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 Vol. 061 Issue 007 (July 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 Gag Order Martin Espada is one of my favorite poets. He writes with a fine eye for the everyday injustices that people suffer—at the hands of landlords, employers,...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS^ to the Editor Shameless Ripoff Iwas pleased to see Eyal Press's articles on U.S. corporate and military support for Indonesia ("Meet the Suharto Lobby," May issue), with the accompanying...
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COMMENT
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Comment NATO Stands for War 'Let Europe and other regions look to themselves for regional security— with help, if needed, from the United Nations. And let America get back to the work of democracy...
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FURTHER COMMENT
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Conniff, Ruth
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FURTHER COMMENT Ruth Conniff FDR Scorned, the FEC Starves When I first saw the new FDR memorial, I thought, some rightwinger is going to have a field day with this. Sure enough, Pat Buchanan...
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NO COMMENT
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N O C O M M E N T Contract with Mongolia Newt Gingrich, on why a Mongolian shepherd voted :or an anti-communist government after reading the Contract with America, which was distributed throughout...
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DOPESTERS HAVE MORE FUN
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Dopesters Have More Fun It gets weirder and weirder. Jack Davis, the San Francisco political consultant in charge of convincing voters they should spend $100 million for...
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ON THE LINE
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Rothschild, Matthew; Jentzsch, Babara; Johnson, Tom; Capellaro, Catherine; Mason, Todd; Nixon, Ron
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ON THE LINE Back Behind the Mike Austin, Texas JplHightower is back on the air. Tm Texas populist and jokester 3p hosts a daily, two-hour talk-(tt)t|f|h|r* radio program that flPy^sSi runs on...
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FEMINISM'S FALSE TRIUMPH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Feminism's False Triumph Hey kids, pop those champagne corks. The culture wars are over, and guess what? "The left has won," announces Janny Scott in a New York Times...
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BLACK ATHLETES ON PARADE
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Black Athletes on Parade It's difficult to be patient with the argument that the crossover popularity of Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan or Bill Cosby or Oprah Winfrey...
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ALL THINGS CENSORED
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Espada, Martin
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All Things CEN SORED The poem NPR doesn't want you to hear BY MARTI'N ESPADA Iwas an NPR poet. In particular, I was an All Things Considered poet. All Things Considered would occasionally...
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CONS TEACH CONS PEACE
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McCarthy, Colman
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Cons Teach Cons PEACE BY COLMAN McCARTHY Before dawn one morning in early September 1996, guards at the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia, went to the cell of Joseph Giarratano...
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YET ANOTHER BUDGET BETRAYAL
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Henwood, Doug
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Yet Another BUDGET BETRAYAL BY DOUG HENWOOD During the great 1995 government shutdown, the Financial Times editorialized that "Mr. Clinton has at last hit on an effective strategy for taking on...
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EVENING THE ODDS
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Bacon, David
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Evening the odds Cross-border organizing gives labor a Chance BY DAVID BACON Just before the AFL-CIO's February executive-council meeting in Los Angeles, Congressman Richard Gephardt took a...
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ELECTRONIC PUBLIC SPACE
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Aufderheide, Pat
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ELECTRONIC Public Space BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE In the era of the Camcorder, we can all put ourselves on television—if it's our own. The challenge these days is to have something to say to a broader...
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POEM
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Weigl, Bruce
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POEM Bruce Weigl Our Independence Day I didn't know our night trees could feel this safe, three a.m., an early dove coos for someone; stars and more stars. I didn't know what I didn't know. I...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW HOWARD ZINN
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Barsamian, David
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Howard Zinn 'The most important thing about teaching is not what you do in the classroom but what you do outside of the classroom.' BY DAVID BARSAMI AN Howard Zinn is...
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BOOKS
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Landau, Saul
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BOOKS The Last Icon Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Grove Press. 800 pages. $35.00. by Saul Landau In October 1967, forty-year-old Ernesto Guevara and a small band of...
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PRESENTS FOR JUNIOR AND SIS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Presents for Junior and Sis Anote on language: Know what Native Americans are calling casino gambling on the reservations? "The new buffalo." On to less amusing...
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