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Vol. 055 Issue 006 (June 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 Biodegradable Man For some months now I've been doing my best to ignore a book called Biodegradable Man. It's a collection of essays by the late Milton Mayer, edited by Leone...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Reflect on the Persian Gulf War With the conclusion of the war in Iraq, the network of organizations grouped collectively under the peace banner must address certain...
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COMMENT
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Comment The Iraq Syndrome Walking to work one recent spring morning, we saw a tattered yellow ribbon wafting on the breeze. We looked around and noticed that quite suddenly and without fuss, most...
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no Comment Read His Lips From GQ magazine: "One of the lessons to be learned from George Bush's handling of Desert Storm is a form of WASP contempt: calculated mispronunciation, especially of...
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ON THE LINE
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Conniff, Ruth; Pettis, Margaret; Ervin, Michael
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ON THE LINE Singing for the Red, White, and Blind MADISON, WISCONSIN You may have heard Jim Walktendonk on the radio, singing his new Desert Storm song. A couple of local disc jockeys began...
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REFLECTIONS
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Knoll, Erwin
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REFLECTIONS Erwin Knoll Not a just War—Just a War Last fall, when the U.S. Government was assembling more than a half million U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia for what was sure to be a bloody war...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH Peter Dykstra Messiahs, Demons, and Mobil Oil When The Washington Star was interred in the expanding daily-newspaper graveyard in 1981, The Washington Post interrupted its victory...
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ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK
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Landy, Joanne
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ONE STEP FORWARD, The East chases TWO STEPS BACK the worst of the West BY JOANNE LANDY Extreme free-marketism is the watchword of governments throughout the ex-Communist world. Leaders who...
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OUR REAGAN WAS YOUR BREZHNEV!'
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Scharf, Cynthia; Klimenko, Vladimir
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'Our Reagan Was Your Brezhnev!' BY CYNTHIA SCHARF AND VLADIMIR KLIMENKO Muddled together in the ratty Moscow offices of an independent newspaper, American and Soviet environmentalists swap protest...
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LAST WORDS FROM GRAHAM GREENE
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MacArthur, John R.
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LAST FROM GRAHAM GREENE WORDS BY JOHN R. MACARTHUR When I first saw Graham Greene, he was lunching outdoors with his longtime mistress at Chez Felix, Greene's favorite restaurant in the old...
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THE WAR BEFORE LAST
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Ferriss, Susan
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The War BEFORE LAST Panamanians still pay and pay BY SUSAN FERRISS Top officials of the Bush Administration hinted even before the war was over that the United States might one day help Iraq...
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THE WAR BEFORE LAST
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Jamison, Barbara
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The War BEFORE LAST Panamanians still feel the pain BY BARBARA JAMISON The government refuses to pay. Family members have to raise the money for everything from coffins to more exhumations,"...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW TIM ROBBINS
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Tim Robbins The essential thing is anger.' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS When antiwar demonstrators went to Washington, D.C., on January 26, they heard a fresh voice from the...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Collins, Carole; Askin, Steve
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JOURNAL ENTRY Carole Collins and Steve Askin What About Africa? Each night on the TV news, we see stark pictures of refugees: Kurds whose worried faces are emaciated, disoriented, frightened....
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BOOKS
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Williams, Brett
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BOOKS Aliens in Our Midst THE PROMISED LAND: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann Alfred A. Knopf. 410 pp. $24.95. by Brett Williams How are the nonpoor to...
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SMALL FAVORS
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SHALL FAVORS Plot to Overthrow the West Anew low in tastelessness: Our late, vertically impaired U.S. Senator has inspired a new genre—Dead Tower jokes. No, I will not pass any on; I'm just noting...
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