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CORRESPONDENCE Once in a Weill What a fine and clever piece by Mark Steyn on Kurt Weill (Books in Review, TAS, January 1996). What's more, the cleverness was not sprinkled about like so much...
...Twentynine Palms, California The answer to Michael Kinsley's plaintive whine ("The mystery to me is not why journalists tend to be liberals but why so many other reasonable, intelligent people are not") is implicit in his statement...
...Before the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the management of this Unit, not unlike other assets of the people, was in the hands of a number of lackeys, and an enormous amount of the Moslem people's wealth was poured this way into the pocket of imperialist companies...
...CHRISTOPHER BURNETT San Antonio, Texas The new look is terrible...
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...Exporting Democracy As a fellow transplanted Brit, I can confirm Tom Bethell's observation ("We're Not Alright, Jack," TAS, January1996) that England is becoming more like the United States in a lot of the worst possible ways...
...If you rearranged your letters to the editor in the February 1996 issue, you could have had Shane Corcoran's letter continue on page 7o...
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...It seems that the print is fainter or the letters not bold enough...
...For this reason, the article that appeared in your December issue clearly leaves both you and Mr...
...None of this, of course, justifies firing at a man who presented no threat to anyone at the time, and who was not escaping from custody...
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...Nothing could be further from the truth, as Mr...
...If FBI snipers like Lon Horiuchi could use military-style assumptions—that it is okay to kill anyone in a hostile area—then Horiuchi's shot might have been reasonable...
...But who needs those big guys when Florence King is on board...
...Likewise, it is impossible to drive into London from the Surrey suburbs without noticing that virtually every house—even the modest ones—is now equipped with a burglar alarm...
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...Wellman that we need independent counsels to probe both Waco and Ruby Ridge...
...Ich bin ein Irving Berliner" alone was worth the price of admission...
...Timmerman vulnerable to an action for considerable damages by Alavi Foundation...
...JOSEPH DRESNER Ann Arbor, Michigan James Ring Adams correctly chastises President Clinton for trying to dip into the honey pot of workers' pension plans for politically correct investments...
...As a relatively new subscriber of TAS I am very disappointed in your decision to change to "better paper...
...SMITH San Jacinto, California Thank God for Florence King...
...However, I am told that even with frozen assets the Alavi Foundation would be able to pay its lawyers...
...Is there no honesty in either party...
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...I compared the index of John Alden's Flush Decks and Four Pipes with the individual entries in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and found that the dozen of the 273 destroyers that were built during and immediately after World War I were named for Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel...
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...Here are two questions that all Americans must put to Madame Attorney General: 1. Why have you refused to contact the three-judge panel and ask them to appoint an independent counsel to probe Waco...
...Let's just say he is not greatly missed since he left "Crossfire...
...It is therefore reasonable to assume that Horiuchi put his cross-hairs on the door, then fired when Harris moved to the appropriate amount of lead...
...This was certainly not the case when I moved to this country in 1988...
...They have already done this with the unfunded retirement scam known as Social Security...
...MICHAEL MAXTONE-GRAHAM New York, New York Eubie the Judge Not having read William Safire's etymological analysis of the word "funk," which inspired M.D...
...In the course of my research, I came across numerous documents that provided a wealth of detail about the relationship between the New York foundation and the Foundation for the Oppressed in Tehran...
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...It is necessary to "lead" a moving target, that is, to aim at the point where the target will be when the bullet arrives...
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...I'm sorry to say I found reading it only slightly less tedious than the tax preparation book...
...Not only that, but to keep the government running during the current shutdowns, the Clinton administration borrowed from the pension funds of federal employees, placing their retirement at risk...
...Mostazafan" is most frequently translated as "oppressed," hence its English-language moniker, the Foundation for the Oppressed...
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...Particularly damaging to the Foundation are the numerous references and innuendoes to the supposed link between Alavi Foundation and Bonyad-e Mostazafan, the large foundation headquartered in Iran...
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...Atlanta, Georgia It is surprising that James Ring Adams did not mention Alicia Munnell, the ex-Boston Fed, ex-Treasury savant, and her ambitious plans to make government supplicants of us all by taxing the value buildup of our pensions and other retirement accounts...
...The majority of journalists are not reasonable, intelligent people...
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...4. Generally, the activities of the Foundation for the Oppressed of New York consist of the following...
...Therefore, the responsible and committed brothers and the Islamic Republic Government utilized all possible attempts and methods to reclaim this Unit, and despite the obstruction of the American Agents, they succeeded in this matter...
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...He was not always overwrought with liberal angst...
