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 Vol. 055 Issue 003 (March 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 Gordon S.nykin, 1910-1991 When Gordon Sinykin retired five years ago as chairman of The Progressive's board of directors, I noted in this space that he had by then devoted...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers React to the War in the Gulf As an American with a disability, I assure you that the only thing worse than coming home in a body bag is living, needlessly, as a...
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COMMENT
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the Progressive Comment 'Why do grown-ups always say, "Don't hit," and then they go and start a big war?' —Six year-old Benjamin Rottman in a letter to the Los Angeles Times The War Some...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Not Guilty Pat G. King, former president of the defunct Vernon Savings and Loan Association in Vernon, Texas, was sentenced to ten years in prison last fall for making illegal...
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REFLECTIONS
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Nathan, Debbie
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REFLECTIONS Mexico Watches the War Iheard the first news about Operation Desert Storm while riding in a taxicab in Mexico. I'd gone there to research an article about young men brimming with...
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ON THE LINE
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Rhoads, Heather
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ON THE LINE Activism Revives on Campus MADISON, WISCONSIN As President Bush gave the signal for U.S. troops to attack Iraq, students across the nation were already banding together to resist the...
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THE EMPIRE LURCHES DOWNHILL
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Berrigan, Philip
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The Empire Lurches Downhill by Philip Berrigan Empires die hard. Usually they die slowly, taking numberless dead with them. After surprise wears off at George Bush's "liberation" of Kuwait, and...
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END THE WAR NOW
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Ellsberg, Daniel
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End the War Now by Daniel Ellsberg Tom Paine said wars are caused by the pride of kings. In mid-January, two willful men chose war. Each of them—George Bush, Saddam Hussein—preferred and still...
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TO RECLAIM OUR HUMANITY
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Ayvazian, Andrea
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'Once again, the United States is trying to reconcile two qualities that lend themselves to generous interpretation: the internationalist ideal that drives its foreign policy and the aversion to...
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A CONSISTENT RESPONSE TO AGGRESSION
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Chomsky, Noam
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A Consistent Response to Aggression by Noam Chomsky The United States behaves quite consistently with regard to aggression: It's fine if it's in perceived U.S. interest; it's bad if it's opposed...
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OBSESSED WITH MILITARY 'CREDIBILITY'
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Kolko, Gabriel
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Obsessed with Military 'Credibility' by Gabriel Kolko Since the end of World War II, the U.S. Government has been preoccupied with the "credibility" of American military power. Relying on massive...
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THE REAL NINTENDO GAME
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Landau, Saul
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The Real Nintendo Game by Saul Landau The grim faces of the news anchors are intercut with the excited faces of the playoff anchors. Their patter concerns the offensive and defensive strengths and...
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THE WORDS AND THE WILL TO TALK ABOUT CHANGE
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McREYNOLDS, DAVID
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The Words and the Will to Talk About Change by David McReynolds When Ronald Reagan was President, we joked that we never thought we would see the day when we would be nostalgic for Richard Nixon....
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THE FORGOTTEN MORAL ISSUES
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WALLIS, JIM
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The Forgotten Moral Issues BY JlM WALLIS The moral issues of this war, with which the American people wrestled in the months leading up to it, seem to have been forgotten. In the churches, we...
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AFTER THE WAR IS OVER
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AHMAD, EQBAL
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After the War Is Over by Eqbal Ahmad There is little doubt that the United States will prevail militarily in the Persian Gulf war. But an American nightmare is likely to begin after victory. The...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW PAUL WELLSTONE
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Bremer, Karl
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Paul Wellstone 'I see a new world disorder.' BY KARL BREMER Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, a political science professor at Carleton College, was elected to the...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Gangster Snow White, Gangster Sid Vicious Greed, lawlessness, bloodshed, the endless excitement of watching the charismatic antihero pile up the most toys and win—that's...
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BOOKS
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Conniff, Ruth
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BOOKS The Air War at Home BRAVO 20: The Bombing of the American West by Richard Misrach with Myriam Weisang Misrach Johns Hopkins University Press. 133 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). by...
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JOURNEL ENTRY
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Koppel, Tom
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JOURNEL ENTRY Tom Koppel 'Guest Reporter' in Kiev Lenin's portrait gazed impassively across the spacious office with padded soundproof doors. "Feel right at home. We have no secrets here," said...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Super Bowl in the Sand It started so bizarrely. Like the obverse of Christmas. You'd wake up in the morning asking, "Did Santa Claus come? Has the war started yet?" And...
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