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Vol. 056 Issue 003 (March 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 Conspiracy On November 22, 1963,1 was at the U.S. Capitol, reporting on a bill of little moment that was wending its way through the Senate. When word arrived that John F....
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Respond to Murray Bookchin's Essay on Ecology Murray Bookchin has some valid criticisms of the deep-ecology movement ("Will Ecology Become 'the Dismal Science'?"...
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COMMENT
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Comment theProgressive Stating the Obvious What President Bush might have said (but didn't) in his State of the Union address to Congress and the American people, and what Speaker Foley might...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment And He Had His Fingers Crossed Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush is not obliged to honor his campaign pledge of "no net loss...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Valentine's Day, 1992 It's a little bit hard to focus on lace and flowers in the wake of Clarence Thomas and George Bush. I mean you feel a little bit stupid...
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ON THE LINE
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Schmitz, Todd; METZ, HOLLY; Benton, Sherrole
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ON THE LINE Pooling Solidarity Kaukauna, Wisconsin When Randy McSorley goes to work in the morning at the International Paper mill in Kaukauna, he passes through a barbed-wire fence replete with...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH Peter Dykstra Corporate Logrolling Spin doctors for the timber industry-some of America's largest PR firms-are collecting big fees to keep timber companies' names out of the paper in...
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FORGET 1492 WHAT ABOUT 1992?
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Warrior, Robert Allen
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Forget 1492 What about 1992? BY ROBERT ALLEN WARRIOR American Indians, to the great disappointment of many on the U.S. Left, have not come together in a broad-based national organization to react...
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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK AT ITSELF
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MacDougall, A. Kent
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The Empire Strikes Back at Itself Media hoopla commemorating the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World, however sanitized, should have convinced anyone paying...
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FAMILY ALBUM
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Harjo, Joy
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Family Album BY JOY HARJO I felt as if I had prepared for the green corn ceremony my whole life. It's nothing I can explain in print; besides, no explanation would fit in the English language. All...
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OUR GUYS IN GUATEMALA
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SMYTH, FRANK
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Our guys in guatemala BY FRANK SMYTH The women wore white guipils embroidered with pastel flowers and a thin brown trim. The men's pants were of a matching design, cut off below the knee. The...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW MARGARET ATWOOD
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE I N T E R V I E W Margaret Atwood 'Respectability can kill you very quickly.' BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS In the world of North American literature, there aren't many women with the clout...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elavne Rapping Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage Anyone interested in either the judicial branch of our Government or the mass media had a busy few months last fall. If your list of major interests...
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BOOKS
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Bamberger, Tom
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BOOKS 'The Bomb' Through Two Lenses NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES by Peter Goin Johns Hopkins University Press. 149 pp. $59.95, cloth; $29.95, paper. NUCLEAR ENCHANTMENT photographs by Patrick Nagatani...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Golden, Marilyn
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JOURNAL ENTRY Marilyn Golden Not on the Front Page As spring approaches, the likelihood increases that the public will be the dubious beneficiary of massive press coverage of some unimaginable...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Gone With the Wind On the very same day the President of the United States puked on the Prime Minister of Japan, we lost House Speaker Gib Lewis here in Texas. You may...
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