Capitol Ideas/Boulder's World
Bethell, Tom
Yet those of us who see the present congressional involvement in presidential foreign policy decisions as an encumbrance might want to consider an alternative congressional involvement. Given the...
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...I'm saying I don't think it will work!' Turner said that the world was full of "doubting Thomases," and suggested that she should "vote for Reagan...
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...Why are failed visions in the natural sciences so much easier to abandon than in the social sciences...
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...he roared, aiming a karate chop at my stomach...
...In 1987 Andrew Neil, the editor of the London Sunday Times, had told the conference in plenary session that "every April, in the town of Boulder, a lost tribe gathers...
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...Because this time Sowell looks at political conflicts as they have raged for generations, and he has uncovered the remarkable fact that these conflicts have been dominated by two opposing visions that reflect radically different assumptions about the nature of man...
...Hiss couldn't, but he gave Higman the name of James P. Warburg, whose father was "cum laude of the international Wall Street bankers," Higman said...
...This admission was tactfully disguised as the more general complaint that, nowadays, nothing works...
...Some sort of oversight of military action might educate them to the needs of statecraft and bring them into the foreign policy process constructively...
...Turner said...
...Then the fickle Dolivet cancelled at the last minute...
...Across Broadway, at the Sigma Chi fraternity house, they were just coming to the end of a party that had been going on all week"Back to the 'Fifties Derby Days," it was called, Stroh'ssponsored, with one thousand sorority girls arriving in relays to compete for Tom Bethell is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent and a media fellow at the Hoover Institution...
...Like all one-worlders, Ted Turner holds great hopes for arms control...
...I think it's very beneficial to our community," said one wag named Joseph, a senior from Boston...
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...Elsewhere Higman has recalled why the auditorium was packed that day...
...This entailed playing three-on-three basketball on a terrace made into a human amphitheater by the surrounding crush of appreciative male spectators, packed in tight to watch the girls perform...
...Let's give credit to everyone...
...There's still an element of people that's filled with hatred, suspicion, and paranoia," Turner said, referring to his former comrades on the right...
...Treasury has announced its plan to replace our currency with new money that the government can track throughout the economy...
...So he formed an organization called the Better World Society, with a board of directors that includes Georgi Arbatov of the Soviet Union, Jimmy Carter, Lester Brown of Worldwatch, and various figures from the general region where the United Nations and the population-control lobbies intersect...
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...What might benefit both branches of government and American policy," Ikle" claims, "is a kind of resolution by which Congress would endorse or reject the purpose of a military effort instead of imposing a deadline-something like a declaration of war but less grave...
...Turner said that he had made six trips to the Kremlin...
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...This was met by a sullen silence from the audience...
...Anyway, the work of healing was evidently progressing...
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...He allowed that only a few years ago he had been "a rampant nationalist and a rabid rightwinger," believing it to be America's destiny "to rule the world...
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...I knew that I had been invited to the conference as part of an "outreach" effort to invite conservatives...
...My impression is that Turner has his head down and he's running full tilt in the direction of a brick wall...
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...But they do show an enemy our national resolve...
...Most of the audience seemed to consist of those hardy septuagenarian heartlanders for whom the founding of the United Nations was the culmination of a dream and who have never given up hoping that Americans will one day come to their senses, disarm, and preach a sensible communitarian socialism unto all nations...
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...Actually, I think the World Citizens were a little bit disconcerted by Turner, who in fact apologized a few minutes later for his outburst...
...Declarations of war normally don't tell the enemy that we will pull out after ninety days...
...Ted Turner's television network had broadcast "A Thousand Cranes," a joint U.S.-Soviet endeavor to save the Siberian crane, "one of the programs we aired to counter the destructive in THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 11 fluence of ABC's series `Amerika...
...Program planned, Higman called Alger Hiss at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to see if he could substitute...
...People will kill for them and die for them Indeed "We will ., do almost anything for our visions ev ceptthink about them " The k help This r,-..# purpose of this hoo is to us able trove and con ' think about them...
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...Two people at the conference told me that they had in general found it difficult to attract conservatives because "they ask for money...
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...and there were about 100 others...
...But that hasn't stopped them from threatening to tear apart societies and egging on the world to potential disaster...
...Over the last two decades he has taken on and demolished a mountain of myths in one area after another...
...Gene La Rocque, the left-wing rear admiral who has made quite a retirement career for himself addressing such globalist conferences...
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...They were dressed in the white and pastel sports clothes, T-shirts, cuffed Bermudas, and tennis shoes that are now standard campus wear across the country...
...And now, as Andrew Neil said, we are coming to the end of the postwar collectivist era-the era of NATO, the U.N., the World Bank, and UNESCO...
...F red Ikle, until recently our hardline Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has said that the unwieldy War Powers Act should be given the old heave-ho, to be replaced by congressional resolutions of the kind that sup ported presidential decisions in Afghanistan...
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...a Buckminster Fuller component, a British-journalist component (Higman's father came from England and walked across the continent to Boulder, I believe at about the turn of the century...
...and an obsessive domestic-intelligence component, Higman himself apparently having been suspected of Communist sympathies in the fifties by J. Edgar Hoover, who (Higman believes) tried 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 to "set him up" at one point...
