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CORRESPONDENCE New Directions In order to avoid continued mailings encouraging renewal I must let you know why I allowed my subscription to expire.... I have subscribed for many years, and while...
...It was the sorry story of Serpico's ascension in the Laborers and his extensive ties to organized crime figures that led the Commission to characterize LIUNA as a RICO suit waiting to happen...
...For one thing, your magazine might provide more coverage of developments in other countries...
...Indeed, even the cuts the Republicans are currently proposing would, I believe, still leave us at or near the top of the list in this regard...
...Contrary to what your item states, State Secretary Albright has not apologized for anything...
...The first part of the sentence, however, is misleading: Neither PFF nor I ever had anything to do with the American Campaign Academy, and certainly never had any reason to feel "burned" by the experience...
...State got involved in this issue four years ago after concern was expressed by both Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate over German discrimination against American Scientologists working and traveling in Germany...
...About this same time, a B-52, was destroyed from a sparking fuel pump...
...All of this is actively supported and encouraged by the German government on both the state and federal level...
...Caivano and Serpico both sued LIUNA in federal courts in February 1995, challenging their ouster from LIUNA and alleging that the agreement with the government was the product of bad faith and improper connivance between the Justice Department and LIUNA...
...The point of my article was not to pick apart the threads connecting Eisenach, Gingrich, GOPAC, ACA, PFF, ALOF, etc., but to show that, even after establishing all sorts of incestuous interrelationships among them, the Ethics Committee was still forced to base its entire case on the argument that Newt Gingrich's college course associated the Democrats with the "welfare state" and that the Republicans used this association as a "political tool" during the 1994 congressional elections...
...Federal District Courts in Washington, D.C...
...Eisenach's Washington Policy Group, Inc...
...If someone wants to influence legislation via lobbying, they may make contributions to a 501(c)(4) out of after-tax income...
...With few exceptions, I find these articles revealing, refreshWE WANT YOU...
...For its part, the union argued that the board could indeed fire top officials if there is an "emergency" in the union, and the RICO threat, they contended, qualified as an emergency...
...On the matter of Kennesaw State College, he is on less firm ground...
...CRAIG JENSEN Glendale, California Your "analysis" of the U.S...
...Continued on page 8o) The American Spectator • June 1997 13 Correspondence (ContinuedfromiDage 13) Running on Empty I'm not qualified or informed enough to address the intelligence aspects of Laurie Mylroie's article, "Terrorism in Our Face" (TAS, April 1997...
...James Bovard's silly diatribe against historic preservation ("Don't Touch That Style...
...The second half of the sentence is true: We were scrupulous...
...several affiliates subject to organized crime influence have been placed under trusteeship...
...Then there is the thorny issue of capital gains...
...In fact, an empty tank is by far a larger explosion risk than a full one...
...But no one is entitled to invent falsehoods to stimulate the hatred of any religious group...
...A catalogue of the article's oversights, half-truths, and outright falsehoods would extend for several pages...
...Now, however, each issue appears to focus solely on the innumerable Clinton follies...
...Serpico was identified by the President's Commission on Organized Crime in 1986 as a leading example of organized crime influence over LIUNA...
...The government could undoubtedly save money and trouble by declining to prosecute all manner of embezzlers and thieves, but I doubt that the millions of Americans of all ideological persuasions who believe in good law enforcement would find that a good thing...
...As one who got off rather lightly—you did discover that I wear an earring, on the other hand, you missed my public sworn testimony before the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee ("Robert Luskin...
...Jews were not stationed in Saudi Arabia as a commonly known matter of policy...
...Your reputation, as well as those of the men and women you unfairly maligned, would have been far better served if you had left "Mob Rules" curbside (TAS, April 1997...
...To suggest otherwise is to claim exoneration where there is none...
...Had you taken the trouble to contact those who negotiated it, read our sworn public testimony to Congress (which you reported falsely that I did not give), or paused for a nanosecond before parroting uncritically the lies of your sources, you could have reached that conclusion yourselves...
