The Continuing Crisis
DEPARTMENTS I I i i i i i ii The Continuing Crisis ............................................................ 2 Editorial" R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr .............................................
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...The monograph is subtitled "The Pentagon Papers Reconsidered," and it is all the more interesting because those doughty documents, which we had all supposed supported the Anti-Vietnam History Lesson, are employed by Turner as one means to analyze the myths...
...Witness this statement in the UPI's summary history of the Vietnam war, sent to subscribers last October: "But there was another reason for the decision not to hold the election (in 1956...
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...Meanwhile the media are furiously stoking the furnaces, trying to heat up the American people to a febrile dither, in hopes that the people will accept the media's fantastic tale about Watergate...
...12 Letter from a Whig" C. Bascom Slemp...
...On the last day of the month President Nixon guillotined the only men who have yet had the courage to knife Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in the back: Assistant President John D. Erlichman, H. R. Haldeman, and young John Dean III...
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...In Tennessee civil libertarians have yet to respond to the dubious judgment of Circuit Court Judge George R. Shepherd who, on April 21, ordered the faithful of a rural cathedral to stop handling poisonous snakes in their religious observances...
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...Partisan newspaper reporters have tried to drag the name of Assistant President, John Erlichman, into the Ellsberg hearings which have been following an anfractuous legal high jinks in San Francisco...
...Griffith, III on The Case for American Medicine...
...Since that misfortune rumors have persisted to the effect that the area swarms with government agents, the representatives of several large foundations, and staff members from National Geographic magazine...
...There were a few scattered har hars and a snore, otherwise his colleagues listened in dead silence...
...Ho later sold him out to the French...
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...The Anti-Vietnam History Lesson alleges of course that the United States encouraged Diem to ignore the elections and delay unification of Vietnam because it feared a landslide victory for Ho Chi Minh...
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...McGovern) out to dinner and getting her loaded all the time in order to get her mind off it...
...8 The Nation's Pulse- Bathhouse John Coughlin...
...Chapter on political sophistication worth the whole book...
...As President Eisenhower was later to remark in his memoirs, every responsible observer estimated that Ho Chi Minh would have won if there had been an honest election...
...James Earl Ray was definitely denied a new trial...
...President Nixon released a report indicating a decline in serious crime in 1972, but on the very day the report was released, James N. Allen of Washington, D.C...
...Puts blame where it surprisingly belongs...
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...And the renowned law enforcement agent, Eugene (Bull) Connors, died in Birmingham, Alabama...
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...Indeed, throughout the 1930s and 1940s Ho eliminated thousands of noncommunist nationalist leaders, including members of the popular "Viet Nam Quoc Dang" party...
...Edith Irving beg an her two-year jail term in Switzerland, and harassment of her imprisoned husband, the controversial author, continued when authorities claimed they had found a pint of liquor on the distinguished author's person...
...And a three judge federal panel in Philadelphia has ruled that the right to buy alcohol is not a "fundamental right" guaranteed in the U.S...
...e Political prisoners were in the news...
...His place will be taken by William Ruckelhaus who has been heading the President's attempts to clean up the environment...
...Freshly debunks something-for-nothing promised through government, unions, business or magic...
...Arevalos consigned him to three years ago when he "missed the stool...
...13 Diane Alexander- National Health Care: Solution or Disaster...
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...The Cambodian Government has arrested about fifty-five astrologers who consistently have reported bad omens to Marshall Lon Nol...
...Or the communists, for never withdrawing their forces from the South (in violation of Article 1) and forbidding hundreds of thousands of refugees, slaughtering many of them, from leaving the North (in direct defiance of Article 14...
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...Turner, in a long series of hard-hitting arguments, effectively destroys this view...
...Policeperson Budd Warren, who discovered Mrs...
...The noncommunist, antiFrench nationalist, Phan Boi Chau, whom Bernard Fall has called "Vietnam's Sun Yat-sen," Ho regarded as a rival...
...Originally published on restroom wails, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from October through June...
...Meanwhile, Mr...
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...One source of the commotion is the wife of one of the defendants, Mrs...
...He filed an "amended return...
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...9 The month of April visited inclement weather throughout the country, causing some commentators to speculate that the (continued on page 28) The Alternative June-September 1973 delegate but as an official representative of the Communist International, and in fact did not again set foot on Vietnamese soil until 1941...
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...Discloses little known extent of union power and its abuses...
...It is unclear where in Oakland he receives his letters, but the odds are that he is pretty well-known both at the Oakland drunk tank and at the mental health association...
