The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • February felt like spring through much of the United States, and in the Soviet Union it felt odd also. There, on February 7, the indigenous Communist party's Central...
...Reasonable, yes...
...These countries are ready to explode if their political aspirations are unsatisfied, and in the chaos of Rumania, the army threw in its lot with the rebellion, and the internal security apparatus was slaughtered...
...R. Richardson New York, New York Terence Jeffrey replies...
...Fifteen years ago Mr...
...Yes, the Harvard Law School, that incomparable citadel of intellection where not so very long ago a common bag lady, Miss Billie Boggs, was invited to lecture the assembled geniuses on whatever it might be that was then stampeding through her crazed mind...
...Contrary to Mr...
...Most pollsters had picked the Sandinistas to win, which made perfect sense to many in our press...
...Nor did I publicly criticize the Mobutu government resulting in my getting thrown out of the country...
...People who have seen Mr...
...Mba Ntem, 32, an accomplished high priest of a local animist sect, was sentenced to death for presiding over a cannibalism rite that included transforming the mortal remains of Mr...
...Martin Luther King presents problems also...
...Mobutu interact do not consider the hectoring remarks of Mr...
...and he ends by telling us that we have a "pat hand," at least if correctly played...
...George Stallings, who is black, has again incurred the hot water of the Roman Catholic Church, which as he describes it has become a kind of mystic accomplice of the Ku Klux Klan...
...According to Mr...
...It was an unexpected volte face for the sultan, who was very angry when the couple eloped in 1987, taking all his Elvis Presley records...
...The Smithsonian Institution reports that among the collectibles it took in last year were fourteen condom vending machines (containing, unused, 108 condoms), along with 1,272 dry-mounted specimens of lice...
...As Cranston puts it in a brief submitted to the Senate ethics committee, "The problem, as conveyed to me at the time not only by Mr...
...The evidence is he's totally uncorruptible...
...But what is most shocking to me is that you and your publisher, Ronald E. Burr, would publish material defaming me without even requiring that the author interview me to obtain my reaction to these allegations...
...Deans throughout the country have received death threats of uncommon grisliness even for American reformers...
...Steve Weissman Staff Director, Subcommittee on Africa Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Washington, D.C...
...Albert Einstein's uxorious relationship with his first wife, Milvea, is being used as evidence in a nasty controversy among scholars, some of whom claim that the notoriously unkempt scientist actually stole ideas from her...
...Gorbachev's forehead that the Hollywood cowboy presiding over American policy had a benign influence on his country and on other countries too, as was demonstrated in Nicaragua on February 25...
...There, both President Mobutu and his minister of the interior were helpful to me and my family...
...Recently, I discussed the question with Keating, who confirmed that Lincoln S&L hired Greenspan in 1984 through Weiss, Rif-kind, Wharton and Garrison, a New York law firm Keating had retained to lobby against Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman Ed Gray's direct-investment limitations...
...Greenspan and Arthur Young and Co., was that federal examiners bore a substantial responsibility for creating the most destructive and irrational state of limbo for this institution . . . " Where to Begin...
...A late February snub of Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney by Philippine dictator Corazon Aquino may have been provoked by a lamentable snafu at the San Jose Public Library...
...It is not apparent that much editing was done before the article went to print...
...Violeta Chamorro, though once again the American press had anticipated an opposite result...
...Gabriel Estavao Monjane, 45, of Maputo, Mozambique, who at 8' 3/4 " was the world's tallest man...
...but "is just bright enough to enable you to see other parts of your body...
...First, especially after Rumania, it is difficult to believe that we are at "the beginning of the beginning...
...On that day a decade of U.S...
...Precisely which of the Rev...
...There, a $10,000 banner welcoming visitors to the library had to be removed when it was discovered that the 30-foot-high greeting in twenty-seven languages botched its Philippine salutation by confusing the word "welcome" with the equally mellifluous Philippine word "circumcision...
...After all, the Sandinistas are Communists, friends of the poor and uneducated, and look how popular Communists are elsewhere in the world, for instance, at the Harvard Law School...
...Ronald W. Reagan...
...Well, he certainly did not steal her ideas about personal hygiene and tidiness...
...satisfactory, no...
...on the payroll...
...support for anti-Sandinista forces was rewarded by the electoral victory of Mrs...
...Andre Ondo Ngong into a lightly spiced casserole...
...and his plan to confer sainthood personally on the late Dr...
...In Washington, D.C., the Rev...
...Nor does Terence Jeffrey mention, anent Greenspan's February 1985 letter, the possibility that it was based on information Greenspan did not know to be false...
...In response to Federal Judge Harold Green's decision that former President Ronald Reagan turn over his private diaries, the better for retired admiral John Poindexter to defend himself, the crafty ex-President agreed to do a videotaped testimony—an old Hollywood ploy that the actor has used to good effect throughout his political career...
...Stallings's ecclesiastical shimmies attracted the Church's ire is unclear...
