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 Vol. 055 Issue 008 (August 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 Sister of Mercy In 1977," the letter began, "I had the good fortune of stumbling upon The Progressive, and I have been a subscriber ever since. Each month when I see your...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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LETTER to the Editor Readers React to 'Not a Just War, Just a War' Iam a twenty-three-year-old junior at a small liberal-arts college in north central Pennsylvania. Until I came across a copy of...
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COMMENT
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the Progressive COMMENT Public Enemy Number One 'Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.' —Justice Thurgood Marshall Crime in the streets is the issue best suited...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment I Am Not a Bigot Richard Nixon, on the recently released White House tapes: "Aren't the Chicago Seven all Jews?" Handyman Special Real-estate agent Mike Silverman, explaining why a...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff Free Speech for Lawyers, Too? For the first time in the history of the Republic, the Supreme Court faced the question in its recently concluded term of whether...
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ON THE LINE
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Conniff, Ruth; Marshall, Brenda; Carter, Kevin; Wenzel, Laura
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ON THE LINE. 'Street Life' Makes Prime Time Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights interrupted Hector Alejandro Gramajo as he celebrated his graduation from Harvard's Kennedy School...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH Peter Dykstra Leaches, Flag Wavers, and Elvis Public-interest" programming dropped from nineteen minutes a day per major market station in 1979 to less than five minutes a day in...
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REFLECTIONS
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Reed, Adolph L. Jr.
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REFLECTIONS + The Underclass Myth In recent years the image of an urban "underclass" has become the central representation of poverty in American society. In less than a decade the underclass has...
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DISABLED AMERICANS PUSH FOR ACCESS
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Johnson, Mary
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ON THE MOVE Disabled Americans Push for ACCESS BY MARY JOHNSON Florida has a law requiring wheelchair access to big new hotels. But that didn't stop the architects of the Cocoa Beach Hilton...
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EXIT THE NURSING HOME
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Hershey, Laura
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ON THE MOVE EXIT the Nursing Home BY LAURA HERSHEY Rick James moved from Montana to Utah ten years ago, hoping to find a place of his own and settle there. He has cerebral palsy, uses a...
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L CAN DO THINGS FOR MYSELF NOW'
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Shapiro, Joseph P.
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'l Can Do Things for Myself Now' Jeff Gunderson's voice is choked with worry. He is about to reenter the place he calls "the concentration camp." It is a nursing home, one of two where Gunderson,...
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FROM HIROSHIMA TO BAGHDAD
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Mitchell, Greg
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FROM HIROSHIMA to BAGHDAD BY GREG MITCHELL The Chicago Tribune pictured a dove of peace flying over Japan, an atomic bomb in its beak. An editorial cartoon in the Louisville Courier-Journal,...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW RAMONA RIPSTON
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Blanchard, Bob
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Ramona Ripston 'We can't rely on the courts anymore.' BY BOB BLANCHARD As executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Ramona...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Mead, Nathaniel
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JOURNAL ENTRY Nathaniel Mead Out in the Cold It is the moral duty of a nation so blessed as ours to support, even defend, the right of other nations to freedom and self-determination. When that...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping The Uses of Violence There was something suspicious about the recent Newsweek cover story glaringly headed Violence Goes Mainstream and subtitled, Movies, Music, Books—Are...
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BOOKS
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Knoll, Erwin
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BOOKS The Fixer COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT: A Memoir by Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke Random House. 709 pp. $25. by Erwin Knoll One day in 1968, while Clark Clifford was serving as...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Embarrassing Black Holes Ifigure John Sununu is a goner because I've finally learned to spell his name. It was the same with Brzezinski and all those guys going back to...
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