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and have greater mobility than people in shoe-wearing societies." Possibly Dr. Staheli has not heard of hookworm and stubbed toes. Controversy continues to entoil CBS's decision to yank—if you will...
...A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, woman, Miss Mary Vahec, 23, was killed when her car was hit by a flying manhole cover, and in Kewanee, Illinois, thanks to having drunk enough beer to "loosen" himself up at the instant of impact, Mr...
...Over the past three years an army of State Department correspondents and dozens of famous columnists have been unable to unearth even a tiny portion of the compelling story Brock was able to ferret out...
...Flat-earthers can "argue" and can stack the debate jury...
...This isn't tautology: it's the entire burden of the evidence, and it's common sense...
...First, Mr...
...That theme is that the Jews are an alien people living among us who have somehow gotten control of the most important institutions of our society and are using that control to further their own nefarious purposes...
...One thing did indeed lead to another, and as of late last month . . . I am now in possession of one charming Southern bride (of the traditional variety) and two, count 'em, two subscriptions to TAS...
...Hamilton's correction regarding his request to Secretary Baker...
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...I understand this criticism, but it is a criticism that can be made ofany Member of Congress at any time...
...The current version of this slander is based on several unstated but nevertheless evident assumptions: that American Jews' support of Israel is a sign of disloyalty to the U.S...
...I made this request precisely because I understood that the Secretary's time was so precious...
...Evolution, as a scientific proposition, states that, given changes in the environment, those aspects of a species's genetic makeup that enable it to survive the change will be the physical characteristics that are expressed and passed to future generations...
...David P Babcock Minneapolis, Minnesota Tom Bethell . . . is as guilty as Stephen Jay Gould in using evolutionary theory to make a political/moral point...
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...I have two comments with respect to the article...
...Although my military career progressed only up to Specialist 5th Class (and that was many years ago and in a foreign land), I decided to respond...
...such claims fit religionists better...
...No less moving than the cry of "Vive le Quebec libre" from the balcony was the spectacle of a president of the French Republic receiving the eucharist in the Cathedral of Montreal...
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...What will overthrow evolution, if anything does, is superior science...
...In retrospect, it is amazing how much the West could have learned back in 1940 from former intelligence agent Walter G. Krivitsky, the first major Soviet defector...
...would fight if threatened, and where it would stay out, since, as Maclean phrased it in his notes on the meetings, it was said "if the Soviets know where the holdline is drawn, they will move on what isn't protected like any predatory animal...
...S. England Arlington, Virginia David Brock names Thomas Friedman of the New York Times as one of the Washington-based journalists who are "apparently happy to have Baker dictate their stories for them...
...Geoffrey Strickland Department of French Studies University of Reading Reading, UK The Gould Standard In "Good as Gould" (TAS, August 1991), Tom Bethell says, "Evolution deserves to be overthrown—but by argument, not by legal officers...
...It may be that Robert Novak, like so many other commentators these days,no longer really knows what anti-Semitism is...
...It is a tremendous opportunity to sell your high quality editorial product to an audience with a proven propensity to purchase books...
...that he should have sought to preserve French interests —however far-sightedly or otherwise—in what had until only ten years earlier been French Indochina...
...Should any of these journalists subsequently try to join the British government, Krivitsky warned, that man very well might be the unknown Soviet agent...
...The irrepressible Boston Herald reported that 62 percent of the Massachusetts electorate thinks Senator Edward Kennedy should not run for reelection, despite all the enticingly bad luck that has befallen him...
...In Collinsville, Illinois, the spirit of liberty lives...
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...I totally agree with Bethell that the doctrine of equality of man before the law rests on shaky ground when using the "science" of Gould as its foundation...
...Michael Runyon escaped certain death when his lawn mower stalled on a railroad track and was hit by a freight train...
...Science, as Bethell points out, is a constantly changing animal, evolving if you please, as newer and better explanations of the physical universe are discovered...
...Some, maybe most, scientists are arrogant, but they are nonetheless constrained by the demands of their disciplines to modify their theories when they are contradicted by fact...
...He also shows, in effect, that Philby's intelligence led directly to the serious loss of American lives...
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...Herbert Zweibon, Chairman Americans For A Safe Israel New York, New York Defending De Gaulle Something more might perhaps have been said on the subject of Charles de Gaulle's alleged or real anti-Americanism in a review devoted to his career (review of Jean Lacouture's De Gaulle, by Mark Falcoff, TAS, July 1991...
...David Frum did everybody who is in the mainstream a favor by taking Pat Buchanan to the sidelines where he belongs in all his splendidly confused isolationism...
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...Brock made two factual mistakes...
...Herman was arrested for publicly touching himself where he goes to the bathroom...