...James Bovard replies: It's regrettable Mr...
...I find my euphoria evaporating and being replaced by disgust, depression, and finally a sense of utter hopelessness as I come to realize that despite what appears to be rational, detailed, and substantive investigative reporting, the Clinton monarchy remains entrenched, unaffected by scandal...
...Steyn's assertion that the "white contributors seemed to be playing on black terms...
...RICHARD MOE President National Trust for Historic Preservation Washington, D.C...
...TIMOTHY P. EHRGOTT Indianapolis, Indiana The American Spectator June 19 9 7 81...
...It's one thing to be persecuted in someone else's country, but it's another thing to be persecuted in your own...
...I found the selection of articles and features to be diverse and invigorating...
...Understanding why the Justice Department endorsed this agreement is not rocket science...
...But it is simply not so that if a jet blows up, then it was bombed...
...Congressman McCollum found no evidence to support the charge of political influence because there is none, not because his committee conducted a slipshod investigation...
...I have subscribed for many years, and while I cannot point to specifics, the general tone of TAS has changed...
...Arcing or overheating in an empty but vapor-rich fuel tank can absolutely convert a big jet into a shower of flaming pieces...
...ROBERT J. POWERS Col., USAF (Ret...
...Two domestic KC-135 losses were charged to radio wiring problems...
...KSCF, in turn, contracted with Washington Policy Group to assist with fundraising and administration—but it also participated directly in fundraising for the project, hired and supervised staff working on the project, and oversaw all aspects of the project in minute detail...
...To be sure, your numerous exposes have contributed greatly to the nation's awareness of Washington's misdoings and are spurring on efforts to correct them...
...This is an excellent opportunity to break into journalism (our departing assistants are taking important newspaper jobs...
...Byron York replies: Robert Luskin did indeed testify before the Crime Subcommittee...
...With this agreement, the Justice Department won everything it would have gained had it litigated its RICO case to a successful conclusion, with no cost and no delay...
...Nonetheless, I recall that several KC-135 tanker in-flight explosions were never fully explained...
...Whom Can You Trust...
...The American Spectator has, in the past, been one of the few publications that examines conservative nonprofits and exposes their "dirty little secrets...
...She did have a problem with the Germans' present activities being compared to Nazis...
...Shreveport, Louisiana Paint It Black, Part Deux I was disappointed by the lack of editorial judgment shown by your publication when it recently ran an article by Mark Steyn entitled: "Paint it Black: The ebonification of approved American expression" (TAS, March 1997...
...I would, however, like to correct an impression that Mr...
...You ignored them to focus instead on allegations that Coia boasted of his influence with President Clinton to John Serpico and Samuel Caivano, former vice presidents of LIUNA, whose removal from office was another salutary step you would ordinarily be expected to applaud...
...As for the misleading statements: The article states that the American Campaign Academy was "set up by GOPAC...
...Other B-52s have been destroyed on the ground from a short in a fuel tank valve or during refueling...
...Moreover, Britain has no exclusionary rule, denies bail to repeat offenders, and awards no preemptory challenges to the defense in jury selection...
...She writes, "Never before had a plane, without warning or indication of any malfunction whatsoever, dropped from the sky, amid a fireball no less, and the cause was not terrorism...
...military chaplains were obligated to remove their Christian emblems from their uniforms in order not to offend the host country...
...As one judge involved in the case said, "Obviously something happened with regard to Coia...
...Not one church, not one synagogue is permitted in Saudi Arabia...
...These are entry-level positions, in which you will be responsible for assisting the editors in evaluating manuscripts, handling correspondence, checking facts and figures, proofreading copy from our reporters, and other fascinating tasks too numerous to mention here...
...KENNETH MOSS Broad Run, Virginia For the past several years, I have anxiously awaited the arrival of your magazine so that I could revel in the latest installment of the Clinton chronicles...
...could also prove interesting as well as instructive...
