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 Vol. 061 Issue 011 (November 1 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Leaders in the Field Clarence Kailin, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and a fixture of Madison's left, came by The Progressive's office one day. He brought...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Just Plain Sleazy Matthew Rothschild is beating a long-dead horse in alleging that Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman disbelieved in the reality of Khmer Rouge atrocities in...
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COMMENT
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Comment No Justice for Immigrants J.D KING 'Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are awaiting or who would be eligible for immigrant visas will be forced to leave the country—forced to leave...
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INVASION OF THE PROMISE KEEPERS
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Conniff, Ruth
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FURTHER COMMENT Ruth Conniff Invasion of the Promise Keepers How often do 700,000 men come to your town, drop to their knees, and beg for forgiveness? I felt compelled to go watch the Promise...
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NO COMMENT
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no Comment Bring Back Torquemada An advertisement for The New Oxford Review, an orthodox Catholic magazine, in The National Review: "The Vatican thunders against abortion, priestesses, same-sex...
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WHILE YOU WERE OUT
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst While You Were Out In the deepest, darkest throes of depression after her tragic split with the gallant Prince of Wales, Diana, cleverly disguised as a lowly...
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ON THE LINE
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Pal, Amitabh; WOLFE, KATHI; Samuel, Leah; McKissack, Fredrick L. Jr.; Ervin, Mike
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ON THE LINE Enron Enrages Indians Ratnagiri District, India U.S. corporations are building a power plant in western India, but local residents hope to stop them. Activists sav the project will...
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VALLEY GIRL FEMINISM
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Douglas, Susan
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TALKING BACK Susan Douglas Valley Girl Feminism You have got to see this new magazine—you won't believe it," insisted a feminist in her mid-twenties. She was certain that I would gag over the...
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MEET THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE LAND MINES
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Capellaro, Catherine; Cusac, Anne-Marie
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Meet the People Who Make Land Mines by catherine capellaro and anne-marie cusac While President Clinton was refusing to sign the Canadian treaty that would ban land mines, we went in search of...
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IRAQ'S CHILDREN
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Capaccio, George
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IRAQ'S Child BY GEORGE CAPACCIO Iwent to iraq earlier this year as part of a peace delegation. on the plane to amman, i heard an elderly arab man say, "when george bush dies, i pray he goes...
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COCA-COLA HIGH
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West, Mike
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Coca-Cola HIGH BY MIKE WEST If you call the Coca-Cola hotline (1-800-GET COKE), between renditions of the jingle "Always Coca-Cola," you will be sprayed with facts about the volume of the world's...
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FULL NETS EMPTY SEAS
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HELVARG, DAVID
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Full Nets EMPTY SEAS BY DAVID HELVARG At sea, you can smell the odor for hours. When you're about seven miles away, a broad sheen of fish oil appears on the ocean surface. Clouds of seabirds...
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NUCLEAR BURIAL IN THE PACIFIC
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Silverstein, Ken
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Nuclear Burial in the Pacific BY KEN SILVERSTEIN An odd assortment of businessmen and former government officials is seeking out a Pacific island—not as an exclusive vacation spot but as a...
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POEM
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Quintana, Leory V.
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POEM Leroy V. Quintana Freedom Some time ago, back home, a man escaped. Vanished. From the state penitentiary up in Santa Fe. Suddenly gone like heels on a pair of cheap shoes you thought would...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW GRACE PALEY
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Vine, Phyllis
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTE R V I E W Grace Paley 'I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.' BY PHYLLIS VINE It's August 6 in Thetford Hill,...
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SPEED UP
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Speed Up It's fall. My catalogues tell me so. The colors have turned from summer's hideous putrid green to fall's hideous heathered citron. I had a summer gig jigging with...
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BOOKS
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Kornbluh, Peter
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BOOKS Iran-Contra's Lone Ranger Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up by Lawrence E. Walsh W.W. Norton and Co. 544 pages. $29.95. by Peter Kornbluh On his last day as independent...
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WRONG-ROOM PHONING
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Wrong-Room Phoning Posture City is in an especially festive mode at the moment. Not since Al D'Amato set out to investigate Bill Clinton have we seen anything quite as...
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