Correspondence: Gulf treks, Brown holes, Big Ben & c.
CORRESPONDENCE Cogs in the Conspiracy As a loyal TAS subscriber, I am outraged to discover the existence of this far-reaching right-wing conspiracy to besmirch the character of the Little Rock...
...Night-line" devoted an entire show to the topic, on which a newspaper reporter noted that even Clinton himself is eager to pursue the subject...
...GREG MARRINER Walnut Creek, California Micecapades What's so remarkable about scientists creating mice without heads...
...In fact, in the very article in which I first mentioned the "super-predator" concept, I pointed to faith-based and other likely solutions...
...Pay him as much as he wants...
...Ruddy...
...The Journal told readers that the Spectator was "arch-conservative" and that it usually scorned liberals...
...The references to "little Mr...
...Ruddy than on its implications...
...I just retired from the Navy and can honestly say yours is one of the very few I've read which has come even remotely close to an accurate description of events with which I am familiar...
...Shiflett opened his enjoyable article with the statement: "Let them that desire peace prepare for war...
...Delaware ranks fourth highest— in terms of per capita state taxes and per capita state spending...
...W.L...
...It would assist the AFIP in evaluating the continued value of the four professionals who have staked their livelihoods on this affair...
...They hold careers in their hands, and are terrible in their purpose...
...I find it curious that the number of noodles he came up with happens to be exactly 64k or 64 times ioz4 (ask one of your computer geeks...
...Browning and many other Northeasterners who responded to my article note that New Englanders pay more in federal taxes than they get back in federal largesse...
...His income came from undetermined sources, like that of many of the fighters who trained in the gym...
...Today, firing missiles or large guns on our ships is done by computer...
...Navy will forgive my technical lapses and correct my errors during my next carrier visit...
...Churchill was a man who read much...
...WILLIAM A. KIEHL Alexandria, Virginia Fight On I couldn't agree more with RET about Bob Dylan ("A Mumbly Creep," TAS, February 1998...
...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What a Great Reader...
...Aside from a dumbed-down, dim-bulb "analysis" of Bob Dylan's impact on American folk music, the writer's sheer nastiness toward the subject himself seems both mislaid and, to put it mildly, injudicious...
...I must point out, however, that the author might wish to re-review the order of battle for various alien navies...
...Approaches and landings are controlled and graded by the people out on the Landing Signal Officer (LSO) platform...
...This goes on for many airplanes every day of the year...
...There have been a lot more people in this disgrace of an administration fall from high places due to lying than 747's fall due to mechanical flaws...
...DIRK V. DEROLF, DVM Salem, Virginia Here is what I think is the answer to Lane Binkley's March query on "What's the deal with Ben Stein...
...America —what a great country...
...Can you tell me that no President aside from Clinton has had an affair in the White House...
...Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.," just so frustrated that unregulated industry run by lionhearted Christian men is incapable of solving the country's woes that they feel compelled to waste everybody's time composing screeds which target the cultural heroes of those whose politics they despise so rabidly...
...The "E-3C" ("Sentry") is the USAF's AWACS...
...Never let him go...
...This is comment by association and is a technique more closely associated with thosewho don't have facts to support their assertions...
...The Captain will give final permission to commence firing and, yes, a button is pushed or a foot switch depressed by someone, which the CO could certainly do (not his job, but he could...
...Now this translates to exactly the statement that Mr...
...York asserts, it is difficult to understand how the wound in Brown's head could be a gunshot wound, but then, four professionals who were closely involved in the events seem to be unanimous in theirassertion that the wound could be a gunshot, and, in fact, looked like a gunshot...
...Just wondering...
...Stein apparently relishes portraying himself as a good ol' boy, which I suppose he is...
...As my article pointed out, Republicans in the Northeast—Al D'Amato, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, and John Chafee, justto name a few—are a primary source of the big government disease...
...And its state spending consumes 17.2 percent of personal income versus just 14 percent for the national average...
...Delaware sits on the outer fringe of the Northeast corridor and thus is not as severely afflicted with the leftist policies of its neighbors...
