WHAT KIND OF A COUNTRY WILL THIS BE?
Howe, Irving & Bloch-Michel, Jean & Tyler, Gus & Clark, Joseph & Geltman, Emanuel & Hux, Samuel & Barber, Benjamin R. & Roy, Olivier & Joffe, Carole & Mongin, Olivier & Coad, Malcolm & McAlmon, George
The oddest things cause consternation in the Reagan White House. For example, on April 30 the president was carried away by his subject matter and departed from prepared text. It was a public...
...The USAC Governing Body has sent appeals to the human rights commissions of the United Nations and the Organization of American States in an attempt to forestall such a step...
...The incumbents won with a 26 percent margin...
...involvement in repression, beyond mere aid and training, occurred again in the mid-1960s...
...General Haig, called to the rescue, explained that the hightechnology military equipment being sent to Saudi Arabia was part of the worldwide fight against Soviet communism...
...In an appreciative review of Martin Carnoy's and Derek Shearer's Economic Democracy some months ago, Michael Harrington remarked that he takes "economic democrat" to be "a genteel way of saying `socialist' in a politically underdeveloped society...
...It is a constant coming and going...
...Such an action would inevitably involve military occupation, the shattering of the USAC's hard-won autonomous status, its probable breakup, and almost certainly many more deaths...
...There is no martial tradition among the city people...
...Similar problems have arisen in the production of the MI tank by the Chrysler Corporation...
...The Administration had gone to great lengths to distinguish itself from the Carter emphasis on human rights...
...A desperate situation...
...Yet, last year in France, 117 people died from drug overdoses, while alcohol killed 30,000 directly and 150,000 indirectly (in accidents of all kinds caused by alcohol abuse...
...In the areas where the tribal structure has remained very strong, the people follow the head of the clan...
...an 11-year-old's abortion evokes a different response than that of a 34-yearold career woman who claims to want children someday "but not now...
...for although many of them are French citizens, few will vote Communist...
...And while socialists have a reputation for ignoring hard questions about the creation of wealth and talking only about its distribution— undeservedly so, as if socialism were a form of flower-childhood—democratic socialists debate methods to facilitate what only corporate board members are assumed to think about: capital formation...
...Such a system breeds resistance and repression...
...The other, a military intelligence agent, was less fortunate...
...They've surely had some success with the dissemination of their doctrine...
...But then a new turn in the affair led the Communists to greater discretion: the son of "the informer" (who was part of the Communist youth) was arrested for shoplifting, and the police, while searching his room, found-2 kilos of hashish...
...Balibar especially recalled how, during the disastrous Socialist government of Guy Mollet and while the Socialist Robert Lacoste was governor general of Algeria, the Communists in the National Assembly had voted on several occasions to give the government full power to "settle" the Algerian problem...
...companies ignored for years all the obvious signs of market change and relied upon the usual industry ballyhoo to maintain sales of their outmoded sizes...
...I think allegiance will, as it always is in Afghanistan, be purely a personal matter, and that such party militants would distribute new arms in the same fashion they do right now...
...The economic idea we associate most with it, Keynesianism, was elaborated by an English establishmentarian whose great ambition was to organize a railroad or run a trust—hardly your prototypical liberal thinker...
...So grave an accusation, of course, can't be made without backing it up with hard facts...
...If necessary, other inducements (a shortened term of service, reserve duty, and so forth) could be offered to enhance the military option's attractiveness...
...If that doesn't make for an effective political position, I regret it...
...A slight one would be to have a cease-fire, a political truce, and then an election supervised by, say, some Latin-American agency drawn from neighboring countries that are more or less democratic: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico...
...John Gates, who was representing the garment workers' union, interjected a question for the chairman: "Have we been invited here only to choose between taking milk from children on welfare or children of workers on unemployment compensation...
...But let us not dwell on these memories of past political events, and not keep count of the number of past incidents—such as, among others, the mobilization against the gypsies, and the refusal by a great city's municipal council to permit the creation of an Islamic cultural center...
...Mitterand's Victory • We were delighted to hear of the victory of Francois Mitterand, the Socialist candidate, now president of France...
...The committee formed by the families of abducted and missing people recorded 15,325 cases of disappearance at the hands of the security forces in 1970-75...
...All presidents, with one exception, have been military men put into power either by coups led by dissident factions in the military or by elections characterized by the banning of opposition parties, terror, fraud and widespread abstention...
...It encourages ultimatistic tendencies among El Salvador's right and thereby lessens whatever small chance there may be that Duarte will establish control over it...
...The time of grand demonstrations has passed...
...The denouement of this new assurance by General Haig provided inspiration to the New York Times reporter who fashions the weekly Saturday News Quiz...
...Detroit's annual losses set world records with Chrysler at $1.7 billion and General Motors at $763 million...
...The developments described here demonstrate that both sides are unlikely to contain abortion as a single issue...
...O.M.: But is there not more of an attempt within Afghanistan than there is abroad to achieve some tentative unification of the resistance forces...
...FAR TOO FEW QUESTIONS have been asked in the national debate about the startling increases of military spending...
...Before the Russian invasion, a year ago, there was an Afghan 278 army numbering 100,000 men, remarkably wellequipped, and run by Khalki officers...
...The research I have conducted for the past few years among abortion counselors and nurses— persons overwhelmingly committed to continuing legal abortion—has indicated the restrained and complex responses abortion evokes among its supporters...
...These are laws that forbid military aid to governments practicing gross violations of human rights...
...The scenes of beatings, electric shock, solitary confinement, cold baths in winter combine themselves into the final image, and the shout is always the same: the shout with which my interrogators used to insult me when they were really furious—"Jew...
...He said: "Combating terrorism is a police problem, it is not a problem for the foreign minister of a global power...
...Administration underlings have asserted that while human rights are not high on the foreign policy agenda, they do intend to give it, at least, some lip service...
