The Rainbow Lobby Storms Congress

...one would expect some degree of circumspection as to the source, however, before they act on such "facts...

...After the way in which Obey drooled over the lobby's testimony in April, the subcommittee surprised no one by reporting out a bill that would ban all military and direct economic aid to the Mobutu regime...

...Newman, who is himself Jewish, confirms making the statements but says they were "not anti-Semitic...

...The full House approved the bill June 28 and the Senate is taking up the issue now...

...The advance of the lobby puts in question whether there are any limits whatever on the power wielded over Congress by lobbies, no matter what they stand for, or who is behind them...

...The theme of this meeting was `to kill.' It was not enough to give your life for the cause, you had to be ready to kill for it...

...The strongest flow appears to be from the therapy centers to the lobby to the party...

...In New York City, the party has made more significant inroads...

...But that is precisely the point: it is no longer possible to insult the intelligence of Congress...

...This was a precursor to the main event, the June 13 Obey subcommittee mark-up of the foreign aid appropriations bill for 1991...

...Clifford Stearns (RThe group's tax records for 1989 show that it spent more than $850,000 on lobbying activities last year, putting it in a league with the National Rifle Association and the AFL-CIO...

...The Hon...

...This was the result of NAP's "fraternal ties with the Congolese National Liberation Front," a Marxist guerrilla group that led an unsuccessful military uprising in Zaire in the mid-1970s, according to the September/October 1989 issue of Probe, an NAP periodical...

...In addition to tax records, lobby reports filed with the clerk of the U.S...

...The Polisario guerrillas, backed by Soviet client Algeria, have been fighting a war of "liberation" against Morocco for control of the territory since 1975, when Spain handed over its former colony to Morocco...

...A 1989 report by Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, an independent institute in Massachusetts that keeps tabs on cults, began: "The New Alliance Party describes itself as a black-led, women-led, multi-racial, pro-gay independent political organization...

...and Chet Atkins (D-Mass...

...Around the corner, about a dozen staffers work in two large rooms, photocopying press releases and the like...

...Thus, the efforts of the party's therapy cultists not only to advance their bizarre—demented, really—sociopolitical agenda at home, but to influence critical issues of U.S...

...a ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep...

...In 1988, the NAP presidential ticket, headed by Dr...

...ertainly it is in the nature of lobbies to exaggerate their actual influence...

...In New York and Chicago the party has sought to exploit the cleavages between segments of the black and Jewish communities by embracing black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan as "the most progressive religious leader on the American political landscape," and a "leading target of Zionist terror...

...Ross says the lobby works "extremely closely" with the party but is "an independent organization," a fiction used to deceive many of those who contribute to or work with the lobby...

...Newman, in a telephone interview, would acknowledge only that the centers "may make contributions" to the party...

...She said that in response to "pressure" from her group, "significant members of Congress have unequivocally condemned [Mobutu's] regime,and called for an end to all U.S...

...In addition to Bates, Mfume, and Penny, Reps...

...activists nationwide, according to Newman, but its reach extends further...

...A report issued last January by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith identified the Rainbow Lobby—not to be confused with Jesse Jackson's David Brock is a John M Olin fellow at the Heritage Foundation...

...Rainbow Coalition—as one of several "front groups" of the New Alliance party, founded eleven years ago by Fred Newman, whose theories on integrating psychology and politics the party and its affiliates follow...

...He joined Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees in 1974, and later helped form the International Workers party, dedicated to "international socialist revolution...

...Prosper Avril (the group tends to pick issues of particular interest to black Americans, apparently as part of the National Alliance party's outreach effort...

...The rapidity with which the lobby found an eager audience for its political poison in Congress is a sign of just how terribly sick the institution is today...

...For an account of Weissman's personal interest in the Zaire question, I refer readers to the aforementioned TAS piece and Weissman's response in the April issue...

...Yet the lobby's work undoubtedly has raised the profile of the issue and thus made a substantial difference...

...the day before the Obey hearing, also was the lobby's handiwork...

...policy toward Zaire at Washington's venerable Brookings Institution...

...One staff member of the House intelligence committee, which voted narrowly in September to approve the Bush Administration's request of about $50 million in military aid to Savimbi's forces for next year, says the committee has been inundated with materials from the lobby, as well as requests for meetings on the issue...

...Lobby Director Nancy Ross, a Newman-trained therapist, founding member of the NAP, and the party's vice presidential candidate in 1984, characterizes the Rainbow Lobby as "the eleventh largest grass-roots lobby in the country, with about 160,000 members nationwide...

