffer constant...
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The Crime of Politics
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Rothschild, Matthew
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The Crime of Politics BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD Are there political prisoners in the United States? The answer depends on whom you ask, and how you define terms. Amnesty International says no, not...
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Unwelcome in El Salvador
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Lindsay-Poland, John
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Unwelcome in El Salvador BY JOHN LINDSAY-POLAND Two Canadian volunteers entered the Panchimilama resettlement in La Paz, El Salvador, last April to assist refugees from that country's civil war....
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Omaha Held Hostage
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Schwab, Jim
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OMAHA HELD HOSTAGE How a food giant gobbled up a historic district BY JIM SCHWAB A few old buildings still stand in Jobbers Canyon, a warehouse district nestled between Omaha's central business...
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Smart as a Shrub
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Smart as a Shrub George Bush the Younger ("Shrub" we call him) is running for governor of Texas and shapes up as a promising source of electoral entertainment. Shrub was...
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Object of Rage
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Welsh-Huggins, Andrew
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BOOKS Object of Rage THE SATANIC VERSES: by Salman Rushdie Viking-Penguin. 547 pp. $19.95. by Andrew Welsh-Huggins Fantasy can be stronger than fact," says a minor character early in Salman...
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Vietnam Mire
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Uhl, Michael
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Vietnam Hire STRANGE GROUND: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975 An Oral History by Harry Maurer Henry Holt. 634 pp. $29.95. In this new look back on Vietnam, journalist Harry Maurer has...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Subverting Apartheid FRONTLINE SOUTHERN AFRICA: Destructive Engagement edited by Phyllis Johnson and David Martin Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York,...
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Inside with the INS
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Rodoreda, Geoff
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THE LAST WORD Geoff Rodoreda Inside with the INS At the Immigration and Naturalization Service Detention Facility in El Paso, Texas, your fellow detainees name you after your country of origin....
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