...so the Khalki do not identify with the Soviet invasion...
...For in this opposition one must include all those who have a hard time accepting the invasion of Afghanistan and, on top of that, the approval for it that Georges Marchais has given to Moscow...
...As the bus stopped, two trucks one red and the other white, both without markings or number-plates drove into the northern lane of the road...
...For antiabortionists and prochoice forces alike, abortion inevitably spills over into a broader consideration of how women should be leading their lives in this society...
...The American auto companies have been mismanaged...
...Maybe that's the reason—not just an electoral defeat—for the crisis in liberalism today: it's been living on some ideas dealt it in the New Deal, ideas that in other nations were clearly identified as social democratic...
...As the State Department expressed pious hopes that the violence would abate, 76 Christian Democrats have been murdered or have "disappeared" in the first few months of the Reagan administration...
...Both the former Archbishop Oscar Romero, himself assassinated in March 1980 by right-wing thugs, and the former U.S...
...and that there are cheaper and more effective ways of increasing investment...
...but one thing I have learned: it is a country with a complicated and tragic politicalsocial history and any effort to fit it into one of the categories now in fashion—whether Marxist or hard-line anti-Communist or even liberal—won't get us far...
...The Wall Street Journal has been replete with accounts of how throwing money at the military establishment has resulted in extraordinary waste and profligacy...
...educational commissioner, puts it sorrowfully: "Time was when the Federal Government was a...
...IN THE SHORT RUN, what actually becomes of the abortion issue—particularly the two congressional maneuvers mentioned earlier—depends very much on external events, such as the fate of Reagan's economic policies...
...One of them succeeded, though not before his ID card, showing him to be a member of the Guardia de Hacienda (Border Patrol), had been taken from him...
...Not surprisingly, feminists have begun to issue urgent calls to "retake the family"—to demonstrate that feminists also love children, worry about the elderly, and value committed relations between men and women...
...The claim that the left authoritarian governments at least look after the material needs of their people seems decidedly shaky after the mass exodus of more than 100,000 Cubans (unless one supposes they left because they were ideological followers of Milton Friedman...
...Of course, all large corporations are controlled by a system of incumbency...
...This "normalization experience" has had a sobering effect on many, particularly on abortion workers themselves...
...But, on the other hand, it has to be helped a little...
...The drug problem is not widely known in France...
...On November 15, at a meeting in Bourget, the French Communist party's General Secretary Georges Marchais not only demanded a stop to immigration, but also censured the government for its poor enforcement of the Stoleru and the Bonnet laws (named for their authors...
...Both arguments smell bad, and in fairly similar ways...
...As repression continues, so do fears that the regime may take the final step: direct intervention...
...This dispatch noted that one coroner in a local morgue said that "two of every three bodies brought to his morgue bore signs of torture...
...Except in the regions where USAC premises have frequently been bombed, shot up or otherwise vandalized by troops or "unidentified men" (as the squads are known in official parlance) the authorities had limited their activities on the campus to surveillance and infiltration...
...Kill, Kill • What is "winning" [in El Salvador...
...Abortion does raise for many workers difficult ethical questions...
...This does not mean that they have been physically eliminated...
...Despite opinion polls that consistently show the majority of Americans supporting abortion, the status of legal abortion seems more precarious than ever...
...But meanwhile, terrorism continues...
...281 I have written in Dissent [in the Summer 1980 issue] about activities of rightist groups in France that are openly racist although they now call that age-old hatred by new and discreet names...
...Portions of the military, learning a little from the fate of Somoza, have apparently begun to realize that their eventual survival depends on having some sort of social policy...
...Yet, the question arises: Is the Communist party of France racist...
...Again, there was quite a scandal...
...and in place of us/them conflict, a sense of mutuality and interdependence...
...This they can do because in Kabul, for example, a Russian tank is stationed ever 50 meters all around the city...
...That we should oppose the Reagan policies is obvious, but that there is any "side" or "force" in El Salvador we ought to support seems to me very much in question...
...we even hear about the "theology" of supply-side economics...
...Some disembarking students were killed or disabled instantly...
...The eventual outcome of the abortion struggle is even more hopeful if feminists are successful in the attempt to articulate a compelling platform on sexuality and reproductive freedom...
...Nor is there the necessity for such a scheme...
...they did not want their clients to think of abortions as the only relevant contraceptive procedure...
...THE WORLD is cluttered with paper democracies and pen-and-ink republics dead but for their dusty constitutions...
...Penn Central and Lockheed first required national bail-out, then Chrysler, and now Ford asks for subsidy in the form of import restrictions...
...but so are worker participation and socially responsible investment (even if they'd probably be more palatable to the Democratic party...
...Not a word in all of this about citizenship, political obligation as a corollary of political right, civic education as a concomitant of service, or about the corrosive effect on democracy of professional armies...
...It might be recalled that the authoritarian ruler in South Vietnam, Diem, had also hoped to create some such organization, but failed...
...P.S...
...The two most prominent families—the Gilayni and the Modjadidi—have networks of active members inside Afghanistan, mainly in the Pashtoon regions, in the south and the west of the country...
...Since we're speaking of the "theological," this sort of thing used to be called casuistry...
...the one abroad and that inside the country, and understand that there are links between them...
...Such a larger agenda does not only imply a call for a full range of reproductive services—from infertility counseling to child care...
...Elixirs don't trickle down...
...The workers themselves, rather than identifying as "abortion workers," prefer to be seen as "reproductive health workers...
...Land reform, perhaps...
...What's newest is the "theological" aspect...
...The character of abortion services has thus changed dramatically since the early 1970s, and the country as a whole has had a massive experience of legal abortion...
...Which neatly symbolizes the condition of the country...
...As the students prepard to strip him, paint slogans on his back, and leave him unharmed beside the Avenida Petapa—their usual way of dealing with ore%as ("ears") found on the campus—a truckload of armed soldiers appeared...