...who did the same at his House Africa subcommittee...

...The ADL report characterizes the party as "part Marxist sect, part therapy cult," whose politics are an amalgam of "revolutionary rhetoric, black nationalism, sexual references . . . anti-Semitism and an intense anti-Israel bias...

...Many Members of Congress confuse the Rainbow Lobby with the Rainbow Coalition, and usually respond to their requests for meetings...

...Gerry Studds (D-Mass...

...Only in 1985 did the renamed Rainbow Lobby turn its attention to Zaire, though the National Alliance party had long been following developments there...

...Lenora Fulani, "direcTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 21 tor of social therapy" for the Newman centers, was on the ballot in all fifty states, qualified for federal matching funds, and received 201,430 votes, about one-quarter of one percent of the total...

...John Conyers's (D-Mich...

...So, for example, monogamous relationships are deemed bourgeois...

...Ross, pressed on how many of the lobby workers are members of the New Alliance party, will say only that membership is "not required...

...Under consideration was the Bush Administration's annual foreign aid request for Zaire...

...and John Porter (R-Ill...

...The level of dense ignorance and calculated indifference on which the Rainbow Lobby's (i.e., the New Alliance party's) infiltration campaign counts is quite high in Congress's corridors...

...The letter was signed by Dellums, Wolpe, and twenty other members...

...The final area of Rainbow Lobby interest these days is Haiti, where it opposes the dictatorship of Gen...

...Speaker, on a more personal note, some time ago this group came to me, and believing they were part of Jesse Jackson'soperation [the Rainbow Coalition], I, of course, greeted them very warmly and began working with them...

...Both Dellums's aide Bob Brauer and Steve Weissman, the staff director of Wolpe's House Africa subcommittee, say they are aware of the lobby's links to the New Alliance party and that this does not affect their working relationship...

...It is a small window on the cynical and debased manner in which the nation's business is conducted in the capital these days...

...Maybe I should find out more about that party," he says...

...Qaddafi received the NAP group...

...El red Newman, who earned a Ph.D...

...The Rainbow Lobby, guided by the tendency which refused to let it take the centrist route, now blossoms while the rest of the African liberation movement withers...

...bombing of the Gulf of Sidra and the Libyan Coast," according to the National Alliance, the NAP's newspaper...

...In a letter to several potentially sympathetic members of Congress in April 1989, Ross implored Congress to cut Morocco's U.S...

...He also spoke of the "dirty Jew . . . a self-righteous dehumanizer and murderer of people of color . . . a racist bigot...

...In a recent statement in the Congressional Record, for instance, Rep...

...In 1988, following Tshisekedi's arrest in Zaire, the lobby convinced Rep...

...aid, which last year topped $120 million...

...But when Ross called Francine Marshall, an aide to the House subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, to request the use of a room in the Capitol building, Ross says she was told: "We know who you are, what your connections are, and you're not going to get the room...

...T here are fewer than 10,000 NAP .i...

...It would allow about $50 million in development assistance and food aid to be channelled through private voluntary organizations in Zaire...

...agreed to introduce a bill co-authored by the Rainbow Lobby (and reintroduced last year by Dellums), that called for an end to military aid to Zaire...

...It is almost as if Lyndon LaRouche or the Ku Klux Klan were having coffee klatsches and photo sessions with U.S...

...A good number of the aides, of course, may have been doing nothing more than collecting information on Haiti...

...Asked about the coincidence of Solarz's April testimony before the Obey subcommittee and the appearance that day of the Rainbow Lobby, which did much to enhance the lobby's credibility, Schwartz referred inquiries to the Obey subcommittee...

...At a meeting with Dellums aide Bob Brauer, Probe reported, "Ross asked if Dellums would take on Zaire...

...The Rainbow Lobby ostensibly operates on its own, but it serves the ends of the New Alliance party," says David Evanier, the author of the ADL report...

...Fair Elections Bill—co-sponsored by Reps...

...That so glaringly illiberal a group could be so casually accepted into the fold by (mostly) Democratic representatives and their aides is a measure of the confusion and decay that beset that ideology...

...Chuck Robb (D-Va...

...Rainbow Lobby employees are listed as hefty donors to the NAP in its Federal Election Commission filings...

...Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y...

...This is another in a series of TAS articles on the Great American Congress in Crisis...

...After all, we've been trying to get them to come out publicly against Mobutu like this for three years...

