Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE 'Mane Totalitarians Tom Bethell's report on "Tulane and the Big Government Campus" (TAS, May 1991) correctly captured the totalitarian mindset of Tulane's administration. It goes...
...Very rightly so...
...Interested readers may find out more information on trichotillomania in The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Judith Rapoport, M. D. —Jonathan Mills Newtonville, Massachusetts The Hussein Factor Terry Eastland's piece, "The Power Executive" (TAS, May 1991), is superbly written and his observations eminently fair...
...The plain fact was and is that during the critical period near the end of 1942 when the Allies shifted their support to Tito, it was the Partisans, not the Chetniks, who were causing the most problems for the Axis occupiers...
...I started to notice this more than a year ago with the Gold-Tyrrell piece asking for a boycott of German goods, a cretinous idea if there ever was one...
...Kamil 71trowski Lodz, Poland 40 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1991...
...Perhaps I should send my subscription renewal in cash under an assumed name...
...When those ran out and when the police post had been burned down and when the forty police involved were at the point of being lynched, they opened fire with live ammunition...
...Beverly C Meyer Walnut Creek, California Hair The items in "Current Wisdom" are surely offered for our entertainment, and for this reason the material from Good Times (May 1991) about the opening of a clinic for trichotillomania in Santa Cruz doesn't belong...
...Gerard E. Watzke Associate Professor A. R Freeman School of Business 7idane University New Orleans, Louisiana Rootin' Teuton Of all the conservative publications to which I subscribe (National Review, Chronicles, Conservative Review, and Commentary), only TAS consistently contains articles which take little jabs and digs at Germany and the Germans...
...For example, the April 1991 issue in "Current Wisdom" scoffs at John Lukacs's observation that the German people by and large like Americans and have a more realistic political judgment than that of the people in Eastern Europe...
...Fern Flanagan...
...In other words, Hussein's lack of Machiavellian cunning largely contributed to the success of the operation by ensuring the cohesiveness and resolve of the U.S...
...It's a pleasure for me to read all these openly anti-Communist articles in your paper...
...Also, the "Israeli security forces" were simply police, routinely stationed at the Temple Mount...
...The least bit of subtlety, the least bit of indication that he was willing to move or negotiate his position would have been enough to throw off what in retrospect seems an almost choreographed series of decisions and events on the part of President Bush and the coalition forces...
...It's not bad, it's not dirty, it's not CIA, it's not everything that Communism is...
...Well, this just may be true...
...a more likely use is the building of dossiers against politically incorrect faculty...
...These worshippers, a crowd of approximately 20,000, had assembled for prayer at the Western Wall, the holiest place in the Jewish religion...
...I believe that the casual reference to this incident could create a quite wrong impression on those who are not informed about this matter...
...Because of this there was always a big row between us and the Italians...
...In an April 23, 1991, directive, the newly appointed academic vice president and provost demands of every faculty member a report on "business and financial activities outside Tulane University in which you have participated during the 1990-91 academic year...
...Tiichotillomania is one manifestation of "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," an organic brain disfunction (now often medically treatable) that can devastate the lives of its victims, who must put many hours and much energy each day into compulsive rituals of cleaning, hair pulling, and checking, or into obsessive mental loops of embarrassing or frightening imaginings...
...And since that time each issue has had something if not in the same vein not too dissimilar...
...While the Nazis rejected this offer, their Italian allies who controlled western Yugoslavia often accepted collaboration with Chetnik forces—to such an extent that Hitler's military chief-ofstaff, Alfred Jodl, testified at Nuremberg of the Chetniks, "They were under Italian command...
...and its allies...
...They commissioned a contemporary history written by General Wisshaupt which documented that as early as November-1941, Mihailovich offered "to fight with his bands together with the German troops against the Communists...
...Adrian R. Valentino Fort Collins, Colorado Partisan Bickering So now it's British homosexual traitors who provided disinformation regarding the World War II exploits of Draza Mihailovich and his Chetnik forces, causing the Allies to tilt to Tito during the war (review of The Web of Disinformation, by David Martin, and The Rape of Serbia, by Michael Lees, by Aram Bakshian, Jr., TAS, May 1991...
...Taking nothing from the President's determined posture, the emergence of the United States out from the legacy of Vietnam owes something of a debt to this ruthless and stupid dictator...
...They are healthy in essence, they have this precious, and forgotten here, quality of the healthy way of looking at things...
...I think it is important that this matter be clarified in your pages...
...That's why your stories are so important to me...
...Those with trichotillomania may be unable to stop themselves from removing every hair on their body...
...And Michael Ledeen thinks the Germans have been gulled into giving money to Gorbachev...
...Gerardo Joffe San Francisco California Polish Progress I've got Your Magazine subscribed for me by a conservative friend from the distant, yet great, state of Montana, Mrs...
...It goes beyond race and gender...
...Through it all, the Tulane administration may outdo the Stanfords and Dukes on one score: it may unite a politically diverse faculty in purging the institution of the nonsense which endangers its educational mission...
...In time of war the most important objective is to win, often necessitating awkward alliances—witness the recent cozying up to Syria's Assad during the Gulf War...
...No one could accuse the German High Command of harboring Communist dupes...
...When attacked by the mob, they responded first with tear gas and then with rubber bullets...
...However strong the anti-Communist movement in Poland may seem to be on the surface, it's very weak deep inside peoples hearts...
...However, one major element is notably missing from his analysis, namely Saddam Hussein's utter foolishness...
...The correct word is blackmailed...
...Supposedly Big Brother wants this information to ferret out conflicts of interest...
...You don't hide behind cliches and you openly think of Communists as a synonym of all that's wrong, sick, and unnatural...
...In reading "The Mission Thing," by Gene Gibbons in the May 1991 issue of TAS, I was therefore surprised to read a reference to " . . . the incident of November 8 at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, when Israeli security forces killed more than a dozen unarmed Palestinian protesters . ." The "unarmed protesters" were part of a raging mob of 4,000 Moslem Arabs (continued on page 40) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1991 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) who, whipped into a frenzy by their clerics, stormed out of the mosques on the Temple Mount and loosed a barrage of rocks, bricks, and Molotov cocktails on the worshipping Jews beneath them...
...John Sarich Sacramenta California Political Correction The American Spectator has always been very fair in its reporting about the so-called "Arab-Israeli conflict...
...That's something I was deprived of all my life...
...At any number of junctures in the unfolding scenario one would have expected the Iraqi ruler to speak or act in such a way as to send ambiguous signals to those arrayed against him...
...I only wish that this kind of thinking were more popular in my native country...
...In general, thanks to my visits to the states, to personal contacts with Americans and finally to your magazine, I've found out that conservatism is not what Communist propaganda told me it was...
Vol. 24 • July 1991 • No. 7
