Correspondence: Motorola in China, Gates, &c.
CORRESPONDENCE Oopsy Daisy Don't shortchange us! ("Strange Last Respects," by John Corry, TAS, August 1998). More than 27 million Americans voted for Goldwater, to be exact 27,176,799. (Source:...
...Ofi 86 September 1998 • The American Spectator...
...Which brings me to Zia's attempt to accuse TAS of McCarthyism for referring to his ethnic origin...
...More important, it's because of Mr...
...JULIAN MACASSEY Sheboygan, Wisconsin I thoroughly enjoyed your article on Bill Gates...
...The Unix operating system, the one dismissed in the article as too technical and too hard to learn, has had a Graphical User Interface longer than Microsoft...
...Too many politicians would sooner shortchange taxpayers than endure public criticism from government unions...
...One need not read far into the section of the story subtitled "The Lawyer" to find the first factual errors...
...Zia should review his videotaped deposition with Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch from October 6, 1997, in which he acknowledged that he worked as a volunteer at the DNC for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, doing "outreach to the Asian community...
...MIRVs, in fact, were derived from commercial multiple satellite dispensers and the Russians'current multiple satellite dispensers (including for Iridium launchings) are derived from its MIRVs...
...But the section detailing Gates' early days at MITS had so many errors that I couldn't go on without wondering if the remainder of the article was also tainted...
...To the extent the author's factual errors and distortions succeed, however, in causing anyone to think badly of the conscientious, hardworking people at the Department of Commerce, the story is not amusing at all...
...This assertion is unsupported by a careful, objective evaluation of the facts...
...In fact, according to the Washington Monthly, "thequality of the civil service...has been plummeting for years...
...Nor was any such transfer permitted under terms of Motorola's export licenses...
...of Ivan Musicant's book Empire by Default for the July issue of TAS...
...the other two disintegrated ii and 13 months later...
...And he certainly cannot hide behind his ethnic origin to argue that he was entitled to special treatment or special dispensation from counter-intelligence scrutiny...
...Perhaps Mr...
...LARRY OLIVETO Redondo Beach, California I was looking forward to reading your cover story on Bill Gates...
...Since union members are twice as likely to vote as the general public, there can be a fearsome political price to pay for not toeing the line...
...1. What Mr...
...These corrections may seem unimportant, but the early history of the personal computer deserves to be accurately documented...
...Yes, Tony Schwartz created it, but it could hardly be said that "Bill Moyers had little to do with it," though the sanctimonious Moyers would like the world to think as much...
...Any transfer of equipment or technical information was reviewed and cleared in advance by the Department of Defense to assure that the Chinese would not have access to any technology or know-how that would help them enhance their missile capabilities...
...By the time Gates and Allen left Albuquerque, Roberts had introduced much of what PC users now take for granted, including a personal computer newspaper, a personal computer conference, business systems and even computer video and speech recognition...
...Naturally, the day-to-day workings of the union put much more stress on the first part of that slogan—the "employee-centered workplace"—than on the second...
...Some administration officials have claimed that they have insufficient evidence to pursue the 12 identified Palestinian Arab killers of Americans...
...But NT uses hardware much less efficiently and doesn't scale well to more powerful computers and heavier loads...
...MITS, which was begun in Roberts' garage, was then located in a modern industrial park at Albuquerque's international airport...
...But this too failed to demonstrate significant MIRV technology, since only one "real" satellite was actually placed into orbit, the two others being small packages of scientific instruments that subsequently burned up...
...Does China have an ability to launch MIRV warheads today that it did not have prior to the Iridium project...
...Motorola's assertion that no technology was transferred to China as a result of its Iridium project has been challenged by the National Air Intelligence Center, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and numerous others...
...When private unions strike, it is management and shareholders who can take a beating...
...the sheer number of software technologies Microsoft has purchased, repackaged, and gone on to monopolize is amazing...
...In the article we quoted from a letter provided by congressional investigators, and stated it was "apparently written by Zia to [Loral President Bernard] Schwartz" after the August-September 1994 trade mission to China...
...American Jews who work for the intelligence community are routinely excluded from dealing with Israel, precisely to avoid the "dual-loyalty" dilemma...
...Finally, about its current legal trouble: Microsoft will win...
...Hoyt Zia, like John Huang, is not some low-level official: he was granted a higher than Top Secret clearance, putting him in a highly privileged (Continued on page 84) 12 September r 9 9 8 • The American Spectator passed by Congress in June requires that an official from the union be appointed to the new IRS oversight board...
