Spectator's Journal
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL Primal Judiciary From the Washington Post: MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 4-Vice President Mon-dale has taken the apparently unprecedented step of asking for a direct hand in the selection...
...The third Hersh report was that shortly after Davis' arrival in Chile in October 1977, the Nixon administration had ordered him to "get rougher" with the Allende regime, and that six weeks later Davis was directly involved in backing the street demonstrations known as the "march of the empty pots...
...There is no reflection of anything like this in the Church Report...
...district court judges in Minnesota via a screaming commission he would dominate...
...And for women over thirty, Freedman reports a paradox: that although married women are much more likely to be happy than single women, many of those ostensibly happy in their marriages feel they would be more able "to grow as people" if they were single...
...Who Reads The American Spectator...
...In a survey reported in the same issue of Public Opinion, 56 percent of the Irish Protestants found premarital sex "always or almost always wrong...
...Davis, who describes Allende as having "extraordinary and appealing human qualities and a resiliency that was phenomenal," outlines four main factors as precipitating the coup: the government's disastrous economic policies...
...Seymour Hersh, Investigative Reporter Three false New York Times reports are the principal basis for the "fables about what the United States did and did not do in Chile during the Allende time," former U.S...
...So does research in depth on this matter in Congress and by others...
...A Chinese Communist Party promotional brochure lists nine categories of "loathsome characters to be got rid of: renegades, spies, capitalist roaders, landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad people, rightists," and, lastly, "intellectuals-stinking persons of the ninth category...
...The similarities break down in politics: Most Jews (76 percent) and Irish Catholics (63 percent) consider themselves Democrats...
...Other wives, Freedman found, "were often lonely...
...4-Vice President Mon-dale has taken the apparently unprecedented step of asking for a direct hand in the selection of U.S...
...Here, a musing note enters Davis' chronicle: "I have wondered how the foregoing story could have originated...
...Lonely hearts and hard-luck cases will be heartened by one report conclusion: "Almost nothing condemns someone to un-happiness-there are always second chances, and they are just as good as the first,'' Second marriages are just as likely to be happy as first ones...
...Questioned on a broad range of matters, 68 percent of the married people and 54 percent of the unmarried reported considerable happiness...
...Congratulations to Irish Protestants, America's most prudish (or morally sound) ethnic group...
...My own knowledge and experience lead me to conclude that [this] story was not correct," Davis writes in his detailed account...
...Em-mett Tyrrell, Jr.'s book of profiles of his thirty favorite Americans, Public Nuisances...
...Coincidence or sociology...
...Overall Protestants are most conservative (49 percent), Catholics slightly less so (42 percent), and Jews most liberal (20 percent...
...and the government's politicization of the military...
...Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill is "a novel of the American Indian," and those readers who have previously looked into this literary sub-genre will have every right to be wary...
...The stories Davis calls false are Seymour M. Hersh's New York Times articles of September 8, 20, and 24, 1974...
...For men over forty, however, there is little difference in happiness between those who are married and single...
...Presbyterians (54 percent) and Episcopalians (53 percent) lead as the most Republican groups...
...Perhaps it is our besetting ethnocentrism which induces Americans-often on both sides of a question-to exaggerate our role and influence over events in other parts of the world...
...Before this story ran, Davis told Hersh that, although he was not authorized to comment officially on clandestine operations, on a personal basis he could say that the story was untrue...
...Most liberal among Protestants are Episcopalians (31 percent) and Presbyterians (37 percent...
...But Hanta Yo is a work of exceptional care and merit...
...Colby denied the report before Hersh ran it, adding that he had never used "the word 'destabilize' in whatever grammatical form...
...Davis cites former CBS reporter Daniel Schorr and retired CIA officer David Phillips as confirming Colby...
...its extra-legal moves to impair financially the political opposition and its media (wage and price controls were among the measures used to weaken newspapers...
...I do not list American actions among these four principal causes...
...They might even be more lonely if they were single (all the evidence says they would be), but they do not see it that way...
...From Harper & Row this season are Eric Hoffer's Before the Sabbath, Peter F. Drucker's Adventures of a Bystander, and the first English translation of' 'New Philosopher" Bernard Henri-Levy's Barbarism with a Human Face...
...Jews, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians also lead in having the highest percentages of the college educated and the lowest percentages of manual laborers...
...Hersh's second report was that the CIA had used more than $7 million during the 1972-1973 period to support anti-Allende strikers and demonstrators...
...Marriage & Happiness "Married people are much more likely to be happy than are single people," Columbia University professor Jonathan L. Freedman reports in the November /December issue of Public Opinion...
...the growing militancy of parts of the ruling leftist coalition...
...It follows the story of a Teton Sioux Indian band from the late 1700s to the 1830s, and particularly concerns two of the band's young leaders-and of how "by reviving the ancient ceremonies they are able to unite and strengthen a people in danger of losing their heritage.'' Also from Doubleday recently comes John R. Coyne's Washington memoir, Fall In and Cheer...
...In his article Hersh simply reported that Davis "refused to comment today...
...Hersh's first report gave prominence to the charge that in secret congressional testimony former CIA Director William E. Colby had outlined a strategy to "destabilize" the Allende government...
...I am confident that no element of the United States Mission in Chile supported the truckers, shopkeepers and taxi-drivers...
...Presumably these are the ones who stay at home, see their husbands only in the evenings and on weekends, and spend much of their time by themselves...
...The one thing I do know is that no such orders were sent to me, and I did not take the actions attributed to me...
...Irish Catholics rank fourth...
...Cavalcade of Reading Matter To be published this month is the unlikeli-est great novel of the year...
...From Basic Books comes Ben Stein's television investigation, The View from Sunset Boulevard, and-shortly-R...
...Ambassador to Chile Nathaniel Davis writes in a two-part article published in the November and December issues of Foreign Service Journal...
Vol. 12 • February 1979 • No. 2
