August 1979
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Articles
Inside the Department of Dirty Tricks
“The evidence, fragmentary as it is, suggests that the CIA customarily drew the line at what is commonly meant by the word ‘murder.’ However, in the late 1950s, the CIA began to get orders to kill people.”
Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X
Woman's Creation
A Long Desire
Honor, Power, Riches, Fame, and the Love of Women
The Atlantic Puzzler
The Wary Traveler
The Editor's Page
Brazil: Everything Is Booming but Democracy
The world’s fifth largest country is rapidly industrializing and beginning to exploit its vast reserves of arable land. But its wealth belongs to a very few, and a fearful government refuses to trust its people with freedom of speech. Here are two reports on the state of Brazilian society as it exists for the poor and for those who dare to speak out.
Sing It Again, Wordsworth
The God Who Strikes From Afar: A Memoir of Rotc
At Fort Sill, Oklahoma, a member of the silent generation discovers the real meaning of coolness, distance, self-control.
Fog
Heart
Direction
Wish You Were Here!
Sportspeak
Cowboys and Indians
Sensational Victorian
The Union Cavalry in the Civil War
The Lasko Tangent
Saved!
The Vienna I Knew
The Book of Quotes
Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
A Hundred Different Lives
