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 Vol. 054 Issue 006 (June 1 1990)
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••Contents••
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 MEMO
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MEMO from the Editor Friend of Freedom Freedom never had a better friend than John Henry Faulk. Nor did The Progressive. He died in Austin, Texas, on April 9, at the age of seventy-six, after a...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor 'Sexual Preference* While I appreciate your editorial criticizing the military's exclusion of lesbians and gays from its ranks ("Justice Delayed—Again," Comment, April...
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cOMMENT
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Comment Censors on the March 'I think some of the pictures are disgusting. But it's for me to say it's disgusting. I don't want anyone telling me what I can and can't look at.' —Cincinnacian Bill...
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NO Comment
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no Comment We Suspected It All Along News item from a student newspaper at Miami University, Ohio: "A survey of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, based in Georgia, blamed education for a...
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ON THE LINE
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METZ, HOLLY
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ON THE LINE The News from Death Row HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS This is "no ordinary 'movement' paper," says Gary "T" Graham, one of the founders of the Endeavor. Subtitled "Live Voices from Death Row," it...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Diversity or Death In the beginning was the Indian and no diversity. On this intrepid continent, the rivers and the lakes lay underneath one moon. The mountains...
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Socialism on One Island?
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Landau, Saul
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Socialism on One Island? BY SAUL LANDAU fter seventy-three years of trying, Soviet leaders have conceded that A they were unable to build socialism in one country. Elsewhere in MM Eastern Europe,...
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Learning from the 'Enemy'
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JR, SAMUEL H. DAY
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Learning from the 'Enemy' As a journalist visiting Cuba for the first time last winter, and as a traveler long accustomed to paying forty cents every few miles on the highway that links my hometown...
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Kate and Allie Go to Havana
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OSBORN, BARBARA
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Kate and Allie Go to Havana BY BARBARA OSBORN n March 27, TV Marti, the U.S. Government's new television service Q to Cuba, went on the air with MTV and Kate and Allie. Twenty-three minutes...
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CUBA:Grumbling and Graffiti
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Steif, William
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CUBA Grumbling and Graffiti BY WILLIAM STEIF The first thing a visitor sees after the Cuban flight lands at Havana's Jose Marti Airport is a giant billboard proclaiming, socialismo o...
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TOWERING INFERNO
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Flaherty, Francis J.
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TOWERING INFERNO BY FRANCIS J. FLAHERTY Late February in Little Egg Harbor. The United States Air Force is waiting for good weather. When it comes, Government contractors will quickly clear eleven...
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THE MEDFLY WARS
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Huebner, Albert L.
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THE MEDFLY WARS BY ALBERT L. HUEBNER It's usually quite late in the evening when the jarringly noisy helicopters, flying in military formation, appear over the rooftops of the target area. They...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW with Ronnie Gilbert
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MITCHELL, PAM
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Ronnie Gilbert 'We are either going to make it together or we're not going to make it.' BY PAM MITCHELL Throughout her forty-three years as a performer, Ronnie Gilbert...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Hawks, Robert
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JOURNAL ENTRY Robert Hawks On Standby Duty The whistle was blowing on our radio. "Malmstrom Control to all posts and patrols, stand by for Emergency War Order message, this is not an exercise,...
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New Money, Old Politic MEANS OF ASCENT
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Caro, Robert A.
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BOOKS New Money, Old Politic MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert A. Caro Knopf. 506 pp. $24.95. by Bernard D. Nossiter Robert Caro once asked Thomas Corcoran, a great favorite of Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
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Amazon's Rape
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Hecht, Susanna
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Amazon's Rape THE FATE OF THE FOREST by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn Verso Press. 266 pp. $24.95. You remember those exotic images of your childhood, don't you? An anthropologist or a...
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Tangled Vines VINELAND
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Pynchon, Thomas
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Tangled Vines VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon Little, Brown. 385 pp. $19.95. Like all of his other works, Thomas Pynchon's Vineland is a quest chronicle written in the style of what Nathaniel...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Me No Alamo You perhaps expect me to explain what's been going on in the Great State lately. Ha! Why we have nominated for governor a man who tells rape jokes. A man who...
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