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Vol. 054 Issue 003 (March 1 1990)
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••Contents••
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Memo
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Editor
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Memo from the Editor Risky Business Almost everyone I know who has ever eaten in a restaurant is eager to open one. We've all been subjected to so much bad food and slovenly service that we're...
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Letters
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The Peace Dividend Two items in the February issue, the Editor's Memo and the Reflections essay by Bernard D. Nossiter, leave the impression that U.S. military spending is impervious to world...
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Comment
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Half a Cold War Little by little, as the euphoria induced by the historic changes in Eastern Europe gives way to realistic assessments of the region's awesome economic and political problems, it...
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No Comment
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A Heartbeat Away News item from the Honolulu Star Bulletin & Advertiser for December 3: "An unnamed TV official went golfing with Dan Quayle and Jack Nicklaus last weekend. When the official asked...
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Time to Take Stock
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Ayvazian, Andrea
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REFLECTIONS Andrea Ayvazian Time to Take Stock When I think about the work of the peace movement in this country during the last decade, I am struck by how much we have achieved and how little we...
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Datelines
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Griffen, Bruce Shenitz, William Strubbe, and William L.
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Coming Out in South Africa NEW YORK CITY It's not easy being a black gay-rights activist in South Africa, but Tseko Simon Nkoli is too busy to worry about it much. He spent three years in prison...
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Why Worry About the Animals?
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Why Worry About the Animals? BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN These things are happening or have happened recently: ? The wings of seventy-four mallard ducks are snapped to see whether crippled birds can...
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Behind the Laboratory Door
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Behind the Laboratory Door The break-in occurred on Independence Day, 1989. The intruders made their way through the hallways of the Texas Tech research facility into Dr. John Orem's...
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Making Mythical Monsters
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Making Mythical Monsters Astrange clutch of chicks hatched in a French laboratory late in 1988. Their bodies were covered with furry yellow down, but their heads were feathered in dark stripes....
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Hostile Acts
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King, Dennis Bernstein and Janet
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More news about the wonderful folks who brought us Iran-contra BY DENNIS BERNSTEIN AND JANET KING ohn Hull, the shadowy figure whose key role in the Iran-contra arms scandal was ignored by the...
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Countdown in the Bomb Factories
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Hamilton, Minard
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Countdown Bomb Factories Workers fighting for their jobs, fighting for their lives BY MINARD HAMILTON You can't just use the workers, abuse them, and throw them away," says Mike Davidson,...
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Holly Near
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Blanchard, Susan Watrous and Bob
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Holly Near 'If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I wouldn't sing the way I sing.' BY SUSAN WATROUS AND BOB BLANCHARD The soaring voice lifts the words, "A student of life, a...
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Post-Invasion Pacification
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Post-Invasion Pacification The unfortunate faux pas concerning Manuel Noriega's cocaine stash is entirely understandable. As the U.S. Army explained, it was "in the...
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American Iconoclast
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Neal, Fred Warner
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BOOKS American Iconoclast UNSEASONABLE TRUTHS The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins by Harry Ashmore Little, Brown and Company. 616 pp. $27.50. by Fred Warner Neal In this book, Harry Ashmore...
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Bloody Times
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Gervasi, Frank
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Bloody Times THE VIOLENT DECADE by Frank Gervasi W.W. Norton. 623 pp. $25. In the current world of glasnost, peres-troika, and the Malta summit, Frank Gervasi's book, The Violent Decade,...
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Just a Statistic
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Davidon, Ann Morrissett
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THE LAST WORD Ann Morrissett Davidon Just a Statistic About twenty years ago, I read somewhere that the "average" American woman was a housewife in Dayton, Ohio, with two-and-a-half children....
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