...Dymally contends that the lobby uses misidentification with Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to gain access to Capitol Hill, as well as to recruit and raise money in black enclaves...

...Edward Kennedy (D-Mass...

...Newman told the assembled: "Some so-called progressives do not give unconditional support to the Libyans, the Congolese people, the Palestinians, and others...

...The group's tax records for 1989 show that it spent more than $850,000 on lobbying activities last year, putting it in a league with the National Rifle Association and the AFL-CIO...

...and Rep...

...Al Sharpton, Fulani and other party members marched in support of Tawana Brawley, whose 1988 claims of rape were later discredited...

...every group" with which he deals...

...It was only later, says Dymally, who is a cosponsor of Conyers's Rainbow Lobby bill on free elections, when he came under attack in articles in the National Alliance newspaper for his position on Zaire aid, that he became aware of the lobby's true identity...

...A photograph of Ross with a grinning Solarz prominently adorns her Washington office...

...22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 In carving out a niche like Zaire policy, the Rainbow Lobby has blossomed by default, demonstrating how simple it is for just about any crackpot to traverse the Beltway and become a seemingly legitimate part of the policy establishment...

...Serrette, who was testifying for the defense in a lawsuit the party brought against a black-owned newspaper in Mississippi that had been critical of the NAP, continued: "Newman teaches that morality is bourgeois, and places himself in the position of determining right and wrong for organization members...

...Gus Savage appeared in my February 1990 TAS article, "The Prince Metternichs of Congress...

...rr he ADL identified eighteen front 1 groups used by the party to generate political and financial backing, from the U.S.-Congo Friendship Committee to the Association of Progressive Helping Professionals...

...She specifically claimed credit for "very strong [anti-Mobutu] statements" issued by Rep...

...Within a few weeks, the Rainbow Lobby received an invitation to a private early morning meeting of Rep...

...The administration, however, points to Zaire's strategic position, and to Mobutu's helpful regional diplomacy and halting steps toward political liberalization as reasons to keep the U.S...

...Many Hill aides admit that they don't know who they are doing business with...

...James Oberstar (D-Mich...

...according to advertisements placed in the National Alliance newspaper, Massad is the "medical director" of two Newman centers in New York, the Harlem and Bronx Institutes for Social Therapy and Research...

...It stems in large part from such groups being given carte blanche to appropriate the slogansopenness," "fairness," "democracy"—that now pass for "liberalism...

...A poignant example of Newman shaping the organization's morality was demonstrated in the last organization-wide meeting I attended...

...In the main, these complaints are true...

...I've worked with them on Zaire and Haiti...

...It has seven regional offices and about sixty employees...

...Susan Massad, gave $5,000 to the lobby in 1988...

...On Zaire, for example, Mobutu had foes on Capitol Hill long before the Rainbow Lobby was founded, perhaps deservedly so...

...foreign policy, continue to succeed...

...Robert Mrazek (D-N.Y...

...among others...

...aid to Zaire in statements made just prior to the Rainbow Lobby's April 4 testimony...

...Partly, they work through intimidation—no liberal wants to be called a Mobutu apologist...

...Mervyn Dymally (D-Cal...

...The Justice Department is investigating whether the lobby's activities on behalf of the Polisario Front are in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act...

...Within weeks canvassers were raising between $50 and $100 in one evening shift...

...Ed Markey (D-Mass...

...To his knowledge, no such meetings were scheduled...

...on members' positions on Zaire and has passed that information on to National Alliance newspaper reporter Richard Sokolow, who has been spotted photo-copying such documents in the Foreign Affairs committee office...

...None of the lobby's officials has ever even been to Zaire, but they have been quoted in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal as experts or advocates on Zaire, without a mention of the lobby's wider political connections...

...About Dymally's demurral, Ross issued this written statement: "From the beginning of our work on Capitol Hill, our staff has personally delivered, to Mr...

...Evincing the sectarianism that has made the party anathema even to many on the extreme left, Probe explained that the NAP took up the Zaire issue because the "establishment Communist-Party left" was putting its resources behind the regime in Angola and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa...

...Newman and his followers broke off to form the New Alliance party in 1979...

...Donald Payne (D-N.J...

...In April 1988, the National Alliance published an article headlined "In Memoriam" on the death of Palestinian terrorist Abu Jihad, which it attributed to a "Zionist murder squad...

...and Timothy Penny (D-Minn...

...2 According to a House Foreign Affairs Committee aide, Weissman has also used the research arm of Congress, the Congressional Research Service, to dig up information 'Weissman and I have crossed paths before...

