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 Vol. 055 Issue 001 (January 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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MEMO from the Editor Professor of Peace Isuppose The Progressive is partly to blame," says Colman McCarthy, "because the piece I wrote for the magazine four or five years ago started things...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers' Comments on Where to from Here?' Symposium Most of the contributors to The Progressive's November symposium, "Where to from Here?" did a good job of outlining the...
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COMMENT
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the Progressive Comment The Propaganda War 'We used to fight for what we needed, then we fought for what we wanted, now we fight for what we waste.' -Ralph Nader In preparation for the shooting...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Be Prepared From an Associated Press list of 4,844 lots of goods left over from Exxon's efforts to clean up the oil spill in Prince William Sound: "Handcuffs, handcuff cases, shackles,...
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ON THE LINE
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Paterson, Kent; Fraser, Leslie; Marshall, Brenda K.; Mayer, Carl J.
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ON THE LINE Protest in the Chile Fields ALBUQUERQUE Every fall, the chile fields of southern New Mexico and west Texas are filled with thousands of workers harvesting the crop that spices the...
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REFLECTIONS
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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REFLECTIONS Bernard D. Nossiter A Welcome Slump If you are moderately rich, perhaps with a measurable fraction of George Bush's wealth, a slump of the mild, controlled sort available since World...
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THE GULF THE GENERAL IN CHARGE
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Rocawich, Linda
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The Gulf The General in Charge BY LINDA ROCAWICH Listen, when I was a battalion commander with my battalion deployed out on the field, you know, in battle, the division staff was back at the rear...
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THE GULF SOME TROOPS WHO WON'T GO
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Anderson, Jennie
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The Gulf Some Troops Who Won't Go BY JENNIE ANDERSON Matthew Brown, a twenty-year-old Army enlistee, would go to jail before he goes to the Persian Gulf, and he is not alone. Across the United...
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BOOM BUZZ BOMB
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Flaherty, Francis J.
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BOOM BUZZ BOMB BY FRANCIS J. FLAHERTY My boss and I were driving in central Nevada on Pole-line Road—it's lined with telephone poles—when we got a flat," says Fielding M. McGehee III. "We got...
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WE DON'T HAVE TO CARE, WE'RE THE CABLE COMPANY'
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Aufderheide, Pat
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'We Don't Have to Care, We're the Cable Company' BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE How Raymond Beckett discovered the secrets of the universe in Boston, touts the Time/Warner ad featuring a charming...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW AUDRE LORDE
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Steif, William
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Audre Lorde 'I'm angry about the pretenses of America' BY WILLIAM STEIF Audre Lorde, fifty-six, describes herself as "a black-lesbian-feminist-warrior-poet-mother." She...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Rose, John
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JOURNAL ENTRY John Rose What the Guard Taught Me Imarched in the front rank and last squad of my basic-training unit. It was one of only two pivot points in the entire formation. When I turned...
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BOOKS
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Stockinger, Jacob
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BOOKS Culture for Sale CULTURE IN AN AGE OF MONEY: The Legacy of the 1980s in America edited by Nicolaus Mills Ivan R. Dee. 254 pp. $22.50. by Jacob Stockinger By some standards, culture in...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Trends Aplenty Returns from the recent plebiscite brought great joy in Mudville, where Clayton Williams has proved that in Texas politics, it's okay to step on your dick,...
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