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...Had Martic wanted to inflict real damage on Zagreb, and not just send a "warning," he said he'd have sent one of the bombs, not just clusters...
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...Matthew Stuart Department of Philosophy Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine Hands Off Algeria Yes, it's too bad that Algerian women and whatever liberals are left in the country are in for a hard time ("The Battle for Algeria," by Roger Kaplan, TAS, October 1995...
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...The same scenario had worked in Western Slavonia where the Croats followed our attacks and chased the Serbs into Banja Luka, again at Sarajevo and then again at Banja Luka...
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...Martic had fired a rocket twoyears before as a warning and told Tudjman, at the time, that he'd level Zagreb, if attacked...
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...Fabian Maguire Saint Marys, Kansas The past two issues of The American Spectator (October and November 1995), have been so interesting and informative that my expectation of excellence from your publication has increased dramatically...
...We helped Germany rearm the Croats and knew all along that we and Iran, Iraq and Turkey had armed the Muslims well enough to enable them to fight their own war, and we had our "advisers" on the ground with both sides even "spotting" for the Muslims and Croats...
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...Cony—the war between the Serbs on one hand and the Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians, and Macedonians on the other is an old-fashioned colonial war, not a religious one...
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...Perhaps Norquist has confused me withmy son Mark Pertschuk, who works for Americans for Nonsmokers Rights in Berkeley, not the Advocacy Institute...
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...That is exactly why the peace was maintained on the Krajina-Croat line for so long...
...Still Dead In his article "Jerry's Kids" (TAS, October 1995), M.D...
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...Former left-wing regimes have also provided weak foundations for their successors-of any stripe-to build upon...
...The Collected Letters of Malcolm Cowley (TAS, October 1995) that Cowley was a student of Charles Fort (1874-1932), who devoted his life to research in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, seeking out published records of scientific anomalies in journals, books, mainstream newspapers, etc...
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...Many observers of the Middle East Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and all scene seem to believe that the root of the the others—do not aim at peace with Middle East conflict lies in the dispute Israel or the recovery of some territory...
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...of territory (smaller than Lake Michigan), Those Arab statesman who have tried to cannot possibly be a threat to peace or a come to terms with the Jewish state have menace to the Arabs...
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...Frank Cash's letter (Correspondence, TAS, October 1995) critical of Justine Levine's praise of James Bovard's article on ADA: Deaf people without closed captioning equipment are the lucky ones...
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...MothJews long pre- er reason that dates Israel's "Real peace...can only happen through com- real peace will control over the plete change of mentality, policies and be difficult to administeredattain in the historical ambition in the Arab-Iranian block...
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...Norquist writes: "In the June 26 issue of the Nation, Pertschuk describes the Advocacy Institute as 'developing a program to help progressive groups talk back to the libertarian right.'" On this Norquist is right...
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...That this opposition should be traditionalist in orientation should not surprise us, since most historic religions worth their salt have made habits of weathering major historical storms, and thus provided ready-made refuges for those at odds with a modernity too closely identifiedwith a ruthless left-wing regime...
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...Norquist writes: "The National Cancer Institute has also been giving money to the Advocacy Institute, a lobbying organization set up by Michael Pertschuk...
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...The hatred is also not centuries old but dates exactly from 1918 when the West gave these countries as colonies to Serbia to plunder, terrorize, rape, and rule over...
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...Horbaczewski's concern, then, appears to be our September On the Prowl item that reported David Bonior's strange book arrangement at a time when he's attacking House Speaker Newt Gingrich's book contract with HarperCollins...
...they were also the first, together with Qaddafi, to welcome and recognize officially the Moscow military coup in August 1991...
...Equally significant, the PLO has until now not complied with its promise to abolish the clause in its "covenant" that calls for the destruction of Israel...
...I saw the Serb rocket installations in May 1993 when I went from one end of the Krajina front to the other...
...Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and so was PresiThe main reason that real peace is so dif- dent Bashir Gemayel of Lebanon, all of ficult to attain is the political and cultural whom envisioned peaceful cooperation context of the Middle East, which is domi- and co-existence with Israel...
...When it comes to the Advocacy Institute and the misuse of taxpayer money for political advocacy, Pertschuk himself admits the institute receives taxpayer dollars and engages in political advocacy...
...and that it could be resolved by don of the Jewish state...
...That's all there is to it...
...Since then, Israel has made crucial concessions to the PLO in the quest for peace, most importantly, yielding vital strategic territory to it...
...it is the very existence of sir Arafat himself will escape such fate...
...Reed Elsevier's direct lobbying of Congress creates no less an appearance of conflict of interest...
...Your tax-deductible contnbutions are welcome...
...State: Zip' Date of changeL VCAFRM CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) whether it is Reed Elsevier's policy to keep in print—in both hard and soft cover—a book that in the last decade has received almost no interest and minimal sales, a book moreover that hardly can be passed off as "scholarly" or "library material...
...Only employees and retired employees...
...The PLO, Israel's Israel's yielding its heartland, "partner for peace", has not disavowed Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank"), and this...
...Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner: Ronald E. Burr, Publisher...
...America did business with socialist Algeria, which also served as a base and conduit for Soviet support for anti-Western terrorism...
...V. The Balkan War is not a cruel Communist dictatorship punishing rebelious freedom lovers, like Ukraine 1933, but a religious war...
...Peter .I...
...Happy and Unhappy Campers I wonder, has The American Spectator been recently purchased by the New York Times...

Vol. 28 • December 1995 • No. 12


 
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