...second, it puts the intellectually honest on notice that to present people like Buchanan as "mainstream conservatives" is to lie...
...It may be argued that it was their Catholicism that made for good relations between de Gaulle and John E Kennedy...
...The theory of evolution does not posit a machinery of progress fueled by the engine of natural selection...
...Brock refers in his article to testimony by Secretary of State Baker before a December 6, 1990 hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and to my questioning of Secretary Baker during that hearing...
...No attentive reader of this book will consider that argument tenable any longer...
...Ed Dawdy, the proprietors of that great city's Corner Deli, responded to the local health authoritarians' diktat that they install a second restroom for their 18-seat restaurant by placing a portapotty in their front window...
...How convenient for Friedman that his longtime pro-Arab bias (as demonstrated by his public association with the pro-PLO "Middle East Peace Group" at Brandeis) now meshes so neatly with his desire to "work for the State Department" by loyally promoting Baker's own pro-Arab agenda...
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...CBS's action touched off —if you will, again, allow me—a Manhattan demonstration on behalf of the aptly named Mr...
...That was not the estimate of major American political and military leaders at the time: General Marshall told the NSC right before the Czech coup that the world was "playing with fire, while we have nothing with which to put it out...
...It is not clear that creationists feel any similar constraint...
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...The curious situation Members of Congress faced during the war was that we had hundreds of questions, many prompted by our constituents, but only three or four very high ranking officials (essentially Secretary Baker, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Powell, and Secretary Cheney) who were allowed to testify, and of course, they had heavy demands on their time...
...In the case of a journalist like Buchanan, the question of anti-Semitism comes down to the meaning of the words he has written and spoken...
...I recall a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times depicting his empty grave, with a caption openly deploring that it had been empty too long...
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...How well grounded was de Gaulle's mistrust of Roosevelt we gather from the memoirs of Anthony Eden, who claims to have dissuaded Roosevelt from seeking to redraw the northeastern frontiers of France in a post-war settlement...
...Morality, ethics, and religion do not in any way owe their validity to science...
...Brock Solid David Brock's cover story on Jim Baker (TAS, August 1991) is the most convincing proof yet that not only does conservative journalism exist today, but it can be, if properly done, the nation's most vital form of reporting and analysis...
...and that, unlike other interest groups, American Jews wield some secret power which enables them to manipulate the U.S...
...Things change, and the better changes survive...
...The impression that he was an enemy and even a dangerous enemy of the United States was certainly widespread in the American media in the late 1960s...
...A real irony in Bethell's piece is his disparaging reference to evolution as (per Bertrand Russell) "laissez-faire economics applied to the animal and vegetable kingdoms...
...After all, we did promise to love, honor, etc...
...Pee-wee Herman's television show after Mr...
...Because of Maclean," Newton points out, "Stalin knew he had nothing to fear from America...
...He simply knew that the United States was incapable of launching either a conventional or atomic response to his weapons...
...Newton carefully refutes the argument of the Cold War revisionists—that Stalin merely responded to pressure the West was asserting from a position of strength...
...Morality, ethics, and religion rest on the permanent and unchangingground of wisdom, created by an eternal, metaphysical, and infinite God...
...or above) widowed or divorced, over 45...
...Pee-wee, drawing fans from all over the Big Apple, including veteran human rights activist Miss Marge Leeds, 67, whose eloquent placand read, "To masturbate is human...
...I also did not ask the Secretary to appear before the subcommittee I chair...
...and all the argument in the world will not change this fundamental law, any more than it will cause billions of years of geological evidence and hundreds of millions of years of paleontological evidence to vanish...
...There, Mr...
...and from his open and indeed outrageous encouragement of French-Canadian separatism during his visit to Montreal in 1967...
...That's all there is to it...
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...Brock criticizes me for leaving the room after my questioning and not staying to hear other Members of the committee question Secretary Baker...
...RET CORRESPONDENCE Novak's Buchanan Contrary to what Robert Novak writes in defense of Patrick Buchanan (Special Correspondence, TAS, August 1991), anti-Semitism is not a matter of character or motives, but of behavior...
...Peking and Moscow," Newton writes, "knew that theywere fighting almost a risk-free war...
...When Babcock writes that "the better changes succeed and the poorer ones fail," he illustrates in nine words the tautological nature of Darwin's alleged mechanism of evolution—natural selection...
...Maggie Valley, North Carolina The Business of State I write concerning statements about me made by David Brock in his article entitled "Not Losing at All Cost: Smooth Jim Baker's Rocky Reign at State," in the August 1991 issue of The American Spectator...
...The hearing transcript has not yet been printed, but I accept Rep...
...To Alan Weick: Evolution was more credible at a time when people still believed in progress...