...Our men and women in the Gulf are doing a terrific job and deserve our every support...
...It's obvious that you asked good questions, listened to the answers and took notes (unlike most journalists...
...Cogswell, who, according to all reports I have seen, acted in a professional and responsible manner and did nothing that was not according to established procedures...
...That was Reagan's faith...
...His long fingernails were filthy, he smelled, and he hadn't changed clothes in a month...
...But when the Pittsburgh Tribune and a sensible man like Alan Keyes seemed to take it seriously I was dismayed...
...Specifically, I have never predicted "an upsurge of 30,000-45,000 murders a year, with other violent offenses rising proportionately...
...Thank you for making it available...
...One day when he wasn't there, who should come into Julio's gym but Bob Dylan himself...
...Almost no one else is willing to do this...
...Read what you write—just once...
...I agree with him that the crash site should be excavated again in order to find the missing tonnage...
...Bob wanted to spar...
...Second, he based his paragraph on other sources, which were incorrect...
...On the ground at a lot of these stations doing a walk around inspection your feet get very hot from walking on the hot ramp...
...Kim was not flying an "EC-3" surveillance aircraft, but an "E-2C" (the "Hawkeye...
...Keep up the good work...
...4 results in raspberries from the pitiless crowd watching via the Plat camera, which is piped by closed-circuit TV to nearly every space aboard the ship...
...We should all know that Mr...
...They allow us to operate more than one carrier ("CV") in that tiny body of water with a minimum of mutual interference...
...Ruddy's work...
...When charges of bundling by MBNA to past campaigns of Republicans Mike Castle and Bill Roth were made, the News Journal was quick to notice and condemn it...
...Over the past ten years Delaware has experienced 7 percent job growth versus so percent for the U.S...
...Tom Clancy's made just as many...
...It would confirm or deny Mr...
...But Delaware is hardly a paragon of free enterprise...
...Indeed, certainly in his reporting on the Ron Brown affair, Mr...
...This is called "tough love...
...Does not the press view itself as the guardian of asking these tough questions...
...But what's a small technicality among the politically correct crowd as long as no one is offended...
...Navy is running ship-shape and remains war-ready in the Persian Gulf, in the South China Sea, and elsewhere around the globe, despite budget cuts and a confused political leadership in Washington...
...In this last, having spent a career in the Air Force, I can say that an affair such as this would have aroused at least an Inspector General's investigation and more likely a shower of new procedures to deal with the apparent lapses revealed by Mr...
...York's apparent attempt in his piece to associate the disorganization of the demonstration outside the AFIP with the quality of Mr...
...Goldberg, Tripp, Jones, Flowers, and Lewinsky are all about the almighty dollar and not about any wrongdoing...
...I wanted to get a sympathetic oar in before the Airedales (naval aviators) started howling at you...
...He will never be impeached because there is no case...
...Do you really think that married men and women don't have affairs in this country...
...they are all qualified Fleet pilots and are called LSD's, not "tag officers...
...Good luck with your case...
...Is not Mr...
...When I first spotted this title in my local bookstore, I was amused...
...It has the sixth highest personal income tax burden...
...BILLY G. HENSON Kirbyville, Missouri Preparing for Churchill Winston Churchill can be given credit for many fine statements, but not the one given to him by Dave Shiflett in his article "Take a Fish to Lunch" (TAS, December 1997...
...Hall and his apparent mouthpiece, Mr...
...Has he ever encountered a homely woman...
...Lexington, South Carolina I was distressed to read criticisms of Ben Stein in your March Correspondence...
...I share these views with more people than you can count...
...Had you been one of the Commie Broadcasting System bleeding hearts, I wouldn't have bothered...
...There were thirty some forgotten little people on that plane and they are all dead...
...This was an offer too good to pass up, so I took advantage of it...
...My last tour of sea duty was on the staff of Cruiser Destroyer Group Five, Rear Admiral Phil Coady, Commanding, embarked in USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63...