...for as I've written elsewhere, "It's to the advantage of the politically weak that a ticket means an ideology, for among the interlocking concepts that make an ideology may ride, like a rider to a bill, some notion that enriches the lives of a few while meaning little or nothing to most," and the good of those few does not depend upon the often-absent good will of most (Commonweal, February 13, 1981...
...These guerrillas fight mostly in small units...
...How authentic, how deep-going these reforms have in fact been, it is impossible for an outsider to judge...
...Others, thinking of the recent occupation of the National University in neighboring El Salvador, are less sanguine...
...No doubt, Ford is having its trouble selling cars...
...This is no advertisement...
...Their number was not to exceed 15 percent of the campers' total...
...The New Right did not oppose a child-care platform at the White House Conference on the Family...
...Hence, before this government rushes into this $165 billion giveaway to corporations that "provides work for bureaucrats, money for tax lawyers, and precious few benefits for anyone else" except puffed-up profiteers, it might be well for our President, and Congress—both Democrats and Republicans—to take a look at the March 21 issue of the Economist...
...such as the Continental Grain Corporation...
...He had committed the multiple crimes of publishing a politicaly independent paper, La Opinion, in Buenos Aires, for being a prominent member of Argentina's Jewish community and a Zionist, for which he was kidnapped, tortured, incarcerated for several years...
...According to a recent Ford press release, more than 40 percent of American auto workers were out of work, 85 supplier plants closed, and 900 Amerian car dealerships have failed with a loss of 100,000 dealership employees during 1980...
...Ens...
...At a Foreign Policy Association forum in New York Sheik Yamani said the Saudis consider Israel, not the Soviet Union, the main and immediate enemy...
...The other parties are actually various interconnected (client) family groups, each headed by one big family...
...I doubt the connection is apparent...
...Coming back to the issue of racism, let us note that the Communist campaign never took on an anti-Semitic coloring...
...But what it apparently means is that if you cut taxes, especially in the higher brackets, cut down on social services that serve people especially in the lower brackets, deregulate industries to a considerable degree—than the latter move, promising more profits, will stimulate the higherbracketed, now with more ready cash, to invest in the deregulated industries and run more courageous entrepreneurial risks...
...Agents of one intelligence service or another are frequently discovered there by the students' well-organized lookout system...
...They nominated themselves for reelection in 1980 to their respective boards of directors and were duly installed for another year, with all the same salaries and privileges they have always enjoyed...
...I think that the Russians have intervened in Afghanistan somewhat against their own will...
...Once again, Georges Marchais and the Party apparatus voiced their support for the mayor of Cormeilles...
...Which group is the controlling force...
...The News cited a specific example given by Speakes, pointing out where the Reagan statement would not apply, "such as arms talks with the Soviet Union, where treatment of Jews is an issue...
...Most abortions are performed in freestanding clinics, which typically offer the client supportive counseling...
...The central problem of El Salvador remains the ability of the military—not so much (or mainly) the army, but the national police (Guardia Nacional) and the "Treasury Police"—to act outside anything resembling law...
...So, on the one hand, they refuse to pay taxes and to join the army, and on the other, they perform acts of terrorism...
...The game is being played out in the American, Japanese, and German dealers' showrooms around the country...
...Ordinarily, accumulated data form the basis for generalizations concerning problems we face abroad or at home...
...so the CP will not take action against alcohol...
...There is, nevertheless, something comic in the spectacle of American intellectuals debating problems of land reform in El Salvador, a country most of us would have had trouble locating precisely on the map until a few months ago...
...The "moderate" authoritarianism that Ms...
...And the lion's share of PLO finances, used to purchase Soviet weapons, comes from Saudi Arabia...
...Two other Communist municipalities in the Paris suburbs—Nanterre and Saint-Denis—then announced that they would refuse to assign public, low-rent housing to colored applicants, regardless of their origin and even if they were French citizens from overseas...
...Where will all this end, without any policy...
...But I find the structuralization of injustice and privilege more offensive...
...It is the Hezbi-Islami, or Integrationist Muslim party...
...Considerations such as Senator Jesse Helms and other members of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...The terror had begun in earnest...
...Now we know that President Reagan is not much of a reader of heavy stuff, even of a book that reads as easily, if painfully, as this one...
...But U.S...
...The Russians had hoped for a satellite with an army that could cope with the interior resistance by itself...
...destroyed the staircases with a bulldozer, and barred the entrances...
...The Nuristani, for example, go to fight at the borders of the Pashtoon territory, where Khalki barracks are set up...
...affirmative-action plans have lost what little momentum they had...
...one student leader predicted an intervention within six months...
...And I believe that the topic of my letter—though written two weeks before the first round of our presidential elections—will have lost none of its interest by the time you read it in print...
...They ambush convoys (when they fight outside the villages) or blockade a fort, but rarely do they manage to take one because the forts are defended by artillery, helicopters, and mine fields...
...Six right-wing parties are running...
...Earlier abortions are typically less emotionally troublesome for workers than later ones...
...It is not clear to an outsider why realpolitik seems to have lost out in the related area of birth control...
...but the one reform the military is unwilling to accept is the one most needed—its submission to civilian authority...
...Nor were interests of state to be set aside if South Africa enshrined apartheid and tyrannical rule over Namibia...
...This is triple the amount that was spent annually during the Vietnam war...
...Rural projects could include conservation and ecological programs, flood and water control, rural road repair and maintenance, town and village construction and restoration programs, reforestation and irrigation projects, and disaster relief...
...Officers of these big companies own infinitesimal percentages of stock in the companies they run...
...Whether to save his own face or to indicate that appeasement was not the sum total of American policy, General Haig issued new assurances, this time that in the event of a Soviet invasion of Poland the U.S...
...and "involuntary servitude...
