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 Vol. 061 Issue 005 (May 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 Insuring Dictatorship When the Clinton fundraising scandal broke, rightwing pundits and party hacks shed crocodile tears for the people of Indonesia and East...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Failing Vouchers Bob Peterson's piece on vouchers ("F: Teacher of the Year Gives Vouchers a Failing Grade," April issue) was excellent and on target. I have only a minor...
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COMMENT
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'Quite simply, the Fed buckled under to big banks and major industrialists.' —Jack Kemp, writing in The Wall Street journal Comment All Fed Up Imagine an elected official saying, "We need more...
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FURTHER COMMENT
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Rothschild, Matthew
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FURTHER COMMENT Matthew Rothschild Ginsberg, Now and Forever Icame late to Allen Ginsberg. Too young to be a beatnik, too young to be a hippie, I missed out on the show and the showman. I was...
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NO COMMENT
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N O C O M M E N T Civics Lesson An item in the newsletter Privacy Journal about students at Brown University who objected to a school policy of unannounced searches in the dorms to ferret out...
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FIRE IN THE SKY
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Fire in the Sky Heavyweight champion of the world Riddick Bowe couldn't cut it in the Marines. He only made it eleven days before he was "allowed to withdraw" from Parris...
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ON THE LINE
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Geigel, Jennifer; NICHOLS, JOHN; Santisteban, Ray; Lombardi, Chris
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ON THE LINE Manya and AIDS: A Departure for Comics Milwaukee, Wisconsin When I first met Manya, she had just discovered the pleasures of pants. Six years and 6,000 cups of coffee later, the comic...
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PASS THE HELIUM
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Pass the Helium Listen to what George Will actually said on national television. The gang at ABC's This Week was celebrating the Liggett smoking settlement, and Will...
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MEET THE SUHARTO LOBBY
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Press, Eyal
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The Suharto Lobby BY EYAL PRESS On December 10, 1996, the day the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor, the Indonesian...
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THE RIGHT DISCOVERS EAST TIMOR
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Press, Eyal
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The Right Discovers East Timor BY EYAL PRESS Never underestimate the power of partisanship to alter the consciousness of America's pundits and policymakers. In the final months of 1996, soon...
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LIPPO GOES TO HIGH SCHOOL
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Press, Eyal
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Lippo Goes to High School BY EYAL PRESS Check your kids' curriculum. For the past two years, students in classrooms across America, grades seven through twelve, have been learning about the...
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SANCTIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS?
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Sanctions in Massachusetts? On February 27,1997, the state of Massachusetts held hearings on legislation that would bar companies doing business with the Suharto dictatorship from holding...
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TWISTING ARMS
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Washburn, Jennifer
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Twisting Arms The U.S. weapons industry gets its way BY JENNIFER. WASHBURN The U.S. arms industry, which has sold an estimated $1.1 billion worth of weaponry to Indonesia's military since 1975,...
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MISSIONARY WORK AT THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
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Terrall, Ben
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Missionary Work at the Export-Import Bank BY BEN TERRALL On May 26, 1994, Robert Barry, then-U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, sent a letter to Christopher Dorval, the vice president for public...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW JOSE RAMOS-HORTA
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Goodman, Amy
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THEPROGRESSIV E INTERVIEW Jose Ramos-Horta 'Suharto, like most dictators, is inflexible, intolerant, and doesn't accept dialogue with his own people.' BY AMY GOODMAN Jose Ramos-Horta is a man...
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WELFARE PROFITEERS
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Conniff, Ruth
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WE LFARE PR FITERS BY RUTH CONNIFF Now that the federal government has scrapped the old welfare system, corporations are getting ready to cash in. Arms contractors and other big businesses are...
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POEM
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Louis, Adrian C.
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POEM Adrian C. Louis For You, These Flowers Caught in slow motion for several years now, I thought the final phase would be more seasonal. But it's here now, abrupt, shimmering in multi-colored...
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THE FEAR THAT DOESN'T
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Adler, Frances Payne
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The That Doesn't BY FRANCES PAYNE ADLER Let me tell you a story. I moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, from California a few years ago, into a big old house on Fifteenth Street. It was built around...
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CONNECTING THE SECTS
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Connecting the Sects On cue every year, thousands of lesbians of all ages flock to Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic. As the green oasis sucks the nearby...
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BOOKS
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Bader, Eleanor J.
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BOOKS The Poisoned Gift Why History Matters: Life and Thought by Gerda Lerner Oxford University Press. 237 pages. $30.00. by Eleanor J. Bader Iam old, and reconciliation is on my mind," writes...
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CLUELESS IN WASHINGTON
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Ivins, Molly
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Clueless in Washington The Republicans are all pointing their fingers at Bill Clinton, and they have no idea the rest of the country is sitting out here watching all this, saying, "Uuuuuoooo, what...
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