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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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...I was just 20 kilometers from Zagreb when I saw the rocket installations...
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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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...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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...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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...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