...Dr...
...Presently, she was back raving on the street...
...From China comes word that the tasteless practice of drowning baby girls is again rampant, owing in part to modern 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1990 technology that allows the Chinese to identify the sex of a fetus months before birth...
...The truth of the matter is that I was engaged by the autonomous, Protestant-supported University Libre du Congo in Kisangani as an associate professor of political science during 1969-1971...
...We subsequently left the country voluntarily but continued to be paid by the government...
...Victor Lasky, an early friend of this magazine, an early journalist against Communism, and, based on news from abroad, a much happier man than, say, the lifelong leftists at your local cow college...
...Charles Keating "put Alan Greenspan . . . on the payroll...
...If events sour, we lose little...
...Greenspan and the Keating Five Re: "The Man Who Bought Washington" by Terence P. Jeffrey (TAS, February 1990...
...Humphrey prepared for his first wife a cup of coffee cut with a deadly concoction when it was discovered that she was terminally ill, thus inspiring many Americans to join his group...
...Presumably all of us who fancy ourselves conservatives, of whatever variety, are unhappy with the degree to which Communists retain bureaucratic power, particularly in security areas, within the Eastern bloc...
...I am unhappy with the (continued on page 48) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1990 9...
...Too bad today's libel laws give no protection to public figures...
...The author offers no support for this implication...
...During an episode of peaceful student protest against internal university policies, which resulted in the expulsion of the entire sophomore class and the temporary arrest of several hundred students, I and other faculty perceived to be privately sympathetic to the students were forced to leave the university and go to the capital city of Kinshasa...
...Dwaine Tinsley, the colorful creator of Hustler magazine's popular comic strip "Chester the Molester'"--a strip that owes much to the pioneering work of Mr...
...In fact, Wolpe has done so several times, most recently at a Foreign Affairs Committee coffee he hosted for Mobutu last summer...
...The Central Committee also recommended creating what the New York Times described as a "Western-style presidency and cabinet system...
...While I stand corrected on that, I fail to see why saying Mr...
...Glickman, the greenish light emitted from the condom is not strong enough to read a book or to sew by...
...Now members of the Hemlock Society are wondering whether they have been hoodwinked into joining the ultimate no-fault divorce scheme...
...The Times paraphrased Greenspan as saying he did not remember "how much he was paid but that it was his usual rate...
...In Libreville, Gabon, admirers of l'ancienne cuisine were stunned when Mr...
...But Ed Gray foresaw a risk in the burgeoning direct-investment portfolios of Lincoln and similarly managed thrifts or he wouldn't have imposed the direct-investment limitation in the first place...
...Garry Trudeau—has been found guilty of (you guessed it) molesting a teenaged girl...
...He says she has become a bore, but she says he is leaving her because he feels she takes life too seriously...
...and, in any case, if economic crisis precipitated change in the first place, why not keep the pressure on...
...and the FHLBB-SF foresaw the risk posed by Lincoln specifically, or they would have granted Keating the exemption Greenspan was requesting...
...Something of the same process seems to have affected the Spectator since it traded Indiana for Washington, D.C...
...These objections are minor compared to the corruption implied in the statement, "So Keating now put Alan Greenspan...
...Brock's article contains other inaccuracies on Zaire as well (e.g., his contention that Subcommittee on Africa Chairman Howard Wolpe refuses to talk to Mobutu...
...The Gabonese government has in recent years come increasingly under the baleful influence of the World Health Organization and now takes an unreasonably harsh stand against cannibalism and the use of Nestle's infant formula by nursing mothers while booming somewhat peremptorily low-cholesterol diets and consumption of oat bran...
...Weissman's colleagues on the Hill were under the mistaken impression that he had spent his time in Zaire with the Peace Corps...
...What I neglected to mention in the TAS story is that Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, and McCain all publicly cite Greenspan's arguments advocating that Lincoln be exempted from the direct-investment rule as justification for their own actions, in helping Keating pursue such an exemption...
...This article reminds me of those breathless exposés in the penny dreadfuls sold at every supermarket...
...Wolpe to be "speaking," thus the misleading statement that the two "do not speak...
...Is this a reference to the "Western-style" presidency of Mr...
...Yet whatever the tergiversation, the Church has excommunicated the Rev...
...Supposedly, President Mikhail Gorbachev wishes to bring prosperity to the Soviet Union, not Senator George Mitchell and the tax collectors...
...However, David Brock's article ("The Prince Metternichs of Congress") in your February issue contains a number of inaccurate statements about my personal experiences and motives that amount to character assassination...
...She should have been granted full tenure for her remarkable address...
...Glickman's customers practice sex so safe that they use their condoms even when alone in the dark...
...Weissman was in the Peace Corps rather than at a university should constitute defamation...
...Well before this incident I had completed my doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago on "American Foreign Policy Towards the Congo 1960-1964...
...In between, he offers us analogies with Spain and Portugal, to suggest that we do little in Eastern Europe...