...The CVOA's in the Gulf were delineated for Desert Storm...
...Stein has regaled TAS readers with accounts of little "Mr...
...When I noticed who authored it, I laughed out loud because I knew it would be a fun read...
...You almost have to know to look for it—but it is almost always there and it makes the whole thing worthwhile...
...Perfect" is an admission of his bias toward his adopted son...
...For protecting and extolling Biden in this way the paper is nicknamed "The Joe Biden Journal...
...At 21 she is of age for consensual sex...
...While I understand that Mr...
...President Clinton has done more good for this country and its people...
...In the wakes of Thatcher and Reagan, perhaps such insecurity was to be expected from a few subsequent leaders...
...York's description of the "hapless hopeless campaign" run by Biden's last challenger entirely overlooked the News Journal's key role in keeping Senator Biden in power all these years...
...RICHARD KUKOWSKI Sentinel Butte, North Dakota Though his frustration and disappointment were quite predictable, it nevertheless is sad to read Ben Stein's recital of woes vis-à-vis young Tommy (TAS, March 1998...
...Afterwards I'd be sent to a holding pen to await the possibility of a late forming jury...
...As for the mumbly creep, I'll take his worst work and most bedraggled presence anytime over the ice-veined, ideological creepiness I find in such columns as yours...
...Three years ago I used to box at Julio Rivera's boxing gym (now defunct) on East 12th Street in New York City's east Village...
...Dill, with his attention to detail, the U.S...
...I wonder how their relatives must feel knowing that their deceased loved ones are, according to the conspiracy nuts, suspects in a kamikaze type murder...
...Stein's column...
...Julio wouldn't let him...
...Before you laugh, the designation was assigned when carriers ("Bird Farms") were new, and at a time when the Navy operated both heavier and lighter-thanair flying machines...
...Please come up with just one original, constructive, progressive idea...
...Stein's exhortation to honor and cherish our living parents is offensive to anyone, they have my sympathies but not my agreement...
...VIRGIL TELFORD Springville, Utah The Pitts The insincere or sincere suggestion of the Wall Street Journal to change Christmas to "Sparkle Season" ("Season's Jeerings," by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., TAS, February 1998) was unfortunately taken to heart by the City of Pittsburgh this past year...
...M.G...
...The public needs to know the truth so we can be protected...
...York's assessment of Mr...
...Stein is one of a very small number of writers who is willing to lay his entire soul out there for everyone to see...
...Stein's writing is unsurpassed for brevity, clarity, and readability...
...Michael Browning chastises me for my "anachronistic, childlike" notion that the Republican Party stands for "more freedom, less government...
...The serious parent will make his child's life difficult at times—perhaps many times—so that the child will learn not only respect, but how to love, and how to face life...
...His hair hadn't been washed in a week...
...Brown Hole I find it puzzling that Byron York should be so critical of Christopher Ruddy ("Ron Brown's Body," TAS, February 1998...
...Once more, those hoary words from a song written long ago ring true: "...and don't criticize what you can't understand...
...What makes you think that most Americans even care that President Clinton may or may not have had an affair in the White House...
...The Bird of Prey is a medium Klingon attack cruiser (now virtually obsolete but still in service...
...Stein's enjoyment of his son, his 80 April 9 9 8 • The American Spectator car...his life...
...But I suppose somehow they got lost in the translation to the printed page...
...Thank goodness for The American Spectator...
...Ruddy has, in all that I have read by him and all that I have seen of him on TV, hewn scrupulously to reporting on the facts that he has been able to uncover...
...Take it from a child of the Great Depression...
...Julio Rivera, the "owner," paid no rent to the nonprofit senior center that had been given the former school building...
...Bundle of Joy The local reaction to Byron York's useful article "The Senator From MBNA" (TAS, January 1998) was as follows...
...As Mr...
...One of the non—drug dealer boxers (a guy who had no boxing talent who was trained by Hell's Angels) played in Dylan's band (he's the guitar player who moves on stage...
...In fact, I am busy, and sometimes read only Stein, because I don't have time to read much more...
