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New “Pentagon Papers” Describe the Insanity of the Afghan War

• EDITORIAL: Time To Pull Out - The Beachhead Collective

Inside Daisy Clover’s Venice - Lynne Bronstein

• Art: Robert Farrington

1,215 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 71 this month
4,413 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 13 this month;
1.4 million Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $1.2+ trillion

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

• Campaign Spending - Sandra Chen Lau
• Unenvironmental Advertising - Pirco
• Police Brutality - Name Withheld
• Michael McGuire - Dennis Stankie

HUD Grant Will House 19 Homeless People - Greta Cobar

65th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings

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Navalette Tabor Bailey, Venice Pioneer, Dies at 95 - Jill Prestup

Interview with Navalette Tabor Bailey and Jataun Valentine - Rex Butters

Trouble on Ocean Front Walk - VBBC Administrative Board

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Venice Cityhood Drive Kicked Off - Greta Cobar

Art: Chains of Los Angeles - Jim Itkin

Two Views of RV Living

Bill Rosendahl

Lisa Green

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The Great L.A./Venice Oil Heist - Patrick McCartney
Research by Arnold Springer, Charles Feick and Moe Stavnezer. (Originally published in the Feb. 1985 Beachhead)

• Photo: Venice Peninsula Oil Field - from Jeffrey Stanton's Venice of America.

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Adventures at the Eco-Fest - C.J. Gronner

Photos: Eco-Fest

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PAGE SEVEN

Getting Around Venice - Jim Smith

Photo: Mayor Villaraigosa - David Crane

Photos of Abbot Kinney Blvd. - Jim Smith

Graphic: Buffered Bike Lane

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Swami X Speaks

Poetry:

• Ode to Swami X - Cosmo
• Made Up Joe - Joy Buckley
• Night in Venice Beach - Robert Watts
• Who is this old man? - Roger Houston

Political Cartoon: Afghanistan Strategy - Khalil Bendib

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Poetry:

• Ballona Wetlands - Sharon Soeller
• Plath Moon, Bukowski Night - Krista Schwimmer
• Oil Babble - Shanna Baldwin Moore
• The Lords of the Earth - Jim Smith
• Onymous #7, Spell Against Enchantment - francEyE
• The Poem Takes A Hundred Years To Come - Philomene Long
• Low tide at dawn - Ray Steding

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Interview with Navalette Tabor Bailey and Jataun Valentine –continued from page 3

The Great L.A./Venice Oil Heist –continued from page 5

Two Views of “Oversized” vehicles –continued from page 4

Inside Daisy Clover’s Venice –continued from page 1

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Calendar

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