...I don't think so...
...Frankly I think it must, but know it won't...
...Though long part of the Paris megapolis, they still retain their sonorous pastoral names, which jibe poorly with these asphalt landscapes and their components, modestly called "grand ensembles"—huge barracks amidst wastelands, in which our urban, industrial civilization cultivates its lumpenproletariat like others do mushrooms...
...Questions WHAT IS THE POLITICAL CHARACTER of the guerrilla movement...
...would impose a total embargo on Russia...
...White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes was immediately besieged by reporters after Reagan's brief remarks to find out how and why the party line had been changed...
...A democracy's true measure is to be found less in its rights and freedoms than in the spiritedness with which a citizenry is prepared to defend them...
...THE DEBATE ABOUT THE DRAFT has for too long been isolated from the ideals of democratic citizen276 ship...
...Of course, if in one of the great families someone stands out as a military leader, he will be accorded immediate authority...
...Selfselected and self-perpetuated, the boards are in important areas unaccountable to anybody...
...One clue to a defense of abortion comes from the internal activities of abortion workers themselves...
...For example, the Electric Boat division of the General Dynamics Corporation is being investigated by the Justice Department on criminal charges with respect to cost overruns on construction of nuclear-powered submarines...
...but autonomous peasant organizations never—that seems to be their dominant outlook...
...This would require, first and foremost, breaking the power of the extralegal and and "legal" military terror squads and establishing a significant measure of social-political freedom...
...My knowledge of that country is probably no greater or smaller than that of most people who have recently been signing statements...
...In June 1976, bomb attacks were made against the Rector, Roberto Valdeavellano, and Dr...
...But when the military has ruled openly as it has several times over the past few decades, it has often been quite as cruel in suppressing dissidents as have the classical totalitarian regimes...
...The wink that goes with the assertion makes it clear that it will be more lip than service...
...The greatest advantages of Universal Citizen Service would be civic rather than military...
...It could offer many of the undisputed virtues of military service: fellowship and camaraderie, common activity, team work, service for and with others, and a sense of community...
...As they approached the bus, the men opened fire...
...Then General Haig ordered his department and all other departments of government to provide the evidence that this was so...
...These military and paramilitary institutions are intent upon crushing every nodule of effective power apart from themselves and the landed oligarchy...
...The Communists, however, aware of the population's latent racism, have not always done so with prudence...
...That is part of realpolitik...
...Nevertheless, the Administration proceeded with the sale of F-15s to the clerical dictatorship of Saudi Arabia...
...Because the Russian invasion is really working against the Khalki, and for the Partchami, the ethnic group that makes up the other major branch of the party...
...This Act was the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement and of the Johnson administration in its early years...
...Some problems face the Reagan administration in getting its military aid program for Guatemala under way...
...Besides abdication of the legislative function the committee was registering another anomaly...
...no news-hungry reporters flew to Guatemala, nor was any reproving voice heard...
...Surely, the concentration of immigrants usually occurs in industrial or commercial areas, where jobs and affordable housing are available to them—not in "bourgeois" neighborhoods or townships...
...The mayor's office then affirmed that the neighboring community had gotten rid of the Malians, who now were temporarily housed in Vitry...
...Since there is every reason to believe that most people in this country would find more to agree with in the sexual platform of feminists than in that of the New Right, it is high time that such a platform be articulated...
...There would have to be a reconciliation, even if only in part, of the groups that can be described as the democratic center—the Socialist and Christian Democratic internationals ought to work toward that end...
...What matters, crucially, is the right to participate freely in the political process, the right peacefully to defend and advance reforms without having to fear for one's life, since upon this right insurgent and oppressed groups can build future strength...
...This force was organized, equipped and participated in by the U.S...
...There remains the overall question, what kind of a nation are we...
...But in El Salvador whatever there is of a bourgeoisie supports Duarte and there seems to be some—no one seems able to say how much—support for his regime in the countryside...
...On the other hand, when politicians represent parties, and parties are the manifestations of ideologies, then one votes by necessity politicianpartyideology, and the common good does not depend upon the accidents of altruism...
...Whatever else, we can be quite certain that the results of the Reagan policy will be to sharpen the polarization of forces within El Salvador—and thereby, previous experience suggests, eventually to strengthen the authoritarian left...
...In El Salvador ORDEN has been effective...
...This is a literal statement, not a metaphor...
...So far, all through the campaign, the polls showed that the CP did not surpass the 16-18 percent level of the vote—a loss of 3-5 percent...
...for the former, how could there be any "choice" but life...
...If I understand your reply," Gates then said to him, "the answer is `Yes...
...But this is not genocide: they kill some hundreds or thousands of people in an area of some 20, some 30, or 40 kilometers, and that is all—if one can put it that way...
...Setting aside the notion of liberalism as a methodology, instrumentality, an openness to what works, what Dewey called the "principle of judgment by consequences," liberalism hasn't come up with ideas through its own energy more than a couple of times in this century: perhaps the civil rights legislation and the turn-of-century Progressive campaigns for "good government," neither of which an honest conservatism couldn't have initiated...
...There is no strategy...
...But if you want the respectable ranks of neoconservatism to expand, you can't be so gross...
...I cannot prevent the memories of the tortures from spreading themselves over my daily life...
...So, even though the record shows that brutal repression in Guatemala has had a net result of producing a Communistinspired guerrilla resistance movement, the Administration is determined to have still another "loyal ally" against Soviet communism—Guatemala...
...If the latter is merely set up for the convenience of the military, it withers...
...or if Argentina caused 15,000 people to "disappear...
...Under the best of circumstances, it is difficult to put forth a coherent feminist perspective on the family that speaks to "traditional" concerns while also upholding historic feminist sympathy for "irregular" families such as female-headed households, homosexual parents, and communal households...
