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 Vol. 054 Issue 001 (January 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO
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MEMO, from the Editor Profiles in Courage In "Israel's Blank Check," the cover story of our November 1989 issue, Stephen Zunes charged that "some of this country's most outspoken liberal...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Israel's Blank Check Stephen Zunes's article, "Israel's Blank Check" (November issue), provided helpful insights for members of the Protestant and Catholic delegations who...
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cOMMENT
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cOMMENT Scandal in San Salvador Body counts are back. U.S. advisers carry weap-'ons in a foreign war zone. U.S. embassy officials provide media briefings. The foreign government says it has dealt...
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NO Comment
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NO Comment How's That Again? The Exxon Corporation has sued the state of Alaska for impeding the clean-up of the Valdez oil spill. Now You Know Lyndon LaRouche, in a prison-cell interview...
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REFLECTIONS
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Moyers, Bill
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REFLECTIONS Bill Moyers Scrapping the Constitution Within two years after the Congressional Watergate hearings in 1973, President Richard Nixon had resigned in disgrace. Nineteen corporations and...
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DATELINES
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Komisar, Lucy
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DATELINES Soviet Workers Organize MOSCOW Yelena Maltseva is organizing workers in the Lenin Komsomol auto factory, the city's largest plant, where she works as an assembly-line mechanic. She is a...
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NOW FOR THE COLD PEACE
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Johnstone, Diana
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Now for the Cold Peace BY DIANA JOHNSTONE Some of us fought in it, some fought against it, but we all feel like mentally disabled veterans of the Cold War. Whether engaged in its polemics or...
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A Brand New Kind of Politics
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Falk, Richard A.
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A Brand New Kind of Politics BY RICHARD FALK That redoubtable Cold War militant George Will finished a recent Newsweek column with this flourish: "Nineteen eighty-nine has been the most startling,...
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POEM
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During the 1980s, a new style of politics has started to take shape, reestablishing the revolutionary role of 'the people.' But the massacre in Tiananmen Square is as much a part of the decade as...
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Russian Revolution The Sequel
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Blackburn, Robin
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Russian Revolution The Sequel BY ROBIN BLACKBURN t the end of 1989, the Soviet economy may be headed for a crash A as bad as that which struck the United States in the 1930s. The appallingly...
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Second Thoughts on Solidarity
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Second Thoughts on Solidarity The romance of Solidarity, still at fever pitch in the West—as demonstrated in the hero's welcome accorded to Lech Walesa during his recent visit to the United...
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PRISONER ON PURPOSE
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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PRISONER ON PURPOSE BY SAMUEL H. DAY JR. There is no music in the cell where I am spending my last days in prison. The only sounds I hear are voices that echo in the corridor outside or flutter...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BARBARA GARSON
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Barbara Garson 'I have lots to say about work/ BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS Barbara Garson manages, somehow, to survive by being herself. She writes in the mainstream media about...
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MEDIA
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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MEDIA Carol Polsgrove Missing Ms. It has been a long time since I've read Ms., except for an occasional piece by Barbara Ehrenreich or Molly Ivins in a copy picked up from a friend's coffee table....
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Post-Election Gloating Many pleasures ensued from the recent plebiscite, not least among them the flattening of the Houston city councilman who proposed, during a debate...
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Organizer's Organizer
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Knoll, Erwin
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BOOKS Organizer's Organizer LET THEM CALL ME REBEL: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy by Sanford D. Horwitt Alfred A. Knopf. 595 pp. $29.95. by Erwin Knoll Aprize piece of political...
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Classless Goal
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Classless Goal FEAR OF FALLING: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich Pantheon Books. 292 pp. $18.95. From the media accolades for Fear of Falling, Barbara Ehrenreich's...
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Doing Good Time
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Doing Good Time PRISONERS ON PURPOSE: A Peacemakers' Guide to Jails and Prisons Edited by Samuel H. Day Jr., with illustrations by Bonnie Urfer Nukewatch, P.O. Box 2658,...
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Poetry off Politics
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Jordan, June
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Poetry off Politics NAMING OUR DESTINY: New and Selected Poems by June Jordan Thunder's Mouth Press. 211 pp. $12.95, paper. This is engaged poetry, poetry that leaves behind the tinkling rhymes...
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Counterattack
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Glick, Brian
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Counterattack WAR AT HOME: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It by Brian Glick with cartoons by Abbe Smith Soulh End Press. 92 pp. $5.00, paper. In the 1960s,...
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INDEX FOR 1989
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INDEX ABORTION: 'Roe' Must Stand, edit., Mar 6; Technology as Destiny, Jean Bethke Elshiain, Jun 19; Courting Disaster, edit., Aug 7; Silenl Majority for Choice, edit., Dec 9 ACTIVISM: See also...
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THE LAST WORD
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Rocawich, Linda
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THE LAST WORD Linda Rocawich Sweep It Amy Ihave not yet been famous for fifteen minutes, but I was recently one of the 80,000 most important people in America for seven days. For one week in...
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