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by Noam Chomsky, Edward Grossman, Dorothy Sawyer, William Schneider, Elliott Abrams, Dan Isaac, William S. Pechter, Francis A.J. Ianni, B. Bruce-Briggs, David Berger, and Henry Walter Brann

Commentary, June 1975, pp. 4-24

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