...Neither Arthur Coia nor any other Laborers' member or employee earned a free pass...
...ALVIN WILLIAMS Executive Director Black America's Political Action Committee Washington, D.C...
...In return, WPG was paid $8,750 a month...
...An article on how other nations are handling this issue might catalyze reform efforts here at home...
...Not for what we have done, but for what we believe...
...If you think you're ready for a challenging position with one of America's most talked-about magazines, send a résumé and a short writing sample to: AitericanSpeciator Attn: W. Arrington P.O...
...American Spectator would still be dragging its way through the courts, at vast expense to the government and to LIUNA, with no winners except the lawyers, no reform, and no end in sight...
...As written, this statement suggests that Gingrich decided to set up the college course in 1990...
...The various ways other developed nations are tackling such contemporary problems as welfare, health care, industrial concentration, etc...
...and, under scrutiny by an Election Officer selected by the government, LIUNA last fall conducted the first contested, democratic elections of International officers in its history...
...The United States taxes such gains higher than any other industrial country...
...It also allows the large grant-making philanthropies that can give to 5o1(c)(3)'s to contribute to lobbying efforts...
...I appreciate Bill Tucker's effort to set the record straight about the Renewing American Civilization project...
...12 June 1997 • The American Spectator Overhead Lobbying Congratulations on William Tucker's "Guilty as Charged" (TAS, April 1997...
...The American Spectator is seeking two smart, well-read, conscientious people to become our newest editorial assistants...
...There is simply no good explanation for the Clinton Justice Department's decision to allow a man whom prosecutors had branded a "mob puppet" — someone who was "part of the problem," to use Luskin's phrase —not only to keep his job but assume controlover the union's effort to root out mob influence...
...But alas, the ebullience produced by each excursion into journalistic excellence is short-lived...
...As an American, I speak from the heart when I say the human rights situation against Scientology in Germany is real—and serious...
...Let's do it again next month...
...However, even this did not prevent me from 80 June 1997 The American Spectator being personally attacked in Germany solely because of my religious affiliation...
...An effort was made to recover the fuel pumps from this other "radio" loss, but that wreckage had gone through disposal by that point, so those pumps could not be checked...
...The article also includes the following statement: "Already burned by the American Campaign Academy experience, the Progress & Freedom Foundation was scrupulous about making `Renewing American Civilization' nonpartisan and nonpolitical...
...This is a real and serious human rights situation and the State Department should be commended for getting involved...
...Tucker's statement that "GOPAC loaned money to PFF (as it had done with the Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Fund...
...I'm confident of that diagnosis in the second of these two radio cases, because I once met and spoke with Boeing's principal investigator, and their theory about the ignition source made sense...
...As for Luskin's point that opponents of Big Brother should applaud the deal as a model of government restraint: surely he is not serious...
...in fact, it was not until December 1992 that Gingrich first conceived of teaching the course...
...Secondly, Mr...
...As consistent opponents of big government and big brother, you would ordinarily be expected to applaud these results...
...You should be ashamed...
...The truth is that Scientologists in Germany today are banned from all major political parties, screened from certain types of employment, routinely smeared by the press, denied bank accounts and subject to arbitrary firings and business boycotts...
...Serpico and Caivano argued that the union board did not have the authority to remove them without consulting the membership...
...ROBERT D. LUSKIN Comey Boyd d• Luskin Washington, D.C...
...Had Mr...
...After all, no reasonable person would put such a foul deed past what passes for "leaders" in that unhappy land today...
...Tucker may have left, that of the two, only 5o1(c)(4) organizations may engage in lobbying...
...The actions of 501(c)(3) and 501(C)(4) organizations have, with few exceptions, escaped public scrutiny...
...Despite every incentive to expose a Democratic scandal (Speaker Gingrich touted the allegations of White House influence over the Laborers' agreement as "bigger than Watergate"), the Crime Subcommittee had the integrity to follow the facts where they led...