...Leona Helmsley hired Harvard Law School professor (!) Mr...
...Several of Mr...
...Scandal has befallen Mr...
...That work, subsequently revised and published by Cornell University Press in 1974, contained a scholarly critique of the United States' association with the overthrow of the elected Lumumba government and the rise of the Mobutu regime...
...Wolpe and Mr...
...gossip circuit, the piece repackages material that has appeared in other media outlets...
...This last unsavory recommendation is made notwithstanding recent scientific findings that the consumption of oat bran is a major source of the methane gas now contributing to the appalling "Greenhouse Effect...
...RET CORRESPONDENCE Congo Din Congressional policy toward Zaire is a legitimate and important issue, worthy of informed public debate...
...History has proved Gray right and Greenspan wrong...
...Keating says the law firm informed him they needed an economist to make their case and suggested Greenspan...
...My salary was paid by the Congo (now Zaire) government...
...Felix Bloch, the diplomat suspected of making improper advances toward Soviet agents...
...Also among the month's departed was Mr...
...Apparently, Mr...
...Malcolm Forbes, who died in his sleep, and Mr...
...Further, I don't see how this changes the aptness of my observation that Mr...
...Ledeen begins by telling us that we are "at the beginning of the beginning," that change is real but tenuous...
...In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sultan Abddul Aziz Shah has forgiven Chief Minister Muhammad Taib for marrying the sultan's skinny daughter, Miss Tengku Putri Zahariah, without permission...
...Early in the month the State Department dismissed Mr...
...His support for abortion, divorce, birth control, and the ordination of women and married men all go against current Vatican dogma...
...On the other hand, Mr...
...Derek Humphrey's Hemlock Society, a do-good organization dedicated to "assisted suicides" and "self-deliverance" for the dying...
...Keating but also by Mr...
...In a report published in November, Greenspan himself admitted the fact to the New York Times...
...David Brock replies...
...In preparation for her second round in court against charges of tax evasion, Mrs...
...A published report from the National Academy of Sciences that the United States has fallen decades behind Europe in the development of contraceptives received the horse laugh when Mr...
...Additionally, we would all like to see market-oriented policies pursued by the emerging non-Communist political leadership, and are concerned about the strength of social democracy and agrarian populism among some of the anti-Communists...
...Condoms remain prominent in the news...
...It is also a fact that Greenspan was serving as an economic advisor to President Reagan at the same time Keating was paying him to make a case against Reagan Administration thrift regulations...
...Southern people used to say that the fleshpots of the North seemed particularly damaging to ladies who departed with revered values and high morals...
...There, on February 7, the indigenous Communist party's Central Committee voted to repudiate the infamous Article 6 of the Soviet constitution, thus allowing other parties to compete for power, for instance, Whigs, Greens, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, and perhaps even Washington Democrats—but then again perhaps not...
...Windsor, Canada's exemplary safe sex campaign has caused a crisis in that city's sewage treatment system where, after a weekend of city-wide safe sex, thousands of condoms flushed by progressive copulatory clog the sewage system...
...And therefore I haven't "harbored a grudge ever since" contributing to a "zeal" to oppose Mobutu...
...Humphrey is leaving his second wife who has elected to seek medical treatment for a potentially terminal disease rather than drink one of her husband's lethal coffees...
...Though our Liberal friends remain in the dark, it is as obvious as Mr...
...Weissman's unfortunate personal experiences in Zaire continue to shape his zealous views today...
...Her presence on the Harvard Law School faculty would be no more incongruous than the presence of a dozen or so of the profs now there, and doubtless she is better mannered—but I wander...
...I've known Greenspan at least thirty years, and I have close mutual friends who know him well...
...if constructive change proceeds, we have little to fear, for the Eastern Europeans can solve their own problems...
...There is much that is unobjectionable in Michael Ledeen's piece "The Beginning of the Beginning" (TAS, February 1990...
...I should have said the two men do not speak civilly...
...Animal rights activists went into high dudgeon after police laid the ambush and death of Mr...
...Stallings, which is a churchly way of saying he can now go to hell...
...Alan Dershowitz...
...Drexel Burnham Lambert passed away, as did Mr...
...Hyram Kitchen, dean of the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, to a plot by animal rights extremists who have vowed to murder the deans of veterinary colleges until all animal experiments end...
...And Mr...
...Adam Glickman, representing Custom Condoms of Somerville, Massachusetts, announced that his company will soon market a condom that glows in the dark...
...With its octane rating hiked by a few "inside" disclosures fresh from the D.C...
...Brock's reporting, I was not a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire during the 1960s...
...It is also a fact that in February 1985 Greenspan wrote a letter to the Federal Home Loan Bank-San Francisco claiming that Lincoln presented "no foreseeable risk" to the FSLIC and recommending that the thrift be exempted from the direct investment limitation...
...Milvea was always as neat as a pin, and she used soap...
Vol. 23 • April 1990 • No. 4