...The Khalki, on the other hand, are also nationalists, and on several occasions whole garrisons have revolted against the Soviet advisers—and were massacred as a result...
...Within the past year or so, however, there has been a marked change...
...A curious symptom in the Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors situations is that the majority of the same directors who made the deplorable business decisions during the 1970s still remain in control of the companies...
...At any rate, while the Democratic party has for a long time borrowed social ideas from democratic socialism—both those it's institutionalized, such as social security, unemployment compensation, and so forth, and those it keeps "tactically" abandoning, such as socialized medicine—it clearly has no economic ideas...
...The front-runner, an extreme rightist, Mario Sandoval Alarcon, has boasted of his 3,000-member private army...
...medically, abortions (especially in the first trimester) have proved to be extremely safe and simple...
...Unfortunately for the security of our country there is practically no discussion about how these enormous sums will be spent, what the military needs of the country are, and what factors go into deciding policy for the nation's common defense...
...The inflationary impact of military expenditures during the Vietnam war, in the absence of taxing to raise such funds, has been widely acknowledged...
...Guillermo Rojas Mazariegos, USAC's representatives on the National Earthquake Reconstruction Committee...
...But efforts are being made by the Administration to get around such laws, especially since now an old and much lamented coalition has been born again in the House of Representatives— Republicans and Dixiecrats, the latter calling themselves "Democrats...
...WILLIAM SAFIRE, New York Times, Feb...
...Indeed, Title X funds, the major conduit for federal family-planning monies, were carefully sent only to those programs that did not include abortion services...
...But it is clear that from the moment they intervened they had a strategy...
...Import share for domestic auto sales for early 1981 set a new record of 29 percent...
...To an audience that included "oil executives, analysts and others with connections with the petroleum industry" (New York Timies, April 24), the Sheik spiced his speech with anti-Israeli jokes...
...As it has become commonplace to observe, much of the right's current ascendancy (and feminism's corresponding weakness) stems from the right's successful appropriation of the "family": from its ability to portray itself as the only social force concerned with "family values," while depicting feminists as antifamily...
...Second, it could serve to remind the general public of what the recent preoccupation with abortion as a single issue has tended to obscure: that the differences between most antiabortionists and prochoice forces on matters of sexuality and reproductive rights go far beyond abortion itself...
...These have always been rejected by the Congress on the grounds that unemployment insurance is a state system and under state jurisdiction...
...And since the gifts that create the greatest obligation are those that are worth more to the receiver than to him who gives, this implies "an imaginative sensitivity to the needs of others...
...The guerrilla opposition—since April 1980 part of the oppositional Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR) headed by Ungo—seems not as strong in El Salvador as the Sandinistas were in Nicaragua before the overthrow of Somoza...
...Given the obligation to serve in one of the corps, and the size of the annual pool (about 4 million women and men), considerable numbers of able, educated Americans could be expected to select the military option...
...It would enable women to serve equally with men, without forcing them directly into military duty (though the military would be an option...
...Their base was composed of teachers, students, some landless peasants, who all then had rallied to the regime, and army officers...
...most have returned to their villages...
...That same day, the Communist mayor of Dannemarie-les-Lys demanded, without consulting his municipal council, the closing of an immigrants' hostel, in order to convert it into apartments for young French couples...
...Imports of foreign cars and trucks are up 50 percent and domestic production has fallen by 25 percent since 1976...
...In a sense liberalism itself has run out of ideas...
...These corporations have responsibilities in areas besides profits and production, including safeguards to eliminate bribery and illegal political gifts, foreign political involvement, misuse of the political action-committee system, industry-wide price fixing, consumer product safety and warranties, pollution control, on-the-job safety, the sale abroad of technology, need for increased research and development, the important social effects of plant closings, and excessive executive compensation and benefits (especially by losing companies...
...He opened the discussion with the flat statement that opposing budget cuts as such was out of order...
...I shall do so...
...2 The new director of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy is a veteran right-to-lifer who has announced her opposition to federal involvement in teen-age contraception...
...Originally contracted 266 to cost half a million dollars each, the price to the taxpayers is nearly $3 million per tank...
...Meanwhile, the CP's activities developed further in this direction, and on December 24, Christmas Eve, an incident of such gravity occurred that the media brought it at once to the attention of the whole country...
...2) the Democratic party and liberalism in general have run out of ideas and must come up with new ones...
...The recruitment of allies to fight Soviet communism creates something of a problem with respect to the declared tenet that is the heart and soul of Reagan foreign policy—combating terrorism...
...Protests rang around the country and the Reagan proposals were shot down in the Senate 96 to 0. Will the great mass in the middle learn that their interests are linked to those of the poor...
...I mean to avoid thereby those sectarians and independent highrollers of the rhetorical left who however much they talk about real democracy merely test the validity of an idea by how "radical" it is, meaning how offensive it probably is to the American people: a game...
...The rage evoked by the tragedies of illegal abortions gave a further sense of certainty to abortion supporters...
...This applies to the zones where the Russians do not directly intervene...
...This training period would culminate in the assignment of corps members to "communities" of perhaps 100 (divided into "community teams" of 25), which could be deployed in appropriate urban, rural, or international settings...
...Someone else will be in charge of that...
...Before entering the corps of their choice (including the military), individuals would undergo a rigorous three-month period of introductory training in physical fitness and in applied skills such as mechanics, agriculture, tool use, as well as a prudently delimited course of civic education (which might include instruction in parliamentary and electoral skills, community structure and organization, elementary social science, and American history...
...Yet democracy can only survive as the government of amateurs...
...O.M.: Could we now turn to the other side, and talk about Soviet strategy as well as about the official Afghan army, which also takes part in the fight against the resistance...
...The incumbents, who have controlled the company for years while owning 0.6 percent or less of company stock, were charged by the challengers, who own four times as much company stock, with a variety of substantiated bad management decisions and self-indulgences...