...Alan J. Weick New York, New York Tom Bethell replier To David Babcock: Gould thinks that "evolution by natural selection" constitutes an adequate explanation of how snails (or anything else) came into existence...
...Whatever the case, it is clear that neither he nor Buchanan speaks for the vast majority of Americans, who continue to admire and support the sole, and still beleaguered, democracy in the Middle East...
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...from the open criticism of American intervention in Vietnam during his visit to Cambodia in 1964...
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...Plate tectonics won out not because of argument (that had been going on for decades) but because its advocates found massive physical evidence that their theory had predicted and that no competing theory could begin to account for...
...Usually faced with the dilemma of needing to be in two or more places at the same time, Members must try to straddle meetings...
...Rather thoughtful of you...
...This statement is so abstract that it looks plausibly law-like...
...In the process, he has utterly discredited the revisionists who argue that Cold War espionage was a useless game that did little harm...
...Verne W. Newton has worked out as much as can be possibly known about the espionage of three British gentlemen in the United States...
...True or otherwise, France's diplomatic support for the United States during the Cuban missile crisis should not be overlooked in any critical assessment of Franco-American relations under de Gaulle's presidency...
...Bob Tyrrell has it right and Bob Novak's got it wrong...
...When Truman announced that he was sending sixty "atomic capable" B-29s to bases in Europe, it was Truman, not Stalin, who was bluffing...
...Of course this cannot be surprising when creationists have spent almost all of the last two millennia denying the existence of such material...
...To deny that this is the case, as Robert Novak does with some vehemence, serves only to help make such ideas more respectable...
...Any responsible scientist acknowledges the chance of error at any point, particularly when denied a laboratory in which to change a variable and rerun an experiment, a constraint that every paleontologist lives with...
...It was presumably consistent with de Gaulle's desire for an independent foreign and defense policy that he should have wished to place forces under a wholly French command...
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...A s for Philby, Newton adds a few details to the discussions of his perfidy during the Korean War—in particular, that his and Maclean's efforts led the Chinese to move confidently into North Korea, since the Chinese felt safe from attack, due to the accounting of American strategy they got through Maclean...
...While a student at (continued on page 47) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1991 7 his participation in the top-secret talks that led to NATO...
...If Buchanan wants to join the movement, then Tiirrell's given him a generous invitation...
...Perhaps "an officer and a gentleman" (Lt...
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...He quotes Daniel Yergin, who wrote some years back that, during the Berlin confrontation, the Russians would have had to back down, since the U.S...
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...Philby's colleagues simply could not accept that "proper British gentlemen can betray country and crown...
...They do not seem even to know what science is...
...In consumer news, Sheik Yahya Sagish of Saudi Arabia was arrested in downtown Hyderabad, India, for purchasing a ten-year-old girl from a rickshaw driver...
...He had been using his five-horsepower riding mower since his license was suspended five years ago...
...Controversy continues to entoil CBS's decision to yank—if you will pardon the expression—reruns of Mr...
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...Laissez-faire affords a dandy analogy with evolution, indeed...
...But it merely states that organisms have parts, or characters...
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...Jerry McCloud, 33, whilst fleeing from a mob of law-andorder fanatics wishing to detain him for shoplifting, fell into an open manhole...
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...At these sessions it was determined where the U.S...
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...To spy in a dark theatre is fascist...
...from his attempt to restore the gold standard and replace the dollar as a reserve currency...
...Before deciding to enter Korea, Mao knew that his vital industrial and strategic resources were immune to counterattack, and that his enemy would not, despite threats, deploy the A-bomb against Chinese targets...
...only recently have they even begun to admit, tacitly, the absurdity of this position...
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...Hamilton leaves me curious as to what could have been more important to his duties as a legislator that day than the Gulf crisis...
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...was militarily stronger, and did have sole possession of nuclear weapons...
...and finally, that he should have restored political and cultural ties, after two centuries of what was seen as abandonment and betrayal, with the French Catholics of Quebec...
...If espionage was simply a game, the revisionist argument runs, then counterintelligence and American efforts to deal with it are in themselves a frivolous endeavor...
...government into supporting Israel at the expense of America's real interests in the Middle East...
...This does not posit that the succeeding species will be "superior" to the previous...
...Senators Albert Gore and John D. Rockefeller IV withdrew their names from consideration for the Democrats' 1992 presidential nomination, and Mr...
...Over time, a population of a particular species, separated from other populations of that species, confronting different environmental situations, will of necessity diversify, creating, in time, a separate species...
...Stalin, in other words, knew when to threaten and when to bluff...
...Yet when Kim Philby–l'under specific instructions from Moscow—penetrated British intelligence, they embraced him as one of their own...
...The bottom line isthat evolution deals much, much better than do creationists with the mass of fossil and geological material that scientists (and construction workers, for that matter) have unearthed...