...Gates...
...Amazing that those femmes who profess to crave independence and equality do not share the worldview of perhaps the only woman writer with sufficient brass to use the expression "pussy-whipped" in a national magazine—and to use it in exactly the proper context...
...When the Washington Times revealed on July 22, for instance, that China had dramatically accelerated its development of the road-mobile DF-31 nuclear missile and conducted a test launch during President Clinton's trip to China, White House spokesman Mike McCurry just sloughed it off as "not surprising," and "way down in the minutiae of what we know is an effort by the Chinese military to modernize their military force...
...I was surprised to see quotes from such diverse sources as Zachary Pascal of Mother Jones and David Kirkpatrick of Fortune...
...and offer potential informers protection and relocation, just as the U.S...
...Congress decreed that any work done between 3 p.m...
...King's remarks and this letter...
...I suggest the author try talking to some Unix users...
...According to the Treasury Department's Assistant Inspector General Dennis Schindel: "A Customs officer can eam a 15-percent night differential for the entire eight hours of a shift that starts at 12 noon and ends at 8 p.m...
...May I volunteer the following information that the author obviously lacks...
...There I intend to mention Mr...
...On the one hand, I found that the way in which the story exaggerates my importance in the formulation of administration export control policy to some extent amusing...
...Yet the Clinton administration has refused to ask Arafat to hand them over...
...Zia claims he never "sold real estate in Hawaii," but in his deposition he stated that for four years he worked as counsel for Jmb Hawaii, Inc., a private real-estate venture...
...The Chinese were required to develop and demonstrate their ability to launch Iridium satellites on their own before any such launches took place...
...That official will also receive veto power over some IRS personnel changes...
...It claims that Windows NT is "clearly superior," for example...
...if that doesn't convince, they then try to downplay the import of the facts...
...should pursue Palestinian killers of Americans just as vigorously as they have pursued Pakistani killers of Americans...
...because of our ancestry...
...Twelve Arab terrorists who were involved in attacks on Americans—including one terrorist who was involved in the bombing that took my daughter's life—have been identified by the Israeli government, yet Yasir Arafat refuses to hand them over to Israel for prosecution...
...The letter established Zia's presence on the mission and his desire to work with Schwartz in the future...
...I also find it much clumsier to administer on a large scale than the various Unix brands I use, and it crashes much more frequently...
...Such officials have a sacred trust with the American people to safeguard those secrets...
...As a proud American who has served his country first as a U.S...
...It is also the subject of an ongoing Defense Department investigation and—who knows?—may soon be addedto the list of cases to be explored by the Justice Department...
...For AFGE members, union membership suffers without accompanying political power...
...It is the type of story that allows me to bring The American Spectator to work and show the magazine to all my coworkers, not just the conservatives...
...I disagree...
...One of the three satellites, known as SJ2, fell back into the atmosphere shortly after it was released...
...FORREST M. MIMS III via the Internet Why all this adulation of Mr...
...Tomorrow evening a public meeting will be held in Miami as a tribute to the memory of Maximo Gomez in the 93rd anniversary of his death...
...Although almost anyone in the United States who hasn't spent the last ten years living in a cave has heard of Bill Gates and Microsoft's problems with the Department of Justice, many people do not know the history of Bill Gates and how Microsoft became the giant that it is today...
...Hour for hour, Customs inspectors are among the highest paid civil servants in the world," a Journal of Commerce editorial recently noted...
...This time I'll be surprised if it gets even that much...
...Motorola conceived of and serves as prime contractor for the Iridium system, the world's most extensive satellite communications network...
...As the article notes, Microsoft has further leveraged this monopoly to give a major competitive advantage to their other software products...
...King says, "A revolution broke out that quickly degenerated into a Pink Panther movie ....Under the outlandish 'General' Gomez, the freedom fighters sought to make Cuba useless to Spain by seeing to it that there was nothing to export...
...2. The man Mr...
...The comments by Motorola and by Hoyt Zia are reminiscent of this approach...
...Source: World Almanac...
...That 1981 launch carried three small, experimental satellites into low earth orbit, using a modified version of China's first ICBM, the DF-5 (military versions of which are still trained on the U.S...
...law, with the explicit approval of the U.S...
...To hell with a pussy-whipped navy, and hats off to a great lady...
