Presswatch / Sunni Days
Ledeen, Michael
"Presswatch / Sunni Days" living before they have had the time to become "men," and they duly turn into charmless, premature adults lacking that sense of the child in man that Nietzsche rightly admired. That a female...
...Schanche produced a pure thumb-sucker from Cairo, an interview with "a Western scholar who has lived in both Iran and Iraq...
...Absolutely not," Vermeersch responded...
...Did you have a search warrant...
...now the sisters are foisting a masculine ending on her, thus depriving her of the double glory of being simultaneously a female and a leader...
...However that may be, by allowing irresponsible alterations in the language, we are not only losing the necessary touch with the glories of our literary past, we are also inviting a linguistic turmoil that must lead to the breakdown of everyday communication in the not so distant future...
...Disinformation Award for the 32 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1980...
...The Shah, despite his reputation for bloody repression, was a passive victim of Khomeini's revolution in Iran,'and the Ayatollah made no attempt to mask his imperialistic ambition to extend the boundaries of his Shi'ite revolution to the entire Moslem world...
...We pay postage, but require prepayment, on orders from individuals...
...The bureau was looking for clues tO the whereabouts of her sister, Bernardine, for whom an arrest warrant had been issued...
...Q: Did you have the consent of any occupant ? A: No, of course not...
...Vermcetsch, as Nields tried to cut him off...
...And the emphasis of Vermeersch's reply is quite different in the two accounts: Ostrow portrays the FBI official as indignant that anyone would believe he had confused surreptitious entry with a legal search, while Pear paints Vermeersch as rather sullen and almost reticent...
...But he added that an item of hers had becn found in March, 1970...
...Nields asked...
...In this book he provides a penetrating analysis of the intellectual errors responsible for many theoretical and social difficulties: the substitution of scientism for true science and the use of scientistic rather than truly scientific method...
...In other words, the FBI was looking for Bernardine, and entered her sister's apartment to find something .out about Bernardine's whereabouts...
...The trial should be a long one...
...No, as the Los Angeles Times' account spells out: Schreiberg was not wanted for a crime, Vermccrsch said...
...Vermeersch said...
...even Saint Joan is no longer to be known as a heroine but as a hero...
...She said the victims "are being put on trial, not the FBI criminals...
...Absolutely not," Vermeersch said...
...But even Branigin gives insufficient weight to the very nature of the Khomeini revolution: It is a pan-lslamic movement, claiming hegemony over all of the Muslim world...
...Here is what the Los Angeles Times bad to say: ?9 . . Vermeersch seemed taken aback when Nields asked what legal authority he had to enter the apartment of Frances Schreiberg, a lawyer with ties to Jennifer Dohrn, sister of Weather Underground Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn...
...At a lunchtime press conference on the stairs of the federal courthouse, .Judith Clark, oncofthebreak-invictims, denounced both the defense and prosecution in the case...
...To sum up: The Los Angeles Times gave us the full--and accurate-account, including the reasons for the break-ins, and the reaction of the defendants...
...also cited "information in the (FBI) ill(" that Shreiberg had traveled to Paris during the (Vietnam War) peace talks, and the information was that she had mad(" a cash donation to the Provisional Revolutionary Government--the Viet Cong--as well as transferring documents to them...
...Did you have Fran Shreiberg's consent...
...She said the victims "are being put on trial, not the FBI criminals...
...A39 Indianapolis, Indiana 46250 The chief p'rosecutor, (Nields) asked Mr...
...Vermeersch these questions about a break-in at the Brooklyn apartment of .jennifer Dohrn, the sister of a leading Weatherman fugitive: Q: Did you have a search warrant...
...between the Ottoman and Persian Empires, and even on the seventhcentury division between Sunni and Shi'ite Islam...
...We pay postage, but require prepayment, on orders from individuals...
...but alumnae, with its feminine ending, is a must to women who would feel discriminated against if subsumed under alumm...
...A.O, Sulzberger, Jr., for example, noted the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict, observed that it had gotten worse since the Iranian revolution, and then dryly wrote, "statements by Ayatollah Khomeini urging the Iraqi Shiites to overthrow their 'satanic' Government has [sic] further disrupted Iraqi-lranian r e l a t i o n s . " The best analysis came from the Washington Post's William Branigin, who spelled it out clearly: "After he returned to Iran in triumph in February 1979 (Khomeini) set about encouraging Iraqi S h i i t e s . . . to rise against their Sunni Moslen leaders...
...As you can see, quite a discrepancy...
...The Washington Post investigated, found that Zumwalt was wrong, and printed a news story about it, right...
...Disinformation Award for the 32 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1980 the lawyers...
...As a result, Khomeini's explicit attempt to destroy the current (Sunni) regime in Baghdad got lost in the verbiage...
...In this book he provides a penetrating analysis of the intellectual errors responsible for many theoretical and social difficulties: the substitution of scientism for true science and the use of scientistic rather than truly scientific method...