...Moe chose not to come down from Mount Olympus to point out the inaccuracies he bemoans...
...In closing, everyone is entitled to their opinion about Scientology...
...A few years later, when two more KC-135s were destroyed from fuel pump shafts overheating, fuel pump problems became suspect in the first domestic tanker radio loss...
...Move the Clinton stories to the side (but keep up the pressure) and add more stories regarding new conservative ideas (or why there are none) or emerging new conservative leaders (or why there are so few apparent...
...Quite simply, Caivano and Serpico were part of the problem...
...R.G...
...It is trite to repeat that politics makes strange bedfellows...
...I regret the mistake...
...Sadly, in the present climate, one must depend on TAS for an exposé, and suffer the emotional roller coaster ride it provides...
...Preservationists are citizens who care about our rich heritage and who want to ensure that future generations will be able to experience, appreciate, learn from, and be inspired by this legacy that helps to define us as Americans...
...This works out as a better deal for the organization's patrons...
...He was identified in sworn statements and wiretap transcripts filed by the government in its RICO suit against the Mason Tenders District Council, a LIUNA affiliate, as a principal instrument of organized crime influence over the Laborers in New York...
...Given the amount of misinformation that has circulated about this whole matter, it is hardly surprising that even he got a few things wrong...
...What may be still more important, British judges are intervening more frequently and more forcefully into trial proceedings...
...Steyn failed to mention performances by Bernadette Peters, the cast of Chicago, appearances by Michael Douglas, and many others...
...Snow once noted how "it often seems that Americans endanger themselves most when they get most possessed by a sense of their own uniqueness...
...Turning to another area, our criminal justice system, as you know, is essentially a British import...
...That things have not changed in the last 45 years comes as no news to old Saudi hands...
...Box 549 Arlington, VA 22216-0549 ing, titillating, inspiring—each a veritable clarion call to action...
...On Luskin's assertion that the charges of Serpico, Samuel Caivano, and David Caivano are "old news": to my knowledge they have never been reported anywhere other than TAS...
...Those of us District residents dismayed by that decision were no happier to learn that you had taken it up...
...New Zealand's government, for example, has in recent years undertaken numerous exciting and successful reforms such as widespread privatization and a flat-rate income tax...
...On the first one, not even the depot engineers were sure they had really found the "Golden BB...
...The grand jury has been abolished, a trial jury can now return a verdict on a ten-to-twomajority, and a bill currently before Parliament would allow a police chief to authorize the search of a home or office...
...In fact, fundraising and administration for the course were handled by the Kennesaw State College Foundation (KSCF), a 501(c)(3) organization associated with Kennesaw State College...
...also to the center wing tank...
...Gingrich...
...If preservation is the secret to prosperity, why not prohibit all change to make everyone rich...
...It contracted with Mr...
...It seems to me that TAS has become a bit top-heavy with national politics...
...We have been in business for over fifteen years and done particularly well in the European software market...
...If Luskin has seen a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or any other report telling their story, I would like to know about it...
...Joe Gaylord established the Academy upon leaving his position as executive director of the National Republican Campaign Committee, at a time when he had no significant relationship with GOPAC...
...DERK AREND WILCOX Editor-in-Chief The Right Guide & The Left Guide Ann Arbor, Michigan I am writing with respect to William Tucker's generally admirable article, "Guilty as Charged," which appeared in your April edition...
...Just a few years ago, I eagerly awaited the arrival of each issue...
...The article also states that, "By 1990, Gingrich had become obsessed with the idea that the American public could be won over to the idea of ending the welfare state....In order to further that cause, he created a 20-hour televised college course...
...As to our motives for being scrupulous, PFF operated the Renewing American Civilization course in a nonpartisan, non-political manner simply because that's what the tax laws require...
...Unfortunately, the article contains two significant factual errors and several statements that are at least potentially misleading...
...Caivano and Serpico were available to the Committee's investigators, who chose not to call them as witnesses, treating them with the skepticism and contempt they deserve...