...Although the childish color scheme of the January cover was appropriate for the subject (Michael Kinsley), the overall look was too similar to the New Republic—not a magazine I think you would want to be mistaken for...
...KEN MAYTAG KPM8o5@aol.com Congratulations on your new layout and departmental illustrations, but if your "purpose is to be easier to read" (Wlady's column, TAS, January 1996) you couldn't have achieved a more monumental failure...
...Keep up the great coverage and I will continue to leave the subscription forms at all the restaurants I visit...
...A new board, sympathetic to the Islamic Republic, took over...
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...The article ["Islamic Iran's American Base"], authored by Kenneth R. Timmerman, is filled with inaccuracies, many of them libelous as to the Foundation...
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...He warns us to be aware of President Clinton's devious plan to raid the private pension funds to move his social agenda...
...Its March 21, 1981 edition, for instance, contains a lengthy article entitled "Let's Get Acquainted With the Foundation for the Oppressed in New York," which recounts how the Islamic Republic took over the Pahlavi Foundation in the United States for its own use: The New York Foundation that consists of a thirty-six story building was formed in the year [1975] pursuant to the instruction of the Pahlavi Foundation, through interest-free financing from Bank Melli Iran in the amount of $42 million...
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...If I were trying to shoot someone zoo yards away, and that person was running toward the entrance of a building, and I saw someone else standing at the door of the building, and I decided to try to shoot the target by shooting through the person standing in the door—well, I might be able to hit the target, but I would be shooting an innocent bystander in the process...
...Now, CNN has the daunting task of finding a replacement for the fugacious Kinsley...
...The fact that any FBI official would continue making claims that the bullet first hit Harris —years after the trial—is indicative of the contempt some FBI officials must feel for the American public...
...Timmerman and your magazine from liability for defamation...
...Don't ever discontinue Ben Stein...
...In the spring and summer of 1979, virtually the entire board resigned under pressure from Tehran...
...Martino is correct that a sniper normally "leads" a moving target by aiming at a point where the target will bewhen the bullet arrives...
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...To this I can add my own observation of mostly little clues that paint a depressingly familiar picture...
...Tyrrell's editorial, "Mike Goes Soft" (TAS, January 1996), cogently described the many inadequacies of Mr...
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...instead, FBI officials have made such claims to the media and elsewhere —away from the scrutiny of defense attorneys or individuals familiar with the case...
...In the interims between fake temper tantrums, he feigned an idiotic smile to conceal his otherwise humorless nature...
...Snipers are instead trained to aim at a point well ahead of the moving target, then track the target as it moves along the horizontal cross-hair in the 'scope...
...Horiuchi Kootchi James Bovard, "the light that shines through the darkness," has brilliantly elucidated the truth about Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the cover-up by both the FBI and Congress ("Hear No Evil," TAS, January 1996...
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...Timmerman to publish, at the earliestpossible opportunity, a broadscale retraction, repudiating the lies and innuendo that appear throughout the article with respect to the Foundation's role as an affiliate or representative of either Bonyad-e Mostazafan or the Iranian government...
...I'm pretty sure a person drinking coffee in a restaurant doesn't cause illness and discomfort for others...
...Irreplaceable You Was amused to read Florence King's review of Big Babies by Michael Kinsley (TAS, January 1996...
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...When I saw the title I thought it was an autobiography...
...However, unlike most "investigatory" pieces which attribute their lurid allegations to unidentifiable sources, a number of the factual inaccuracies in this particular article are directly attributable to the author, and thus the publisher, rather than being ascribed to third party sources, named or unnamed...
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...In the introduction to a 1992 pamphlet in English describing the activities of the Mostazafan Foundation of Iran, Chairman Mohsen Rafiq-doust boasted that his organization had an annual budget in excess of Sio billion at the official exchange rate, "comprising 7 to ro% of the national budget of the country...
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...Rockville, Maryland Redfish, New Fish Regarding R. Emmett Tyrrell's editorial "Fish Are Jumpin"' (TAS, January 1996): the Texas Gulf Coast has experienced a tremendous increase in redfish due to efforts of the Gulf Coast Conservation Association, Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, and the Dow Chemical Company Texas Operations...
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...Regarding Ruby Ridge, the Justice Department has recently appointed a so-called "outside counsel" who Madame Attorney General alleges is "independent" (not really), so we may expect some slaps on the wrist in the near future as a few small fish are prosecuted, while the big fish get off scot free...
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...But overseas, all sorts of legal hurdles frustrated the new Islamic regime, some of which are still being ironed out...
