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 Vol. 056 Issue 001 (January 1 1992)
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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 War Casualty The Progressive came late to the story of Indonesia's genocidal war against the people of East Timor. Our first detailed account appeared in the December 1980...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor What the War Taught Us Wendell Berry is a wonderful writer and he certainly speaks the truth. His article, "What the Gulf War Taught Us" (November issue), could be used by...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Racism Resurgent It's out in the open again. The racism that has haunted America for three centuries never really went away. It hid like an iguana, and now it's sunning...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment 'A Mind's a Terrible Thing to Waste From an article in The Economist of London on the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex: "The three national laboratories provide the complex's brain: Two...
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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 Fire This Time This is a scary place to live. Beautiful and cultivated and heterogeneous and progressive and temperate and cosmopolitan and comfortable and...
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ON THE LINE
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Hardesty, Michael; Wurgaft, Nina; Ervin, Mike; Tyroler, Deborah
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ON THE LINE 'Good Corporate Citizen'? Silicon Valley, California "Why aren't you treating us better?" a janitor shouted into a microphone outside the Apple Computer offices. The question...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH peter Dykstra The Pundits Eat One of Their Own No political event could have simultaneously cheered the Left and the Right as much as Pat Buchanan's trial-balloon Presidential...
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DESPERATION
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Rocawich, Linda
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Before Roe v. Wade DESPERATION After Roe Is Reversed BY LINDA ROCAWICH Rusty coathangers are not what I'm talking about. Yes, women have used coathangers. Knitting needles. Weight-lifting....
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TRAPPED ON THE BORDER
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Steif, William
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TRAPPED on the Border Vietnamese refugees wait and wait and wait BY WILLIAM STEIF PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEAH MELNICK Van Van Qui is a Vietnamese refugee in a camp on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur,...
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WARNING: WORK IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
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Feinberg, Mark
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WARNING Work Is Hazardous to Your Health BY MARK FEINBERG Three years ago, Martin Lawless was working with a construction crew on the roof of an industrial building in Framingham, Massachusetts....
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CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
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Hall, Mary Lee Kerr And Bob
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Chickens Come Home to Roost On September 3, fire broke out at the Imperial Food Products chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, a small town in south-central North Carolina. As the flames spread...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW NADINE GORDIMER
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Nadine Gordimer 'I've never left Africa.' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS It was a frosty New York autumn afternoon, and Nadine Gordimer, South Africa's pre-eminent novelist, was...
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CULTURE
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Zeitlin, Marilyn
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CULTURE Marilyn Zeitlin Too Old for Hollywood Comedy writers are funny people. They usually keep each other in stitches. But when a bunch of them got together recently to swap stories, nobody...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Vanderstaay, Steven
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JOURNAL ENTRY Steven Vander Staay Countering a Counterdemo Iam not a quick wit. My responses come slowly—squeezed from long stints at the computer, or inched along from brain to mouth a day later...
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BOOKS
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Knoll, Erwin
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Books The Spy Game by Erwin Knoll About half a century ago, Mrs. Kaplan told her fifth-grade class at P.S. 167 in Brooklyn about Nathan Hale, the young schoolteacher who spied on the British...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Doomsday Scenarios As the old Chinese curse goes, we are living in interesting times. A neo-Nazi just won 55 per cent of the white vote in Louisiana. I think I've voted...
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