...The briefing turned out to be a big draw, attracting aides to Sens...

...In 1989, the National Alliance was more candid in linking the party's "outreach efforts" to the formation of the Rainbow Lobby in 1985...

...This year even the Bush Administration seems to be going with the flow...

...The results "were startling...

...Brauer was responsive . . ." In December 1987, the Rainbow Lobby escorted to Capitol Hill Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, of the Zairean dissident group Union for Democracy and Social Progress...

...Putting aside the merits of the aid question, a look at the Rainbow Lobby's little-known background and current political affiliations reveals it to be an integral link in a bigger, insidious psycho-political web...

...Dymally and to each member of the Congressional Black Caucus and other members of Congress with whom we have worked, the weekly edition of the National Alliance newspaper, which could leave no doubt about the nature of our political alliances, and our explicit political differences with the Rev...

...For the Rainbow Lobby's singular success is not just a matter of a schizophrenic and decentralized Congress falling into the grip of unelected, unaccountable, and ideologically driven staff aides...

...Eric Schwartz, the aide who advises Solarz on Zaire, acknowledges having had contacts with the lobby, but hastens to point out that Solarz was a Mobutu opponent long before the lobby took up the issue...

...Last year, the Rainbow Lobby pushed the conference committee to zero out all military aid, and ended up securing a $3 million spending cap...

...would require candidates who qualify for federal matching funds to be included in presidential debates...

...In a political culture devoid of moral probity, the ease with which the Rainbow Lobby has emerged as an influential voice still has the capacity to shock...

...This group seemingly plays on this ambiguity and has become a very divisive force by its impact on the Congress...

...In addition to his role on the NAP's executive board, Newman operates a dozen "medical and therapeutic" centers in major cities in the U.S...

...Ross went on to say that the timing of a critical letter sent to Mobutu from the co-chairmen of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Reps...

...In another sign of the lobby's growing acceptance, on November 16 it will hold a conference on U.S...

...24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990...

...Serrette testified that the therapy centers are the primary funding source for the party...

...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 23 Fla...

...House point to a curious money circle encompassing the National Alliance party and its front groups...

...The introduction to the curriculum begins: "The basic foundation of the curriculum is the perspective of historical materialism...

...No one can reasonably dispute that the New Alliance party and its various fronts are on their face evil institutions...

...One such Newman operation in New York, the Center for Short Term Psychotherapy, treats "several hundred" patients a month and grossed about $45,000 a month last year, Newman says...

...Frazier—after being warned by a House aide (other than Marshall) that Kennedy ought not lend his name to the group—called the Senate Rules Committee and secured a room for the lobby in Kennedy's name...

...That's all I know...

...The question remaining is whether congressional aides like Kennedy's Frazier, who give legitimacy and respectability not only to the Rainbow Lobby but to the politics of the National Alliance party, know who their friends really are...

...At an April 27 press conference this year, Ross made her baldest statements to date about the lobby's impact in the Capitol...

...Greg Simpkins, an analyst at the pro-Savimbi Angola Peace Fund in Washington, says: "They've gotten lots of members to speak out against aid to Zaire who ordinarily probably wouldn't get involved in the issue...

...Howard Wolpe (D-Mich...

...And I'm going to see to it that nobody up here attends your briefing...

...The anti-Mobutu effort, of course, serves the purposes of the Marxist Angolan regime, as Mobutu has allowed funds and weapons for the anti-Communist rebel forces led by Jonas Savimbi to be funneled through Zaire...

...Jim Bates (D-Cal...

...For her part, the lobby's Ross recounted: "Obey's staff called us up, said they were doing this, and of course we were thrilled to be asked to participate...

...Almost, but not quite...

...lawmakers...

...We would like to meet with you to discuss formulating an appropriate legislative response [to the Western Sahara situation]," Ross wrote...

...Wolpe, and Chairman Obey, all of whom called for an end to U.S...

...Robert Torricelli (D-N.J...

...Based on the number of dazed expressions in the office, my guess is that most are Newmanites...

...In a June 1, 1990, response to a letter of inquiry from Joseph E. Clarkson, the chief ofthe department's Registration Unit, Deborah Green, the lobby's political director, stated that the lobby did not have to be so registered because "none of our efforts are in support of any American or foreign party, government or individual per se...

...Their impact is more with aides than members, who in effect act as their political cornmissars...

...Attempting to forge an alliance with New York's noted charlatan, the Rev...

...Kweisi Mfume (D-Md...

...it is the history of the organization of production...