...Instead, let me focus on just one: the assertion of a "technology giveaway" by Motorola to China...
...Of course Zia's ethnic origin is important, even more so because he was dealing with China...
...Political power is obviously the goal of federal employee unions...
...The Chinese never had physical access to sensitive technology or the inner workings of Iridium satellites...
...In 1993, Congress enacted the Customs Overtime and Pay Reform Amendments to save money by ceasing to pay Customs officials overtime on vacation days...
...I applaud that offer...
...Gates and his approach to the information age that our lightning-fast, capacious computers take longer to boot up in 1998 than their teensy-weensy, slow-as-a-snail predecessors did in 1988...
...PETER SAMUELSON Wichita, Kansas It was with some amusement I read William Tucker's article...
...But as the scandals swell into a flood, the White House response has become increasingly pathetic...
...At the federal level, the unions hold the leash on the congressmen, and the congressmen hold the leash on the agencies...
...The NTEU's clout on Capitol Hill generates laws custom-made to fleece taxpayers...
...ALBERT R. BRASHEAR Corporate Vice President and Director Corporate Communications Motorola Schaumburg, Illinois As one of the subjects in the story entitled "Loral Exams" in the July 1998 issue of TAS, I write to correct a few of the numerous factual errors it contains and address some of the implications drawn from them...
...I did not go on either trip...
...Perhaps, to avoid the appearance of dual loyalty, Zia will exclude himself in the future from dealing with China...
...The final version of the bill "solved" this problem by empowering the President to exempt the NTEU member on the oversight board from federal conflict-of-interest rules...
...Gates's business sense is infallible...
...It would allow him to legitimately claim the pride he asserts of serving his country with loyalty...
...The problem is, we can avoid Eisner's and Murdoch's products if we want, but to avoid Gates these days you have to have the skills of a hacker...
...04 Correspondence (Continued from page 12) sphere of individuals having access to our national security secrets...
...After he sold MITS to Pertec, Roberts moved to Georgia, not Tennessee...
...Contrary to the impression left by Mr...
...qualifies for night differential premium pay—and that if the majority of any shift falls within those hours, the entire shift qualifies for night pay...
...The "reform" bill is thus costing taxpayers an additional $18 million a year, according to the Treasury IG...
...Ledeen and your magazine for this enlightenment, I must confess that reading about this amoral, unethical, Ivy-League hick who has turned our White House into a bordello, it did not make my day—I was furious for hours...
...And don't let Bill Moyers off the hook on the daisy ad...
...Washington being what it is, each story is attacked for being riddled with "factual errors," "flaws," "exaggerations," or "misinterpretations...
...government and subject to stringent national security controls...
...These safeguards were developed during a rigorous interagency review that took place in late 1992...
...Punctilio is not a Spanish word...
...In short, Chinese involvement in the Iridium launches was limited to technology and know-how the Chinese already possessed...
...I would like to believe that Mr...
...For small, simple tasks, and for an inexperienced administrator, NT can be easier to use than Unix...
...Zia earned that trust, but he is not entitled to assume that he did...
...There is a big interest in Bill Gates by people of diverse political ideologies and people with no political ideologies...
...Timmerman, there was no transfer of missile technology to China...
...To do that, Motorola has deployed a 66-satellite constellation, with six on-orbit spares, and used Chinese launches to lift six of those initial 72 satellites into space...
...Because of how the Customs Service calculates work shifts, inspectors can now receive "night pay" bonuses for work done any hour of the day...
...Motorola assumed control of the satellites in parking orbit and had sole responsibility for guiding them to their ultimate locations in the Iridium constellation...
...PEDRO G. DE CESPEDES Miami, Florida P.S...
...advertise the reward in Palestinian Arab newspapers, just as the U.S...
...satellites...
...It portrayed the man exactly as the media almost always do: the smartest man in the world, the man behind the evolution of the computer from an intimidating wonder of technology to a tool we all can use, a folk hero whose only enemies are his competitors, the Justice Department, and a few Marxist programmers and systems administrators who are probably just jealous of his success...
...The suggestion that Motorola transferred "MIRV warhead technology" collapses under the weight of this fact, as well as the fact that the Chinese demonstrated their ability to launch multiple payloads on a single rocket as far back as September 20,1981—years before the Iridium system was even a glimmer in any Motorolan's eye...
...Earlier this year the AFGE harangued its members: "Congress is the bargaining table for federal employees, which means AFGE's legislative and political program must be ongoing and aggressive...
