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...World peace demands international management, not national independence...

...November/December 1979] The New York Times A brief biographical note on one of the United States Congress's most revered statesmen, the Hon...

...Though completing the [Tellico] dam will destroy the fish in the Little Tennessee River, its only natural habitat, populations transplanted to other nearby rivers still survive...

...Had EDF's suit not delayed construction originally, the snail darter might have become extinct before anyone knew it existed...

...When it comes to the exercise of power, however, we are well advised to wash our hands of the matter...

...Who are we to condemn them ? Before our illustrious President undertakes to lecture the Russians on the finer points of Jefferson's shabby philosophy, let him ask who it was, after all, who saved Europe and the world from Napoleon and Hitler...

...Friends said I was crazy to place this ad...

...January 23, 19801 Mother Jones More gaseous pens~es from the estimable Doctor Drummond, M.D...

...But no statesman in these " f r e e " nations has the stomach or imagination to exercise power in any cause broader than the defense of his country's own boundaries...

...Myers had been at a party after swearing-in ceremonies and was wearing a gorilla mask at the time...

...Conversely, your reporters and editorial writers assume world peace to be equivalent to the preservation of national sovereignty...

...The American Social Health Association, located in California, is the only national voluntary health organization which deals strictly with venereal disease research, education, prevention, and control...

...Moslems are not massacring infidels...

...Allen Weinstein has written a book tided, simply, Perjury: One of the people honored and admired by those whom I have known for a generation bears a name that for years was a metaphor for malevolence and the sound of serpents...

...Brando, who feels the scene would convey a strong ecological message, will work two extra days, at no pay, if Shagan agrees to the new scene...

...March 6, 1980] The New York Times Dr...

...Thus far, our contribution to world peace consists largely of inept dictators, demagogues and kings who use our money to equip armies they cannot control...

...If they become successfully established, the key to their survival may well have been EDF's own lawsuit against Tellico Dam in the early 1970's, before discovery of the snail darter or passage of the Endangered Species Act...

...motel...

...His name, Alger Hiss, still stirs deep forebodings in some . . . . the non-heroes of our time have won: notably Richard Nixon, whose entire political career was taprooted to inflaming domestic fears of a nearly nonexistent American defection to Communism...

...Requests for completed manuscript on women & sports may be had by telephoning (203) 226-4560...

...Behind those solemn faces under their hard hats was a childlike glee at being able to play without any mommies around, for a while...

...In short, all adult fiction published in the past two years was written in the same old way about the same old stuff, with only slight variations on a theme...

...Only Russia seems to comprehend that the world must be managed . . . . This is not to say that modern democracies have no function in the world...

...No one can doubt that the U.S...

...February 8, 1980] Esquire A report on the astounding treachery of America's infamous elites from Mr...

...William Rodgers speaks his mind, as dogs howl in the night, garbage c a n s tip o v e r and roll clamorously and idiotically t h r o u g h empty alleyways...

...To pose the question: Is the sole responsibility of publishers to sustain socalled norms and status quo behavior in literature and to not permit any other type of same on the market...

...William Rodgers speaks of Alger, about whom Mr...

...For he subtitles his book "Travels in Gay America" but rarely mentions lesbians, or settled homosexual couples . . . . [February 3, 1980] The New York Post Stirring news of Marion Brando leaping to the cause of sorely oppressed amphibia: Superstar Marion Brando, who commands upwards of $2 million per picture, has agreed to put in some free time on his latest flick if the producer adds a scene featuring Brando and a drowning frog...

...We have labeled this state of affairs "freedom" and "national sovereignty," which, in our quaint effrontery, we equate with world peace...

...So do Japan, Germany and other modern democracies...

...No, I suspect that the men assigned to "fix it" were eager to banish the generative presence of humanity from the workplace where such a monstrosity could be created...

...If Soviet leaders have found an effective way to intervene in the squalid little sheikdoms and shahdoms along the Soviet Union's southern border, we should congratulate them, for it is our work they are doing...

...Hayakawa and Alan Cranston s e n d an u r g e n t "Dear Coll e a g u e " l e t t e r c o n t a i n i n g much u s e - ful i n f o r m a t i o n for t h e lively b o d i e s o f our government's u p p e r h o u s e : Dear Colleague: We wish to inform you of the VD NATIONAL HOTLINE, sponsored by the American Social Health Association...

...Then it required . . . . [March 1980] The New York Times Book Review Mr...

...possesses power...

...Graham Hughes, professor of law, introduces readers to another one of those novel points of the Liberal Mysteries: The charge that we coddle criminals and neglect victims is often heard as a cry from the hysterical right but it embodies a substantial, if distorted, truth...