...We are for freedom everywhere: the people of El Salvador need it at least as much as the people of the U.S...
...Their obvious advantage is superior management...
...And I don't want to cast myself in this comedy...
...An all-star slate of noted candidates led by William F. Rockwell, Jr., retired CEO of Rockwell International Corporation, challenged the incumbent SCM directors during an intensive six-month campaign for stockholder votes at the October annual meeting...
...The Khalki were the most "popular" group within Afghanistan's Peoples' Democratic party...
...We suffer," say the professors ironically, "because we are rich...
...They did not want their clinics to perform 269 only abortions...
...they intervened because they felt they had no other choice...
...On April 1 the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the House Ways and Means Committee invited labor representatives to a roundtable discussion...
...When such a force descends upon a valley there is a massacre...
...government sleuths "are still scrambling to catch up with Mr...
...The conventional answer is that of single-issue politics: people set against abortion "feel more strongly" than those for it...
...government— Edwin Meese III, James A. Baker III, and Michael K. Deaver—couldn't be of much help...
...The issue is not imperialism, it is citizenship...
...Perhaps...
...A recent hearing before a House subcommittee describes the process...
...On the issue of discussing standards and proposals to cut unemployment benefits as well as welfare, Gates asked the chairman: "Before what body can we go to discuss the merits of making the jobless or the dependent children pay for the budget...
...They had apparently been overseeing the abduction attempt, had realized something had gone wrong, and had decided to intervene—the first time that troops had entered the USAC campus...
...Except in time of declared wars, citizens could choose freely among them...
...These recent incidents, as I said, all occurred during the national presidential election campaign —indeed, at a time when the CP is facing grave internal and external problems...
...All three were killed...
...Universal Citizen Service is a great deal more democracy...
...The left-wing guerrillas have also used such methods but, perhaps because weaker, they have not been as effective as the right-wing squads...
...It was a public ceremony (for the victims of the Holocaust) so the three men who run the U.S...
...And "total victory" would of course annul incentives to reform...
...The losses in 1980 for the three companies exceeded $4 billion...
...America's professional army is in fact one more unhappy example of how completely America has acquiesced in the professionalization of its governing functions...
...The Gilayni family, for instance has not chosen an overall military leader who might plan and coordinate the resistance fight of its members inside Afghanistan...
...While activists in the early'70s were fighting for the right of women to control their bodies, now counselors are confronted with some women who refuse to take control of their bodies by using contraceptives and who seem willing to use abortion as a means of birth control...
...The guerrilla movement in El Salvador, in short, doesn't seem to represent the revulsion of a virtually unified nation against an intolerable despot, as was the case in Nicaragua...
...If, for example, the number of Russian casualties were to increase considerably, because, and if, the Afghans were to receive better arms, you may be sure that such Soviet generals would say: "Stop fighting this dull and difficult war, let's fight an offensive war...
...Final choice of a service corps could be reserved until completion of introductory training...
...If the Americans, on the other hand, gave arms to the Afghan resistance parties abroad, this would ipso facto strengthen the resistance fighters inside the country—that is, those of the party that could bring in modern arms...
...He also explained America's friendship for Israel—educated Saudis, the Sheik said, are "aware of the extent of the powers of the Zionist lobby and the Jewish community...
...Let's note in this context that all the union elections over the past months have registered a serious falloff for the Communist CGT, in favor of the major non-Communist union federations, the CFDT and the FO...
...After the oil shock of 1972, Japanese, German, and other foreign managements were able to foresee the increase of energy prices, the need for quality control and compact models...
...Terrorism was the guiding principle, not violations of human rights...
...When the poor were the major target of budget cuts—Food Stamps, CETA, children on welfare, low-cost housing—sounds of protest were muted, members of Congress were hardly heard...
...A New York Daily News dispatch the same day added Speakes's comments that, "I would not read this as a declaration of new policy...
...The crisis in El Salvador having been allowed to fester, it may be that there is no longer a significant possibility of a solution that would encourage a degree of liberal democracy and social reform...
...This would result in a step-up of combat and more losses on the Soviet side...
...He died with his head staved in by a rock wielded by a student who our guide on the campus believed had a relative missing after abduction by the security forces...
...it's not exceptionally brave...
...Ambassador Robert White, a conscientious diplomat, have testified to these facts...
...How, after all, can you hold a free election in a country where candidates are likely to be murdered...
...Other, small parties are also part of the resistance in Peshawar, but they don't carry much weight...
...These decisions 274 concern the future of steel, petroleum production, autos, alternate energy sources, research and development, and the sale abroad of American technology...
...Besides, the tank treads don't last nearly long enough, the fuel consumption is extravagant, and in general the increased expenditures have in this instance produced tremendous revenues for the corporation, but the tank "is failing in the army's own tests to meet official requirements for durability and reliablity...
...And why can they hold only the big cities...
...On May 2 the quiz asked: A government took exception to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s statement that the Reagan administration would impose a total trade embargo against the Soviet Union if it invaded Poland...
...The tens of billions of dollars poured into military equipment that went to the Shah of Iran did nothing to enhance the nation's security...
...Ford reported a 1980 loss of $1.54 billion...
...A week later, the Communist mayor of Bagnolet asked the police to expel all the residents of three hotels, which he declared on the spot unsanitary...
...This inclines a small group of officers to more progressive measures, and a larger group to indiscriminate terrorism...
...they pay a duty to the U.S...
...WELL, I find it offensive...
...And it ought to be a reminder to liberals, to Democrats, that they need an ideology...
...Now this strategy does cause problems—and there are two facts that one just can't understand...
...The solution proposed by the Administration is to cut federal funds for education at all levels and to institute block grants so that those states that have fallen behind in educational facilities can be encouraged to fall still farther behind...
...Internally it is faced with an opposition—not threatening the Party's existence but risking grave injury—the opposition of those who reproach it for the breakup of the French Union of the Left...