...The Iridium satellites were shipped to China under seal and armed guard, installed on Chinese launch vehicles under procedures overseen by Pentagon inspectors and launched by the Chinese into parking orbits...
...And they were required to rely exclusively on their own technology, without Motorola assistance, in doing so...
...Zia's routine handling of highly classified information, and his regular contacts with top Chinese Communist officials, put him in a sensitive position...
...Microsoft has faced many stronger charges in the past, and its wrists have been properly slapped a number of times...
...Most amusing was the paragraph on why NT is better than Unix...
...Hoyt Zia protests that he would never, ever go to DNC headquarters to "dial for dollars," since such activity is prohibited to federal employees...
...HOYT H. ZIA N. Bethesda, Maryland Kenneth R. Timmerman replies: Every day brings new revelations of scandalous technology transfers to China by the Clinton administration, and the new security problems they have created for the U.S...
...Tucker seems to see all this as a positive thing for the consumer...
...AFL-CIO Vice President and UMW President Richard Trumka, addressing a 1997 AFGE organizing conference, declared: "I can't think of any union that depends on political power more than AFGE and its members...
...As Mr...
...The really funny part was: "Among other problems it lacks the point-and-click environment...
...Thus, due to its small market share, software firms are reluctant to develop software for OS/2, which further marginalizes it...
...Hard Going for Microsoft I was rather disappointed with William Tucker's recent feature on Bill Gates ("Open Season on Bill Gates," TAS, July 1998...
...However, the same bill increased the pay differential for "night" work, and greatly expanded the hours for which employees could collect such bonuses...
...For federal employees, for AFGE members, winning at politics isn't just anything, it is everything...
...There is no evidence that the rising power of government employee unions has improved government in any way...
...The shopping center where MITS was located when Allen and Gates arrived was across from an Albuquerque post office and was not as seedy as implied by your article...
...placed large ads in the Pakistani press...
...Knowing about these basic factual errors will hopefully give TAS readers pause to reflect upon the veracity of the rest of the story...
...ROBERT STACY MCCAIN Gaithersburg, Maryland Re: certain remarks by Florence King in his review (titled "Long Live Punctilio...
...The story claims that I participated with Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz in an August-September 1994 Commerce trade mission to China, and that I subsequently went to China in the fall of 1994 to negotiate export control arrangements as part of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade...
...STEPHEN FLATOW West Orange, New Jersey Pink-Panthered As conservatives bemoan the gender gap, it is refreshing to encounter a writer as immune to the politically-correct cult of "sensitivity" as Florence King...
...A FUNDAMENTAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST According to the NTEU's mission statement, the union's "every action is geared toward creating an employee-centered workplace that produces high quality public services...
...But if the Clinton administration is concerned about the quality or quantity of the evidence they currently possess, the logical next step would be to offer a large reward, just as the U.S...
...First comes denial...
...for example, OS/2 has always been at least as easy to learn and use as Windows, and technically superior in several ways, but comparatively few people know this because of Microsoft's powerful bandwagon effect...
...Having made the mistake of doing so, a responsible publication would have the decency —and prudence—to correct the record and apologize for the mistake...
...and 8 a.m...
...The next Chinese attempt to launch multiple satellites didn't occur until September 3, 199o...
...As it happens, Zia in his deposition acknowledged that he took part in the fall 1994 JCCT trip to China on behalf of the Commerce Department, which he denies in his letter...
...The Altair first seen by Allen and Gates was fully functional and not a mockup...
...The company's correct name was Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems...
...The truth will have to be established by the Justice Department probe...
...But that does not work out so badly for unions: The more incompetent government employees become, the more they will need unions to prevent management from denying anyone an "outstanding" job performance rating...
...The Clinton Doctrine I can't add to Michael Ledeen's examination of Clinton's dismal performance in foreign affairs ("The Collapse of Clinton Foreign Policy," TAS, July1998), except to say this president poses as great a "threat from within" to these United States as any wartime Fifth Column...
...The U.S...
...In response to a follow-up question from Klayman, Zia said that "on evenings and weekends I would go to DNC headquarters and make phone calls, stuff envelopes, and other volunteer work....There was a general call for people to help out with the campaign activities....Word would be passed around among Asian appointees...
...I look forward to seeing how TAS responds...
...Wrong...
