The American Legion [Volume 125, No. 3 (September 1988)]

Cover: The Selling of a Nation by Art Stein -- The Free Enterprise Patriot, Part 7: The Cannon Scores a Direct Hit . . . on a Wheelbarrow by John Rickey -- Changing of the Guard: The National Guard and Reserves: Partners in the Defense of America -- Southern Africa: Whose Side Are We On?: We're Treating Freedom Fighters Like Bargaining Chips and Leaving Communist Regimes in Power by Rep. Dan Burton -- Covert Operations: "Everything We Do Is in Accordance with U.S. Laws, Executive Orders and National-Security Directives," Says CIA Director William H Webster -- I Pledge Allegiance . . .: For 17 Years, America's Top Military Secrets Were Sold to the KGB by Howard Blum -- Putting the Gold into the Golden Years: Today Is Not too Soon to Plan for Retirement, No Matter What Your Age by Steve Salerno -- The Moscow Summit and Beyond: Gorbachev Expected Arms-Control Concessions, but Instead Got a Lecture on Individual Liberty and Human Rights by Richard N Pyle -- Safeguarding America's Secrets: We Must Get Serious About National Security or Risk Being Among the 150 Million People Exterminated Under the Heels of Soviet Expansion by Joseph D Douglass Jr -- Big Money from Small Change: One Dealer Sold Enough Coins to Make a Down Payment on His Home by Phyllis Zauner -- Know Your American Legion: "Need a Lift?" Can Help You Select the Right College and Save You Money -- VA Hospitals: We Need Them "to Care for Him Who Shall Have Borne the Battle" -- Developing the Players of Tomorrow: Legion Baseball's Legacy Extends Beyond the Diamond -- Big Issues: Should We Remove Tax Breaks for U.S. Factories Along the Mexican Border? -- Letters -- Dateline Washington -- Money Sense -- Veterans Update -- Legion News Briefs -- Veterans Alert -- Parting Shots