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trumped-up charge of "interfering with a flight crew." The Right Reverend Edmond Lee Browning was installed as the 24th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in ceremonies which clinched that...
...Handal, while traveling through the United States some years ago to garner support from the elegant left, found it disagreeable to be too long in the company of these "educated people...
...This land—and not the public park—is what Judge Griesa was talking about when he said a "development" should not be getting federal highway funds...
...In each of the last four years Mr...
...MX Futures Mr...
...However, terminal defense, which is land-based, can effectively defend our retaliatory ICBMs and strategic centers ("point defense") against a first-strike and thus provide a credible defensive deterrent right now, with already existing anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems ready for early deployment...
...Foreign service personnel, that's who...
...Stephen R. Fahey Arlington, Virginia Query "The Gargoyle Years...
...The reason it was put offshore was to avoid razing residential neighborhoods...
...Its crucial contribution is to posit the thesis that the transition from offensive deterrence to the multi-layered defensive deterrence envisioned by the SDI will extend over decades and that, consequently, the maintenance in the interim of a survivable ICBM offensive deterrent force "will remain a fundamental requirement of American policy throughout the rest of the century" as an integral element of a combined offensive-defensive strategy...
...Lord cogently argues that the MX is an indispensable component of our retaliatory deterrent force to a Russian first-strike and that both MX and Minuteman ICBMs can now be adequately defended by both passive and active measures...
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...In the end, however, Westway was not done in by environmentalists, although environmental lawsuits did delay Westway long enough for the neighboring state of New Jersey to get wise to the highway land hustle on the New York side of the river...
...Stein: What would a tax increase do to many Americans...
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...No offense to Dieter who is doubt-less as personally ambitious, well-dressed, and anxious for good grades as any Manhattan yuppie, but that remark sounds less like a conversion to conservatism than the first step on the "long march through the institutions...
...But the park was only thin public icing on a thick private cake...
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...About 160 acres of commercially valuable land would also have been created by Westway...
...Paul Zisserson Cranston, Rhode Island Herbert Stein replies: My difference with Mr...
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...The private developers who backed Westway understandably preferred to get the money from federal highway funds and not by borrowing it from a bank...
...Perhaps Hollander is stumped because, constrained by principle as well as by the limits of empirical analysis, he dare not carry his explanation any further than his rather shopworn references to self-delusion and utopianism...
...The underground highway, was not conceived to produce a landfill...
...Moreover, a considerable part of our marginal income has gone to pay our children's tuition at a private religious day school...
...You do have so many other interesting views and ideas which I like to share here in the Middle East...
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...Anthony Scott New York, New York William nicker replies: The argument that Westway was a plot by developers is one of the most scurrilous arguments of the whole episode...
...Its December offering includes five•tasteless references to the recently deceased, three of which I find completely gratuitous, plus a sickening attempt to find humor in an apparently blameless man having his hand destroyed by a shark...
...I've come to understand that mass movements are short-term and at best can attain only partial success...
...The Lower West Side of Manhattan was going to be redeveloped whether Westway was built or not...
...I offer this autobiographical material not as self-indulgent therapy...
...Stein's hypothetical tax in-crease from 20 to 22 percent of national income) would mean, roughly, a loss of $600 to me...
...Plus an impressive pool of talented young writers...
...To hear Tucker tell it, the "environmentaloids" nibbled this superhighway to death with their sentimental concerns over striped bass and air pollution...
...They were worried the landfill would cause flooding, and were not reassured by Tucker's silly argument that the ocean has room for the water (the real question was whether the river has room enough between its banks...
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...Consistently, the Western press refuses such opportunities...
...If we would have the capability with a successful defense, of negating Soviet missiles or re-entry vehicles in the first place, why use them to protect offensive negators...
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...an ambulance finally arrived to take the beast to a hospital, where it was reported to be in "stable condition...
...And that's as far as any explanation can go: the phenomenon is a symptom of moral failings, and nothing is more characteristic of immorality than its attraction to the lie—whence the puzzling in-crease of attraction to the Soviet Union even as its failures and falsehoods and horrors become patent...
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...I may try it for a while longer," says Joe with a grin...
...The Continuing Crisis" continues to offend me on the opposite extreme...
