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organization. Throughout the month increasingly convincing reports linked former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, now a candidate for Austria's presidency, with Nazi war crimes. All charges...
...Senator Wallop's Old Right liberationism holds out the possibility of a perfect world...
...White ice floes slipped through black water...
...As for the military reform movement, I can say with positive assurance not only CIA but DoD and State have long been aware of the role the reform officers could play to facilitate a succession of power in the Philippines...
...The Soviets' forays abroad in those years, including the great venture in Spain between 1936 and 1938, may be likened to a well-disciplined army's elastic defense...
...He lectured me about the superiority of Marxist class analysis...
...In fact, the events between 1948 and 1955—events which the NATO intellectuals regard as unalloyed triumphs—convinced the Soviets that Western leaders did not have it in them to make use of a correlation of forces favorable to them, and that they might put up (continued on page 51) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 9 clined to find his foreign policy posturings ridiculous...
...No factories, no collective farms or Museums of Economic Achievement...
...About two weeks after "Fast Times at Dartmouth High" appeared, I got a call from her boyfriend...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) with a fundamental shift in that correlation...
...Helen Caldicott had been in Chernobyl at the time...
...This deserves to become the standard introduction to Chesterton...
...This literary technique, familiar to readers of C. S. Lewis and Montesquieu, was obviously lost on Hamby, who also called Ponomarev, a man with the power of a Paul Volcker and the longevity of a J. Edgar Hoover, a "minor Soviet functionary...
...All this is reminiscent of Gladwell's last article on Dartmouth, a review of Ben Hart's book Poisoned Ivy, in which he reeled off a catalog of totally false statistics seeking to prove that Dartmouth was not really an elite school...
...So why does such a magazine continue to feature so dry and solemn a youngster as Gladwell...
...When they struggle with one another they do it by charging each other with being too much like the people they collectively despise—their unsophisticated, anti-Communist, militarist fellow citizens...
...Malcolm Wallop United States Senator Washington, D.0 Alonzo L. Hamby replies: I regret that Senator Wallop's ego (understuffed, I had assumed) was offended by my attempt at humor in calling him one of a pack of "yelping cubs" that pounced upon the old lions...
...David T McLaughlin President, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Malcolm Gladwell seems to want to make a career of criticizing the Dart-mouth Review...
...Further, they had informed our military attaches of their plan a good week before the rebellion...
...But I don't...
...Having launched his attack at the level of "Nyaah, nyaah," Mr...
...Where's the monster...
...In short, the American foreign policy class's preoccupation at home has always been to defend itself against what it regards as socially inferior anti-Communist elements...
...The National Defense University held a conference on the military reform movement...
...For Philippine democracy to revitalize as we all wish, the US...
...When the US...
...CORRESPONDENCE : Making Way for Aquino In the April issue of TAS, Tom Bethell footnotes he was told of CIA involvement in anti-Marcos activity in the Philippines...
...Preserving the right to dissent and toexpress ones views is an essential aspect of liberal education...
...It pleased as much as it wounded...
...This seems to be the case with Glad-well...
...As for NAMFREL, I am unfamiliar with any involvement the CIA may have had...
...By the same token, it is only prudent to remember that the USSR perceives vital interests of its own, that it is the planet's good fortune that they do not overlap with ours, and that we may do more harm than good by challenging them...
...must see to it that this marriage is appreciated as one not of convenience, but necessity...
...John Zaccaro Jr., son of the forever-wronged Geraldine Ferraro, pleaded not guilty to yet another cocaine charge...
...Containment offers a messy, unpleasant world in which our major enemy will continue to exist, stirring up whatever trouble it can for us, and constantly attempting to expand its power and influence...
...Poor, poor Gladwell...
...And as to the question of whether the South can provide the model for a racially harmonious society, history will judge whether Willie Morris and I are wishful thinkers or whether Mr...
...By the time that verdict is rendered, the three of us will likely be past caring...
...suport publick skools Honest N. Taxpayer Award TO KEEP & BEAR HOWITZERS 52 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 to be an attack on the teenaged staff of the Dartmouth Review...
...While one building is restored, ten more deteriorate...
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...The next day we went sightseeing on the Intourist bus...
...Containment, then, was theoretically open to both offensive and static interpretations...