...The charge of bundled money was not a musty tale, however, since the News Journal had never leveled it at Biden...
...what he does in his private life is none of our business and I really don't care...
...Timmerman for a fine portrayal of the young American men and women who routinely place themselves in harm's way to guarantee our continued freedom ("Rudderless in the Gulf," TAS, February 1998...
...I was rejected each time without ever being questioned...
...Ruddy has only reported what he found...
...He made himself and the people involved in his shady deals rich but nothing he did affected the life of the average Black man and woman...
...I have a question...
...Please convey my personal thanks to R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Brown, it seems that he would be better served by commenting on [the] validity of the material reported by Mr...
...Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Gulf Trek Kudos to Mr...
...JEFFREY HEINZMANN Fishers, Indiana Big Ben I would like to note that your magazine is excellent...
...Congressman Castle, with all due respect, there is still a lot of work to be done to make Delaware a free-enterprise state...
...What planet are you living on...
...She is content to live by that rule...
...York's previously demonstrated investigative reportorial skills...
...I will never believe for one second that I spent all those hours sitting on a possible explosion due to a flaw in aircraft construction...
...The last Diary, called "Top This," had a superb little segment on Steve Green and Denise Carpitano...
...or, with cruise missiles, the desired point in time and ship's position —in accordance with programmed instructions—has been reached...
...Eventually we'd be broken into smaller groups to allow the lawyers to select a favorable jury...
...TWINK via the Internet 82 April 1998 • The American Spectator...
...All his faults and shortcomings are there along with all his strengths...
...Li Enhai, and his attempt to set a noodle record...
...Carry on, shipmate, and "Bravo Zulu" (that's a look-up: try the ATP-1 [series] pubs...
...The Continuing Crisis, TAS, February 1998...
...If, on the hottest summer day JFK ever saw, it was hot enough to make center fuel tank vapor explosive, 747's in the Middle East would be going off like popcorn...
...Byron York's article goes right to the heart of the argument...
...Norman is right: the jury system is a joke, a plaything of the ruling lawyer class...
...but, does he love him enough...
...Randall Bassin Woodland Hills, California Read It and Weep I would like to know what your views are about the fact that your conservative buddy Newt Gingrich had an affair on his wife as well as many other acts of insubordination...
...The air-conditioning packs run for endless hours under these conditions, putting out extremely hot discharge air...
...On a personal level, I am sickened that this near coup could proceed absent my knowledge and assistance...
...Mat I said is that the GOP should stand for more freedom, less government, not that they do...
...Certainly, he loves his son...
...They're kidding," I thought to myself...
...Actually he was on the nod...
...Indeed, if there are any of the conspirators among the TAS staff and/or readership, I urge them to contact me immediately, in order that I may offer any and all support in their devious effort to disinfect the presidency...
...The skin of the aircraft is too hot to couch...
...FATHER) DANIEL GORHAM San Ignacio, Belize Once More, the Northeast Congressman Michael Castle gamely defends his state of Delaware by noting correctly that it has not fully been contaminated by the Northeast disease (Correspondence, TAS, March 1998, apropos my December 1997 piece, "Is the Northeast Necessary...
...I believe that President Clinton and Vice President Gore have attempted to cover-up the crash because they do not wish to have an uproar over the terrorist action...
...However, nothing happens until, in the case of the gun, the computer determines it has a good ballistic solution...
...Only it didn't stop here...
...Tucker had shared with me a draft copy of the essay, and I had noted a number of the specific and general mistakes...
...Ruddy's reporting...
...Joseph Biden was bundled money it went on to dismiss as "musty tales" the further charges of the sweetheart real estate deal involving the sale of Biden's home to an MBNA executive and the provision of a cushy job for Biden's son...
...York's obvious inability to make sense out of the events reported, I can find nothing in Mr...
...The man was, as TAS has repeatedly shown, a smooth operating crook...
...They didn't get televised funerals and Bill Clinton didn't shed any crocodile tears over them, but they are just as dead as Ron...
