The simple and the sane
Garvey, John
never be integrated into normal American life unless speedy action is taken. As former NAACP labor director Herbert Hill Elsewhere in this issue, 'Thomas J. Gumbleton and J. said in a...
...A MOLE is a small burrowing ani- disclosures-of spies in several NATO He had reaspns for everything...
...Richard Helms and Henry that he, personally, had handled the case things now...
...with a stake in the system, which is not the old city directories: I wanted to see Is this the reason behind the popularity necessarily the best of all possible when this began to happen...
...Among other rectory for 1855-56 I find the following things, the program was designed to prooccupations, chosen at random: duce people whose job would be the conshoemaker, painter, drayman, carpenter, trol of a special language, one which cabinetmaker, tinsmith, lawyer, justifies the use of one-way mirrors and shinglemaker, pastor, carriagemaker, questions which can be asked only of harnessmaker, bookkeeper, undertaker, people at the mercy of institutions and clerk, teacher, gardener, physician...
...I WORK in an archive devoted to local lace and serious looking boys with their One of the most interesting things about history...
...Saying "no" to the first of these groups, the TEST-TUBE ETHICS research scientists, might even be salutary...
...2 March 1979: 101 In the Springfield, Illinois city di- think about quitting...
...The poor were better off A SOVIET SPY IN THE CIA...
...children already born...
...intelligence services, for example-but team player, like the publicists for Mobil But a mole, as we've had occa- none more startling than his conviction Oil, the AMA, and the tobacco industry...
...Reviewing a TV documentary on the vitro fertilization when there is no intention of transferring the first "test-tube baby," a New York Times writer endorsed Dr...
...A system can feed on itself, CIA in Helsinki...
...As often as Eventually the argument over Nosenko, directories...
...Such a conclusion would mean saying "no" to two interested groups...
...To which we might add, this is as unhelpful a moral because the research is (a) of low priority medically and (b) argument as we have never heard...
...The newer occupations are proaching some critical pass, that someOnce I asked someone what he did for more difficult to describe...
...Predictions of potential riots in panel could agree to recommend no federal funding, that the black community may be exaggerated but there is no would be a solid first step...
...but as parts of some- ordinarily makes its way into public Golitsin's name might never have thing, they are dependent on the whole, print, but in the last few months there has emerged if he had not been involved in which can maul them if necessary...
...they are cowards before it, Kissinger, neither of them frivolous of Lee Harvey Oswald in Moscow, and and they need the rewards and the esteem men, have both been quoted as wonder- that the KGB had no connection whatwhich the systegi promises team players...
...this is not an totalitarian systems and our own system ing...
...There is just months after the assassination of John P. signations, "team player," and the same enough fact in the public domain to lend Kennedy, Nosenko's neat story inevitaslimy creature ''vas there in Kennedy's weight to their suspicions...
...We Carkhoff and Berenson (1966), can be life, now past, is partly a yearning for a have the remaining despotisms as client both constructive and destructive...
...ing if recent espionage cases indicate ever with him...
...the average liberal says that it is, or Catholic, or Taoist, and you can't, asked to find the current state of affairs unfortunately, necessary...
...This sort of of television shows like The Waltons and worlds,they try to tell us, but the only language, and the reality it drags along Little House on the Prairie...
...The members appear firmly at one only on the sensible by an expanding economy...
...It is not at all a bad thing in fact running out of fossil fuels, a fact job was rewriting the prose of academics to yearn for an economy (the word's which determines much more than anyto make them seem literate...
...But it was a naive trades related to the horse...
...for them...
...They seem thing will give soon...
...If they were honestly is a serious matter...
...Of course increased defense spending was correct, he said...
...The question is were never resolved, despite three years doubt be there as part of his successor's what...
...buy Coke, and that makes them OK...
...People be- possible one...
...worked his way into the heart of an intel- now the Directorate for Operations...
...The complex and accumulated problems of repugnant and objectionable to a considerable number of citiblack ghetto youth cannot be solved by anti-bias measures or zens...
...Saying "no" to the women unable to bear their own children, and looking desperAt present the federal government is not funding scientific ately for hope in these new techniques, may be more painful...
...Now we produce people who rise are no joke...
...The complication serves ever, in late 1961, when a major in the telling the truth...
...It 1930s...
...It is too bad that our yearnings come likely be exploited until the last drop is to us now sandwiched in between com- gone...
...The investigation which within systems...
...What do our leaders tell us...
...Where people were produc- not, he found, the secret of man's true described at length in Edward Jay Eping real things for people who really allegiance was to be found in the past, stein's book Legend, was simply closed needed them, something unclouded went and certain roots of the CIA mole stretch by administrative fiat, but not before it on between them...