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...Considering that Kevin Harris was running and on the verge of ducking inside a cabin, those odds would probably have been even lower...
...Michael Kinsley as a liberal theorist and debater...
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...Will we never again be able to tune in "Crossfire" to see Kinsley's beady little eyes dance as he prepares to affect anger...
...What's more, the cleverness was not sprinkled about like so much lagniappe for its own sake but was integral to his thesis and served to underscore his points...
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...Ferguson's firm told us they would answer no questions—not even seemingly innocuous ones relating to the Foundation's current charitable programs...
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...While the New York foundation did not legally belong to Tehran, it clearly carried out instructions emanating from Tehran's ruling elite...
...But if you wish to have the unconverted read your magazine, you will have to sharpen your skills considerably...
...Nor does it justify Horiuchi's firing into a cabin occupied by a woman and children who were not included in the (unconstitutional) order to fire at any armed male...
...You need to open the ink valve a little wider, and use less shiny and less transparent paper...
...DAN SHERMAN Colorado Springs, Colorado Without Foundation We are writing on behalf of our client, Alavi Foundation, to object in the strongest possible terms to the article about the Foundation which appears on pages 39 through 42 of the December 1995 edition of The American Spectator...
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...In the weeks following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini seized the assets of the former Shah of Iran, including the Pahlavi Foundation...
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...ROBERT H. M. FERGUSON Patterson, Belknap, Webb Tyler New York, New York Kenneth R. Timmerman replies: The relationship between the Alavi Foundation of New York and the Bonyad-e Mostazafan va Janbazan in Tehran — Iran's largest industrial and trading conglomerate -- is obviously a sensitive issue, as Mr...
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...In contrast, today's multicultural Left hides behind a squidlike ink of sentimentality and relativism...
...Martino writes that his theory "would fit with FBI testimony that the bullet passed though Harris before hitting Vicki Weaver...
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...MICHAEL WALDBILLIG New York, New York I'd just like to add my heartfelt congratulations and thanks for the continuing excellence of The American Spectator magazine...
...The amount of perjury and misuse of deadly force in those cases demands an independent investigation into federal law enforcement...
...Louis, Missouri I have apparently deluded myself into believing your stated claim of being the carrier of the torch of conservative ideology...
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...When the target moves up to the proper amount of lead, the sniper fires...
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...WILLIAM MOODY -CLIFTON WELLMAN Seabury, New York SARKES TARZIAN INC Sarkes Tarzian Television Sarkes Tarzian Radio Broadcasters Making a Difference The American Spectator • March 1996 73 In his otherwise very informative article on Waco and Ruby Ridge, James Bovard made a serious mistake in his statement "To shoot at a running target by aiming at the window of a door facing into the cabin would be an idiotic way to try to shoot Kevin Harris...
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...LINDEMAN San Francisco, California Pension Headache As a retiree on a very, very modest pension, I was reassured to read James Ring Adams's article "Pension Pincher" (TAS, January 1996...
...Martino denies that Horiuchi's shot was an "idiotic way" to try to shoot Kevin Harris...
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...Timmerman inaccurately asserts that the Iranian foundation "...remains Alavi's parent organization for all intents and purposes...
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...The article then explains to the foundation's Tehran constituents the legal constraints on the activities of the New York foundation: According to New York law, the Foundation must spend all its net income on loans or charities...
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...Bethell's piece was particularly timely, since I have become increasingly alarmed of late at this unwelcome transformation during my own yearly trips home...
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...Ferguson's letter, which was obviously designed to curry favor with a wealthy client rather than to raise any serious legal issues...
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...There exists three methods in this connection as well and the essential decision in distribution of the financial resources is among the following three cases: {Continued on page 73) 14 March 1996 • The American Spectator Correspondence (Continued from page 14) 1. Granting loans to [ideologically] committed students who are in financial need...
...This would fit with FBI testimony that the bullet passed through Harris before hitting Vicki Weaver...
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...Even when groups of workers band together in unions, their leaders periodically dip into the honey pot...
...It measures only 2'/: x 4 inches and weighs less than five ounces...
...CARL JOHANSSON Houston, Texas That Warm Feeling Self-styled Marxist Eugene D. Genovese ridicules liberal Protestant theologians: "As an atheist, when I read much Protestant theology and religious history today, I have the warm feeling I am in the company of non-believers" (Books In Review, TAS, January 1996...
...Bill Archer's recently passed bill that skims off* billion from the very same private pension retirement plans...