...The worst treatment comes from Don A. Schanche of the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper that in my view is about the best in the country these days...
...The FBI agent--a Mr...
...Vermcetsch, as Nields tried to cut him off...
...Now consider the New York Times: S/65 The Counter-Revolution of Science Studies on the Abuse of Reason by E A. Hayek "Never will the mind of man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success," says Nobel Laureate E A. Hayek...
...At a lunchtime press conference on the stairs of the federal courthouse, .Judith Clark, oncofthebreak-invictims, denounced both the defense and prosecution in the case...
...Vermeersch said...
...Nields asked...
...also cited "information in the (FBI) ill(" that Shreiberg had traveled to Paris during the (Vietnam War) peace talks, and the information was that she had mad(" a cash donation to the Provisional Revolutionary Government--the Viet Cong--as well as transferring documents to them...
...in the rubble of a Greenwich Village townhouse that was blown up as Weather Underground members tried to build bombs there...
...Hardcover $9.00, Paperback $4.00...
...Poor girl--or woman: The Inquisition forced feminine clothing on her thus exposing her to the lust of her jailers...
...in the rubble of a Greenwich Village townhouse that was blown up as Weather Underground members tried to build bombs there...
...A39 Indianapolis, Indiana 46250 The chief p'rosecutor, (Nields) asked Mr...
...Reynolds then said: "ABC News has learned that the Washington Post will report tomorrow that Zumwalt's accusation against Aaron is innaccurate...
...the workman who collects garbage will smell no sweeter even if it becomes compulsory to call him Philosopher King...
...The bureau was looking for clues tO the whereabouts of her sister, Bernardine, for whom an arrest warrant had been issued...
...The New York Times account simply describes the exchange between the two, notes that the two fugitives were not located as a result of the break-ins, and says, "Miss Dohrn had not been formally accused of any crime and no warrant had been issued for her arrest, Mr...
...Absolutely not," Vermeersch responded...
...The government is queasy about the trial because delicate secrets--as they say--may emerge, and this prompts long whispered conversations between the judge and THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1980 31 the lawyers...
...Hardcover $9.00, Paperback $4.00...
...Did you have a search warrant...
...Now consider the New York Times: S/65 The Counter-Revolution of Science Studies on the Abuse of Reason by E A. Hayek "Never will the mind of man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success," says Nobel Laureate E A. Hayek...
...Iraq did not adopt the "human rights" solution so dear to the hearts of Carter loyalists (according to which the followers of tile Ayatollah get full civil liberties, are not subjected to tear gas or arrest, and are encouraged to form political parties), and invaded Iran...
...Q: Did you have the consent of any occupant ? A: No, of course not...
...On September 23, an FBI agent who worked for the two confirmed that he had "surreptitiously entered" various New York apartments in an effort to apprehend two fugitives, wanted for bombings in Washington...
...Vermeersch--was asked about the break-ins...
...It is hard to resist the conclusion that feminists either hate their feminity or smart under their lack of feminine comeliness--unhealthy situations both...
...This was a surreptitious entry...
...Vermeersch these questions about a break-in at the Brooklyn apartment of .jennifer Dohrn, the sister of a leading Weatherman fugitive: Q: Did you have a search warrant...
...As you can see, quite a discrepancy...
...A few pages later, though, our authors go back even on their "late teens" deadline and cite with approval a reference to "young women in the thirteen-to-sixteen-year age-group...
...This seems simple enough, but American journalists preferred to "go academic" and offer learned sermons on sixteenth-century conflicts Michael Ledeen is Executive Editor of the Washington Quarterly...
...To order this book, or for a copy of our catalog, write: LibertyPress/LibertyClassics 7440 North Shadeland, Dept...
...Professor Hayek shows how the use of scientistic methods has undermined the study of society while sowing the seeds of the tyranny of social engineering and the totalitarian state...
...No news story at all...
...Los Angeles Timesman Ronald J. Ostrow thinks the apartment belonged to Shreiberg, while New York Timesman Robert Pear thinks it was Dohrn's place...
...A: Oh, no...
...Shame on you, Frank Reynolds...
...No, as the Los Angeles Times' account spells out: Schreiberg was not wanted for a crime, Vermccrsch said...
...These break-ins took place without benefit of search warrant, and of course without advising the owners of the apartments in question...
...The Post-along with just about every other paper following the "Stealth" story --carried a White House denial of Zumwalt's charges...
...To sum up: The Los Angeles Times gave us the full--and accurate-account, including the reasons for the break-ins, and the reaction of the defendants...
...Just a denial from Aaron's colleagues and friends...
...Is that all...
...Absolutely not," Vermeersch said...
...But i f " g i r l " applied to a person of nineteen or more is indeed something that makes red blood boil (blue blood, clearly, is immune to this demotic disorder)--if, in other words, it is an insult, an indecency, why is it all right for friends and kinfolk to use such filthy language to a woman of twenty...
...But I did not see this written anywhere, at least in the first week of fighting...
