Correspondence
Telegraph put a picture of the battered Kennedy vehicle on page one. The National Centers for Disease Control announced that at least 95 people were electrocuted in U.S. bathtubs...
...They avoid union organizers, social and welfare workers, and all "the meddlers whose activities are guaranteed (and intended) to make the individual more dependent on the state...
...James D. Williams Director, Communications National Urban League, Inc...
...I only wish that Bethell could have explained in more detail why Speaker O'Neill did not follow his own political judgment to kill the bill on first reading but allowed the dominant judgment of the congressional Democratic leadership to prevail...
...Leonard P. Liggio President, Institute for Humane Studies Menlo Park, California Correction I have discovered an unfortunate error in my review of Edward Banfield's book, The Democratic Muse (TAS, September 1984...
...Simmons NAACP Washington Bureau Director NAACP National Board of Directors John Jacob National Urban League President Mildred Love National Urban League Vice President James Williams National Director of Public Relations While the damage has been done and nothing will ever set matters right, I must raise serious objections to the lack of accuracy in the article, "Black Family Agonistes," that appeared in the July issue of your magazine...
...This was an example of successful and highly motivated black people coming together at their own expense to mobilize their own communities for the common good of all...
...A true gold standard does not require the "right price" for gold...
...As I write from Silicon Valley, the local head of the INS is about to be sent to some far assignment (as he should be) for telling employers "that approximately 20 percent of the people employed t, in the world's most productive and technologically advanced spot are illegally employed and should be sent back home immediately...
...Tucker seems to regard this as being un-American and somehow very wrong...
...The role of the AFLCIO would figt/re large in that judgment...
...This was a meeting of representatives of national black membership organizations who answered a call from the National , Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League to devise strategies and programs which the black community itself could implement to address the problems facing a large number of black families...
...The question Mr...
...Thomas Main New York, New York THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 7...
...To set the Summit in its correct perspective, it is first necessary to know what it was all about...
...Bethell has made a clear and decisive contribution to understanding the political climate dominated by the "right-thinking" section of the public when he explains why they want to "gain control~" So long as the immigrants are "Out of control" (illegal) they are hardworking, tax-paying, well-behaved people--avoiding all entanglements with the law, positive or negative...
...Finally, a New York State appeals court rejected a nightclub operator's claim that "recreational dancing is a form of expression" protected by the First Amendment--a benighted finding when one recalls that years ago the Warren Court held that dancing buck naked is a sacred First Amendment right...
...That a magazine would publish in this day and age such a blatantly racist diatribe against a segment of American citizenry--replete with similarly disgusting illustrations--is a good reminder that racism is not only alive and flourishing in America, but it is also on the rise and showing its ugly self as boldly as it once did in earlier periods of our history...
...Finally, changes in the price of gold don't cause inflation or deflation, nor do such changes cause recessions-unless, of course, you believe that thermometers cause fever . . . . --Lannon Stafford Phoenix, Arizona From the Summit Is this 1984 or 18847 This is the question that one must ask upon reading William Tucker's "Black Family Agonistes" in the July issue of The American Spectator...
...His every action seemed to bespeak a feeling that because we were black, we were his inferiors . . . . But let's move past these personal observations and reach the point of real concern--the odious manner in which the meaning and intent of the Summit were distorted...
...New York, New York cc: Denton Watson NAACP, Director, Public Relations Mildred Love Vice President, League National Urban Simpson-Mazzoli Tom Bethell's August "Capitol Ideas" column entitled "What Immigration Crisis...
...A given measure of gold (ounce, gram, or whatever) is the reality of the monetary standard, and any paper receipts issued for it must be related clearly to the corresponding amount of gold...
...Moreover, remember that all the Founding Fathers were avid dancers, particularly Daniel of St...
...Why then would Mr...
...Fossedal appeared to be answering is "What is the proper price of the paper we want to issue...
...Tucker comment that they "spent a lot of time playing at being oppressed...
...RET C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Gold Watch "The Price of Gold" by Gregory A. Fossedal (TAS, July 1984) was a rather astonishing recital of how the gold standard works--or how Mr...
...There are so many other things that are off-key in the article, that there really is no point in examining it any further...
...His attitude toward my staff and the participants was condescending and patronizing...
...The idea that "the gold standard is simply a rule that tells the Fed when to lower the interest rates and when to raise them" is truly astounding, since the actual effects of actual gold standards historically have been to limit the amount of currency and spending through the outflow of gold from the public reserves...
...Signs of political reaction continue to proliferate...
...Lousy question, since we shouldn't be issuing government paper that looks like money, anyway...
...Thomas Jenifer who brought the rumba to the United States in a small earthen jar...
...is the best analysis of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill that I have seen...
...I apologize to the author and to any readers who were misled...
...But you might want to consider that out of the many articles written by the more than 50 journalists who attended the Summit, the Tucker piece was the only one that took this destructive approach...
...Banfield's book deals with the policies of the National Endowment for the Arts, not with the National Endowment for the Humanities as I mistakenly said...
...In St...
...Most certainly they did stress the need for blacks to keep their own identity while becoming part of the mainstream, and no apology needs to be made...
...The free market historically did a far better job--let the free market do it again...
...Obviously, this is the type of article that your publication wanted to receive and fairness is of no concern to you...
...The article is indicative of the type of sick mentality which continues to hold the victims of oppression responsible for their unfortunate condition of poverty . . . . --Denton L. Watson Director, Public Relations NAACP Brooklyn, New York cc: Benjamin L. Hooks NAACP Executive Director Althea T.L...
...Paul, Minnesota, U.S...
...Since I was the director of the press room for the Black Family Summit, I am in a position to report that William Tucker came to the Summit as a stranger to the black experience in America, and left the same way...
...Victims ranged in age from 5 months to 52 years among males and 1 to 76 years among females, suggesting that men learn to use these advanced instruments earlier in life--a finding that will not go down well amongst feminists desirous of seeing more women employed in heavy industry...
...bathtubs between 1979 and 1982, more than half of whom died while using electric hair dryers...
...It was a distorted, biased, and racist view of the Black Family Summit that was further inflamed by the odious and demeaning illustrations accompanying it...
...However, Mr...
...Magistrate Brian Short rebuffed yet another idealistic thrust at the infamous McDonald's hamburger chain when he dismissed as "clearly frivolous" a $5 million suit...
...The absurd suit charged McDonald's with false advertising for claiming to have sold approximately 40 billion scrumptious patties of protein...
...Fossedal thinks it works...
Vol. 17 • October 1984 • No. 10
