The Washington Spectator
Nathan, George Jean
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR Peter, Paul and Mary added their names this January to the rolls of the more than 3,000 "messengers" who have been arrested at the South African embassy on Massachusetts...
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...In the manner of young girls, their conversation was rapid-fire and giggly...
...Before Tutu spoke, Mary implored everyone to sing along with "Blowing in the Wind"—"even you in the press...
...said the first fellow, "what about these guys...
...Before the rally began, I disdained the perks and access allowed me as a highly respected member of the media community and situated myself instead in front of a group of school girls...
...It amounted to a broadside into Reaganism—"recrudescence of the acquisitive spirit . . . the rich . . . greed...
...He contributed to Commentary's 40th anniversary issue last November, to TAS's Christmas book section in 1983...
...Peter, Paul and Mary and several other celebrities —Pat Schroeder, the left-wing congressman from Colorado, Roger Wilkins from the Institute for Policy Studies, and the ubiquitous Mary Frances Berry of the U.S...
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...I moved to the back of the crowd, next to a young couple who looked like they were skipping classes at Georgetown...
...she said...
...One afternoon late last summer, not long after moving to Washington, I called the Kennedy Center to get tickets for a show...
...Already German and Austrian trade unions have met with representatives of the official Polish unions...
...They shouted belligerently at anyone who dared come between them and Tutu and interfere with the public's right to know...
...We are better than other citizens...
...A photographer behind me chuckled and in a sinister voice said, "You...
...Send resume to: Rev...
...The messengers got no response from inside the embassy, so they slowly walked to the parkway in front of us, arms intertwined, faces aglow, and began singing "We Shall Overcome": Paul, Peter and his daughter, the Unitarians, the rabbi, and in the middle, Mary's daughter, Mary's mother, and Mary, swaying her great body to and fro...
...As former president of both the largest Dutch labor organization and of the European Union Trade Federation, Kok is in the U.S...
...to study the "social effects" of "new technologies"--I take this to mean that organized labor in Europe is no less concerned about being displaced by high tech than is our own AFL-CIO...
...Break the ties/[clap-clap-clap]/With Apartheid...
...Civil Rights Commission—gathered round and bowed and shuffled in front of Tutu when he finally stepped out of the limo...
...On television...
...he shouted over his shoulder., "Then give me a kiss right here...
...Can I get my tickets, please...
...Then, distracted by a mother pushing a stroller, she cooed, "Oh, look at that baby...
...enter into "realistic discussion" with this new government on the future of the missiles...
...The author was none other than Joseph Kraft, writing in the May 1981 Commentary, in an article aptly titled, "The Imperial Media...
...she held him tight...
...To kick things off, the movement held a media event cum rally on a tree-lined side street half a block down from the embassy...
...and he threw his head back in a mighty grimace, bellowing, "Apartheid No...
...Hey Clarence," one of the shooters called over the traffic, "before you put them in the wagon turn 'em towards us so we can get a good shot, Parade 'em around for a little bit...
...One, about fourteen, admired another girl's sign, a broad, garish thing with an outline of South Africa on it...
...Apartheid No...
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...In the embassy driveway, another dozen or so cops stood waiting by the open doors of a paddy wagon...
...One by one the cops gently helped them, still singing, into the paddy wagon...
...That has got to be the cutest one I've seen," she said...
...They finally settled on a simple antiphony, probably because the white people present (they were majority here) had no trouble following it: "Freedom Yes...
...Bishop Desmond 'Ibtu showed up to give his blessing, which brought out scores of press people—as many press people, in fact, as protesters...
...Even the failure to restore the draft was aproduct of this "pervasive, corrosive" selfishness...
...For a piece of media-bashing that couldn't have come from Reed Irvine, read the following: My contention is that those of us in the media have developed a journalistic creed, an ideology of the First Amendment...
...bet, honey...
...The years have not been pleasant to the trio, especially Mary who, though she still sports the trademark Roman helmet of straight blond hair, has taken on a few extra wrinkles, or maybe laugh lines, and a few dozen extra pounds...
...Throughout all this the press photographers—the shooters—grew impatient...
...But none of it seemed to matter, finally, as I drove home from a friend's house after the Super Bowl...
...Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Catholic League, 1100 West Wells, Milwaukee, WI 53233...
...said another shooter...
...Bishop Tutu, as he is more widely known, arrived late, driving up the side street in the Mayor's motorcade from the back way, out of the crowd's view...
...He was supposed to lay out a liberal agenda for the 1980s...
...Sing it, you big fat pig...
...You see, it would be very difficult...
...There was a long silence after I gave the ticket agent my preferred date...
...Call it Kraft's fling with neoconservatism, an episode that passed unnoticed in the imperial media's obituaries of Kraft after his death on January 10...
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...The chant continued for a minute or two, until a frenetic climax...
...The day was bitter cold, but the girls were having a wonderful time...
...Would a center-left government do the same...
...It is so cute...
...She bent her knee slightly, taking him in as her right foot edged up the trunk of the tree...
...I'll love ya for life...
...said the shooter in front of me, his camera to his eye...
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...Des baby, where are y00000...
...The essence of our claim is that what we do is central to the health and survival of American society...
...Solidarnosc is finished...
...The messengers stepped off the bus and huddled round the door of the embassy...
...No...
...Candidates must have a firm commitment to the Catholic faith, to the civil rights of Catholics and the intestinal fortitude to de-fend those rights...
...By far...
...No, not directly...
...Of late he was particularly receptive to speaking invitations from the pristinely conservative Hillsdale College and its Shavano Institute...
...My own reasons for going were part personal, part professional, but mostly personal...
...As she belted out the songs she wagged her head and threw her body from side to side, while the other celebrities struggled to anchor themselves against the assault of her weight...