...I have since spent much of the last three years doing research, writing, and civic work to test my sense of just how solvable the problem is...
...DAVID BROWN New York, New York My morbid curiosity regarding the seemingly endless tirades about boomers/the sixties/liberals led me to a column titled "Mumbly Creep" in your February issue...
...HOPE BRYSON Los Angeles, California Legacies The White House and media have been preoccupied over the past several months with President Clinton's "legacy...
...I enjoyed reading it, and concur with your conclusions...
...York wonder at the curious behavior of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which, on the surface, certainly is a good imitation of an agency trying to cover something up...
...HARLEY G. HART, JR...
...While I tend to sympathize with Mr...
...The best part is Ben Stein, whom I find an excellent narrator...
...We want the Congress to concentrate on matters of concern to its citizens such as health care, taxes, education, etc., not to waste the public's energy and not to say their money on supporting worthless counsels like Kenneth Starr and the millions of dollars it is costing...
...Where are her morals...
...Ruddy's work which does not reflect well upon his investigatorial professionalism...
...As a Flight Engineer I logged more than 6,000 hours on the 747-100, 200, 300, and SP series aircraft flying in the Mideast, Far East, Europe, Africa, as well as JFKNew York...
...I suggest then that this is a divorce we can all agree on—and benefit from...
...It would provide the AFIP with an opportunity to review its procedures in records handling...
...She chose to have an affair with her drama teacher, a married man, and now makes allegations about having another affair with another married man...
...What do you think...
...Another reader is bothered by Mr...
...It seems there is much material to be explained in both these cases—fertile ground for Mr...
...HENRY ROSIN Wilmington, Delaware The American Spectator • April 9 9 8 79 Jury Fury At least Geoffrey Norman actually got to sit on a live jury ("Juror Furor," TAS, March 1998...
...Everybody recognized that he was high...
...2. Mr...
...Do you really think your cheap shots convince the undecided/uninformed rather than preach to the converted...
...Shiflett quotes Mr...
...Several people talked to him because he was so amusingly out of it...
...I, for one, savor Mr...
...They are into it for their 15 minutes of fame...
...MARK K. ZUNK Indianapolis, Indiana Dear Cog-in-the-Right-Wing-Conspiracy-Wheel: When will you hyper-ventilating, conservative panderers give up...
...It was like being at a men's college reunion: white middle-aged males in coat and tie and carrying briefcases who rarely passed the scrutiny of zealous lawyers...
...Does not Mr...
...As for the indentation in his head, pardon me but if you are in a plane going hundreds of miles an hour and slammed into a mountain, you are going to have holes and "indentations" in every part of your body that survived the impact...
...That's why I argued that Republicans should give up courting liberal Northeast Republicans and concentrate on solidifying a conservative base in the high growth Western and Southern states...
...DAVID STEPHENSON Sedona, Arizona I would question Mr...
...Churchill as saying...
...Mongst a group of squadron pilots, they're as welcome as the IRS...
...Don't you tire of shrill tirades about Bill Clinton's character...
...Any casual observer of the ideologically rudderless so5th Congress cannot be confused on this point...
...The Romulan vessel is the "Warbird...
...the following: "Qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum...
...JOHN J. DIIULIO, JR...
...3. In every one of his pieces is a small part, often just a paragraph or so, that contains a particular insight or piece of wisdom that is unusually telling...
...Personally I think they should go back to their measly little lives and leave the rest of us alone...
...Most people only want you to see their good side...
...Actually most of them were drug dealers...
...I must add Julio loved money so for Julio to refuse was an extreme action on his part as Julio was known to take money from widows and orphans...
...Couldn't he simply enjoy the surreal spectacle of Dylan being honored for his work amidst such old-Hollywood icons as Charlton Heston, Lauren Bacall, and Gregory Peck, and let it go as another in a series of wacky American awards ceremonies...
...When Farrakhan, Maxine Waters, Kweisi Mfume, and the revolting Al Sharpton took up the fray, I, and I think most of my fellow African Americans, still turned a deaf ear...