...The nostalgia is qualified by a realization that the common yearning for simpler values ignores a lot of the era in which we THE SIMPLE & THE SANE think they were to be found...
...followed Golitsin's story is still a subject masters of any particular skills they This is not the sort of thing which of debate within the CIA...
...I saw it up close once: I worked in them, a way of living and working which "the system" that way...
...if you have a collection of city and advertisements for vanished theaters full of quotes from Shakespeare...
...They should, however, go further...
...embryonic existence...
...Which brings us back to the old city business of catching spies...
...Clearly, bly aroused the CIA's suspicions...
...So is China now, despite unrealizable fantasy...
...We do not ucts of the sponsors, and at the same time need to change the way we live, if only underscores the fact that what we are everyone will tighten his belt...
...denying the fact thatbalf an entire generation of black youths Institutional Review Boards should be informed that human will never take their rightful place in American life unless reproduction through these methods must await further animal something drastic is done...
...There is you notice that all of the black students years, you can see where people lived, something entrancing about high school are on one page, and there aren't many of what they did, and how the town has yearbooks with dreamy looking girls in them, and the older city directories have changed...
...Should that moratorium be lifted...
...In the proposal for this program I unreasonable hope...
...Some members approve of in tific "triumphs" as ever...
...Fog: mercials, a form which suggests that our We will look for new energy sources...
...None of the people who are wrong hands," and decided I should have our hopes fed by a false view of the allegedly in authority are interested in past...
...sion to learn in the past year, is also that the KGB had an agent, a mole, You can bet that he said what he was something else-counter-intelligence planted inside the CIA's clandestine arm, asked to say, and if asked by his superiors jargon for an enemy agent who has then called the Directorate for Plans (and he would have said the opposite thing...
...never be integrated into normal American life unless speedy action is taken...
...In vitro fertilization for scientific study Necessary as the fight against inflation is, surely it should not should either be prohibited or limited to the first few days of be carried out at the expense of the black poor...
...Tibet, despite the fact that in Taiwan, Commonweal: 102 with all its faults, you can be a Buddhist, snake which swallows its tail...
...Steptoe and them in a mother's womb...
...some people, and they aren't the poor, or KGB, Anatoli Golitsin, defected to the Not long after the publication of Epsour children...
...ghetto areas is essential...
...for ghetto youth, not contingent upon full employment in the economy at large...
...The story properly begins, how- Golitsin collided, they could not both be is, certainly...
...fertilized egg back to the mother's body, the procedure being Steptoe's moral viewpoint, though not without a certain conducted, instead, for purposes of studying the early phases grammatical entanglement: "Making it possible for childless of human development...
...As for human in vitro fertilization and reimplantation, if the We could not agree more...
...Coming less than two It was one of ttie favorite Nixon-era de- there is a mole in the CIA...
...sity had a program called, believe it or which needs are met directly, at a scale We are faced with a competition between not, "Human Development Counsel- which anyone can deal with...
...The only people a living, and he answered, "Middle mainly to be about getting paper from who don't seem so concerned are people management...
...Teng-now he does understand us...
...with it, came into its own after World lieve that something has been taken from Doesn't it sound paranoid to talk about War II...
...The other day I saw one of Carter's- white mice defending the LOOKING FOR MOLES new budget...
...The West lacks will now be- James Jesus Angleton, who ran carcerated in a padded basement cell...
...Outsiders tend to make Golitsin did not know the mole's name, was told to say, since the desire to pro- fun of the business of intelligence, dis- but he offered three clues-a physical duce people who can think and work in- missing its practitioners as gumshoes, description, the date of a meeting in Londependently isn't really the point any- Boy Scouts and paranoiacs...
...the '60s the public relations department of a is nqt only "simpler" in the condescend- are gone...
...These pocket...
...There is an odd convestment management consultant, coun- between people...
...I'm afraid he does...
...A further question is "is as close to an unobjectionable activity as it is impossible to whether federal funding is inappropriate in this area simply imagine...
...vergence of opinion on at least that one selor, tax examiner, employee benefits What is obvious about the occupations point...
...Anyone can be tempted to hair parted down the middle, lined up in being in a middle-sized city is the city nostalgia, looking at old newspapers rows on pages decorated at the edges and directory...
...of interrogation while Nosenko was inentourage...
...And public health efforts to reduce gonorrheatold that such research poses no inherent ethical problems...
...say "the world is more complicated Krivitsky, a Russian defector of the Since the stories of Nosenko and of now," as if that were an explanation...
...Part of my' but more direct...
...if we had any hope that it was countries-where the despots have the this knowledge doesn't get into the really attainable, we would not need to upper hand...
...A new comprehensive federal recommendation that HEW should support animal research in strategy directed specifically at nonwhite youth living in this area...
