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loween night in 1981, died by lethal injection despite protests from animal rights activists and related humanitarians. Since the Supreme Court adjudged capital punishment constitutional in 1976,...
...In it, he presents a striking argument: that the contras were not simply mercenaries hired by imperialist Washington to destroy the wonderful Sandinistas but a legitimate peasant protest movement, launched with Washington's help but reflecting, above all, the failures and errors of Sandinista policy...
...There the remarkable Mayor Al Erickson, professor of wildlife and public servant, offered to resign when his research ship became stuck in an Antarctic ice sheet, delaying his return to his 975 constituents...
...The defendant was prosecuted for aggravated assault...
...The Crisis is Continuing...
...However, while for most of its American recipients MacArthur money seems only to strengthen the pose of fashionable alienation and self-delusion, Bendana, who has returned to Nicaragua, apparently had to face some bitter realities...
...Joseph A. Rehyansky Lt...
...To the best of my recollection, when I retired in late 1990, the rate hadn't budged...
...television throughout the 1980s...
...You may find the cow dung smelly and awful, but for them it is heaven...
...I have never seen anything like it in any publication that has ever been in my house...
...Megat Junid Ayob, these bucolic druggies "quickly put a coconut shell over it [the steaming droppings], and sniff the gas through the hole on top of the shell...
...Late last year he published a remarkable book, Una tragedia campesina: Testimonios de la resistencia, in Managua...
...Irwin B. Golden Upland, California Size, schmize, who cares...
...To wit, my local branch of the Los Angeles County library system does not carry TAS (or Reason, or even the Economist), but it does feature a large and growing collection of movie videos, cassettes, and CD recordings, and now even laser discs...
...How long before it becomes possible north of the Rio Grande...
...For your suggestion to the contrary, you owe him and your readers an apology and a retraction...
...Advocates of term limitation can look to Yarrow Point, Washington, for hope...
...Floyd Fithian, Chief of Staff Senator Paul Simon —Susan Kaplan, Chief Counsel Constitution Subcommittee United States Senate Washington, D.C...
...RET Speech...
...Almost all had claimed that they must have contracted it from heterosexual intercourse...
...Just reading about all that thumpin' and whinin' and cryin' by a bunch of goofy girly-men gave me the willies...
...The Ku Kluxian mentality has risen up against Mr...
...John F Fielder Williamstown, Massachusetts Special thanks to Andrew Ferguson for investing the time and energy to attend a Nerd Man weekend...
...Bendaiia describes as "ironies" the fact that the Sandinista government, which said it wanted to help the peasants, ended up as their worst enemy, and that the contra movement became the first peasant rebellion in Latin American history to gain Washington's support...
...In one fleeting reference to him in your detailed 15-page [sic] article you imply that John has a poor reputation among Senate staffers and that he could have been responsible for the alleged leaks concerning Anita Hill...
...If your publication and reporter are as concerned about ethical behavior as the article suggests, you should print an apology for the totally unwarranted aspersion to the character and integrity of an honorable person...
...Speech...
...One is that the subject matter is too unimportant for such a lengthy article...
...There are many tragic exceptions...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...and former head of the Nicaraguan government's foreign ministry...
...And the rest of the world can kiss my ass...
...A revision of historical judgment on the contras is taking place among Nicaraguan intellectuals...
...He has worked for more than five years as staff counsel to the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate...
...He is a hard-working, dedicated, and conscientious member of the staff and has the full confidence and respect of his colleagues...
...Bendaria was a (continued on page 14) CORRESPONDENCE 12 The American Spectator April 1992 prominent defender of the Sandinista dictatorship on U.S...
...We also know that John, like every other member of the subcommittee staff, never saw or had any access to either Anita Hill's statement or the FBI report prior to the publication of the press accounts on October 6, 1991...
...A footnote to the story may be appreciated by your readers...
...The real point is, why do you devote all that space each month to people other than Ben Stein...
...It is composed largely of young, unmarried, horny, heterosexual males—many of whom are promiscuous as hell...
...The content, of course, remains exceptional...
...For further research, I urge Fumento to attend one of the federal government's frequent—and mandatory—AIDS-sensitivity training sessions for supervisors...
...after finding out he was infected, he had unprotected oral and vaginal sex with one man and two women, one of whom he impregnated, without telling any of them about his condition...
...If that doesn't cure them, they might as well give it up and go shopping for panty hose...
...John's reputation on the Hill is excellent and deservedly so...
...Amazingly, Harvard University rejected a request by EuroPacific International to market condoms bearing the school's insignia...
...As for the young soldier I helped prosecute, none of the three people with whom he copulated became infected, and they were tested regularly up until a year after their last contact with him...
...In the fashion of the New Man, I honor him...
...The survey was conducted with ironclad safeguards to prevent exposure and insure privacy...
...No wonder the patrons talk so loud...
...I continue to wonder, however, why the U.S...
...Afterwards the coconut shell may be worn as a hat to ward off the strong rays of the sun and preserve happy memories of the good life...
...I'd like to thank my family for loving me," asseverated the latest cause celebre of the anti–capital punishment cabal, "and taking care of me...