...Since the Party cannot bend its line to bring back these voters, it must seek new allies elsewhere...
...The rule of Romero is universally agreed to have been one of sustained terror...
...but they must have generals who say that, by doubling or tripling the expeditionary corps, they could wipe out the Afghan resistance...
...The antiabortionists call themselves "prolife...
...It turned out that the mother of the Algerian family, who supposedly had written the letter to the mayor, could neither read nor write—and that her son was a member of the Communist youth organization...
...let's attack the underground...
...The wine and the aperitif, after all, are sacred in France...
...Reports from the armed services remind us again and again that they lack skilled and properly educated personnel...
...It is always difficult to 277 give statistics, but I would say that about 95 percent of the population is against the present government...
...In light of this, some who identify themselves as feminists have drawn away from the abortion issue as have certain sectors of the nonfeminist left...
...Direct U.S...
...Social reform by authoritarian governments constitute a kind of contradiction in terms...
...The 500-plus members of the executive committees of the 100 largest corporations may be as a group the most powerful men in America...
...By tying the argument for service to political posturing and tactical anticommunism, both such proponents as former President Carter and critics as Lacefield and his coauthors encourage the young to confound citizen service with chauvinism and military duty with jingoism, thereby leading many of them to reject both...
...This will surely be a factor in the Reagan tax-cut proposals along with the pell-mell throwing of money at the military establishment...
...The more complex and qualified reactions to abortion emerging now among its defenders stem largely from the very facts of routinization resulting from the 1973 victory...
...Until recently all such murders had taken place off campus...
...You don't get business to invest just by giving it a rebate on investments, says the Economist...
...I write here deliberately as one who is not an expert on El Salvador and invite the comments of others, expert or not, who may agree or disagree...
...True, the immigrant population is concentrated in the working-class suburbs of Paris, and many of their municipalities are governed by Communists...
...There's a matter of embarrassing legislation that previous Democratic congresses have left on the books under the Carter administration...
...It may not seem to be untrue, but that's because in this nation we have come to call something "new" if it's packaged in a certain way regardless of what's in the package...
...Right now they proceed very carefully in Afghanistan...
...It is strong in the region of Jelalabad, and it is also active in Nuristan, where in each village there are about ten Hezbi militants...
...The first sounds of revival, still far too weak, are being heard...
...The distinction made by Mrs...
...In addition to the Armed Forces, which would continue under the direct supervision of the Department of Defense but would recruit exclusively through the Citizen Corps, the Universal Citizen Service would comprise an Urban Projects Corps, a Rural Projects Corps, an International (Peace) Corps, and a Special Services Corps...
...The white truck stopped to allow its occupants to take stable firing positions on the tarmac and pick off their victims one by one...
...I am not at all sure that it will fail...
...There continue to be successful efforts to limit the scope of existing abortion services—the Supreme Court recently upheld a parental notification clause for teenagers, and the number of states that still pay for Medicaid abortions has dwindled to a handful...
...And the inadequacy of such reforms isn't in itself a sufficient ground for creating or supporting a guerrilla movement...
...O.R.: The Afghan army—the Russians had planned to create a new army of privileged and committed people...
...Professionals, experts, and other mercenaries may perform various governmental tasks more efficiently, but they undermine democracy at its root: for to be free is not simply to be free from government, but to be self-governing...
...Social movements in crisis need troops who feel "unequivocally" about the issue...
...Such a strategy would have two advantages...
...Yet both countries devote a far larger share of gross domestic product to investment than America does...
...Granted, new ideas are needed, they're always needed...
...A generation that already seems confused about the relationship between rights and responsibilities is further alienated from citizenship while America's enemies enjoy the spectacle of a government that cannot get its people to write down their names and addresses without screaming "fascism...
...Until recently, before these sometimes difficult problems of different [racial and cultural] groups living together [in our country] became acute, the parties of the left endeavored to ameliorate and facilitate relations between such diverse groups and communities...
...Profamily forces lobbied hard and viciously against various attempts at child-care legislation and against individual supporters of day care in Congress...
...Investment booms arise mainly from an encouraging economic climate, not from accelerated depreciation schemes...
...The Communist party, however, had managed in the European parliamentary elections to present on its lists some large winegrowers of the Midi who are afraid of possible Spanish competition...
...This is the French Communist party...
...Certainly not officially...
...on the imported vehicle...
...The one civilian president, Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro (1955-70), had to sign a pact with the military before taking office...
...None of these directors and officers has been discharged or penalized for the failures that have cost stockholders, suppliers, dealers, and employees billions of dollars...
...There the heads of families or of tribes owe them allegiance, which, however, does not at all mean agreement on a political program: it is based simply on personal relationships...
...Behind the military looms a small group of wealthy landowners who in recent years have "diversified" through investment in a small but growing industrial sector...
...Democracy, as the founders of our country knew, will not survive where a few will hold excessive power...
...So far, there is no important front that extends over a larger geographical area: where there are homogeneous combat units, the zones are small—a single valley, for example...
...FOR THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT, without which the prochoice people cannot hope to win, the fight for abortion has come at an awkward time...
...drop...
...Exercising the responsibilities of citizenship is not involuntary servitude but the essence of political liberty...
...But when Social Security was going to be stabbedd, the great majority, which is neither rich nor poor, was directly affected...
...This will create greater wealth, which, top-heavy, will just naturally through the law of capitalist gravity trickle down to those lower-bracketed ones who won't need the social services so much anymore...
...Nor is this crucial for trying to understand the situation in El Salvador...
...we'll try something else, or probably the same thing...
...Is it supporting a military junta that kills the opposition but by its repressive nature produces more opposition that becomes necessary to kill...
...Sensible as the single-issue argument is, it does not go far enough in illuminating the peculiar character of the abortion fight...