...Finally back in the United States the editors at many leading American publishing houses are feverishly laying plans to publish entirely new American government textbooks consistent with the recent findings of various grand juries, Senate investigating committees, Washington gossips, and other assorted researchers...
...Sundt David Tudo~ [~ Wayne H. Valis E] Timothy Wheeler Alien Contributors: Eric Brodin ~ Carl Miller [~] Judy Tyrrell Art Director" Elliott Banfield Art: Gustave Dor6 E1 Eric Lohnaas T-he AJternative was founded in !924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...John F. Lulves CONTINUING CRISI S (continued from page 2) floods and tornados of the Mississippi Valley might be the consequence of government policy to discontinue atmospheric atomic testing...
...In Warren's disparaging words Mr...
...16 Talkies: David Brudnoy...
...Editor in Chief: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...7 Leslie Lenkowsky" The Significance of FAP...
...This, one of the great canards of the era, is the infamous "Eisenhower Quote," an intellectual ripoff of the first magnitude and the century's most publicized example of quoting out of context...
...3 The Public Discourse: Paul H. Weaver...
...23 The Bootblack Stand...
...so ennobling is the American political experience...
...Director on April 5, Mr...
...Anthony Russo, who is given to peddling organic food sandwiches to the defense staff and to spectators...
...The whole incident has caused a stir of optimism in the women's community which is now planning both a defense fund for Mrs...
...27 Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin- and yes, sex, even sex...
...Wrote Ho himself in a passage simultaneously approving Marx, Lenin, and Mao: "Vietnam and China are two brotherly countries, having close relations like 'lips and teeth.' " Or consider for a moment the manifold myths of U.S...
...L. Patrick Gray, lII resigned under a little gray cloud on April 27...
...Doug Cooper U John R. Coyne, Jr...
...And while thousands of Americans were roosting in baseball parks to watch season openers, thousands of Ugandans turned out in urban centers across the count~ to watch the first public executions of the season...
...Not only are academicians at fault for the myths...
...Arevalos and a campus speaking tour where her success should be stupendous...
...Eyes bulge and pulses pound as the reporters and gossips pile luridity atop luridity, all the time exaggerating the importance of what was perhaps little more than a lapse of campaign etiquette...
...And goodwill champion, Leonard Moore, of Oakland, California is asking Americans to send him one million letters which he will take to the Russian people when he paddles across the Bering Strait on July 4 in his bathtub...
...Nick Arevalos has developed a brave alternative to the traditional, patriarchal society...
...There have been some willing rubes in journalism too...
...He shows that the United States attended the Conference only as an observing "friendly nation," that it announced repeatedly that it would not support general elections in part supervised by the communists, that it signed only the Cease-Fire which but once in passing mentions "general elections" someday to be held, and that it deliberately refused to sign any of the more explicit documents regarding elections...
...Herschel Boon of Bean Blossom, Indiana won the Perry County Lying Contest, despite stiff competition from a national field, and George McGovern revealed something of the grandeur of politics as practiced in America when he told the distinguished interviewer, Joe McGinniss, that since the election I've got to keep taking her (Mrs...
...Arevalos is kind of meek...
...Half of his references are to the Pentagon Papers and their cache of primary source material, and lead to his conclusion that they "thoroughly discredit most of the myths...
...For those who would like to see how it is done, copies are available cheapest from ISI, 14 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa...
...After asking the President to withdraw his name from nomination as F.B.I...
...eMembers of the Watergate Seven are now being implicated in a pedestrian attempt to burglarize the files of an obscure California psychiatrist...
...Publisher- Baron Von Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club Circulation and Promotion" Ronald E. Burr Managing Editor: Nell Howe Assistant Managing Editor: Joyce Goldberg Senior Editors: Terry Krieger r-] William Kristol Rev...
...In fact, as anyone with the honesty to do a bit of research could confirm, Eisenhower was referring to an entirely different election --one that would have taken place two years earlier (before the communist purges in the North) against a feeble opposition which did not include Diem...
...Did Ho, as a nationalist, reflect the Vietnamese people's innate distrust of China, as is so often claimed...
...22 Patricia Kavanagh on The New Chastity...
...was admitted to a local hospital for treatment of second-degree burns, which he suffered when a woman assaulted him with a bowl of hot spaghetti as he slept in his apartment There have been no arrests...
...Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner, the eponym of the famed Kerner Report, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000 for bribery, perjury, conspiracy, mail fraud, and tax evasion...
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...e According to West German officials, Martin Bormann has been found under Berlin's Invalidenstrasse Bridge where he has remained relatively inactive since 1945...
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...In a related development, Senator Edward Kennedy chose April 14 to make the dramatic proposal that the Senate establish a Bureau of Humanitarian and Social Services within the State Department...
