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 Vol. 056 Issue 008 (August 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 Anticonspiracism All of the Letters space in this issue is given over to readers who reacted—negatively, in the main—to Chip Berlet's article on "Friendly Fascists," the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Respond to Chip Berlet's 'Friendly Fascists' Chip Berlet seems to consider any talk of "conspiracy" as part of a right-wing plot ("Friendly Fascists," June issue)....
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COMMENT
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Comment The Speech We Hate 'Let there be no mistake about our belief that burning a cross in someone's front yard is reprehensible. But St. Paul has sufficient means at its disposal to prevent...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Such a Bargain For sale: a 44,000-square-foot climate-controlled three-story atomic-bomb-proof bunker, complete with glassed-in command theater, buried under a mountain in Amherst,...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Willing and Able Last June, Charlie Lubin graduated from Berkeley High School. Three days a week you can catch him at work in the cafeteria of his alma mater....
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ON THE LINE
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Schuyler, Nina; Rhoads, Heather; Schubert, Charlotte
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ON THE LINE L.A. Moms Fight Back Los Angeles When the pastor of the Church of the Resurrection parish told his congregation that the state was planning to crowd an eighth penal institution into...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Race, Rap, and White Blindness Rap music is the first music that has made me feel old. I remind myself of my father, who would bellow when we were listening to Jimi...
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IS FIDEL WASHED UP?
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Landau, Saul
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Is Fidel Washed Up? BY SAUL LANDAU As my flight from Miami crosses the north coast of Cuba just thirty minutes after takeoff, I look down at the immense construction, the blocks and blocks of...
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DOUBLE STANDARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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Valdes, Mia Taylor
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Double Standard for Human Rights For six weeks every year, the United Nations Human Rights Commission assembles to hear chilling accounts of torture, disappearance, and murder in countries around...
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BUYING SILENCE
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Aronson, Geoffrey
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Buying Silence Cash-starved whistleblowers zip their lips BY GEOFFREY ARONSON Joe Macktal, a journeyman electrician, was fired from his job at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Glen Rose,...
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THE NEW CHAIN GANGS
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Bentayou, Frank
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The New Chain Gangs BY FRANK BENTAYOU Shift-change time at Ohio's Southeast Correctional Institution: Guards are laughing as Sergeant J. A. Jeff Scudder, a short bull of a man, struggles to fold...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW BILLY BRAGG
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Epstein, Robin
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Billy Bragg 'i try to write songs about humankind, and humankind is deeply flawed, but deeply lovable.' BY ROBIN EPSTEIN The recording career of Billy Bragg, Britain's...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Tabloid TV and Social Reality One day last May, I picked up my New York Times and saw a sight that surprised even me. There, top, front, and center, was a picture of...
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BOOKS
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Rothschild, Matthew
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BOOKS The Democratic Retreat CHAIN REACTION: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall W.W. Norton. 339 pp. $22.95, cloth; $10.95,...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Steif, William
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JOURNAL ENTRY William Steif India's Endangered Women As I walked out of the Ashok Hotel's Chinese restaurant in New Delhi, one of the two Indian hostesses smiled winsomely and asked where I was...
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