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  3. Aug. 14, 1989: Died:Michael Harrington
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989               
  7. Aug. 14, 1989  The Hostage Agony                     
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 76
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  14. <p>    DIED. Michael Harrington, 61, pre-eminent U.S. socialist
  15. and author of The Other America, the 1962 polemic that sparked
  16. the War on Poverty; of cancer; in Larchmont, N.Y. His study of
  17. Appalachian miners and California migrant workers convinced him
  18. that America's poor, "for reasons beyond their control, cannot
  19. help themselves" and were trapped in a "culture of poverty."
  20. Moved by The Other America, President Kennedy, three days before
  21. his death, commissioned the study that led to the Johnson
  22. Administration's Great Society programs.
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