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 Vol. 053 Issue 006 (June 1 1989)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Sam Day's Example
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Memo from the Editor Sam Day's Example Samuel H. Day Jr. is, at this writing, incarcerated in the Lafayette County Jail in Lexington, Missouri, but by the time this issue reaches subscribers,...
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Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Free Speech on the Campus In his penetrating criticism of the tyranny of "correct" thinking at our universities ("Who's on First?" May issue), Nat Hentoff cites Oliver...
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Comment
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COMMENT The Guilty Parties 'The President, clearly hoping to put the Iran-contra issue to rest, derided what he termed "needless, mindless, needless speculation about my word of honor." 9 —The New...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Counting in the Dark The Census Bureau plans to count homeless people as part of its next decennial census. According to U.S. News & World Report, "One night a year from now, the bureau...
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Datelines
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Paterno, Deena Hurwitz, Ron Chepesiuk, and Susan
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DATE LINES The Walls Are Crumbling Down NEGEV DESERT "We're trying to make clear what's happening in the West Bank and especially inside Israel; how it makes us blind, corrupts the army and the...
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The Young Have to Be There
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Hoffman, Abbie
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REFLECTIONS Abbie Hoffman The Young Have to Be There The Left has a marvelous ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The great contradiction of the 1960s was exactly how much we...
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Waiting for a Taxi
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Waiting for a Taxi We weren't doing anything. We hadn't hurt anybody, and we didn't want to. We were on holiday. We had studied maps of the city and taken...
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Technology As Destiny
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ELSHTAIN, JEAN BETHKE
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TECHNOLOGY AS DESTINY BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Almost every day, strange newspaper headlines trumpet even stranger content: Man Files Test-tube Embryo Suit. In this bizarre case, a Tennessean...
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Brazil Turns Left
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Steif, William
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Brazil Turns Left BY WILLIAM STEIF Posh hotels and expensive apartment houses on Avenida Atlantica overlook Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach. But their picturesque view differs dramatically from...
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Unfriendly Skies
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Ervin, Michael
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Unfriendly Skies The disabled are often left at the gate BY MICHAEL ERVIN In September 1987, Molly Tallarico of St. Louis arranged with Trans World Airlines for her thirteen-year-old daughter...
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Trouble At The Waterworks
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Nichols, Christina
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BY CHRISTINA NICHOLS Every morning around 7:00 a.m., Howard "Woody" Woodward drives his blue Chevy to the Myersville, Maryland, water-treatment plant for an hour-long ritual of water monitoring....
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An Interview With Yehoshafat Harkabi
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Yehoshafat Harkabi When a general becomes a dove BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS Major General Yehoshafat Harkabi, sixty-eight, is one of the world's most unlikely doves. The former...
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Texas-Style Ethics
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Texas-Style Ethics Jeez, just because Jim Wright is in trouble, now they're saying everybody in Texas politics is a crook. David Broder wrote a column saying Jim Wright...
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Whose War Was It?
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Knoll, Erwin
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BOOKS Whose War Was It: LYNDON JOHNSON'S WAR: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam by Larry Berman W.W. Norton. 254 pp. $18.95. by Erwin Knoll In 1964, when he ran for election to a full four-year...
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Center Stage
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Davidon, Ann Morrissett
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Center Stage SELECTED LETTERS OF EUGENE O'NEILL edited by Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer Yale University Press. 602 pp. $35. Reading this extensive selection of playwright Eugene O'Neill's...
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Books Briefly
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Bombs Away NUCLEAR EMPIRE by Robert C. Aldridge New Star, 2504 York Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1E3. 160pp. $19.95, cloth. $9.95 paper. In 1973, Robert C. Aldridge gave up his job as...
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Scorned but Not Defeated
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Butler, Francelia
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THE LAST WORD 'Francelia Butler Scorned but Not Defeated At one time or another, I have been deeply involved with four causes: cancer prevention, children's literature, the rights of the elderly,...
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