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...In fact, said Neil, "we are witnessing the end of the postwar collectivist era...
...We had a tradition in those days of having students assemble in Macky [Auditorium] once a month, on a Monday at eleven, for convocation...
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...I guess I'm saying it can't work," said the girl regretfully...
...This year's star speakers included Ted Turner, the chairman of the board of Turner Broadcasting System, whose plenary address was entitled "One World...
...Most impressed by this Dolivet, Higman had tried to get him to speak on campus...
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...The very meaning of such words as "freedom, " "equality, " "rights" and "power" differs drastically from one vision to the next...
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...laughter, almost spilling their beer...
...Several hundred students were gathered on the terrace of the student union, drinking Coors beer, eating bratwurst and hot dogs, and listening to a rock band that had been booming away since two p.m...
...How do those with one vision regard those with another...
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...This interpretation overlooks the datum that most murders occur between family members...
...Because as Thomas Sowell points out, visions are powerful things...
...Hey," he called out to me, "there's nothing wrong with making money off the Commies...
...Hey, wait a minute, Turner came back, not liking the drift of the young woman's remarks...
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...Given the fractious condition of Congress, it is unlikely that foreign policy consensus is near at hand, but recent experience suggests that there is another way to make Congress an ally in our foreign policy rather than allowing it to continue as a haven for those who would obstruct foreign policy...
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...Turner said...
...Some of the youths were showing off their hackysac skills for the benefit of the co-eds, but most just stood around with big beer-filled plastic cups emblazoned with the U. C. logo...
...Alas, such is the condition of American politics in this glorious age of the televised campaign that those elected to Congress are often as free of a knowledge of statecraft as they are of a knowledge of the Punic Wars, or of any natural phenomena beyond the borders of the United States, for that matter...
...But Turner is a "history buff" and one day something came to him"the realization that perhaps the biggest threat to our security and survival was not the Soviet Union...
...When I spoke to Higman he recalled that Warburg's speech, forty years earlier, had been "essentially the same speech that Ted Turner gave yesterday...
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...The conference reflects his prejudices and idiosyncrasies and for that reason is more interesting than most conferences...
...Later I overheard an elderly lady, a member of a Boulder World Citizens group, saying that Ted Turner hadn't minced any words, especially when this "right-wing" lady had challenged him from the floor...
...It was instead "the arms race, over-population, and environmental decay...
...John Stockwell, the ex-CIA agent who now roams the nation castigating the U.S...
...On the hopeful side, a new breed of Soviet leader had at last come to the fore, the "first of the post-revolutionary generation," Mikhail Gorbachev, "a man who likes to hold babies...
...On virtually every issue they line up on opposite sides, no matter how unrelated the issues...
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...I asked one or two of the students on the terrace why they weren't attending the World Affairs Conference, and what they thought of it...
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...They underlie our ideologies and our political • Are visions stronger than self positions, and they may motivate us more interest...
...Maybe, but try telling that to the students partying on the terrace...
...T here was in fact a sizable crowd in the Glenn Miller ballroom for the Tuesday afternoon "One World" session with Ted Turner (Jed Duvall, discussant...
...At question time a young woman (a student, I think) came to the microphone and said that while she was all in favor, had been greatly heartened, was very much in agreement, and so on, she nonetheless worried: Are there still not many people in the world who "think differently...
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...Jed Duvall at one point interjected the very reasonable suggestion that perhaps on this score we should give some credit to Ronald Reagan...
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...It is composed, he added, "of leftliberal activists who were brought up to believe they would inherit the Earth...
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...He lances the bombast of polititians, entertainers, and many others...
...All week he spent marching around like a guru, with crowds of students sitting in the sun on rocks, on stairs-just an electrified place," Higman has said...
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...Higman is an American original, and the conference is his monument...
...I was at Boulder to attend another week-long event, the Conference on World Affairs, organized every year since the 1940s by an emeritus sociology professor named Howard Higman, now 73...
...For them it was clearly a wondrous experience to find that they now had on their side this admittedly rather brash, but nonetheless highly enthusiastic businessman, embracing their ideas with so much zeal and energy that perhaps their dreams might yet unexpectedly materialize (for they are getting old and beginning to lose hope...
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...After the session I asked Turner if he had indeed lost money on the Goodwill Games, described as a "quadrennial multisport international competition, held first in Moscow and to be held again in 1990 in Seattle...
...Date Signature NAM(Print) Street City State/Zip TOTAL $ / H oward Higman is a steaming volcano of a man, wall-eyed and larger than life, forever grappling and caressing and making body contact with his interlocutor...
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...He had struck some kind of a television programswapping deal with the Communists, his goal being to "bring people together with technology," and "work together for peace" The illusion persists among one-worlders that we remain divided into warring tribes and nations because we do not understand one another well enough-a "failure to communicate...
...One morning I went to a plenary session at Macky, the speaker being Craig Barnes, an attorney who has been in volved (his bio says) "in intensive negotiations with Soviet scientists to develop the first joint SovietAmerican work on social and political thinking...
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Vol. 21 • June 1988 • No. 6