...Is Mr...
...JAMES L. CLARK Lexington, Kentucky Chinese Noodling February's Continuing Crisis reports on a Chinese chef, Mr...
...WILLIAM S. BURKES via the Internet Re: "Rudderless in the Gulf...
...Julio, a former fighter, was a nice guy but an indifferent/incompetent trainer...
...Lt...
...The CVOA's are not 10 April 19 9 8 • The American Spectator "international maritime regulations," they're ours...
...Finally, I was disappointed in Mr...
...These figures have been tossed around and others attributed to me, but they are to be found nowhere in my writings, speeches, or other works...
...Maybe the Chinese have the jump on us in computer-generated noodles...
...I hope he and the U.S...
...The American Spectator —what a great magazine...
...While there I got to know many of the rejects since it was always the same people...
...Within them, as without, our CV's are required to comply with all international rules of the nautical road, including giving way to merchant shipping if required by those rules...
...His other "perfects" are in the same vein...
...Bob kept asking but Juliowouldn't relent, even though Bob was offering money to whoever would be his opponent...
...THOMAS RODNEY WILSON Alexandria, Virginia Explosive John B. Roberts II's article on TWA flight 800 was very informative and interesting ("Dissent Inside the TWA Probe," TAS, February 1998...
...York not interested in knowing more about the curious disappearance of not one, but two sets of X-rays...
...Also, as a retired officer, I was most disturbed by the treatment of Lt...
...He is easy reading with which to drop off to sleep...
...I think he is a better writer than you may think...
...But let me relate a story that might explain Dylan's odor...
...CV": the "C" is for "Carrier," the "V" for "heavier than air...
...York curious as to why these four professionals are so united in their opinion...
...CORRESPONDENCE Cogs in the Conspiracy As a loyal TAS subscriber, I am outraged to discover the existence of this far-reaching right-wing conspiracy to besmirch the character of the Little Rock Romeo, as charged by First Lady Bruno...
...Pilots have much more than "a friendly competition" to catch the No...
...1. Mr...
...This fine work is available for such ridiculous terms...
...He said he owned a boxing gym in L.A...
...Every Tuesday I dutifully went to the courthouse to sit in a large room along with hundred of others...
...It wasn't until he'd gone that I realized not one of the blacks or Puerto Ricans, including Julio, knew who Bob Dylan was...
...Here in a Fairfax County, Virginia, we are assigned jury duty for once a week over a month or so...
...and "Anonymous" for making The Impeachment ofWilliam Jef- ferson Clinton such an entertaining and satisfying reading experience...
...Shepard, on the rise of center fuel tank temperature on the TWA 747...
...Reagan, when pressed for his legacy by reporters, always said he'd let history be the judge...
...Delaware's liberal, Gannett franchise paper, the News Journal, dismissed it in a six-paragraph story in the business section under the title "False accusations about Biden, MBNA...
...I perceived a similar, albeit smaller, concern on the part of President Bush, as was mentioned in Victor Gold's review in the February TAS book section (TAS, February 1998...
...JOHN N. MCMANUS via the Internet No Upsurge In your March 1998 issue, William Tucker ("Unbroken Windows: The Good News About Crime") mischaracterized several aspects of what I have actually said and argued about juvenile crime and demographic trends...
...Americans have been giving birth to so-called "liberals" (a misnomer if ever I heard one) without brains since the 1950's...
...As for the other theory that is being floated around that there was some sort of assassin waiting at the crash site to finish off (Continued on page 79) 12 April 1998 • The American Spectator Correspondence (Continuedfrompage 12) the secretary, anybody who believes that one needs to turn off "The X Files" and take their Prozac...
...HARTMAN Cincinnati, Ohio I like to idle back and read Ben Stein's Diary each month...
...and sparred out there...
...I set a quiet time for it...
...1 is dangerous ("landed & taxied up to the One Wire...
...I do not believe that the problem is the least bit unsolvable...
...Undeterred, Bob stumbled from trainer to trainer, begging...