...California residents please add 6½''k sales tax...
...Only an ethical quadriplegic would believe that racism and "petty behavior" are moral problems of comparable dimensions...
...But then, we've never met and that, I'm sure, has a lot to do with it...
...We all love The American Spectator because it appreciates the horselaugh and the outrageous, because it refuses to be pompous and grave all the time, because it realizes that within all of us there is "a child that wants to play," as Nietzsche put it...
...He relates this alleged activity involved both the citizen watch-dog group that monitors elections (NAMFREL) and the military reform movement...
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...The problem of consent...
...Now I find that kind of touching...
...must en-courage them to continue the job should the squabbling factions that comprise people power cancel each other, to the advantage of the some-what dormant Communist insurgents...
...We are given a wide variety of highly readable and enjoyable selections from his nos els, essays, poetry, and apologetics...
...More significant, but less public, was the liaison through IMED, the International Military Exchange program...
...Since Vietnam, the U.S...
...military advisory group provided under mutual security agreements...
...To people steeped in class analysis this was catnip...
...And so farewell, brave foeman...
...The unseen American hand was sending a signal...
...Waldheim, though he did drop his campaign slogan, "The Man the World 'Busted...
...Poor Gladwell...
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...Sprucing up buildings can never be high on the list...
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...I called him Eric Ness...
...Let him think of himself as a "young lion...
...Fortunately, the message was received and understood...
...Yet I found his speech counterproductive in relation to his professed goals...
...The Goals of the 27th Party Congress Must Be Fulfilled...
...Across the river was the Peter-and-Paul Fortress where Dostoevsky was imprisoned and, some-one said, Bakunin convinced his jailers to become anarchists...
...It must be clearly stated that a real reform of the Church presupposes an unequivocal turning away from the erroneous paths whose catastrophic consequences are already incontestable...
...Graphics 125 Liberty St...
...When the NED was reported to have funneled $130,000 via a U.S...
...I said that he "calls himself the first black ever to write for the Review...
...They no longer served the "educational purpose' which was the college's pretext for allowing them to remain...
...The objectives of a foreign policy...
...Solzhenitsyn (blame it on Communism) dispute...
...At the end of the month the Simon Wiesenthal Center revealed that Mr...
...Ratzinger's forthright, measured criticism of certain forms of liberation theology, and his removal of the imprimatur from two widely read books in the U.S...
...Imagine my relief...
...To criticize those who defend the freedom of expression on a college campus and who condemn the use of violence to further one's cause is to lack an appreciation of the qualities that will contribute to roles of positive leadership and citizenship in a pluralistic society...
...Harkness wanted civility and temperate discourse, why did he come in swinging...
...Had I written that he was looking for a claw hammer and a ham sandwich, no doubt he would have me claiming that both were edible...
...Thatcher's neighbors...
...I: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies This first volume of Chesterton's writings contains three of his most influential and engaging works...
...It shrank further when the U.S., against de Gaulle's advice, let stand the Berlin wall and its message: Whatever anyone's preference the future belongs to us...
...Laura, see above...
...First: All of this prim tut-tutting about the "trajectory" of my language comes with an ill grace from a man who had, inter alia, compared the white population of the South...
...Thatcher was the only European leader to support the American bombing of Libya...
...Characteristically, Gladwell's article is riddled with errors...
...They were mostly Democrats, but have allowed Republicans to join so long as they had the proper ideas—especially if they controlled lots of money...
...If his reference to our "straight flush" is a euphemism for our short-lived atomic monopoly, does he think that more than a handful of Americans would ever have favored use of nuclear 1 LIBER TEES A collection of somewhat outrageous T-shirts All designs copyrighted by B.M.G...
...By the 1960s, the U.S...
...Mind you, T did misspell Erik Ness's name...
...Whether he's a moral quadriplegic or just a resilient Dixiecrat, who's to say...
...Was it true that Laura had sent them her letter...
...So the Review students obliged...
...James Harkness certainly got one thing right: he didn't change my mind, nor is it likely that I could ever change his...
...Last summer the notion was hot...
...When the condition no longer existed, the administration took steps to remove them...
...BET...
...They took away Janet Cooke's Pulitzer for less...
...It was rejected...
