Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Nose Job Regarding the illustration gracing the cover of your November issue under the headline "All Washed Up!": Quite prescient, but I never realized that Newt had such a big...
...Clinton replied "Never...
...Are the liberals simply better street fighters than the Republicans...
...Since TAS inflamed much of the public unease over the Clintons via ample investigative reporting over the past six years, I think it now owes that same public, of which I am one, an explanation of what went wrong...if in fact anything did...
...Timmerman should also realize that such errors provide ammunition for critics...
...SELKY address withheld I purposely delayed my comments about the November 1998 issue until after the election...
...In the end, was it all only a half-Vast Right Wing Conspiracy...
...Timmerman to imply that we don't do our homework is irresponsible...
...Clinton escapes impeachment, anyone might envision this superbly skilled actor smiling and saying, "I fooled them one more time...
...Harboring the fear that Republican cowardice will permit the resident scoundrel to survive unpunished, I have purchased eleven copies of TAS to preserve for each of my grandchildren, for their future edification, a true record of these parlous times...
...I believe the November 1998 TAS is the finest example of conservative opinion, and hard-hitting investigative reporting, I have ever read...
...International Sources has a policy of visiting any manufacturer that we intend to buy from to check out their capabilities and working conditions...
...The rampant anti-intellectualism of establishment media appears to be concluding that the election will allow His Nibs to skate once again...
...Unfortunately, he continues to fall victim to small errors of fact...
...Credibility time...
...For Mr...
...Timmerman never interviewed our Cathy Kaliszewski, yet he quotes her erroneously in the article...
...The inaccuracies in the few sentences about our company make me wonder about the accuracy or inaccuracy of the rest of the article...
...Timmerman had taken the time to check out his sources and information...
...What I cannot comprehend is my fellow citizens' failure to rise up and demand this president's resignation...
...DONALD J. GRECO Summit, New Jersey Shameful Events Heartfelt thanks to Mr...
...It is much more difficult to actually visit the factories and make your own determination...
...Sill will Continued on page 75 12 January 1999 • The American Spectator...
...NEIL G. HOWLAND Saugus, Massachusetts Dashed Hopes All day during the Kenneth Starr testimony before the Hyde Committee, I kept wondering aloud to associates where Office of the Independent Counsel ethics adviser Sam Dash might be, since he was very conspicuous by his absence in the background behind Starr...
...Now we know what he was up to and why...
...when asked if he would resign...
...As one of the companies referred to and quoted in the article, I wish Mr...
...GENE WRIGHT Laguna Niguel, California Big Cheese China I found Kenneth R. Timmerman's article "California Take-Out" both interesting and inaccurate (TAS, October 1998...
...Elsewhere, in describing the performance specifications of a navigation system, Timmerman refers to "pressures greater than zig...
...Special congratulations, with much admiring regard, for the historic "Special Editorial...
...International Sources has never purchased from CATIC nor has one of our suppliers, Uniphos...
...Then surely handing over to the Chinese his own country's state-of-the-art computer technology against the strong objections of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and some in the military smells like treason to me, and is most surely impeachable...
...I have watched these many situations unfold from 1992 on in shock over American taxpayers' failure to revolt...
...Tyrrell for his "From Troop ergate to Monicagate" shameful event list of the Clinton presidency (Special Editorial, TAS, November 1998...
...however, the units denote an acceleration, not a pressure...
...Are the Clintons diabolically clever in the literal sense...
...MICHAEL J. DUNN Auburn, Washington Kenneth R. Timmerman replies: I would refer Donald Sill to a July io,1998 fax to Uniphos sent by Cathy Kaliszewski requesting confirmation of price quotes and shipping information for auto parts his company was purchasing from CATIC subsidiary Uniphos, and to the Uniphos reply three days later, which is headed Invoice Number 98U-IS1255...
...DONALD SILL President International Sources, Inc...
...The entire package of insults to decent Americans as well as provable illegalities shocks credulity...
...Or was Hillary really correct in her assessment that all of the various allegations were merely nothing more than partisan nonsense...
...If Mr...
...Granted Mr...
...It should not, but Mr...
...Uniphos is a privately owned company that simply leases space from CATIC...
...Chesterland, Ohio I see that Kenneth R. Timmerman ("California Take-Out") continues his interesting investigation of Chinese intrigue in the American arms market...
...Regarding Laogai camps, it is a very simple matter to ask a company whether they use this labor...
...His resignation, for a purported disagreement over alleged misconduct by Starr, whatever the real story, effectively discredits Starr, tears the heart out of the impeachment process, and, potentially, contaminates any future referrals...
...Does this detract from the larger message...
...You owe us an explanation, lads...
...For example, if the agents of CATIC were attempting to purchase production tooling from the Columbus, Ohio manufacturing site of the B-1 bomber, it was probably from the airframe manufacturer Rockwell International, not McDonnell Douglas as cited in the article...
...Quite prescient, but I never realized that Newt had such a big nose...
Vol. 32 • January 1999 • No. 1