...Exposed to the light of reason, Westway began to shrivel...
...The first was that the word "conservative" was used to mean a number of quite different things—including (a) politically conservative, (b) personally ambitious, (c) self-centered, (d) anxious for good grades, and (e) discreet in dress and behavior...
...But when we break down the figures for the "established parties," what do we find but the largest segment of sup-port, 38 percent in fact, going to the Social Democrats—now much more leftist than in the halcyon days of Helmut Schmidt...
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...Bethell interested, he would realize that the possibility exists for the West to influence political and economic events in Islamic countries by reaching out to our common ideas...
...They pay less attention to it and the many good ideas that it conveys...
...The Right Reverend Edmond Lee Browning was installed as the 24th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in ceremonies which clinched that church's standing as the preeminent institution of the New Age...
...Bicker mourns the loss of public parkland that would have been built on landfill along the lower west side of Manhattan...
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...Consider Shafik Handal, the Communist leader of El Salvador's FSLN insurgency...
...2) that at Geneva, the U.S...
...As a result, he fails to under-stand that Muslim political theorists can borrow from the American experience—especially since many of the liberal democratic experiments per-formed in America and the free market economics most closely followed in America are enjoined by the Quran or permitted by it...
...We stand apart from the reigning critical "establishments"—their jargon, their squabbles, and their pet causes...
...Bethell has lost all credibility...
...Indeed some of the examples, if they really indicated a trend, would be deeply worrying...
...But their status has to be very clearly realized...
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...An even more remarkable advanced ABM was successfully tested in June 1984 and will soon enter production...
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...Several New Jersey mayors joined the anti Westway action...
...Try it for three weeks...
...Offensive missions other than attacking Soviet ICBMs are apparently, from Lord's analysis, already adequately per-formable by our submarines and bombers...
...thinking that made Westway supporters their own worst enemies and helped to send this ridiculous boondoggle to a well-deserved grave...
...Lord asks pertinently, "Why not begin, then, with a terminal layer designed to protect Minuteman, MX, and perhaps other critical military targets...
...Conservatives, shocked by socialist subsidies to capitalist developers, jumped on the bandwagon...
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...Adding up the support'for the Greens and the SPD, we discover that 63 percent of West German youths now support parties committed to radical leftist values...
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...46 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 It is Dr...
...Lord's argument of active defense of U. S. MX ICBMs in order to preserve them for the Soviet ICBM-killer role necessitates a successful SDI system of ICBM killers in the first place, rendering unnecessary ICBM killers of an offensive nature which are replete with problems of early launch, empty holes, and other ambiguities of targeting...
...As for the "explanation" of the phenomenon—that, I think, belongs to the work of imaginative literature, wherein is the best chance to explain moral imbecility without stumbling into an imbecile moralism...
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...For instance, Dieter Wulf, a 24-year-old psychology student at The Free University in Berlin "who had been deeply involved in the campaign against the missiles," delivered himself of this opinion: "I decided this year that I didn't want to be a peace bureaucrat...
...Bethell's rather derogatory view of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee conference misses another important point...
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...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 47) The idea of extra-legal mullah classes is peculiar to Shia Islam and even then is the exception in theory...
...Lord then borrows on the President's SDI strategy to suggest that MX be actively defended by multiple layers of defensive systems—which are also negators or killers of Soviet ICBMs (and submarine launched missiles...
...In a diary found among captured documents, Handal calls them "rogues" beset with "a lot of personal problems...
...Westway, a four-mile highway, would have cost at least three billion dollars...
...Now the opportunity exists for them to get some real action going...
...As one major developer told the New York Post the day after Westway died: "The major real estate guys in town shed personal tears over the loss of Westway because they felt it was important from a business point of view...
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...In doing so, the column proved mightily offensive...
...It is only by adopting the offensive-defensive -strategy outlined by Dr...
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...was attended by "blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, American Indians, visually and hearing-handicapped persons, youths and senior citizens...
...The second misleading point was the hard scientific evidence of German opinion...
...Elias M. Schwartzbart UN Correspondent, Freedom at Issue Freedom House New York, New York Reactions to Bethel) Tom Bethell's recent column "Arabesque" in your November 1985 issue failed to complete the circle...