...Hamby basked in the aurora of the establishment's icon, the man he called his "lion," George Kennan, and then called me a "yelping cub" because I do not think much of that "lion...
...Or does he seriously think that Stalin and his successors would have obligingly acquiesced to our every demand without resistance...
...Every time I see Armand Hammer's name on a White House guest list, or see one or another of the architects of America's "victories" from the past generation appointed to a post whence he can help bring us more, I am reminded of that lecture...
...The Greniers kept asking Olga to translate the hortatory slogans on top of many buildings...
...Even after World War II and almost until his death, Stalin was convinced that the correlation of forces would favor Western "intervention...
...Herman Klenner, an East German professor who in February became vice chairman of the U.N...
...I like the Dart-mouth Review...
...They scurry to refute anyone who says so, because to say so is to blame them for negotiating badly, and to demand of them moves they do not wish to make...
...What on earth is Gladwell's point...
...They lose military superiority...
...The fact that twelve students at-tempted to shortcut the process by demolishing the shanties with sledge-hammers the day before they were to be removed voluntarily is not a case of mismanagement as you suggested, but rather misconduct...
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...Third: I have a certain appreciation for elegant invective, and some of Mr...
...By last spring both interagency optimists and pessimists agreed this "friendship" could be directly applied in two ways toward the U.S...
...warnings to Marcos together with rebel airpower nullified the threat to Enrile, Ramos, and people power...
...It would all have happened any-way even if Lenin had been strangled in his crib, let alone shot by Kerensky...
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...The gory annals of controversy furnish no precedent for a man being reduced to arguments from his antagonist's middle initials...
...But notwithstanding Alonzo Hamby's tablemates and the attraction they exert on young and old Candidate Members of the Establishment, that establishment cannot continue living on pretense...
...When I contemplate this arrogance, I recall a Soviet official who once replied to my warning that the American people would not stand for violated treaties...
...The dean of the college had in mid-November ordered the shanties down, but didn't dare to enforce his decree...
...I'm sorry, but it does have an effectto see this," Beichman said...
...All charges were denied by Mr...
...If Mr...
...And consider the curious tale of the fate of my article at the New Republic, which seems to serve no purpose above the purely malicious, and to draw attention to the fact that I have written for the New Republic and Miss Ingraham has not...
...and the anti-nuclear movement in the USSR received another boost on April 28 when calamity struck a nuclear power plant near historic Kiev...
...I r WELFARE ISO Very NOi N. Pry Nv Ywl HOLD THAT A LITTLE REBELLION NOW AND THEN IS A GOOD THING my wife -YES my dog -MA/BE my tun NEVER...
...I would say something about Miss Ingraham's comments on SAT scores and my own college if I understood them...
...The optimists held it could provide further leverage on Marcos to clean up his act...
...Chesterton's writings are so rich in good sense...
...When the shanties were constructed on the College Green, a conscious decision was made with the support of the faculty, students, and administration to leave the structures as an expression of opposition to the policies of apartheid...
...Malcolm Gladwell replies: Imagine how surprised I was to read Laura Ingraham's letter...
...Second: In his volcanic summation, Mr...
...Harkness has despaired too quickly...
...The shanties were taken down at Dartmouth to protest the imposition by a small radical group on the rest of the campus...
...I refer interested readers to his first letter and invite them to decide for themselves the pertinence of my reply, including my comment on his parallelism between racism and "petty behavior...
...The Senator's vision is less preferable only because it could well entail a pragmatic test of the thus far abstract theory of nuclear winter...
...Late in the campaign a reform officer was quoted in the Far...
...His influence has been enormous, and this volume spear-heads the great revival of interest in Chesterton's works...
...Here then is the essence of my remarks, which so upset the "NATO intellectuals": "Containment" is a method of mostly warless struggle which the Soviet Union practiced earlier and better than the U.S...
...As to the side issue of Comrade Ponomarev's importance, Soviet experts whom I have consulted disagree, but I doubt that any would argue that he occupied a role as central as that of Paul Volcker...
...Human Rights Commission, is a former card-carrying member of the Nazi party...
...Over the years the Pentagon knew many of the 1,500 or so reform officers as a byproduct of official contact: through JUSMAG for example, the U.S...