...T ast April, one of the most bizarre Li lobbies ever invited to give congressional testimony appeared before Wisconsin Democrat David Obey's House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations...

...Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn...

...T he political damage the Rainbow Lobby is inflicting is not the most telling part of the story...

...The Solarz link is harder to figure...

...Last fall, Ross accompanied two Polisario executive committee members to meetings she arranged with several congressmen, including Wolpe, Solarz, Payne, and Reps...

...The bills will then go to a House-Senate conference...

...aid to Savimbi and "diplomatic recognition to the government of Angola...

...Wolpe's House Africa subcommittee to consider U.S...

...By 1988, the lobby had dozens of canvassers in the field, was running a telemarketing operation to reach contributors for follow-up donations, and grossed $548,000...

...Members often sleep with the lovers of their best friends so that no personal relationships or loyalties surpass one's loyalty to Newman...

...military aid...

...policy in Haiti on Capitol Hill...

...In the National Alliance of October 25, 1985, Newman referred to Jews as "the storm troopers of decadent capitalism," who had "sold their souls to the devil—international capitalism...

...The lobby is not registered with the department to represent foreign governments or parties...

...aid spigot open...

...Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J...

...Testifying in a May 1987 deposition, Dennis Serrette, the NAP's presidential candidate in 1984 who later left the party, called Newman's group therapy "a way of controlling every aspect of [members'] lives...

...and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md...

...They met with several congressmen, including Dellums, who at the lobby's behest hosted a reception for 1Thisekedi at the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep...

...A Caucus aide declined to comment on this, after first acknowledging having heard "vague rumors" about the lobby while working with them...

...One benefactor, for instance, Dr...

...Party members are made to undergo—and in some cases are recruited from—the group therapy sessions, for which they pay an hourly fee on a sliding income-based scale...

...This statement is contradicted by an article in the May 17, 1990 issue of the National Alliance, which contained this false claim: "The Rainbow Lobby is the registered representative of the Polisario Front...

...At a 1989 reception in New York, again marking the anniversary of the Libya bombing, Fulani, Newman, and a Qaddafi emissary calling himself Dr...

...It's just like the traditional Communist party front groups...

...and Reps...

...Virtually the same group of contributors are listed in each reporting period...

...In an age when the level of tolerance for serious scandal is at an all-time high, in a political culture devoid of moral probity or discrimination, the ease with which a group like the Rainbow Lobby has emerged as a credible, and indeed influential, voice on important questions of public policy in Congress and in the media, still has the capacity to shock...

...among others—would make it easier for third-party candidates to get on federal ballots...

...Newman was quoted in the winter 1990 issue of Practice, an NAP journal, as saying: "I don't like the institution of the family in any of its forms...

...in the philosophy of science from Stanford University in the early 1970s, has a long association with fringe groups...

...I recently dropped by the L Street office in downtown Washington to have a look...

...Ross herself professes to be amazed that most of her contacts on the Hill claim not to know much about her group...

...In its original incarnation as the Rainbow Alliance Lobby in 1984, the group lobbied on "electoral reform" issues for the NAP, the Peace and Freedom party, and other small leftist parties...

...Journalists began to identify the lobby as the clearinghouse for information on Mobutu and as the progressive force in Washington with a direct line into what was happening in Zaire...

...A March 1990 "Democracy Action Alert" from the lobby was more direct, calling for a cutoff of U.S...

...El Moakkif shared a dais...

...It requested $9 million in military support last year, but cut it to $4 million this year...

...R oss contends that the lobby is financed solely through its door-to-door canvassing for two bills the lobby has gotten introduced in Congress...

...for help...

...Porter and Tom Lantos (D-Cal...

...The foreign agents act is a criminal statute, with violations bringing heavy fines and jail sentences...

...to circulate a letter to House colleagues requesting signatures on a protest to Mobutu threatening a cut in U.S...

...Ross confirms that the target was met and says the tax-exempt lobby will raise $1.5 million this year, making it one of the fastest growing properties on the left today...

...By far the most successful of these appears to be the Washington, D.C.-based Rainbow Lobby, which began operations in 1985 and has since enmeshed several members of Congress and their aides in a dangerous totalitarian political cult...

...A man who identified himself as "Abukari, director of the Africa desk" for the Rainbow Lobby, urged the subcommittee to halt government-to-government economic aid and all military aid to Mobutu Sese Seko's regime...

...Weissman called the lobby a "significant and welcome counterweight" to the Zairean government's lavishly funded lobbying campaign...