...For example, not only does such a left-leaning state as Sweden require able-bodied welfare recipients to work, but it also erects no barriers to increased industrial concentration as long as such concentration does not increase prices...
...I was in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War...
...Moreover, preservationists know that wise stewardship of our heritage translates into dollars and cents — neighborhoods reclaimed, landmark buildings rehabilitated, jobs created, heritage tourism stimulated, downtown business districts revitalized, local economies boosted...
...So I speak from experience when I say the U.S...
...In two years, more than 75 officers, members, and employees of LIUNA with mob ties have been banished...
...Bovard has foisted on your readers...
...GOLDSTONE Dexter, Maine Playing Coia Several months ago, the District of Columbia government stopped recycling local trash...
...Mob Rules" made clear that John Serpico and Samuel Caivano were named by the government as alleged Mafia associates...
...Behind your self-congratulation for "outing" Caivano and Serpico lies another conspicuously missing fact: Their charges are old news...
...The passing mention that the draft RICO complaint singled out Caivano and Serpico as mob associates hardly does them justice...
...WPC') to manage and raise funds for the course's development, production, and distribution...
...ALEXANDER R. JONES Office of Public Affairs Church of Scientology Washington, D.C...
...did not testify...
...A deal was cut...
...In describing himself as a "friendly observer," C.P...
...Even the plus symbol (+) is offensive because it is a daily reminder that Christianity still exists Regretfully, Timothy Hunter is paying the price for his concern for his fellow Christians...
...What matters most, however, is that the basic premise of your story is false and defamatory, and obviously so...
...Moe does not even deign to respond to the Temple University study showing that preservation controls brought about a 24-percent loss in value in Philadelphia apartment buildings...
...In fact, the collaboration between the white and black performers at inaugural events, when viewed as a whole, was an accurate representation of the rich diversity of thought and artistic expression that exists in our country...
...My company was boycotted publicly...
...Bovard chosen to do some thoughtful, thorough research instead of merely generating overheated rhetoric, he would have found that historic preservation is a dynamic, fundamentally nonpartisan, and non-ideological effort to create, sustain, and enhance livable communities...
...The results speak for themselves, although you apparently weren't listening...
...William Tucker replies: Jeffrey A. Eisenach is correct that GOPAC never loaned money to the Progress and Freedom Foundation, as it did to the Abraham Lincoln Foundation...
...I found that neither of our chaplains were permitted to wear on their uniforms the USAF cross insignia indicating their status, and that Sunday services were held in the base theater under lock and key, guarded outside by security police...
...Also contrary to what your article states, it was actually under President George Bush's watch, not Bill Clinton's, that the Internal Revenue Service began its intensive high level examination of the Church of Scientology that ultimately resulted in the Church winning its tax exempt status...
...But creating petty tyrants to police everyone's home design won't produce a cornucopia...
...Anything is better than that...
...The only way to describe the article is to simply say that it was in poor taste...
...The judges agreed with the board and upheld the removal of Serpico and Caivano, who decided not to pursue the case further through the courts...
...Tucker states that "When the course was first taught, at Georgia's Kennesaw State College, theadministration and fundraising were handled entirely by the Washington Policy Group, of which Eisenach was president and sole owner...
...government's response to Germany's official policy of discrimination against members of the Church of Scientology irresponsibly attempted to politically trivialize a serious human rights issue...
...And as a long-term academic, I naturally love to kibbitz as well...
...The formula works out to approximately 15-2o percent of the organization's expenses, up to $1 million...
...The lawsuits had nothing to do with the issue of whether the Clinton administration fixed the case...
...The Ethics Committee Report states: "KSCF had no role in raising funds for the course...
...But it is the truth...
...An article on this subject should not only interest your readers but would also influence public policy...
...Furthermore, the content was offensive to all Americans who value the diversity of artistic expression in our great country...
...However, she is seriously misinformed about "unexplained" fireballs downing large jets...