...Why not simply use these same defensive weapons and the many more defensive missiles or RV killers we can buy with the funds we would otherwise spend for the offensive negators and protect the nation's value even better...
...Maybe Mysak can write about Bond Buying, of all things, but should he try to write about any other subject, someone should be at hand to break his pencils or unplug his word processor...
...So clearly, from my perspective, spending reductions, not tax increases, are the only reasonable alternative...
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...I usually admire William Tucker's work, but his article on Westway ("Westway Story," TAS, January 1986) represents the kind of...
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...The reason for all the befuddlement, I think, is that the only adequate ex-planation centers on morality, which is out of range of the rationalist optic...
...Now, there is nothing at all wrong with quotes and anecdotes in news reports...
...Zisserson relates almost entirely to one part of one sentence: "there is no reason to assume that he [the President] cannot muster support for defense over domestic spending...
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...Don't Raise Taxes First, to praise Herbert Stein ("Raise Taxes," TAS, December 1985...
...Steven T Thomas Manama, Bahrain In his January entry under "Capitol Ideas," Tom Bethell remarks that he is aware of "absolutely no explanation" for the propensity of so many "educated people" in the West to align themselves with the Soviet slave state...
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...As such, his work is one of the earliest histories of the Gulag, wherein the Archipelago consisted of an entire nation to be punished...
...my emphasis)—thus providing the nation in short order with the first concrete development of an effective offensive-defensive strategy that will restore strategic stability, instead of waiting for the space-based defenses that are decades of research and development down the road while, in the meantime, leaving the nation defenseless against a Soviet first-strike...
...Clearly, negotiating the expenditure side of the budget within the confines of the present revenue sources results in much lower defense spending than the President has decided is needed...
...The answer is almost exactly that of the supply-siders whom Mr...
...Fire Captain Lou Furst praised the fireman's heroic action, although there was no word on how the missus took the news when Mr...
...My family's income has become higher since my wife has returned, part time, to the work force now that our children are in school all day...
...Presumably, negating Soviet warheads is a plus because Soviet weapons which are destroyed cannot be launched at us...
...Only MX will reliably threaten high-priority and extremely hard Soviet targets...
...They are illustrations rather than proofs...
...An opinion poll of young West Germans between the ages of 16 and 20 showed that 25 percent of them expressed sympathy for the radical Greens—but a much larger 71 percent sympathized with the established par-ties...
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...This land, and the new waterfront it would help to create, is what prompted real estate speculators to buy up adjacent property along the Westway route...
...He has now accepted a Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill that will almost certainly involve further defense cuts...
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...iWo New Jersey Congressmen, Frank Guarini and James Howard (who chairs a key committee), began to question the use of public highway money to fund a private land development scheme, and were joined in their opposition to Westway by New Jersey Senators Bradley and Lauteitberg...
...Hearings were held...
...The sticky part is the difficulty of combating immorality: it's hard to fight against others' moral failings without jeopardizing one of the principles in whose defense one takes up the fight: "Judge ye not . . . " (Matt...
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...And as often as not, they are lobbies of the well-off for their cousins overseas...
...Once the landfill was created, however, the city decided to use part of it as a park and sell part for commercial and residential development...
...The President has achieved some extraordinary accomplishments, and there is no reason to assume that he cannot muster support for defense over domestic spending...
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...In the Times story on West Germany's new conservative youngsters, two points were likely to mislead the in-cautious reader...
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...Missing from Tucker's biased report is a clear analysis of the real reasons why Westway was eventually opposed by both liberals and conservatives...
...But his proposal, a tax in-crease, is, with all due respect, an egregious solution to the nation's budgetary problems...
...CORRESPONDENCE '(continued from page 7) Trident submarine launched missile (the D-5 SLBM), stealth bombers, and cruise cannot perform this mission (an assumption that should draw much fire to Mr...
...The result is that those young Muslims in the East with access to the Western press find it offensive...
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...and (3) that simultaneously both sides agree to sharp staged reductions in offensive nuclear weapons with primary emphasis on reduction and ultimate elimination of first-strikecapable missiles...
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...They may be convinced (as I am) that an entire cultural tendency in the West is driven chiefly by arrogance, willful ignorance, and vanity—but those who oppose the tendency must often see their efforts hobbled by the very decency that they're trying to defend: their tradition tells them that they dare not pretend that they have windows to see through to the souls of others...
