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 Vol. 054 Issue 002 (February 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 'Peace Dividend verything that goes around comes around. Take the "peace dividend," for instance. Almost twenty years ago, when I was The Progressive's Washington Editor, I...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Is Labor Ready? The Progressive's December issue asks, "Is Labor Ready to Break the Siege?" If you ask me, the answer is No. So long as the labor fakers lead our unions, the...
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cOMMENT
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COMMENT 'You can be sure the Sandinistas are watching very carefully what happens to Noriega.' —Jeb Bush, the President's son, in the July 1989 issue of The American Spectator Disgrace in...
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NO Comment
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No CoMMENT Smoke Gets in Your Eyes From an address by Ellis Milan, president of the Retail Tobacco Distributors of America, as reprinted in Smokeshop magazine: "President George Bush often talks...
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REFLECTIONS
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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REFLECTIONS Bernard D. Nossiter The Pentagon's Closet Pacifists The astonishing events in Eastern Europe confront the Pentagon with its gravest crisis since VJ Day. Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff First Amendment Racketeers John Spear is the editor of the Orange County Post, a 2,700-circulation weekly in upstate New York. Since last summer, he has been the...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Wrong or White We enter this last-ditch decade of the Twentieth Century still staggering from the final revolutionary events of 1989. The astounding spectacle of...
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DATELINE:Gay-Bashing at Yale
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Bass, Paul
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Gay-Bashing at Yale NEW HAVEN The clash occurred the night of October 27, 1989, at an international gay and lesbian scholars' conference. One conference participant had brought posters designed...
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DELUSION in EL SALVADOR
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McCONAHAY, MARY JO
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DELUSION in EL SALVADOR The end is not in sight, but don't tell Washington BY MARY JO McCONAHAY A demented sun twisting like a snake in the orphaned, turbulent landscape. Each day's noisy...
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A Trail of Missed Opportunities
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A Trail of Missed Opportunities Ayear ago in January, just four days after President Bush's inauguration, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) made a startling proposal to the...
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DECEPTION in Guatemala
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WEBSTER, KATHARINE
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DECEPTION in Guatemala How the U.S. media bought a cover-up BY KATHARINE WEBSTER n November 22, 1988, Carlos Humberto Guerra Callejas went out to Q search for his three cows on the mountainside...
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'Leave the Country in Forty-eight Hours'
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'Leave the Country in Forty-eight Hours' Two hours after last May's military coup in Guatemala ended without a shot fired, a telephone call was placed to the apartment of five prominent leftists...
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A Reign of Terror
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A Reign of Terror She was kidnapped by a man with a pistol and taken to a large building where they were met by a uniformed policeman. She said she could hear men and women screaming in pain...
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U.S. Endowment's Useless Meddling
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U.S. Endowment's Useless Meddling The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a quasi-public "nonpartisan" organization established by the Reagan Administration, is meddling in Guatemala. Many of...
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Frances Moore Lappe
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Blanchard, Bob
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Frances Moore Lappe 'Something new is possible under the sun.' BY BOB BLANCHARD AND SUSAN WATROUS Frances Moore Lappe's groundbreaking Diet for a Small Planet was a...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The Czar Is Hooked Praise the Lord and pass the RICO statute, here comes a substitute for the Cold War, just in time. Boy, was I worried! The entire foreign-policy...
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Greed Incarnate
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GAILLARD, FRYE
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BOOKS Greed Incarnate FORGIVEN: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry by Charles E. Shepard Atlantic Monthly Press. 635 pp. $22.95. by Frye Gaillard Just a few miles south of...
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More on G.B.S.
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Holroyd, Michael
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More on G.B.S. BERNARD SHAW: The Pursuit of Power Volume II, 1898-1918 by Michael Holroyd Random House. 421 pp. $24.95. While the first volume of Michael Holroyd's biography covered forty-two...
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Serious Comics
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Kuper, Peter
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Serious Comics WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED: 1980-1988 edited by Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman Fantagraphics Books. 128pp. $12.95, paper. "World War 3 has already begun", writes Lucy...
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Scholars for Hire
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Feldman, Jonathan
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Scholars for Hire UNIVERSITIES IN THE BUSINESS OF REPRESSION: The Academic-Military-Industrial Complex in Central America by Jonathan Feldman South End Press. 371 pp. $14.00, paper. Jonathan...
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That Damned Mitchell'
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Mitchell, H.L.
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That Damned Mitchell' ROLL THE UNION ON: A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union by H.L. Mitchell Charles H. Kerr (P.O. Box 914, Chicago, IL 60690), 96 pp. $19.95, cloth;...
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A Plea
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A Plea Sara Whalen, director of Pets Alive, Inc., a newly-formed nonprofit NY corporation, has been rescuing animals with her own funds for 21 years. More than 4,000 dogs, cats, birds, horses and...
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THE LAST WORD
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Eldridge, Joseph
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THE LAST WORD Joseph Eldridge *Your Husband Cannot Return9 On the evening of January 14, 1988, Miguel Angel Pavon and Moises Landaverde were returning from a meeting. Pavon had offered his friend...
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