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 Vol. 056 Issue 012 (December 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 Sex for Sale Unless you've just returned from a space voyage to Venus, you know that the publishing sensation of the season (one hesitates to call it a book) is Madonna's Sex...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Glue-Peddling in the Third World Take a moment to celebrate a victory. H.B. Fuller, the glue company I wrote about a year ago ("Dealing Glue to Third World Children,"...
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COMMENT
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Comment 'The election shows that the American people want a new tone in government and substantially greater leadership in meeting the needs of children and families.' —Marian Wright Edelman Four...
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No comment A Big Pill to Swallow News item from The New York Times: "A Federal agency said today that the Genzyme Corporation had priced one of its drugs so high that many patients would have to...
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ON THE LINE
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Nore, Gordon W.E.; Mellor, Carl; Rhoads, Heather
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ON THE LINE Hungry for Justice Toronto For Toronto residents, Thanksgiving was a reminder of the growing hunger crisis in North America. Every year at this time, Gerard Kennedy, executive...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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class notes Adolph reed jr Notes For Herbert Ijust lost one of my oldest and dearest friends, Herbert M. Cappie Jr. I had known him since he was in the second or third grade. He died suddenly and...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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Pundit watch Susan Douglas Going to the Dogs Rarely has the handbook of the American Kennel Club been so dogeared by the pundits of America. Dan Quayle's performance in the Vice Presidential...
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FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE
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Jardine, Matthew
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FORGOTTEN Genocide A little attention, at last, for East Timor BY MATTHEW JARDINE Francisco, a teenager, approaches me and asks nervously whether it's true that the U.S. Government is cutting...
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PEONAGE FOR PEACH PICKERS
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Chepesiuk, Ron
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Peonage for Peach Pickers BY RON CHEPESIUK Johnny Baker Jr., a native of Philadelphia, migrated in 1991 to Trenton, in South Carolina's Edgefield County, to work the peach fields. A farm-labor...
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A FALSE PROMISE ALL AROUND
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Karten, Ron
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A False Promise All Around Three Mexican sisters moved to Oregon three years ago hoping to take advantage of a little-known provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Two joined...
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TOBACCO STAINS
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Johnson, Danny R.
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tobacco Stains Cigarette firms buy into African-American groups BY DANNY R. JOHNSON RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Company spent $10 million in 1989 developing a high-tar menthol cigarette called Uptown...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW RICHARD J. BARNET
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Spero, Robert
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Richard J. Barnet 'You don't have to assume that the next period is simply a continuation of the grim and terrible history of the Twentieth Century. That opens up...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Ylvisaker, Miriam
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JOURNAL ENTRY Miriam Ylvisaker Four Frail Seasons Ifall into that category known these days as the frail elderly. We are the people retirement complexes reject if we use walkers, those whom...
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BOOKS
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Iff, Ruth Conn
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Books Our Best Reading of 1992 End-of-year stock-taking time. One way or another, hundreds of books make their way through the offices of The Progressive in the course of a year. Only a fraction...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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Small favors Molly Ivins Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here? The 1992 Presidential campaign! What swell, incredible fun! What fabulous frisks and jollifications; what an immeasurable quantity of joy...
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