Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Web of Lies The despicable attempt by John Sarich (Correspondence, TAS, July 1991) to defame the record of a great and patriotic man, General Draza Mihailovich, must be corrected....
...It was used grammatically where one would normally see the pronoun "he" and I became curious and called the journal's editor, whose secretary told me that it was the author's way of eliminating gender-based language...
...Not to worry...
...William M Macfadyen Santa Barbara, California Cousin It I know you're desperately concerned about "gender-based" language creeping into your magazine...
...The BBC promptly announced that the Nazis were offering a reward for .. . just Tito...
...Until now, I haven't felt that there was a contradiction between this view and being a member of the Republican party, but TAS may yet convince me otherwise...
...Graff implies that, of all precipitation on California, about 63 percent evaporates...
...The character string s'he kept appearing and its persistence ruled out a typo...
...The love he had earned among the peasants enabled him to be carried by stretcher from village to village withoutbeing caught...
...Sarich has not taken the time to read David Martin's The Web of Disigformation, which he dismisses, or he has deliberately suppressed the documented facts which it contains...
...Maybe they should get back to basketball...
...What we are for is Justice, and its extension to animals...
...With the "media" doing their best to revise our recollection of the last ten years or so, I'm glad I can depend on Presswatch to debunk and expose their abuse and tall tales...
...I know y'all are anxiously awaiting developments in these matters...
...He thus exposes himself as either a fool or a liar...
...Martin's stunning book in one letter, but I think a few details from it would suffice to obliterate Mr...
...I can sum it up for you: Mihailovich was a betrayed hero...
...Dennis Mangar Redwood Valley, California CALL ME A DOCTOR: TALES OF SIX MEDICAL MEN WHO WENT ELSEWHERE AND DID OTHER THINGS Jack Griffitts, M.D./The American Spectator/244 pp...
...Philip Averbuck Watertown, Massachusetts Making Water Ordinarily Tom Bethell's articles are factual and credible...
...airmen who had been forced to bail out over territory controlled by his followers...
...Can Beth-ell seriously subscribe to such ideas...
...Right here in my new copy of that journal of record for the babbling elite left, the New York Review, is the answer...
...and Tito was a murdering and corrupt despot...
...A new plan would have to be acceptable to politicians, farmers, and others...
...Last month RET lashed out at those who take exception to the torture of animals in the name of science...
...Bethell takes off to do a sales job for one Thomas Graff of the Environmental Defense Fund, who should be left to do his own selling, preferably in pages other than TAS...
...Either Mr...
...I understand the evaporation rate is closer to one-third...
...you may be certain that changes offered will succeed only in aggravating matters...
...2) On July 21, 1943, newspapers in occupied Yugoslavia ran quarter-page announcements, with photos, that the Nazis were offering 100,000 gold marks for the heads of Mihailovich or Tito...
...He was able to evade six whole divisions of Tito's troops for seventeen months, even after contracting typhus while on the run...
...I cannot do justice to Mr...
...The problems described will not equitably be solved by the EDF...
...I'll keep you posted...
...Animal rights supporters, or at least this one, are not anti-capitalist, antidefense, anti-science, anti-human, or anti-American...
...Mihailovich was a Nazi collaborator and/or a non-fighter: (1) On March 29, 1948, President Harry Truman, on the recommendation of General Dwight Eisenhower, awarded the Legion of Merit in the Degree of Chief Commander to Gen...
...Sarich: read the book before you dismiss it, and try to take in what Yugoslavian historians are now saying about Mihailovich and Tito...
...3) Mihailovich, unlike Tito, refused to flee his country, even after the Soviet Army had captured Belgrade...
...Morris Guralnick Orofina Idaho The Journalist's Creed As I read Victor Gold's review (TAS, July 1991) of Bob Woodward's latest contribution to the Great Books series, I was reminded of an English verse, which seemed, properly amended, to fit the situation: You cannot hope to bribe or twist This upright Beltway journalist...
...His recent opus ("Watering The Chips," TAS, July 1991), on the other hand, leaves much to be desired...
...If these numbers are incorrect, the validity of the entire article is suspect...
...could we expect the grammarians of the elite left to turn to s'h'it...
...Fooling around with this system, to replace it with socialistic schemes, can only result in damage to production...
...Sarich's innuendo that Gen...
...We must bear in mind that California farmers (slyly castigated in the article) supply much of our food...
...Marion C Schneider Tempe, Arizona Go Eastland I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy Presswatch in general and Terry Eastland's analyses in particular...
...government until 1967 (after pressure from then-Congressman Edward Derwinski, now Secretary of Veterans' Affairs) for fear of offending that great fighter for freedom, Josip Broz Tito...
...2) P. J. O'Rourke's equation of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with ACT-UP, and his suggestion that it (PETA) was helping to destroy "the entire fabric of American society...
...Mihailovich in recognition of his services to the Allied cause, in particular to his rescue and return of hundreds of U.S...
...This love, of course, was what drove the Communists to murder him, which they finally did, after a typical Stalinoid trial, in July 1946...
...I followed this up with a letter—unanswered as yet —asking what we will do if the its come up with enough sympathy to become worrisome...
...The examples could easily be multiplied...
...But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there's no occasion to...
...government subsidies...
...Perhaps WP thinks that compromise of one's principles is a good thing...
...This particularly nonsensical blurb tweaked my curiosity and I tracked down the perpetrator to North Carolina State University...
...This brought to mind an article I read a few months back in an education journal...
...in a full-page ad for the personal computer program "Editor," it says the "SERIOUS WRITER" can "eliminate problems such as wordiness . . . and gender-based language...
...Where did he get that figure...
...Rice farmers alone produce a major portion of world demand...
...Guess now we know what they're smoking up in Raleigh, and it ain't grown (continued on page 41) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1991 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) with U.S...
...Bob Hamilton Denton, Texas The Animal Right As a vegetarian, a supporter of animal rights, and a long-time American Spectator reader, I am becoming increasingly annoyed at the gratuitous swipes at those who care for animals which are offered almost monthly in your magazine...
...It was an elision of "she/he...
...If you are going to deny the entire thesis of a scholarly work, you have an obligation to read it...
...But this award was not made public by the U.S...
...To diddle with the present arrangement invites perilous prospects...
...The present water distribution system is the result of years of development and, unless we are to avoid forgone disaster, must be left unmolested until something vastly superior comes along...
...Open your eyes, Mr...
...15.95 Shawn Miller THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1991 41...
...There were at least two in the May issue: (1) WP's attack on a vegetarian student who refused to compromise her principles just to go to Japan...
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