...He incorrectly spells the name of divestment activist Erik Ness...
...Thus when the Soviet Union was very weak, its leaders preached and practiced "Socialism in one country" and were willing to give up literally anything to safeguard that...
...One bullet could have changed history...
...foreign policy establishment...
...We should wish the peoples of Eastern Europe well, but the region at no point has constituted a vital interest, as does Western Europe or the Caribbean...
...to PLO hijackers...
...Gladwell makes much of the fact that the shanties were abandoned and thus the Review played into the hands of the left...
...in wit, and in plain, profound and cheerful truth that almost every page deserves a review to itself...
...All of this, I think, explains their very cohesive, very self-conscious reaction to the series of defeats that American foreign policy has suffered for a generation...
...What do the 35,000 students at the University of Toronto have to do to get Laura Ingraham's attention...
...Allentown, PA 18102 T-SHIRTS ARE GREAT GIFTS: weapons unless our very survival was at stake...
...I demurred, taking my cue from War and Peace (in which Tolstoy argues that Napoleon is insufficient to explain the Napoleonic Wars...
...Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister, was asked to vacate his apartment for fear that his mother's recent rash actions might have terrorist repercussions for Mr...
...Yet Mr...
...Diplomacy is the means by which a nation sees to its vital interests, not an ideological crusade, however despicable the ideology on the other side...
...Everything looks shabby in socialist countries because in the absence of property rights only top priority things get done (e.g., maintaining the military...
...Made on an occasion honoring George Kennan it seemed notably uncivil and had about the same effect on its audience as a barnyard item in the punchbowl...
...I chose to do it with the voice of Boris Ponomarev, until this year and for nearly half a century the guiding light of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee's International Department...
...Prices listed below include postage and handling within the U.S.A...
...Obviously having failed to understand a word of what I said, he passed his misunderstanding on to his readers...
...I had no idea lady-like behavior was on the ideological agenda of the Dartmouth Review...
...The Russian Revolution was too big an event to attribute to the genius, evil or otherwise, of one man...
...Hamby treats this fact, as did the NATO intellectuals, like the proverbial skunk at the garden party, whose presence can be conceded only theoretically, lest the gathering be spoiled...
...But this did not mean that Soviet leaders accepted this unfavorable correlation of forces for the long run...
...Dartmouth High Malcolm Gladwell's article "Fast Times at Dartmouth High" (TAS, April 1986) misses the entire lesson of the shanties...
...Even the New Republic admitted that the Review "has succeeded where countless tenured professors have failed, in stirring up animated debate on campus...
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...Ross now wants to upgrade to the plastic "elegance" of little Francophile weenie-stabbers...
...Overall, our tour was almost completely nonideological...
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...Building a shack is not "free speech" as the Founding Fathers in-tended it or by any other reasonable standard...
...She seemed not to enjoy furnishing us with these Communist commercial breaks...
...There are many fine eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings in the center of the city (the twentieth-century outskirts are unspeakable) but they badly need fixing up...
...It has come to my attention that he originally submitted his article to the New Republic...
...This substantial work shows the many sides of Chesterton's mind...
...The best summary of Chesterton available...
...However, both the National Endowment for Democracy and the Asia Foundation were influential in that organization...
...If only Dr...
...The U.S...
...We may cherish the dream of a Soviet internal collapse, but we can live in the same world with a USSR that exercises self-restraint in areas important to us...
...In a way Leningrad is a preservationist's dream...
...I fully meant to discomfit the overstuffed egos sitting with Hamby's "lion...
...Still, in one particular he disappointed me...
...Harkness imputes that opinion to me, apparently on the strength of my having accused him of "cast[ing} about for instances of petty behavior and for evidence that white racists still exist in Mississippi...
...Where's the beast in the belly...
...But there is hope for Laura In-graham...
...Cecil S. H. Ross Jackson, Mississippi James Harkness replies: Ahh, air biscuits...
...The administration agreed that as long as an educational purpose was served and the business of the College was not disrupted, the shanties could remain...
...Aquino...
...The Spectator Sewn soft-cover, $12.95...
...Perhaps the most egregious example is the reference to Stalin's "pair of deuces...
...Oh boy...