...Yet, ironically, we seem to venerate it more than the British do, for they have reformed their criminal justice system substantially in recent years...
...GEORGE JATRAS Sterling, Virginia For Tom Bethell: I arrived in Saudi Arabia as a first lieutenant, a pilot in the Air Force's Rescue Service, at Dhahran Air-base in 1952...
...The U.S...
...Nevertheless, I feel TAS might benefit by focusing more attention on developments outside of, and not directly connected to, the national political scene...
...Indeed, why wasn't he...
...GEORGE E. BERKLEY Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Brookline, Massachusetts Scientology in Germany As a Scientologist and active member of the Republican Party, I feel compelled to respond to your April On the Prowl item on Germany's discrimination against members of the Church of Scientology ("She Blinded Them With Science...
...While I was never involved with the American Campaign Academy, and joined GOPAC only after the Academy had been set up, I am certain that GOPAC was never directly involved with ACA and certainly did not "set it up...
...What sort of developments might these be...
...501(c)(3) organizations are allowed to spend a percentage of their revenues on lobbying without paying a penalty...
...To the contrary, it is my opinion that American Campaign Academy got whatit deserved: A political school for Republican campaign operatives should not be tax exempt and ACA should never have applied for exempt status...
...If Mark Steyn is correct and America is being "ebonified," it is only because, like nature, culture abhors a vacuum...
...By helping to inform Americans of how other developed nations are responding to modern-day challenges, The American Spectator could, I believe, enhance both its appeal and its influence...
...But your embrace of Caivano and Serpico gives new meaning to that tired maxim...
...At its base, preservation is about empowering communities to protect what they hold dear...
...The point of the story was not that Serpico and Caivano were kicked out of the union's leadership...
...But factually, I know of no other organization to more accurately compare them to...
...State Depai tinent should be applauded for speaking up on behalf of Scientology, and I would expect no less from my country, which is still a beacon of freedom for the world...
...Surely there are plenty of stories to be done beyond Washington and the Clintons and their cohorts...
...the point was that Coia was allowed to stay...
...M]ost of the fundraising was coordinated by Mr...
...And as for Serpico and Samuel Caivano's lawsuits against the union, Luskin argues that their outcome somehow proves there was no administration tampering in the Laborers case...
...If ever there was a "dirty little secret" of Washington politics, this is it...
...Had many of these airplanes come down over water, we could well have been left with little more than "for an unknown reason...
...Perhaps if you paid less attention to fashion and more attention to facts, you would not have allowed yourselves to be led astray by disgraced mob associates and your own wishful thinking...
...You would have done far better to have examined their baggage more closely than my accessories...
...Against a GOP administration, such reporting would be front-page, mainstream mania, generating a feeding frenzy of immense proportions, with every scribe vying for a Pulitzer...
...What is especially interesting is that with the full opportunity to repeat what you describe as their "new evidence" under oath and subject to perjury, they passed...
...In so doing, they are to some degree moving the system toward the inquisitorial and away from the adversarial approach...
...Surely not Saudis, but the foreign work force...
...The April issue was especially difficult to handle, with the revelations of mob influence, the real Tony Lake, and the other side of Newt's ethics charge...
...TAS, April 1997) is riddled with the half-truths and inaccuracies that are bound to crop up when an author views a popular movement solely through an ideological prism...
...But all you really had to do was review the agreement between the government and LIUNA, because the truth also emerges from its plain terms...
...Why wasn't Coia removed...
...And I was slandered by people who have never even met me...
...Regretfully, such is not the case...
...Contrary to your article, the entirety of the State Department report on German discrimination against Scientologists was written by and extensively checked and corroborated by State Department staff...
...Since I am no longer on active duty, nor working in aircraft accident investigation, I do not handle mishap reports regularly anymore...
...These are the facts: Neither politics nor political influence played any role whatsoever in the agreement between the Department of Justice and LIUNA...
...The first factual error is Mr...
...Sam Caivano, formerly the regional manager for New York and New Jersey, is no better...
