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 Vol. 053 Issue 009 (September 1 1989)
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••Contents••
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 Disclaimer
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Memo from the Editor Disclaimer Does Washington really need another conservative think tank when it is already amply endowed with such fudge factories as the Heritage Foundation and the American...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Hissing from the News Hooray for Ben H. Bagdi-kian's "Missing from the News" (Media, August issue). It's unfortunate that the media monopolies won't let the truth of this...
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Comment
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COMMENT What's a Life Worth? What value are we to assign to a single human life? Try pondering the question in the context of these recent developments in the Middle East: When Israeli commandos...
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No Comment
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NO Comment A Heartbeat Away Vice President Dan Quayle, addressing a meeting of the United Negro College Fund, tried to invoke that organization's slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."...
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Datelines
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Goertzen, Kurt Kleiner, Eve Pell, Tim Vanderpool, and Donald
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DATE LINES Union Victory in a Copper Refinery BALTIMORE About seventy workers are back on the job in Baltimore after winning a five-month battle with the management of Cox Creek Refining Company...
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We Can End The Arms Race: An Interview With Daniel Ellsberg
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Watrous, Bob Blanchard And Susan
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Daniel Ellsberg 'We can end the arms race' BY BOB BLANCHARD AND SUSAN WATROUS Daniel Ellsberg began his brilliant U.S. Government career at the very heart of the...
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Star Wars Won'T Die
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Engelhardt, Tom
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Star Wars Won't Die The Pentagon zaps the civilian economy BY TOM ENGELHARDT President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the impermeable antimissile shield meant to render nuclear weapons...
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Not A Pretty Picture
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Shulman, Seth
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Not a Pretty Picture The Pentagon pays for high-tech TV BY SETH SHULMAN Washington is in the grip of Sputnik-like fervor. But the perceived threat this time is from the Japanese, not the Soviets....
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At Peace With The Bomb
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Witt, Hugh E. De
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At Peace With the Bomb The physicists lose no sleep BY HUGH E. DEWITT I'm often asked why intelligent and capable scientists, engineers, and technicians willingly participate in designing nuclear...
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The Chinese Student Movement Moves To America
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Riles, Annelise
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The Chinese Student Movement Moves to America BY ANNELISE RILES The Chinese character for justice is a simple combination of horizontal and verticle strokes in black ink on white paper. But as Bo...
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Puerto Rico: Nation Or State?
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Bernard, Brian A. Kane And Ruel
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PUERTO RICO Nation or State? BY BRIAN A. KANE AND RUEL BERNARD The scene was drenched with irony. Outside, on a San Juan street in mid-June, more than 70,000 of Puerto Rico's 3.2 million people...
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Squatters Take On The Navy
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Ramirez, Deborah
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Squatters Take on the Navy Palm trees sway in the gentle Caribbean breeze, waves roll over miles of unspoiled beaches, and cattle graze undisturbed on open fields. It is Vieques, an...
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Dumb Dip at Work
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Dumb Dip at Work The nation's capital bears a striking resemblance these days to a dumb dip, an inept pickpocket. Here's D.C. doing the old look-at-the-other-hand trick...
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Their Obedient Servant
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Falk, Richard A.
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BOOKS Their Obedient Servant DANGER AND SURVIVAL Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy Random House. 735 pp. $24.95. by Richard Falk Fortunately, McGeorge Bundy's...
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Rocky Decade in the Middle East
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Steif, William
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Rocky Decade in the Middle East FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman Farrar Straus Giroux. 513 pp. $22.95. Every journalist who has spent any time in Lebanon, Israel, and nearby Jordan...
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Encounter on the West Bank
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Corea, Gena
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THE LAST WORD Gena Corea Encounter on the West Bank I hadn't been in the Palestinian camp for more than twenty minutes when a nearby group of children began throwing stones at a patrol of Israeli...
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