...So who first violated the Agreements...
...92109 28 The Alternative June-September 1973 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 28) oppressing some of the more forwardlooking me mbers of the Nixon Administration...
...Turner's research is an auspicious beginning...
...9 On the foreign front Britain's National Health Service has decided to tax chastity belts...
...Suggestive of how splendidly Mrs...
...James Grant Peter Hughes E-] Joseph A. Morris [--] Roger D. Tyrrell Contributors: Jonn Avcy E-jPaul Bernstein Frank W. Blatchford III V-]Barry Burr Ron Docksai ~] J. P. Duggan a David Friedman Jerry Gerde E] John Kelley ~ W. Wesley MacDonald John Moscow [~ Jeffrey M. NelsonE] Gary North Terry O'Rourke Q G. W. Plunkitt [-] C.H...
...24 John F. Lulves on Myths of the Vietnam War...
...Detroit police have become edgy about a veritable plague of motorized bordellos, which tour through the suburbs of that municipality...
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...Argentina issued a formal remonstrance to Brazil because the Argentine ambassador was delivered the Itaipu Dam Message by a Brazilian diplomat carelessly attired in swimming trunks...
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...Grand jury investigations led by white ethnic, Judge John Sirica, and Senate hearings under the stewardship of Senator Sam Ervin, a Southern Bourbon, are (continued on page 31) NEWEST CHALLENGE TO CURRENT CONSENSUS Lively new guide for corrective thought-leaders .wHAT ~ CAN DO ~:i:ii::i:i.i::: i84 I i84 i.~ ~elt~: Assigns rewarding new course to be pursued personally and through others...
...c_o . ~_ og' ~ Q,, _ O Deldon M. Hamann is dead...
...Sheds new light on cause and only possible cure of inflation and unemployment...
...Senator William Proxmire was nabbed flagrante delicto trying to include a $2,758 "medical deduction" in his 1973 tax return, based on the costs of his recent hair transplant...
...betrayal of the 1954 Geneva Conference...
...Re-enthrones the economics, morals and politics of something-for-something...
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...Arevalos drove her husband to work blindfolded so that he would not look at women...
...10 REVIEWS Terry O'Rourke on The Best and the Brightest...
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...But she has also managed her husband well...
...The Americans, for not holding elections which would have been impossible to hold fairl:~ ,~nyway...
...oWomen's Liberationists have turned to Tulsa, Oklahoma where Mrs...
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...The police officer discovered the younger Arevalos peacefully asleep in the same vertical position he had maintained for three years...
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...Later in the evening he addressed the American people on the possibility of some impropriety stemming from the Watergate incursion and took full responsibility...
...14 PERSPECTIVES Tom c[mrles Huston- The Nixon Monument...
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...6 Richard Brookhiser" Eleven Years of Peace...
...e Earlier in the month U.S...
...And America's anxieties over a possible energy crisis eased a bit when Herman Feldmann informed the 165th national meeting of the American Chemical Society that enormous amounts of power repose in the common cow chip, which science will soon be able to metamorphose into pipeline gas...
...Arevalos has mastered her situation, was the younger Arevalos' explanation that he never tried to escape from the closet because the matriarch "didn't want him to...
...Ho has been called the "Tito" of Vietnam, even though -- ironically -- Ho approved of Moscow's repudiation of Tito's independence...
...Turner cites several historians who believe neither side seriously expected that the elections would be carried out, and he goes on to expose as mythology the "natural and historical unity" of both Vietnams...
...should be sent to The Alternative, clo The Establishment, R.R...
...Myths of The Vietnam War is a tight little piece of meaningful "revisionist" scholarship...
...17 Neil Howe on Rebellion in the University...
...Now that this war is receding into history let us hope that the critical minds which have examined American policy so rigorously will begin to review the academic and journalistic accounts of the war's origin...
...Not only has this courageous mother of two daughters and a son dealt effectively with her twenty-year-old son (whom police recently discovered locked in the same water closet Mrs...
...Arevalos' son when an extraordinary pungence drew him to the closet, reported that Mrs...
...Sam (Roman Nose) DeStafano, the controversial businessman, was the victim of an anonymous shotgun blast while puttering in his garage...
...Earlier in the month, two of the parishioners expired after guzzling strychnine during a solemn testimony of faith to which the spirits seem not to have been privy...
...29 Current Wisdom- by Assorted Jackasses...
...Brazil has denied the charges...
...30 ARTICLES Patrick J. Buchanan: A Question of Numbers...
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...9 In other news, Pablo Picasso's heart misfired...
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Vol. 6 • June 1973 • No. 9