...This statement is simply false...
...The men and women who are making a real difference in the way American communities look and live deserve much better than the distorted, inaccurate view of preservation that Mr...
...I am the chairman and CEO of Executive Software International, an award-winning and highly successful software firm...
...Their prompt removal under the new reform process was part of the solution...
...What the Laborers secured was the chance to clean their own house, free from direct government control of their day-to-day affairs, with the clear understanding that if they failed, the government would pull the plug...
...Had the government instead proceeded with its RICO complaint, that case 10 June 1997 • The...
...A similar change is occurring in the British tort system as well...
...and, indeed, Serpico's lawyers did not even ask Coia about the alleged Clinton boasts in two days of sworn deposition...
...In his zeal to say that the festivities were overrun with black performers, Mr...
...This may be uncomfortable for some...
...There are several other known or suspected lightning losses in the USAF mishap data base, including an F-io6 interceptor and a C-13o cargo plane...
...The judges did not rule on the Clinton administration's conduct...
...I lost customers...
...When many of these organizations have revenues in the tens of millions, this amount is not inconsequential...
...Successful candidates will have at least passing familiarity with the "issues of the day," and be able to craft a persuasive sentence or two...
...KELLY M. HAGGAR Slidell, Louisiana There's a Big World Out There As a (fairly) long-term reader of and subscriber to The American Spectator, I naturally wish to see it grow and prosper...
...And it is to the credit of The American Spectator that it would acknowledge the further corrections contained in this letter...
...Hence this letter...
...I would like to respond...
...Absolutely astounding to me, however, is his statement that "Perhaps ten percent of the Saudi population is Christian...
...To the contrary, Coia remains subject at all times to LIUNA's new internal discipline structure and to criminal or civil action by the government...
...Instead, he recites anew the National Trust catechism that preservation (i.e., political control over windows, hanging baskets, and door frames) "translates into dollars and cents...
...The agreement gives the government the unilateral right for three years to impose a consent decree similar to the government oversight over the Teamsters if at any time and for any reason the government concludes that it would be a good idea...
...Most always, the first twelve names picked comprise the jury...
...Yet such human rights abuses are only the tip of the iceberg...
...State Department's decision to cite Germany for human rights violations is based on the fact that German and American citizens are being harmed...
...I wonder how the presidential inaugural organizers and participants would respond to Mr...
...But of course, so was Arthur Coia—something Luskin fails to mention in his letter...
...Now the Iraqis may well have blown up Flight 800, and by means of some new, fiendishly clever, so far traceless device...
...Cross Checks Tom Bethell's well-written account of what can happen to "whistle-blowers," such as Tim Hunter, although disturbing, is not surprising, considering where our present day priorities lie ("Saving Faith at State," TAS, April 1997...
...To the contrary, PFF has never had any dealings with GOPAC...
...Several of Luskin's other points, however, do not square with the facts...
...The loss of ethnic identity by white Americans has reduced our culture to teen-agers being given $20 and dropped off at the mall by their parents, Italian food at the Olive Garden, and John Tesh performing his latest, earnest work...
...JEFFREY A. EISENACH President The Progress C5' Freedom Foundation Washington, D.C...
...Eisenach, Ms...
...One overseas loss was attributed to a lightning strike...
...and Chicago granted summary judgment to LIUNA, which meant that despite extensive discovery, including the sworn testimony of Coia, myself, and others, massive document review, and their own self-serving affidavits, Caivano and Serpico could not muster a single credible fact to support their charges...
...That is not correct...
...Surely, the blood of our sons and daughters is worth a little Islamic tolerance for their sacrifices...
...Prochnow, and Mr...
...I am enormously proud of what preservation has accomplished—and will continue to accomplish— in cities, towns, and rural areas all over the United States...
...Because donations to 5o1(c)(3)'s are tax-deductible, contributions are made out of pre-tax income if they itemize deductions...
...KSCF did not manage the course...
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