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 Vol. 055 Issue 004 (April 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 'Security Review' Along with ten other publications and news organizations as well as several distinguished writers, The Progressive filed a Federal lawsuit on January 10...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers' Comments on the War in the Gulf The war in the Gulf is a logical step for our Government's military-industrial complex, which has prayed for an inter-Arab conflict...
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COMMENT
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Comment America Triumphant 'Maybe this time the Gold Star mothers won't be wondering, "Why?"' —Representative Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania Republican Owhat a lovely war! Short and sweet and ever so...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Biblical Scholar Middle East expert Edward Peck explained to NBC television viewers that Americans have a New Testament heritage of "turning the other cheek," whereas Iraqis are "an Old...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan The Big-Time Coward On a recent, cold Sunday morning in Kennebunkport, Maine, George Bush and his wife, Barbara, seated themselves inside a small country church...
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ON THE LINE
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METZ, HOLLY; Thompson, Rachel; Rhoads, Heather
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ON THE LINE Camcorder Commandos NEW YORK CITY Ordinarily, community activists are lucky if they make the local news. Forget national TV. Protesters marching in Minneapolis might never know that...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH Peter Dykstra War Reporting Trends and Fads Aquarter-ton of concentrated hatred," declared CNN's Richard Blystone as a lone Scud hit Tel Aviv. Because of wartime restrictions, the...
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REFLECTIONS
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Alperovitz, Gar
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REFLECTIONS Gar Alperovitz What the War Says About Us The Gulf war cut to the heart of America's political-economic system, brutally laying bare some ugly truths about our leadership and our very...
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ONE, TWO, MANY IRAQS
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Klare, Michael T.
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One, Two, Many Iraqs BY MICHAEL T. KLARE It is natural for a nation at war to try to destroy its adversary's military capabilities, but American war aims in the Persian Gulf were truly predatory....
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SAND DOLLARS
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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Sand Dollars Who nets what from the war? BY BERNARD D. NOSSITER As an economic event, the Gulf war was exquisitely timed. Unless every indicator has gone awry, most of us will be a bit richer...
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THE HUMAN GUINEA PIGS OF RIO FRIO
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Brown, Karen; Thrupp, Lori Ann
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The Human Guinea Pigs of Rio Frio Standard Fruit keeps its eye on the bottom line. BY KAREN BROWN AND LORI ANN THRUPP Thirteen years ago, a group of families in Rio Frio, Costa Rica found they...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW RAMSEY CLARK
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Ramsey Clark 'We really believe that might makes right, and that leads us to perpetual war.' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping TV Lawyers With a Conscience Jackson Browne once wrote a song called "Lawyers in Love." He must have anticipated the current television season. There's no doubt about it:...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Gottlieb, John
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JOURNAL ENTRY John Gottlieb The Sexual Connection When the war began, a male colleague and I were watching some videotape of a B-52 bomber dropping its load over Iraq. My colleague, a former Army...
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BOOKS
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Rothschild, Matthew
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BOOKS A Sermon of Repression THE TRUE AND ONLY HEAVEN: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch W.W. Norton. 591 pp. $25. by Matthew Rothschild Christopher Lasch is back in the pulpit...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Happy Days for Armchair Rambos You may have noticed that many of our fellow citizens have slipped into wretched excess on the patriotism front. Yellow ribbons tied around...
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