...Even more offensive than the factual errors are the implications of identifying me as a Chinese American for the purpose of suggesting that I and other Americans of Chinese ancestry are more loyal to China than the U.S...
...But Motorola's assertion that China "demonstrated their ability to launch multiple payloads on a single rocket as far back as September zo, 1981," is yet another twisting of the truth...
...Former Pentagon official Henry Sokolski, who was involved in the initial decision to allow limited satellite launches in China during the Bush administration, believes that President Clinton has swept away most of the national security controls put in place to ensure no technology transfer occurs during the launch process...
...There is a fundamental conflict of interest between government employees and citizens-taxpayers...
...Those claims are false...
...And as to MIRVs—which Motorola says bear no relation to its "smart dispenser" technology— Sokolski is brutally clear: "MIRVs and precise satellite dispensers are interchangeable technologies...
...has done in Pakistan...
...It read like a bad PR piece from Microsoft...
...Not content to wallow alone in anger, I brought the article to a friend, like myself, a former combat Marine infantryman...
...Every time that revolting Windows 95 logo comes up on my screen I feel as though I'm on the frontier of a ghastly new world in which everyone has to drink Miller Lite, eat margarine, wear plasThe American Spectator • September 1998 85 tic shirts, drive a Ford, and watch nothing but reruns of "Seinfeld...
...The presidential waiver that authorized the Iridium launch program in no way diminished Motorola's responsibility to fully adhere to export control rules and national security safeguards dictated by the Department of Defense and other U.S...
...One, it has more and better lawyers...
...With all due respect, let me offer some corrections, clarifications, and opinions of a computer professional...
...I was a co-founder of MITS, and I wrote the original instruction manual for the Altair 8800 before Bill Gates and Paul Allen arrived...
...3. Cuban independence warriors, chronically short of weapons and ammunition, by resorting to a scorched-earth strategy against export crops pushed the Spanish government into financial exhaustion...
...did in the Pakistani case...
...As Shindel testified, inspectors now receive "night differential even when they are on leave, if those leave days would normally qualify for nightdifferential had the officers been at work...
...VICTOR GOLD Falls Church, Virginia From A to Zia It would take far too much time to address all of the flaws, exaggerations, and misinterpretations in Kenneth Timmerman's July 1998 article ("Loral Exams") on issues related to the use of commercial launch services in China for U.S...
...It's because of Mr...
...Although I wasn't as optimistic, Roberts always believed the Altair would be a major success...
...He was likewise disgusted and we commiserated appropriately until his wife yelled down to us that we'd better stop cussin' as all the windows were open...
...The Windows monopoly has stifled development and use of superior products...
...Interestingly, the administration recently offered a $2-million reward for information leading to the capture of the terrorists who killed four American citizens—oil company employees—in Pakistan...
...Eleven have been killed by Palestinian Arabs in the last five years...
...All this hurts rather than helps the consumer, by presenting him with fewer and inferior choices...
...Also, he knows how to make use of a monopoly: starting with that early IBM contract for MS-DOS, Gates has steadily built a virtual monopoly in PC operating systems (MS-DOS), then leveraged this to build monopolies in graphical user interfaces (Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT...
...Really...
...and its allies...
...These issues are all important in the server market where Unix is currently king...
...This was hardly a smashing success for a country seeking to launch multiple nuclear warheads...
...That's exactly where he belongs...
...I (and I think many of us in this field) admire Bill Gates in the same way I 84 September 19 9 8 • The American Spectator admire Johnny Cochran: I mostly despise what he has done but have to admire him for pulling it off...
...The absurdity of the "night pay" bonuses was compounded by a federal arbitration ruling on an NTEU grievance in late 1995 that decreed that Customs inspectors could also collect "night pay" bonuses for time spent on vacation...
...Ledeen implies, the logical alternative is to bring the terrorists to the United States for prosecution under the terms of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996...
...Tucker's one moment of truth comes in the sentence that brackets Gates with Michael Eisner and Rupert Murdoch...
...FRANK BROWNLOW via the Internet William Tucker replies: Whether UNIX is a better system than Windows NT, or whether you love Bill Gates or hate him, it's hard to argue he's doing anything illegal...
...ARTHUR R. MARKEY Northville, New York Michael Ledeen notes that "Clinton refuses to demand that Arafat turn over to us the murderers of American civilians...
...A bill to end this absurdity is pending before Congress, but the NTEU is fighting it toothand-nail — and has browbeaten the Clinton administration into opposing the bill...