...On February 25, 1980, the new board filed papers officially changing their name to the Mostazafan Foundation of New York, to coincide with the new name of the Pahlavi Foundation in Iran...
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...3. Indirect assistance of development programs and providing for the needs of the oppressed people of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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...ALLEN West Chester, Pennsylvania Packwood's Boxers Your January On the Prowl item regarding Senator Boxer's rift with colleague Feinstein based on Boxer's being livid over DiFi's farewell to Packwood brings to mind the following question: Why do the Republicans on the Senate Whitewatergate committee allow Boxer to remain, considering her patent conflict-of-interest given her status as an in-law of and obvious flak for Hillary...
...What, I wonder, is Mr...
...Genovese's work...
...This was relatively easy to accomplish in Iran...
...It appears that given a chance, politicians will corrupt pension funds...
...Adams's opinion of Rep...
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...For instance, just before going bankrupt, Eastern Airlines raided the pension funds of its workers...
...After the Foundation for the Oppressed [Iran] took over the management of the building in New York, revisions have been made in all the contracts with American companies...
...In many ways, the relationship between the two was quite similar to the way things were run under the Shah...
...Horiuchi's shot would have been very difficult under any circumstances...
...And like most good entertainers, Mr...
...JAMES A. HINES Everett, Washington PLEASE...
...Things like the increasing omnipresence of auto anti-theft devices, such as steering wheel locks, which have been available here for many years but which I had never seen in England before the summer of 1994, reflecting the current car theft epidemic in Britain...
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...Now I realize that you're preaching largely to the converted...
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...Among these documents was the Tehran foundation's own publication...
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...HOWARD KISSEL New York, New York In a Class by Itself John Manguso's letter in the February issue got me to wondering which was the first Navy ship to be named for an enlisted man...
...Many of us in the hinterland never have an opportunity to enjoy a loony liberal face to face...
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...DICK GOYER @aol.com Your desire to make the magazine easier to read was laudable, but it would be Clinton-speak to say that you have accomplished it...
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...Williams may be, no one will be able to really replace Michael Kinsley...
...It may be "uniformly larger" in the vertical direction, but horizontally it seems more compressed, and it is lighter (as opposed to bolder) faced to boot....Are you trying to lose all your readers over age 5o...
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...But simply because the FBI was intent on arresting Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris did not give FBI snipers a license to kill any bystanders in northern Idaho...
...I am surprised and disappointed that TAS, a respected conservative publication, would print an advertisement which smacks of the liberal scare tactics currently in vogue...
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...Lon Horiuchi knew that Kevin Harris was headed for the cabin door...
...To illustrate my point, hold your page next to the Weekly Standard...
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...Bill Saxton has a good thought in the Pension Protection Act, which proposes to protect the honey pot from these predators...
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...And with many of the key indicators, such as single parenthood, heading steadily in the wrong direction, it seems likely that the situation in Britain, as in the U.S., will get worse before it gets better...
...In the bits of "Crossfire" I could take in the Michael Kinsley days, I always hoped someone with significant stature —like say the Pope or Rush Limbaugh — would shake his head sadly during a Kinsley ventilation and say: "Mikey, Mikey, Mikey...
...I often thought how much easier to read TAS was than NR...
...There is absolutely nothing like it...
...Advertising Doesn't Pay An advertisement from the Smoker's Alliance on page 25 of the January TAS equates the right to smoke with the right to eat bacon and eggs, enjoy coffee, think for oneself, etc...
...In New York, the Pahlavi Foundation was registered as a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, with a board of prominent Americans and Iranians who were sympathetic to the Shah...
...He then stated that the "Foundation has many overseas establishments...
...Maybe we should give individuals the tax breaks and phase out the tax breaks to job-based retirement...
...I prefer not to use a credit card and will pay by check...
...The librarians know where their bread is buttered—Mother Jones remains on the rack...
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...His fascinating efforts to juggle left-wing philosophy with a scholarly devotion to truth remind me of an old essay by Norman Podhoretz in which he regretted the intellectual demise of the orthodox Old Left...
...Based solely on the similarity between that foundation's name and a former name of Alavi, Mr...
...I really had the feeling I was reading a magazine I had to hide under my mattress, and now I don't...
...Kinsley had a trademark finale to his act...
...Apparently, the Clintonians are serious about getting their hands on our money...
...LEONARD W. FROMM, JR...
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...I hope you can make some improvements, because thus far I find your well-intentioned efforts counter-productive...
...This woman, whose specious findings of racial discrimination in lending have cost all of us who borrow money by forcing banks to lend to less credit-worthy customers, has now been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors...
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