...I mean, when everyone else was calling the Review staffers Nazis, I spent 1500 words blaming the whole affair on the muddleheaded Dartmouth administration...
...I've read it for years...
...However, proceedings and papers were classified secret with a prohibition on release for 15 years...
...Its major defect, however, was its indifference to historical fact, to the problem of securing consent in a democracy, and to the objective of a foreign policy...
...Cases of single-malt Scotch...
...Perhaps, little by little, it could be got to accept the idea that bourgeois anti-Communist society should exist fully in only one country, and then perhaps not even there...
...Essentially, the policy quietly aimed to foster the reformers through backchannels...
...Arnold, you've given in already," Richard Grenier said...
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...But is Gladwell interested...
...Then he says that Les Grant is "the first black ever to write for the Review," which would surely be news to former editors Anthony Desir and Jon McKinney, not to mention several black staff writers who have contributed to the paper over the years...
...Yet the Senator, in a fascinating display of the way in which Old Right and Old Left mythologies frequently agree, consistently assumes that the Soviet Union was a pitiful, helpless giant in the postwar world...
...There is also an unhealthy habit among some conservatives to attack their own in order to ingratiate themselves with the liberal establishment...
...This is in contrast, one supposes, to Gladwell's little-known alma mater, where the SAT scores are nothing to speak of, but where, nevertheless, adults are to be found all over the place...
...They defined themselves by keeping a proper social distance from conservative, and orthodox religious, elements at home and abroad...
...foreign policy establishment had clearly chosen to accommodate expanding Soviet influence...
...Believing that in the long run this planet is not big enough for any way of life contradictory to theirs, the Soviet leaders have always looked at the frontiers separating the "Socialist commonwealth" from the rest of the world as depending purely on the "correlation of forces" between the two camps at any given moment...
...But it was precisely because the shanties were abandoned that the conservative students felt that they should come down...
...An observer such as myself who wants to encourage a strong, intelligent, bipartisan anti-Soviet foreign policy will find himself in agreement more often than not with Senator Wallop on many specific issues...
...There is a natural tendency on the part of the obscure to pick on the famous in order to gain a bit of name recognition...
...Let me quote the most unpalatable sentences I uttered as "Boris": Those "Present at the Creation" saw themselves as "progressive...
...John F. Morton Annapolis, Maryland One Fine Lady Vic Gold's "Images of Bush" (TAS, April 1986) is very good, as is his assessment of the powerful supermedia big-feet-tub-thumpers whose ruthlessness can sometimes be very costly to honest politicians when it serves their purpose...
...When, after the rebellion, the de facto Philippine base commander at Clark, Brig...
...The movement pledged full support to Mrs...
...policy objective—!'the revitalization of Philip-pine [democratic] institutions...
...But the Soviets might have wondered how tight the squeeze would be that began with such restraint!'In 1956, when the West failed to help the victorious Hungarian rebellion, precisely the kind of event that an "offensive" view of containment envisaged, room for doubt narrowed...
...And having done so, what did he expect from those who live in Mississippi...
...Laura was writing a response to my article, he said, and he would like to verify one or two things for her...
...In addition to improving the AFP's fighting capability, IMET served to forge what Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James Kelly calls a "special friendship...
...Here we have Laura the bold, defending the honor of the Dartmouth Review against attacks both real and imaginary, spouting Nietzsche, stomping all over my article in jackbooted fury, and she still has her boyfriend do the really hard things, like calling me on the telephone and mailing letters to the editor...
...and, though the Senator ignores this point, diplomacy to be credible must be backed by a plausible threat of force...
...The Soviets really do have a view of what has happened since 1917, different from that of Hamby's "NATO intellectuals"—a view that ac-counts for the fact that now the sun literally never sets on Soviet troops, while the West has not ceased to retreat...
...He is a beau sabreur, and no mistake...
...chose containment, it, chose to leave the Soviets in possession of a number of "captive nations," and not even to assert its right under various wartime agreements...
...He just seems to want to attack the Review for supposed bad taste and poor judgment...
...On the day, it was this latter role that made international heroes of Defense Minis-ter Enrile and Lt...