...Thanks to my Unix point-and-click environment, I was able to grab your email address from your web site and send you this letter...
...In the review of reference Mr...
...But I wonder why the administration has failed to take such steps in cases of Americans who have been murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists, including my daughter...
...The article also makes some inaccurate statements about Unix...
...It was only when Motorola transferred the "smart dispenser" for the Iridium project that China acquired the capability of reliably launching multiple satellites each weighing close to 700 kilograms, the size of a nuclear warhead...
...According to Tax Notes, both the federal Office of Government Ethics and the Justice Department loudly protested that putting a union representative on the board would violate federal conflict-of-interest laws...
...A third attempt, on February 8, 1994, was even less adventuresome, since it involved a "simulated satellite" and a tiny scientific package...
...In fact, Moyers was the Johnson White House chief-of-staff who approved the daisy ad and, under pressure, had it canceled after one showing (in which it did the dirty work it was intended to do...
...Two, regarding web browser bundling, Justice chose a particularly weak issue...
...After the war, this great Dominican, having been made a Cuban by birthright in recognition of his dedication to the country's independence, modestly declined to become Cuba's first President in time of peace, and went home in Havana as a mere civilian...
...This is the type of feature story The American Spectator should cover more often...
...When public employee unions make demands, it is taxpayers and citizens who suffer and pay...
...There should be no double standard...
...A good example is the "night differential" bonus pay that Customs Service inspectors receive even while on vacation...
...Some basic fact checking would have revealed that I was not even at the Commerce Department until mid-December 1994, when I visited Washington for two weeks in preparation for my officially joining Commerce in January 1995...
...MITS president Ed Roberts's main problem was lack of capital rather than an inability to forecast sales...
...I am skeptical about this claim, because I know that in five of the 12 cases, Israeli courts have reviewed the evidence against these Palestinian terrorists and found it sufficient to issue arrest warrants...
...We took note of Zia's denial that he went on that particular trip, although other sources confirmed to TAS that Zia did begin working as a consultant to the Department of Commerce several months before he officially joined the government in December 1994...
...When it becomes operational later this year, the Iridium network will be the first to deliver telephone communication to virtually any point on Earth...
...As yet, we do not know...
...King calls "a Pink Panther movie" was the second and last Cuban independence war —fought in isolation against huge odds—during which the Spanish government, even though it landed on the Island more troops than it had sent against the entire continental liberation effort, could never stop the Cubans...
...King calls "the outlandish 'General' Gomez" was a brilliant strategist and tactician, an able army organizer, and a courageous commander who fought for Cuban independence in two wars and won many battles despite a perennial shortage of weapons and supplies...
...One of those eleven was my 20-yearold daughter, Alisa, who was killed, along with seven others, in a Palestinian terrorist attack on a bus in the Gaza region...
...Last year the NTEU announced it was targeting thirty-nine "anti-federal employee lawmakers" for defeat...
...government agencies...
...Clearly, this demonstrated a technological breakthrough unavailable to the Chinese using their own means...
...Marine and now as a public servant, I cannot help but feel 10 September 1998 • The American Spectator outraged at such racist aspersions against my loyalty as an American, and not a little anxious about the grave potential harm to our country that this sort of race-baiting and scapegoating promotes and for which the internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War and McCarthyism serve as sad examples in recent American history...
...Gates's approach to the interesting little subject of power that we all have to use his big, baggy programs full of muck we'll never need and never use, and that we have to throw out infinitely superior products that did exactly what we wanted...
...As a journalist, I can only note these conflicting statements...
...A responsible publication should not have published a story as rife with factual errors as this...
...Senor Florence King replies: I've always known that I wasn't feminine, but I had no idea what progress I had made until Pedro G. de Cespedes paid public tribute to my cojones in his letter...
...They are common misconceptions, if that makes anyone feel better...
...Those China launches took place in full accordance with U.S...
...While I thank Mr...
...Further, I have never written a letter to Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, I have never shown or given John Huang classified documents, I have never sold real estate in Hawaii, and I have never "dialed for dollars" as a DNC volunteer at any time, let alone as a federal employee for whom participation in political campaign fundraising is prohibited...
...Now that I no longer have to try to be sweet and nice, I will reply to his remarks by asking him this: If "General" Gomez and his Cuban freedom fighters were so all-fired great, why did it take the United States to kick the Spanish out of their island...
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