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EDITORIAL: Shut Down Chicken Racketeers
JIM HIGHTOWER: CEOs' Gross Compensation; Porkbarreling in Congress; Tobacco: Smoke and Mirrors; Importing Toxic Waste; Bioengineering Oops; Spy Agency "Reform"
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FEATURE: Immigrants: Agribusiness' Dirty Secret, by A.V. Krebs.
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / CAROL COUNTRYMAN: Easy Money in East Texas
RURAL ROUTES: Laini and the Vermont Ag Department, by Laini Fondiller
FREELANCE: Labor Party's Founding Convention Set;
Conference in New York to discuss beyond liberal and conservative.
SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FARM BILL:
A future of uncertainty, by Rep. Tim Johnson
FAIR is foul for farmers and consumers, by Larry Swartz and Katherine Ozer.
AN AMERICAN STORY: Believers tackle social problems, by Gus Spohn
JOAN RETSINAS: From the sickroom.
TED RALL: Hose-Down Economics: Why settle for a trickle?
SAM SMITH: The mysterious disappearing trust fund
EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER
COVER STORY: Dole takes the witness stand (we wish), by Morton Mintz and Michael Faber
LABOR NEWS
UNITED HE STANDS, Perot's Party Politics, by Michael Sifry
HOLY WAR on the range, by Kate Freedlander
HAL CROWTHER: Happy anniversary
RALPH NADER / IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Pols grovel for sports moguls
JESSE JACKSON: In King's Way; Pentagon: Bipartisan Folly.
NORMAN SOLOMON / MEDIA BEAT: Public Loses in Radio 'Gold Rush'
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Face off at Devil's Tower; Hobbling the great writ
LATINO SPECTRUM / PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ:
The making of a national leader
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Foreign mart of war
MOLLY IVINS: Seek the wisdom of this cleaning lady; When Megamediacorp owns it all ...
EUGENE McCARTHY: Politics in a Secular World