...Statements by NAP founder Fred Newman are characterized by the ADL as "tainted with anti-Semitism...

...In a letter to his Congressional Black Caucus colleagues, he wrote: "The Rainbow Lobby has embarked on a campaign of viciously attacking CBC members who are not co-authors of the [Dellums] bill...

...Bruce Morrison (D-Conn., and a candidate for governor in that state this fall), Joseph Kennedy II (D-Mass...

...receives crucial access for its rapid deployment forces on military bases in Morocco...

...The party's foreign-policy positions include support for Qaddafi's Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization...

...Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition...

...In 1989, the lobby has put sixty canvassers in the field and projects that it will gross $1.2 million...

...It is not the history of great men...

...The Democracy in Presidential Debates Act, sponsored by Reps...

...A second group in Congress seems to know all about the Rainbow Lobby, and proceeds to deal with them despite—or perhaps because of—their extremist politics and warped social theories...

...He then ran down the familiar litany of charges against the dictator, most prominently endemic corruption and human rights abuses...

...Frazier tells me that he has had a longstanding relationship with the lobby, but didn't know about the New Alliance party connection until I told him...

...The waiting area is filled with National Alliance party propaganda, amid the requisite generic photos of starving African children...

...NAP also runs the Barbara Taylor School in Harlem, named after a party member, where about a hundred students study a curriculum "based on the theories of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky," according to the American Psychological Association's newspaper, the APA Monitor...

...recounted this experience with the lobby: "Mr...

...The Lobby's role . . . attracted new respect on the Hill," the Probe article recounted...

...showed up...

...The U.S...

...There, Obey aide Mark Murray did not return telephone calls...

...Ronald V. Dellums (D-Cal...

...nother lobby favorite in Africa is the Polisario Front of the Western Sahara...

...Both bills, of course, would directly benefit the New Alliance party, though the canvassers don't mention the connection...

...The ADL described the therapy's approach similarly: "Each individual is governed by a 'bourgeois ego.' . . . The role of the radical therapist is to lead the individual to overthrow the dictatorship of the 'bourgeois ego' and to liberate the 'proletarian ego' by means of personal revolutions," including demonstrations of "overt sexuality...

...policy in the area...

...The first allegation of such tactics with respect to Rep...

...In light of this actual history, known to everyone, Dymally's July 24 declaration of his `confusion' is either an insult to the intelligence of Congress, or evidence of Dymally's complete mental disarray...

...This is not exactly a revelation, given their simpatico ideological agendas: Dellums is certainly no friend of democracy or Israel, and Weissman is described as "more Stalinist than any member of the Soviet Politburo" by a ranking striped-pants Africanist at the State Department...

...In June, the lobby planned to hold a briefing on U.S...

...The lobby's first big foreign-policy T success came in 1987, when Rep...

...In turn the lobby's expenditures go largely to NAP fronts, including the U.S.-Congo Friendship Committee, Alliance Press, New Alliance Productions, Vision Communications, Ilene Advertising, and the Castillo Center...

...The NAP's sympathy for the radical Arab cause is only part of the story...

...and Sen...

...I worked with them on some matters on Haiti, and I worked with them on matters on Zaire, and on one occasion they brought the opposition leaders from Zaire to meet with me...

...Earlier this year, Ross brought Lenora Fulani to the Hill and hosted a coffee hour for interested legislators to generate support for the debates bill...

...He, too, says he was not aware of the New Alliance connection, and adds that he "cannot check the bona fides of 'For more information on the Lobby's war of words with Dymally and its attacks on other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who don't toe the line, see the August 17, 1990, issue of Washington's City Paper...

...Its most outspoken critics call it an opportunistic political movement controlled by an unethical therapy cult whose white male guru once led his followers into an affiliation with neofascist cult leader Lyndon LaRouche...

...Ross then turned to Mike Frazier, an aide to Sen...

...The Rainbow Lobby has blossomed by default, demonstrating how simple it is for just about any crackpot to traverse the Beltway and become a seemingly legitimate part of the policy establishment...

...The congressmen, however, ought to be well aware of the lobby's motivation...

...and Sidney Yates (D-Ill...

...its candidate for City Council president, Rafael Mendez, received 193,842 votes, or 25 percent of the total, in the September 1989 primary...

...They should, in my judgement, be declared persona non grata...

...In April 1987, Fulani and Rainbow Lobby Director Nancy Ross headed an NAP delegation to Tripoli to "commemorate . . . the genocidal U.S...