...Irene Prater Dell Carl Junction, Missouri Hamby's Wallop Alonzo Hamby's reflections on our foreign policy establishment's celebration of forty years' containment ("Containment's Comeback," TAS, March 1986) inadvertently illustrates the point I made at that gathering: that the establishment is too smug to realize what is happening in the world...
...We violate a treaty...
...What on earth is Laura Ingraham's point...
...The Soviet term for it since Lenin's time has been "peaceful coexistence...
...The Intourist goal seemed to be to minimize the idea of a revolutionary state...
...Put up shanties on the Dart-mouth green...
...Embassy asked Marcos not to "move against" the movement...
...Our foreign policy establishment's claim to authority relies on the fact that, forty years ago, while they were holding a straight flush, Stalin did not use his pair of deuces to call their hand...
...There's the Seine, there's the barges," Brookhiser said...
...Really...
...General Ramos...
...each year...
...That there are "no adults to be found" at Dartmouth...
...Needless to say, none of these actually describe me, but one of them requires a specific protest...
...Why should George Bush need an "image" when he has already won his spurs in the political arena, and done so without besmirching either his personal life or his political integrity...
...No, no, they said, but Laura's boyfriend had...
...I didn't say that Les Grant is the "first black ever to write for the Review...
...The American people might well elect Ronald Reagan," he said, "but we know that nations are not ruled by individuals or by elections, but by classes...
...Meanwhile, though it may be (not that it need be) true we'll all be pushing up daisies—or magnolias possibly—before history hands down any verdict on the case at hand, I hope the counsel for the defense will forgive my detection in him, as in other apologists of gradualism North and South alike, a grim, barely clandestine relief that he, at least, won't be around to hear the sentence . . . much less do the time...
...I thought you'd like to see it...
...To change course, however, is to change people—and that's the reason so many in my audience growled...
...The effect of the Review on the Dart-mouth campus has been anything but counterproductive...
...A lot more people would be alive today...
...In this extensive, wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Ratzinger addresses a variety of critical issues in the Church, making clear what he thinks the problems are—and their solutions...
...That my article was "riddled with errors...
...I shall be as brief as I can, after which I shall spike my cannon and move on...
...Praise and rank have come to be associated with a reputation for getting along with us [the Soviets...
...The West had permitted socialism to spread to many countries while preventing this had been in its power...
...Vietnam answered that question...
...foreign policy establishment treated defeats for the West as if they were victories...
...BETHELL (continued from page 13) said...
...As ordinary Americans lost time, blood, and life in that struggle, the American foreign policy establishment was happy to see a manifestation of America of which they profoundly disapproved "contained" right off the mainland of Asia and dishonored at home...
...Some have been repaired and painted, but in general the problem of maintenance far outruns the capacity of a Communist society to cope with it...
...We walked the short distance to the Neva River...
...putting some food on the table...
...This led Khrushchev to reformulate peaceful coexistence offensively...
...Harkness's was so good as to defeat its own purpose...
...Even when he flays other conservatives the liberals won't pat him on the head...
...I said that they were gone from the green...
...The magazine further reported that U.S...
...A few days later, Laura's boyfriend sent me a note: "Here's the letter Laura Ingraham mailed the Spectator...
...Some 325 junior and mid-level officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines have come to the U.S...
...They use that authority day in, day out, to try to smother with smug contempt other Americans' at-tempts to stem the Soviets' growing military and geopolitical superiority...
...And in the April issue of TAS I wrote what I thought was a strong defense of the paper's actions in the recent shanty-town incident...
...Citing reformist sources, Business Day in Manila revealed on February 28 that the movement originally planned to liberate the Cagayan region as a first move against Marcos...
...General Eduardo Ermita, defected, rebel air craft were permitted to land—secure from forces still loyal to Marcos and Ver...
...Final Shots In his rejoinder to my recent letter (Correspondence, TAS, April 1985), Mr...
...Neither in 1945, nor at any point since, has the Soviet Union been a paper teddy bear...
...The pessimists saw that, in the event of collapse, it could enable the reformers to act as honest brokers during the transition of power—encouraged, to be sure, by an unseen American hand...
...Isn't it strange, for example, that my strongest statement against the Dart-mouth administration and faculty—that there are no adults among them—was taken by Miss Ingraham somehow WE MANE MONEY THE OLD FASHIONED WAY WE STEAL IT...