...That a female could remain much longer like unto the lilies of the field--having, perhaps, to spin a little, but, with luck, not toil at all--was, and still can be, a piece of good fortune for the loss of which the title "woman," with its real or implied responsibilities, is hardly adequate compensation...
...Is that all...
...Clearly, this is the same kind of upgrading that turns Undertakers into funeral directors, garbage collectors into sanitation workers, maids into household technicians--in other words, part of that self-serving, unrealistic procedure that tries to exalt the humdrum, and thus contributes to the confusion of meanings, debasement of values, and erosicm of notions of excellence...
...Yet if women consider themselves included under "actors" and "Sculptors," why do they feel excluded by "everyman" or "journeyman" or other such no longer masculine endings ? Contradictions proliferate...
...The New York Times account simply describes the exchange between the two, notes that the two fugitives were not located as a result of the break-ins, and says, "Miss Dohrn had not been formally accused of any crime and no warrant had been issued for her arrest, Mr...
...Laundress is presumably unacceptable because of the feminine ending...
...Here is what the Los Angeles Times bad to say: ?9 . . Vermeersch seemed taken aback when Nields asked what legal authority he had to enter the apartment of Frances Schreiberg, a lawyer with ties to Jennifer Dohrn, sister of Weather Underground Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn...
...Los Angeles Timesman Ronald J. Ostrow thinks the apartment belonged to Shreiberg, while New York Timesman Robert Pear thinks it was Dohrn's place...
...The New York Times just gave us a "formula" story: FBI breaks into an apartment illegally...
...Inconsistency is everywhere...
...These two unfortunate gentlemen are accused of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the Weathermen some years ago, and the trial has...
...The feminine ending -ess is not acceptable to women who, it seems, must be called actors and sculptors, not actresses and sculptresses...
...One would have hoped that at some point, the American analysts would have noticed that none of this happened when the Shah was in power, and speculated that perhaps Carter's foreign policy was in some way related to the new catastrophe...
...And all this for a chimera...
...This doctrine, preached from the mosques and radios oflran ever since February 1979, had taken concrete form in Iraq, where Khomeini had explicitly called upon the local Shi'ites--more than half the population--to overthrow the regime of President Assad...
...But he added that an item of hers had becn found in March, 1970...
...Vermeersch--was asked about the break-ins...
...S[INNI DAYS by Michael Ledeen Everyone's favorite ayatollah suddenly found that there are rulers in the Middle East that do not take kindly to calls for their removal...
...Inaccuracy in Media: The award for worst one-liner of the month goes to Frank Reynolds of ABC Television News, who on the night of 16 September reported that Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, former chief of naval operations (and now in the Reagan organization) accused David Aaron of the National Security Council staff of leaking the story of the "Stealth Bomber" to the Washington Post...
...The FBI in Peace and War: If you want to learn how the American press really works, follow the accounts of the trial of former FBI officials Felt and Miller, at this writing under way in Washington, D.C...
...Did you have Fran Shreiberg's consent...
...And the emphasis of Vermeersch's reply is quite different in the two accounts: Ostrow portrays the FBI official as indignant that anyone would believe he had confused surreptitious entry with a legal search, while Pear paints Vermeersch as rather sullen and almost reticent...
...You have to be pretty monomaniacal and tone-deaf to ignore the ugliness of repairer and of the erer in launderer...
...Got it...
...Please allow four to six weeks for delivery...
...This was a surreptitious entry...
...Professor Hayek shows how the use of scientistic methods has undermined the study of society while sowing the seeds of the tyranny of social engineering and the totalitarian state...
...Goddess" is not only permissible, however, but may indeed become preferable to the Christian God with his chauvinistic maleness...
...A: Oh, no...
...attracted considerable interest because they are threatening to "tell all": that is, explain why the FBI felt the Weathermen were a serious threat, and had to be kept under unusually close surveillance...
...To order this book, or for a copy of our catalog, write: LibertyPress/LibertyClassics 7440 North Shadeland, Dept...
...Please allow four to six weeks for delivery...
...The trial should be a long one...
...On September 23, an FBI agent who worked for the two confirmed that he had "surreptitiously entered" various New York apartments in an effort to apprehend two fugitives, wanted for bombings in Washington...
...The New York Times just gave us a "formula" story: FBI breaks into an apartment illegally...
...Finally, Miller, Swift, and their likes have no sense of euphony, of the sound words make..They wonder what is wrong with "repairer" for repairman and "launderer" for laundryman...
...The FBI agent--a Mr...
...Nields asked...
...This scholar gave us the bread-andcircuses theory of history: "Both nations have the same urgent need to divert attention from devastating domestic problems, so they make war . . . . But Iraq had extra reasons, so it started the war...
...In other words, the FBI was looking for Bernardine, and entered her sister's apartment to find something .out about Bernardine's whereabouts...
...These break-ins took place without benefit of search warrant, and of course without advising the owners of the apartments in question...
...Wrong...
...Nields asked...
Vol. 13 • November 1980 • No. 11