...Stein advocates, does there have to be an immediate concession in favor of wasteful and counterproductive domestic pro-grams at the expense of necessary in-creases in defense, or, to avoid the latter, go full speed ahead with tax in-creases...
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...The SDI projects three main layers of defense: the initial boost, the mid-course and terminal phases...
...In other words,the old Leninist categories or "useful idiot" and "left infantilism" are not sufficient explanation even for a Communist (or at least not for the kind who keeps a diary...
...My article also drew attention to the experts' warning of the very real danger of a sudden Soviet "break-out" of an already existing ABM system to defend their first-strike silos and command and control centers against a retaliatory strike, thus adding a defensive monopoly to their present offensive superiority and presenting us with the prospect of having to choose between destruction and surrender...
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...The in-consistency is evident...
...by deploying MXs in closely spaced silos, compounding the problems of "fratricide...
...If SDI works, Soviet missiles do not arrive on U. S. targets and who needs MX...
...Paul Hollander, who has chronicled the astonishing behavior of "political pilgrims" during this century, admits that he is stumped by their motivation, and he wonders vaguely why some people but not others are prone to the behavior...
...Carnes Lord's arguments, for MX are internally inconsistent and will never settle the MX question ("The MX in an Age of Defense," TAS, January 1986...
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...The MX strategy has not yet made such sense as evidenced by the resistance to acceptance in the Congress and the public forum...
...Passive defense can be greatly enhanced by such means as hardening the missile silos by as much as fifty times by a revolutionary technique to make them virtually in-vulnerable...
...Well, the ontology of it all eludes me as much as it does Tom Bethell, but some explanation of the phenomenon has been around for quite a while, nor is the phenomenon "fantastic"—although I would grant that it is very weird...
...I proposed: (1) that the U. S. deploy the 100 land-based ABMs permitted under the ABM treaty to defend the MX missiles to be emplaced...
...In 1985, after hard bargaining with the Congress, he accepted a budget that cut 1988 defense outlays 15 percent below his own proposal...
...Lord's call for providing for active defense of our ICBMs and command and control centers that links up the offensive-defensive strategy he pro-poses with the SDI...
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...A tax increase of 10 percent (according to Mr...
...And I suspect that the 1984 presidential election shows many others share my general feelings on the matter...
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...It was not reported whether any of them were Episcopalians...
...Assuming for debate's sake that advances in "superhardening" and recent "findings" on nuclear cratering effects (even though there have been no new nuclear craters in many years) are indeed real, Lord says that "the rationale for the MX or a missile like it remains compelling...
...The President's SDI strategy makes a great deal of sense...
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...Since we know there are such people as laid-back reactionaries and smartly dressed liberals, the fact that young West Germans now study hard and wear jackets and ties should not persuade us that U.S.-German friendship is safe and sound...
...If that's an improving trend, things must be even worse than we conservative pessimists thought...
...Frequently, these same lobbies are chock full of leftists and people who lack any common heritage with the people for whom the lobby was formed...
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...The main impact of the Westway park development is that it would have retarded development over the next ten years...
...Nelson got home...
...Many "educated people" in the West have an affinity for the Soviet Union because of nothing more (nor less) pro-found than their own arrogance, willful ignorance, and vanity...
...But Mr...
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...They can add life and color to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative...
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...A single anecdote or a clever quote does not in itself demonstrate the existence of a trend...
...This was interpreted by various "experts" to show a "stabilization" of radical values, some persistence of older leftist views from the seventies, perhaps a decline of radicalism, certainly no "extension" of it...
...Scott Nelson, a fireman in Irvine, California, hauled an unconscious eight-pound Chihuahua-terrier mutt from a burning airplane and gave it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for five minutes...
...Those who believe in (or at least are subliminally motivated by) the Western moral tradition are con-strained, in the particular instance, to judge only action, not intent...
...He therefore concludes that there is a need for MX as a negator or killer of Soviet ICBMs since he judges that the new (continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 7 either sexually or across ethnic lines—but he's just one of many cases in what sociologists are learning to call a major social trend toward middle American multi-ethnic bisexuality...
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