...But Laura Ingraham obviously does not think I am a worthy defender of the Dartmouth Review, or perhaps she has so many enemies she does not know a friend when she sees one, or perhaps still she simply does not like me—which is odd because I like her...
...Harkness enumerates various silly opinions he imagines me to hold, and sundry odious moral traits of which I am supposedly the perfect exemplar...
...In Dallas, Texas Mr...
...Which they are...
...are well known...
...Kissinger blithely declares, "What in heaven's name does one do with military superiority...
...The military reformers were the honest brokers...
...Nonetheless, certain of his remarks call for some comment...
...Their narrow class interest just happens to coincide with our broader class interest...
...In sum, comrades, they have built a personal stake in the continuation of containment, or peaceful coexistence, in its positive phase...
...Dartmouth High...
...My "little-known alma mater...
...Reading their literature one would never guess that America's influence has suffered the kind of decline normally associated with the loss of a major war...
...We argued about that, just as we argued later about the Richard Pipes (blame it on the Russians) vs...
...Could a contradiction be developing between the American foreign policy class and the rest of the country...
...In the same vein, he smears many Western socialists, bad economists brit genuine democrats, by apparently accepting the Soviets' claim that their Leninist totalitarianism is the true representative of international socialism...
...I thought it would be bracing for an intellectually and socially inbred audience to hear how they must look to the other side...
...I didn't say that the shanties had disappeared from sight...
...Is this not so...
...Then I called the Spectator...
...Recently Dartmouth brought back the Re-serve Officer Training Corps, banned in the aftermath of Vietnam, in direct and acknowledged response to pressure from the Dartmouth Review...
...Which is why, of course, the Dartmouth President took the time from his busy schedule of emoting and empathizing or whatever else he does to write an anguished letter of protest...
...Eastern Economic Review: "If there are reliable reports of massive fraud in the election `then we would have to act.' " In a statement issued after the election, the military reform movement claimed fraud and said its members would "refuse to use force and violence on innocent and freedom-loving Filipinos...
...containment need not imply the acceptance of every Russian gain, no matter how important the issue is to us and how peripheral to them...
...The doctrine of containment did, however, en-visage that in the long run the Soviet regime might be squeezed into changing, and that the captive people might be freed...
...1.111,E fERP)' t\flitllttft THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 51 Senator really believe that any ad-ministration could have mobilized the American people to threaten war against the Soviet Union over Eastern Europe in 1945, the Hungarian revolution in 1956, or the Berlin Wall in 1961...
...foreign policy establishment has scored other victories—detente and arms control—which it defends strenuously against other Americans who want to change course...
...From the fact that I had him seeking two things at once, he somehow inferred that I thought them in all respects similar...
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...officials had assured the reformers that the U.S...
...Its partisanship—and it was partisan despite the Senator's disclaimer—was the sort of thing that Tip O'Neill loves to show wavering Democrats who might otherwise be inThree Outstanding New Books THE RATZINGER REPORT An Exclusive Interview On the State of the Church Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger with Vittorio Messori In this controversial, highly publicized interview, Cardinal Ratzinger speaks candidly and forcefully about the state of the Church in the post-Vatican II era...
...like most such nostrums, whether of the left or the right, it also is dangerously adventuristic...
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...trade union to the Philippine trade union congress, this action reminded some observers of CIA activity with the earlier NAMFREL of the 1950s...
...Historical fact...
...The Soviets noted that the U.S...
...I had not thought my prowess so great...
...Laura Anne Ingraham (Former editor, Dartmouth Review) Washington, D.C...
...In 1945, it possessed a seven million-man army that had driven the Nazis from Stalingrad to Berlin...
...He's not the first...
...Which he does...
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...When it does not, we can and should act appropriately...
...May your next journey south leave us both in a better humor...
...Shortly thereafter the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima, with a Marine battalion landing team of 4,000 men, arrived at Subic Bay...
...Gladwell also notes that "today the shanties are gone," apparently unaware that one has been moved to Dart-mouth's Hood Museum, and another has been readied for a traveling exhibition to other schools...
...His credentials are authentic, and not the least of his assets is his loyal, faithful wife who is one fine lady...
Vol. 19 • June 1986 • No. 6