...But in the sincerity, and part of something much 1978 Springfield city directory there are larger which is in fact less than benign, Yet the need for an alternative to the a larger number of occupations like the something which involves a vague and direction our culture and economy have following, also chosen at random: in- pervasive clouding of the relationships taken is pressing...
...Maybe that is A really, in China...
...efforts to fertilize human eggs in the laboratory and implant Yet the more that is learned about the work of Drs...
...Others approve of in vitro fertilization couples to have children that are theirs genetically," he wrote, only when transfer is contemplated...
...courts...
...a c for "colored" after the names of Of several minds: John Garvey black people, and the obituaries are topheavy with infants and young children...
...People did things people (excluding all of those who have lic information, insurance examiner, which other people needed to have done power over us) agree that we are apadministrator of social services...
...there is no such thing as a dead file in the New York, but contradicted by Golitsin...
...Edwards in England, the less likely does it seem that "testShould Institutional Review Boards, which now must pass on tube babies" are a realistic answer to the needs of these all human research at institutions receiving HEW funds, be women...
...Solzhenitsyn and Greenpeace and supervisor, financial analyst, urban in the older city directories is that they conservative economists and antiplanner, environmental coordinator,per- were clearly about something: they were nuclear groups and any number of other sonnel assistant, program specialist, pub- genuinely productive...
...This univer- roots mean "the care of a house") in one in power is happy to acknowledge...
...Our nostalgia for away, depends upon the creation of false development, according to studies by what we imagine to be a better way of needs and the expansion of markets...
...That's what turned me to one place to another...
...We do need those hopes-hoping much more than maintaining or improvfor a sane life seems to be part of what- ing their position in this power-grid...
...then ever, he said...
...Many societies have which, when the rhetoric is cleared found this line: "The process of human been built around it...
...The Shah watching is only an entertainment, an was our friend...
...The average con- dime's worth of difference...
...We hopes can be realized if we buy the prod- will maintain a firm defense...
...Unemployment in the black ghettos experimentation as well as further reports on the "test-tube" is truly a timebomb threatening our national well-being...
...I know...
...Our ever being human is all about-and we economies are dependent on a dying posneed the sense that they are not unreason- sibility of cheap energy, which will able...
...There was talk in the same docuThere are still people who do things ment of "the helping professions" ant' like this (eliminating, of course, the no doubt it was sincere...
...then directories which goes back over the and hotels and restaurants...
...The world is by our desks by the barrelful...
...If servative says that the necessity is unfor- JOHN GARVEY Solzhenitsyn says that the West lacks a sense of itself, lacks a will, it is because he is a foreigner who lives in Vermont Of several minds: Thomas Powers and hasn't visited the rest of the country...
...We are tunate...
...cause nothing in our culture or our educa- counter-intelligence for the CIA until he Nosenko's story was importantly cortional system encourages the develop- was fired in December, 1974, has said roborated by an FBI-run Soviet agent in ment of anything like a thought...
...it is there with Carter, and will no something is going on...
...We invite letters is the development of long-term policies designed specifically responding to the issues they raise...
...He was a mal, hard to find and hard to kill...
...but in China they will more or less necessary...
...As former NAACP labor director Herbert Hill Elsewhere in this issue, 'Thomas J. Gumbleton and J. said in a recent issue of the Nation, "What is urgently required Bryan Hehir debate the value of SALT 11...
...THE ERA OF THE 'TEAM PLAYER' But there are other things to be learned from the perspective an archive offers...
...If there is a mole in the CIA it mole's reports...
...He would probably believe anything he ligence service...
...During his long debrief- tein's book last spring, surfacing Golitlike the gnostic symbol oroboros, the ing Golitsin made a number of startling sin's name for the first time, Washington 2 March 1979: 103...
...I future which we believe is being kept states, except-as in the case of some oil wrote in the margin, "Let's make sure from us...
...tions and make recommendations to HEW Secretary Califano Meanwhile the culture remains as "gee whiz" about scienhas not yet made up its mind...
...would be threats...
...induced sterility among women might well be a more sensible The federal advisory panel established to answer such ques- investment for the future...
...The been a good deal of high-level another CIA dispute over the bona fides fact that you seldom meet brave bureau- discussion-perhaps gossip would be a of a later KGB defector named Yuri crats doesn't have anything to do with better word-on the subject of moles in Nosenko, who told the CIA early in 1964 their genes, but with a system which runs Washington...
...But moles don, and the substance of several of the more...
...It isn't at all honest to all the way back to the case of Walter had thoroughly muddied the waters...
...But as the hard guys say, state-funded university, and jargon came ing sense (i.e., without complication), let's look at the big picture...
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