...Here Newton again challenges the revisionists, who for a generation have argued that Mao's move into Korea was a foregone conclusion, and that the Truman Administration should have accepted Soviet and British overtures for a negotiated settlement...
...I did not "badger" or criticize the Secretary...
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...Far from claiming to "know how such complex creatures as mere snails came into existence," Gould in Wonderful Life goes to some pains to set out the gravity of the errors made by a celebrated paleontologist, Charles Doolittle Walcott, and claims no greater infallibility for himself or anyone else...
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...In undermining that belief, Gould hurts his own cause...
...That Stalin eventually blundered and overplayed his hand was due to his own particular madness, not to a position of Western supremacy...
...The roommate was injured slightly, but the cat died...
...We must simply be willing to listen to what he tells us...
...In other words, America does not need a CIA...
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...Brock did not contact me about the hearing, and it is evident from what he wrote that he did not check the transcript of the hearing...
...Krivitsky told the British that one Soviet agent was a "young English journalist sent to Spain during the [Spanish Civil] War...
...Now that that necessary deed's been done and it's clear that Buchanan is no spokesman for anything that could conceivably call itself mainstream, we can all get on with the agenda...
...Then consider, too, that for the first time someone can actually make sense out of the jumble of calamities that have hit American foreign policy on Baker's watch.—R...
...Once again, "Maclean was able to provide the Kremlin with both the policy and operational options and decisions being made in London, Washington, and Tokyo...
...Such a response does two things: first, it demarcates the terrain of decency and civility that mark the high ground from which Buchanan appears to have decamped...
...I asked him to allow other ranking officials in the Department of State to appear before my subcommittee to answer questions regarding the situation in the Persian Gulf...
...But one more comment: Novak needs to be told that when more-than-faintlyfascist ideas are penned by people claiming to be conservatives, and moreover, to speak for conservatives, then a strong response is not only appropriate but morally compelled...
...He doesn't regard the existence of snails as an unsolved mystery...
...The real or perceived threat to American interests during the 1960s came from de Gaulle's withdrawal from the military wing of NATO, while remaining nominally within the Western alliance...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) Brandeis University, Friedman was quoted in the campus newspaper, the Brandeis Justice (on February 11, 1975), as saying that his goal was to "work at the Middle East desk" of the State Department...
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...It may be that he knows all too well...
...military power was in fact limited—and making a show of force over Berlin was next to impossible...
...In truth, says Newton, "America's atomic arsenal was nonexistent," and Stalin knew it when he upped the ante in Berlin...
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...These notes, as Newton puts it, "must have made spellbinding reading in Moscow...
...that may or may not contribute to survival in different environments...
...Although Buchanan's apologists are often pleased to refer to such statements as examples of his brawling polemical style, the fact is that they are unmistakable invocations of traditional anti-Semitic ideas...
...Edward Lee Treaster was arrested in Tempe, Arizona, for hitting his roommate in the face with a cat...
...Hamilton does, however, confirm the central point of the anecdote: that he spent his time for questions asking for more information from the administration, then left for the day...
...The whole point of laissez-faire is that thousands or millions of actors, unconstrained by arbitrary force (such as the church, I cannot help but remark), make tomorrow better than today, as the better changes succeed and the poorer ones fail...
...Yet four of the signs, as they were taken to be, of his hostility to the United States can be explained far more plausibly in terms of de Gaulle's perception of France's national interests than as a paying off of personal scores and an avenging of the very real mistreatment which, as Mark Falcoff acknowledges, he and la France combattante had suffered at the hands of Roosevelt...
...Friedman's sycophantic relationship with Baker is entirely consistent with his self-declared career aspirations...
...Re: the continuing fracas over Pat Buchanan...
...that because such support is illegitimate, American Jews have no right to press Israel's case...
...As a scientist, he could not, and would not, make such a claim...
...and Mrs...
...And what Buchanan has been telling us recently is quite clearly a variation on an old anti-Semitic theme...
...In fact, I praised him for being available to meet with Members and for being generous with his time...
...We do not need to peer into his soul or even to know him personally, as Novak suggests...
...It merely states that the newer species is more capable in coping with the changed environment...
...It is this reasoning that animates such typical Buchananisms as dubbing Congress "Israeli-occupied territory...
...Notice how weak is Weick's "scientific proposition" of evolution by natural selection: "Given changes in the environment, those aspects of a species .. . that enable it to survive the change will be passed on to future generations...
...Box 549 Arlington, Virginia 22216-0549 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 47) manner recommended by his economic adviser Jacques Le Rueff, in such a way as to strengthen the French economy and, incidentally, as he sincerely believed, the economies of France's competitors...
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