...For years, Mr...
...I did enjoy the article, which is why I wrote...
...ALLAN R. WYLIE via the Internet I've always considered poor peculiar Dick Gregory to be a windy old fool so I paid no attention to his mumbling about the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's death...
...I think not...
...As a man of letters and as such a minor celebrity, Mr...
...The success of the experiment has been proved by good ol' Bill's current approval rating...
...New Year's Eve night now is celebrated as First Night, even though it is really the last night or the first morning...
...MRS...
...Thirty years' service made me a purist, so...secondly, and on a purely technical basis—because you tried very hard to get your facts and terminology correct — I would like to discuss a few points in your article, in the order in which they appear...
...York is apparently not interested in the anomalies of either the Vince Foster case or that of Sec...
...as a whole...
...He's a brilliant, decent man who writes about his successes and his frustrations, and when he shares a silver lining or two, I'm privileged to have been along for the ride...
...Even your "right-wing warrior" appears disgusted with your one-note song...
...Or are the Silver Spooners of the right, like an "R...
...As has been observed by others, the exhumation of Sec...
...In her book, The Downing Street Years, Thatcher coined the truism, "In the end, reputation reflects reality...
...First, I am a professor of political science not of sociology...
...This is presented as evidence that perhaps seceding from the rest of the Union wouldn't be a bad deal for Northeasterners...
...You can always study the New Republic for assistance...
...But Thatcher and Reagan knew how to handle the issue...
...3 wire: they're strictly graded on their success at it and, if they can't sustain an accepted average of good traps, they're in professional trouble (catching No...
...In January '93 I was a small part of Sad-dam's "parting gift...from George Bush!' I wasn't on watch the night of the air strikes (the 17th), but I was manning the Battle Group Command circuit the night we launched Tomahawks into Baghdad...
...Brown's remains and a proper autopsy would serve several purposes...
...If Christ doesn't stand a chance with this group, can Santa be too far behind on their hit list...
...Isn't five years of your picayune accusations enough...
...You can imagine my delight when I learned that I could acquire a copy merely by renewing my subscription to The American Spectator...
...Ironically, Stein put his finger on the solution to his problem when he mentioned The American Spectator • April 1998 81 that his mother, whom he dearly loved and sorely missed, made his life "very difficult" when he was young...
...STEPHEN MOORE Cato Institute Washington, D.C...
...What none of these conspiracy nuts can answer is this: Who hated Ron Brown enough to die with him...
...They're called "arrested landings," the slang for which is "traps" and not "hook landings...
...This is a lot of verbiage for what were —1 repeat—minor glitches in your work...
...Ignoring York's allegation that the large MBNA contribution to Sen...
...Who the heck would've wanted Ron Brown dead...
...If Mr...
...It remains Clinton's fear...
...Monica Lewinsky should be the one who should get reprimanded for her actions...
...This was, after all, the east Village...
...CVOA" means "CV Operating Area...
...If such an uproar ever did occur, it would force the president to respond against the terrorist action and tighten airport security...
...Firstly, congratulations on the quality of the piece...
...When Dylan left he was the talk of the gym...
...catching No...
...He obtained this classical statement from one of the Latin classical writers: Vegetius, who wrote in his De Re Mil, 3, Prologue in the 4th Century B.C...
...V. STEWART, M.D...
...After reading just three chapters, it is more enjoyable than I could have imagined...
...JOHN M. DILL Milton, Florida Kenneth R. Timmerman replies: Thanks to people like Mr...
...The social service agency that ran the center was connected to Sheldon Silver of the New York State Assembly—another scam but also another story...
...This was no Martin Luther King or even a Malcolm X. The vast majority of us never got a damn thing from Ron Brown...
...Perfect," all the things he has bought the youngster, and all the great times they have shared...
...Other than halting the firing, it's out of his hands...
...He has himself said that he cannot explain how this could be...
...Seattle is an AOE, or Fast Combat Stores Ship (carries supplies, parts, ammo and fuel oil), not an oiler...
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