...Fulfilling a fantasy I've had since I first heard "Puff the Magic Dragon," I just wanted to see Peter, Paul and Mary get thrown in jail...
...You figure it out...
...What does Kok think of Reagan...
...So what's the first question thrown at him...
...Just get it over with...
...In 1984 he spoke at two Shavano gatherings...
...What do you care...
...After Tutu's remarks, which were witty and brief, there were some concluding chants, and then the messengers boarded a beat-up school bus marked "First Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church" and were driven the half-block to the embassy...
...Does this mean that like Mitterrand he would have met with Jaruzelski...
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...I see," she said crisply, and got me my tickets with a professional contempt...
...They stood on a platform before the clump of microphones where the bishop would speak...
...The girl leaned with her back against a tree, her boyfriend leaned against her...
...They each wore a green armband (some wore two) and most carried signs that read, "Jerry Falwell doesn't speak for me...
...He was the only liberal, in the words of former Shavano vice president John K. Andrews, Jr., "to take up the challenge to attend" Shavano's conference on moral equivalence in Washington last May The definitive biography of one of America's most accomplished yet least understood leaders This first volume examines Hoover's pre-public career, focusing on his rise to pre-eminence as an international mining engineer and businessman...
...the same event that inspired the likes of Anthony Lewis, Tom Wicker, and Michael Kinsley to dismiss as absurd the notion that American liberals tend to view U. S. behavior as no different from the USSR's...
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...Lunch at the National Press Club with Wim Kok, rising star of the Dutch Labor party, one-time confidant of Lech Walesa, and according to our host a future prime minister of the Netherlands...
...The girl with the sign was obviously pleased but only shrugged...
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...He would regard the election of a center-left government as a vote against the missiles...
...Not that it would have mattered...
...one photographer hollered...
...As is their wont, the protesters began chanting to pass the time: "Apartheid's wrong/Let's sweep it away./That's A-F-R [beat] I-C-A...
...Nash at $5.00 per , p filled as City --------------------received untmequantitiexhausted...
...On its back was stamped: "Liberation Graphix...
...Speaking of babies, where's Des baby...
...Increasingly one sees normalization...
...Bring him out, for Chrissake...
...I'm not as dumb as I look, asshole...
...Oh, sing it, mama...
...I enclose a chee k or money order...
...Oh come on, idiot," said a guy in front of me, holding his camera aloft...
...Another shouted, "Babies United Against Apartheid...
...Good...
...Kok's next stop: the United Nations...
...You can get them anywhere," she said...
...In Chicago, I was told, you could barely walk in the Loop, it was so crowded...
...once the song began Mary was the only thing you could hear...
...What the hell are you waiting for...
...Naturally, Kraft was pilloried by his audience, though not before he also remarked that "on the whole, I like what I see, very, very much...
...In Kok's view, the public has not yet been heard from on the matter...
...A cop with a bullhorn gave them one perfunctory warning, then another...
...Not really," I said, "but...
...The cops checked our press passes and allowed us to scramble up Massachusetts Avenue where we could watch the arrest from across the street...
...She chanted "Freedom Yes...
...Where was Tutu...
...They began giggling...
...It will be.televised...
...Yes," I said, "I am...
...Consequently, he would re-quest that the U.S...
...The empty streets were shiny in the rain, and an eerie silence fell...
...You're sure you can make it...
...Where was the action...
...Tutu eventually made his way through the crush of admirers, and as he emerged the cameramen came alive...
...We strongly imply that our claims come ahead of those of everybody else...
...THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR Peter, Paul and Mary added their names this January to the rolls of the more than 3,000 "messengers" who have been arrested at the South African embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Funny how much you can learn over lunch...
...Somebody had to be first...
...Illustrated...
...And though Kraft never again composed music of such sweetness, to his everlasting credit he remained a tolerant liberal, happy to do business with conservatives...
...Has he stayed in touch with Walesa...
...The cop gave him a blank look and turned around and patted his rear end...
...A fine actor, very good politician, but his economic policies will cause a recession by 1987...
...What about the missiles...
...No telephone calls please...
...They must have demonstrated ability to write per-suasively on popular and scholarly levels, and to speak effectively on controversial issues on the platform, radio and television...
...we have rights that are higher than those of the Congress, the executive branch, and even the courts...
...I caught up with him in Santa Barbara, where he appeared with William Rusher, Warren Brookes, and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn...
...Oh, yeah...
...State and zip THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 45...
...Sir," she said at last, "are you aware that the Redskins are playing the Dallas Cowboys that night...
...It was the first of many, increasingly irritating encounters with Redskins fans...
...Is Kok aware of growing sentiment in the U. S. for withdrawal from NATO...
...I heard a sharp intake of breath, followed by another pause, still longer than the first...
...You love me...
...Nobody's that dumb...
...Thus we are saying that what's good for the media is good for the United States...
...deficits . . . our children will pay," that sort of thing...
...Loud cheers and applause followed, and the boy wheeled around, pinned the girl against the tree, and kissed her deeply...
...You could hear their motor drives whirring in the cold...
...Several others—Peter's daughter, Mary's daughter, Mary's mother, a rabbi, and some Unitarians—went along for the ride...
...The ruling center-right government has already agreed to deploy 48 cruise missiles in 1988...
...He waves this off as preposterous...
...Still, the soft-spoken Kok is deadly serious: he is one fact-finder who has actually requested the help of the Congressional Research Service...
...Actually, I'm a Bears fan anyway...
...Paul Stookey said some words into the call box...
...That's reality...
...He sat in the limousine for several minutes, giving an exclusive interview to a reporter from the Post...
Vol. 19 • March 1986 • No. 3
