Editorial / Toward Opposition? / A Death in a Hospital

Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.

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...It isn't likely to work any better now that Moscow has g r e a t e r m i l i t a r y strength than it did in the 1920s . . ." (Flora Lewis, NYT) On the very same day, April 1, Vitally Korionov wrote an article entitled " U s e l e s s P l o y " in Pravda which included the following: It is characteristic that warnings of the inevitable failure of Washington's present political "strategy" are being voiced increasingly loudly even in U.S...
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...Tang was a founding member of the National Liberation Front and later the minister of justice in the Provisional Revolutionary Government for South Vietnam...
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...One after another bourgeois press organs are beginning to write that the U S. economy, undermined by colossal military spending, is reaching an impasse...
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...Nor have I heard them condemn the condition of human life in Poland and Afghanistan...
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...The neoconservatives have been a formidable force in a r t i c u l a t i n g the views of this cons t i t u e n c y . But carrying out their wishes would make the Democrats and t h e i r friends in the media irritable, and so the pragmatic Republicans have labored to turn Ronaid Reagan into Gerald Ford...
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...A DEATH IN A HOSPITAL The destruction of human life...
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...Thus, discussing the administrauofl's attempt to blackmail the Soviet Union with an expensive arms race, the New Yvrk Times wrote in an editorial"The American economy will not bear the burden required to maintain this race...
...But even if they could and did bear it, Korionov pointed out, in harmony with" Flora Lewis: "There are no forces in the world capable of deflecting our party from its general course, whose motto has been and remains: Everything for man., everything in the name of man...
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...There you are--some authentic Soviet propaganda at the end there...
...But upon Hanoi's capture of South Vietnam in 1975, Mr...
...They have pretty successflllly isolated him from his former allies, and the),, want him to u t t e r no a g i t a t i n g t h o u g h t s about "getting t h e government off our b a c k s " or " s t r e n g t h e n i n g our defenses...
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...Nonetheless, in the West the democracies cherish life, and last month our left-wing b r e t h r e n ob(continued on page 43) 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR .JUNE 1982 and hatred for Nguyen Ngoc Huy . . . . --Le Mirth True Thuc Tinh Magazine Los Angeles, California Stephen B. Young replies: I was amused to note that the Vietnamese who responded to my article on Vietnamese nationalist leadership are both supporters of Truong Nhu Tang, one of the men I discussed in less than glowing terms...
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...doran " r e b e l s " have outside assistance, only to be turned down on the ground that "this could endanger the informants " "Everyone remembers very well that it is the United States that is constantly intervening in the affairs of Latin America and not 'Caucasians' at all," Pravda continued...
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...And now in a major piece in the New York Times Magazine he registers his alarm that the Administ r a t i o n ' s foreign policy has been amazingly weak, especially in respondihg to Poland, the Middle East, and Central America...
...Revolutions and even Marxist revolutionaries are not automatically proofofa vast Soviet-Cuban design," the Times concurred...
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...One can only hope that Vietnamese now in exile will realize that it is not in their interest to wait for a perfect leader to emerge but rather to cooperate with each other on points of mutual political agreement, an approach Professor Huy has long advocated...
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...I have watched the President become less and less the Ronald Reagan of Campaign '80 and more and more the captive of the Republicans of the furrowed brow...
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...Had he not been born a mongoloid would his parents have left this inconvenient child to die...
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...The people I have most rect.nrlv interviewed were once Democrats, too: though they were liberals in the 1970s they came THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR .JUNE 1982 5 to deplore the growth of tyranny in the world and the growth of statism at home...
...But the New York Times should know that a good deal of the so-called "Soviet propaganda" comes straight out of Western news media, not least from the New York Times itself...
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...Since 1798,' he pointed out, ' t h e United S t a t e s has c a r r i e d out 14 armed actions a g a i n s t Mexico, 13 against Cuba, 11 a g a i n s t Panam a . . . ' " Pravda added that "they are trying at all costs to convince ordinary Americans that [Sandinistas and Salvadoran terrorists are] under the orders of the Russians...
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...Maybe in their anxiety they are urging a dangerous policy d~ emarche, namely: freezing us into nuclear inferiority toward the USSR, the nation that has actually moved beyond nuclear warfare to chemical and biological warfare, the nation that adjudged Afghanistan a military t h r e a t , and the g r e a t power that is clearly most bellicose and paranoid...
...The newspaper Washington Post, commenting -on the r e p o r t . . . " " I n offering conclusions on the basis of half-digested evidence, the State Department risked placing itself in a false position...
...Tang became disillusioned with his former patrons...
...To date, he has not been very successful in attracting support among ~migr~ Vietnamese, though Mr...
...Tass triumphantly quoted the Council on Hemispheric Affairs deploring Reagan's use of "cold war language," and the Times likewise found that language "simple and puerile...
...Maybe the left-wing brethren are wrong to be so inflamed...
...W e l l , after a series of interviews with some of our amiable President's supporters from the-last campaign, it appears to me that many of them are snatching a line from the late AI Smith and taking a walk...
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...In the 1980 campaign Ronald Reagan led an amalgam of blue collar workers and traditional Republicans, all of whom favored increased American security, a revived economy, and an end to such liberal abominations as affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and quotas...
...This kind of politics proceeds from the assumption that even if o n e ' s leadership is not that acceptable, destroying the p r e s t i g e (uy tin) of others will bring one by default to potiticaLpower...
...This is what the New York Tames writes: the principal purpose of the White House's quick response to Brezbnev's statement, the newspaper n o t e s , is the f e a r t h a t t h e moratorium which he announced could find s u p p o r t and enthusiasm among public opinion in West Europe...
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...Yellow Rain: The Soviets defended themselves against charges of engaging in chemical w a r f a r e by citing Western news media r e p e a t e d l y , although not the New York Ttmes as far as 1 could see...
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...Both groups provided legitimacy for Hanoi's effort to conquer South Vietnam...
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...A living baby was starved for six days in an indiana hospital, and that state's courts agreed to let it starve to death...
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...State :courts and a local " c h i l d protection committee" stood by while p a r e n t s and their lawyer forced a hospital to starve a helpless baby...
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...Sadly, this approach to politics has always been selfd e f e a t i n g , and very d e s t r u c t i v e of Vietnamese nationalism...
...Moreover they would not even allow a lawyer who had argued for the infant's life in court and who had been appointed his guardian to take him in...
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...e m * * e e * * o o * o e o e * * e * u t * D * * e e e * o e o o * o EDITORIAL (continued from page 6) served "Ground Zero Week" to notify us of the peril that nuclear war poses to human life...
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...After all, they have not been particularly vocal in lamenting the destruction of human life that has gone on in Southeast Asia since the Communist reformers took charge, opened their concentration camps and their execution sites, and sent the boa~ people out to sea...
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...Gaydar: It is quite right, and these fears are appropriate because it seems to me that now that the Soviet Union has again provided a good solid basis for talks . . "The freeze movement people . . . want to put nuclear restraint back on the track, to give diplomacy, and peace, a chance...
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...He had Down's syndrome with a high statistical probability of variable retardation Lawyers concerned about the destruction of humanlife were on their way to Washington and to the Supreme Court when the child finally breathed his last...
...He then fled abroad and now, in cooperation with the Chinese Communists, is attempting to organize a political movement to replace the current Stalinist government in Hanoi...
...They have been called neoconservatives, and in 1980 they led a large contingent of conservative Democrats to vote for the p r e s e n t regime...
...Tang's conversion to a more just course and have helped him on occasion but we must still recognize that he took many years to break with Hanoi...
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