...military's statistical experience in tracking AIDS and refuting the notion of widespread heterosexual transmission continues to be virtually ignored...
...Coming Home Congratulations on Joshua Muravchik's thorough dissection of the MacArthur Foundation and their programs, which seem to be based on the principle that leftists are the only geniuses around ("MacArthur's Millions," TAS, January 1992...
...That's the spirit, jackass...
...But the truth has always been, and it remains, that AIDS is for the most part a disease of promiscuous homosexuals who act as the receptive partner in anal copulation, intravenous drug abusers, addicted prostitutes—and those who consort with them...
...What those guys need is a weekend of John Wayne movies followed by eight weeks in boot camp at Quantico...
...Tim Ferguson Hermosa Beach, California Life Goes On Please ask those critics of the new format (Correspondence, TAS, March 1992) whether they buy a magazine or book for the size and quality of paper, or for its intellectual contents...
...It can now be retained on private library shelves...
...As a young lawyer who has devoted his career to public service, John deserves better than to be the target of a cheap and false shot from the press...
...Army (Ret...
...Carl F Engelhardt Arlington, Virginia There are two things wrong with Andrew Ferguson's article...
...In our many years of association with him, we have never known him to be less than fully trustworthy and we have never heard a critical word from anyone about his integrity, honesty, or discretion...
...I discovered that when the military began mandatory AIDS testing for everyone in the mid-1980s—at least every two years, and also upon enlistment, transfer, discharge, or retirement-the infection rate was running at 2 per 1,000...
...They were reminded that, as retirees, they were beyond the reach of the military's occasional prosecution of homosexual activity...
...None, however, laid down more eloquent last words...
...He urged his fellows to carry "three handguns and two rifles, maybe an M-16...
...If there was any truth to the myth of heterosexual AIDS, the military would have been the first group to show signs of the epidemic to come...
...There is absolutely no way that he could have played any part in the release to the press of these documents or the contents of them...
...Consider the demographic composition of the military...
...The baby was born uninfected...
...Then, according to Deputy Interior Minister Hon...
...Col., U.S...
...Without any regard for the privacy of the cows, addicts trail the unfortunate creatures and wait for them to evacuate...
...Dale E. Elliott Lovington, Illinois A Public Service Announcement Your article, "The Real Anita Hill" [by David Brock, TAS, March 1992], without any factual basis or justification, defamed a number of innocent people, including our colleague and friend, John Trasvifla...
...That is forgivable...
...Please do not let this happen ever again...
...In 1987-88 I supervised the first prosecution of an AIDS-related criminal trial for the military...
...In education news, Malaysian drug addicts in the northeastern states of Kelantan and Terengganu, who have been experiencing a shortage of heroin and marijuana for months, have found a splendid substitute "high," to wit, inhaling the methane and other natural gases that seep from fresh cow excrement...
...Muravchik mentions that one recipient of MacArthur largesse has been the Sandinista figure Alejandro Bendana, a Harvard Ph.D...
...Three cheers for Andrew Ferguson...
...I believe his wonderful piece "America's New Man" (TAS, January 1992) to be the most humorous article to appear in your pages since I began subscribing two years ago...
...Garrett's distinction have been officially dispatched to hell, forty-four in progressive Texas...
...TAS, February 1992) most interesting...
...While preparing for trial, I studied a stack of research and articles that was four feet high...
...Chattanooga, Tennessee A Sage from Baltimore The concluding line from February's Current Wisdom—"Anna Quindlen is on vacation"—is simply the funniest line I have ever read in my (and your) beloved American Spectator...
...From our many years of close association with him, we know him to be scrupulously honest and totally honorable...
...There was no way that the respondents could be traced and individually identified...
...previously it could not...
...Chino Williams, the Pennsylvania State University student who in the campus paper, Daily Collegian, told it like it is, calling whites "devils" and "irredeemable racists," and urging fellow fuliginous students to "unite, organize and execute" students who appear threatening...
...Since the Supreme Court adjudged capital punishment constitutional in 1976, 158 individuals of Mr...
...Also, about three years ago, a friend of mine in the Pentagon who had helped conduct a very interesting and confidential survey told me of its results...
...I put those nit-pickers in the same category as cotton pickers (at the risk of denigrating cotton pickers...
...Wayne E. Bingham Albuquerque, New Mexico 14 The American Spectator April 1992...
...It was conducted among military retirees who were seeking medical treatment for AIDS...
...These sessions are irrefutable proof of the capitulation of our government, including the Department of Defense, to the politicization of AIDS by the gay lobby...
...Larson, the "assistant library director" from Sacramento (Correspondence, TAS, February 1992), is still reading, perhaps she'd care to reveal how much of her strapped institution's resources are going to non-reading material...
...David Woodruff Los Angeles, California Here is the last word on the new format...
...Ray Gercke Baltimore, Maryland Why the Librarian Can't Read If the densely humorless Ms...
...The other is the incredible amount of obscene words...
...And almost all admitted to homosexual activity...
...Stephen Schwartz San Francisco, California Military AIDS I found Michael Fumento's latest update on AIDS ("Do You Believe in Magic...
...Fumento did mention it twice in passing...
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