...February 1, 1980] The Environmental Defense Letter The redoubtable newsletter of the Environmental Defense Fund provides vigilant nature lovers with still more evidence that even when the EDF has no idea what it is doing it is doing good: The snail darter's fate is still unclear...

...C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Harper's B A Mr...

...February/March 1980] Publishers Weekly The courageous and eloquent bull of a nascent Flaubert up from the locker room: PUBLISHERS/EDITORS...

...I said, maybe there is at least one publisher willing to take on a novel on women & sports, clearly not representative of the same old stuff, written in the same old way, and take the responsibility as well as offering the public something else to read...

...Richard Reeves, legendary sociologist: You see signs in the lives of young black males that America has reached a consensus on the unreachable and that narcotics are part of an unspoken policy of psychological genocide--an effective tactic when combined with colonialist tricks like finding and co-opting potentially dangerous young leadership, getting them to Harvard or the state assembly before they foment rebellion...

...Then, too, among the more odious victors was the celebrated superpatriot, and patron saint of law enforcement, J . Edgar Hoover, who died peacefully in his sleep in 1971 without ever having to answer for the humiliation, anxiety, violated rights, and deaths he and his agents inflicted on heaven knows how many citizens...

...Brando presented the offer to Steve Shagan, producer (and writer) of The Formula as he completed an l l.day shooting assignment on the set_ The corpulent actor, who's drawing $2.7 million for the part, asked Shagan to create a scene in which Brando's charact e r - - a money-hungry tycoon--rescues the drowning frog from a swimming pool...

...All but one had as the underlying theme of the work: heterosexuality...

...We are also good at running markets and factories...

...My agent has been circulating my novel on women & sports for the past few months with no takes...

...This HOTLINE is the only round-the-clock VD information and referral service providing toll-free epidemic intervention to callers from the 48 continental states...

...He has endured a prolonged injustice that was born in passions, sustained by fears, and aged by indifference...

...Hungarians are not killing Rumanians...

...And is it not equally obvious that the Soviet Union is the only country in the world possessing both the means and the will to exercise power...

...Paul Cowan, author of The Making of an Un-American, reviews a flawed masterpiece, which, nonetheless, is essential reading for the earnest inteltectualoid: If there were a truth-in-packaging taw for books, Edmund White's "States of Desire" would violate it...

...Consider, by contrast, the area for which Russia has assumed responsibility...

...January 22, 1980] The New York Review of Books Dr...

...But surely national sovereignty is a dead idea...

...What follows is not to be read near an open flame or in the presence of those suffering emphysema or vasomotor rhinitis: The work of men is so filled with soiling and the smearing of blood that it presumes the eventual cleaning up and caretaking by women~ even as it denigrates those "feminine" functions...

...Azerbaijani are not butchering Armenians...

...George Yaney, professor of history at the University of Maryland, dares to speak out on behalf of freedom, justice, and the Soviet way: To the Editor: Your coverage of recent events in Afghanistan rests entirely on the presumption that the U.S.S.R...

...Russians do their work crudely, but they do their work...

...is endangering world peace by violating Afghanistan's sovereignty...

...It was rational and humane to evacuate pregnant women and young children from the Three Mile Island vicinity, but we shouldn't necessarily ascribe these qualities to the officials there--since it would have been rational and humane to evacuate everyone...

...First, victims frighten us...

...No one can match us in quality control and the interchangeability of parts...

...Criminals do get a lot more attention than their victims for many reasons...

...February 7, 1980] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1980 37...

...We are very good at rhetoric, and we should continue to supply the world with words and dreams...

...Is it not obvious by now that world management requires the effective use of power...

...I have read nearly 1000 reviews of adult fiction during the past two years...

...He pleaded "no contest" to charges that he beat a waitress and a security guard at an Arlington, Va...

...It took Watergate, Spiro Agnew, corporate corruption on a worldwide scale, the Pentagon Papers, and the Vietnam war to open the taps of vindication...

...and mainstream society representative of reality...

...Michael O. Myers: Mr...

...To date, no adult fiction on women & sports and their life-style appears on the market...

...Myers had one brush with the law after being elected to Congress the second time...

...Why this ad...

...November 19791 The United S t a t e s Senate S e n a t o r s S.I...

...From my observations that seems to be true...

...Life there is far from perfect, but peace they have...

...the status quo as norm...

...The work is witty, humorous, very Feminist, revealing of the life-style of women athletes, clearly not representative of one kind of status quo reality, and written with a zest that is typical of women athletes...