...Word is out that they often use their skills in activities related to the resistance...
...they themselves did not want to just work on the abortion service...
...Why are they unable to seize the means for decisive action...
...These rebellious officers set up a junta of five, consisting of two military men, two representatives of the "moderate" urban middle class, and the Social Democrat Ungo...
...At times when they are not attacked, small commando groups of young people are formed, of young men who want to fight just exactly because there is no formal obligation to do so...
...I shall now speak more precisely of several communities on the outskirts of Paris—places unknown or ignored by most Parisians...
...Interestingly, the first phase of the modern prochoice movement, the battle for legalization in the late 1960s and early '70s, seems to have 268 resembled much more the current right-to-life movement with regard to the participants' ability to feel fully committed...
...such as all those farm-belt voters who were not going to be inconvenienced by the Reagan administration in the face of Soviet invasions anywhere...
...It's a startling vulgarity of American life that illness should remain a source of profit...
...There are no longer any schools, no tax collectors, no public officials...
...It was expressed at the hearing by Gates: For several decades our unions and other groups have been coming before the Congress and its committees asking for federal standards on state unemployment insurance benefits...
...We have been instructed, he said, to cut $4.1 billion from our jurisdiction—welfare and unemployment compensation...
...Therefore, all this is a matter of gaining votes...
...While Ford blames the foreigners for its inability to compete, Chrysler points its finger at "government regulations" as a cause of the domestic industry's malaise...
...The Special Services Corps would provide all branches with vital special skills (medical, communication, transportation, construction, and administration) and would act as a secretariat for the Citizen Corps, with responsibility for introductory training, organizational structure, project planning, intergovernmental liaison, budgeting, corps deployment, and so forth...
...Near- Certainties A POOR COUNTRY of four and a half million people pressed into a small area, suffering from both overpopulation and insufficiency of usable land, El Salvador has long been brutalized by its dominant military caste...
...Not only have these patriotic ship-building firms overcharged the government, they haven't delivered the submarines as scheduled...
...To give the American Constitution renewed vitality I would propose not simply national military conscription but a radical democratic alternative to both the volunteer army and male, military draft registration: Universal Citizen Service—a program of national service that would enlist every American citizen, male and female alike, in a Universal Citizen Corps for one to two years of either military or nonmilitary service...
...This had come at about 4:30 on the afternoon of June 10, when two men attempted to abduct Victor Valverth, an engineering student and member of the University's Governing Body, from his car outside the Engineering Faculty cafeteria...
...A few minutes later, though, the white one reappeared, to ambush a pickup truck carrying three engineering students...
...And the party's cautious attitude on the Polish situation surely did not help...
...The 1954 invasion was triggered by a moderate land reform that threatened the unused holdings of, among others, United Fruit Co...
...Reagan had not meant to alter his policy of playing down the rights issue in foreign relations...
...Violence did not stop with the defeat of the guerrillas...
...But in recent years I've become increasingly impatient with the widespread notion that you have to be an "expert" to discuss this or the other political problem...
...Mr...
...Both are ancient Sufi orders that now are in fact completely secularized...
...However, it seems reasonable to expect that if the Reagan government keeps sending military hardware to El Salvador's military, thereby encouraging notions of "total victory," this will drive many as-yet-uncommitted people into the hands of the opposition...
...It is not used to grow the food the people need...
...The very terminology is a clue to the disparity between the two groups as social movements...
...Professors of San Carlos smile wryly if you talk to them of the "free world" and its concern for human rights...
...The scheme has a certain elegance, true...
...drip...
...Sonacotra, of course, refused to vacate the hostel and reminded the public that its construction made it possible to tear down a shantytown...
...The rights to which critics of registration and the draft regularly appeal are empty promises unless they are sustained by corresponding responsibilities...
...As the others ran for cover in the gardens of the Rector's office or threw themselves prone on the ground, the truck turned, while the firing continued...
...The demand, as it was posed then, for "women's control over their own bodies" resonated perfectly with the intoxicating first phase of the new feminist movement...
...At the least, small (as well as large) stockholders, employees, dealers, and the public should be be sitting on the boards...
...But while Democratic party regulars prate about "new ideas" and cast curious glances at the supplysiders and consider the merits of neoconservatism ("Can we be that and just call ourselves neoliberals instead...
...In order to give us a picture of the forces that are now at work, could you describe the different components of what we call here the Afghan resistance...
...Since then, Guatemala has been a disguised military dictatorship...
...The one thing liberals and socialists can do is to be honest, perhaps because there are times when we cannot be much else...
...I have seen these commandos work more against the rest of the Afghan population than against the Russians, but that may be my personal impression...
...In the long run, the right may have made a strategic error in elevating the abortion issue to an attack on fertility control itself...
...Now and again there have been elections in El Salvador, sometimes because the military recognizes its own political ineptitude, sometimes because it must yield a little to popular demands...
...And if liberalism is to be something more than tactical softening of the more ungenerous urges of conservatism, it really has no choice but to turn to the democratic socialism without which its brain would have rotted long ago...
...Apologists for both sides in El Salvador argue that "their" form of authoritarianism is better than the other...
...Since the above was written a brutal fact of political life was demonstrated...
...Initiation into chosen corps would entail a shorter period of more specialized training pertinent to its defining projects and social tasks...
...The third is simply untrue...
...3 In the early and mid-1970s, day care was a particular target of the emergent profamily movement...
...For prochoice forces, a comparable total commitment is much more difficult...
...None of the trade union leaders, who included a journalist, have been seen again...
...So why has the 13th Arondissement become the "Hongkong-sur-Seine...
...How do the resistance people in Afghanistan fight...
...In Guatemala, as so often in the Third World, repression and control of economic resources by a partnership of multinational corporations and a tiny local oligarchy go hand in hand...
...Conclusions THE REAGAN POLICY is a disaster...
...Most significantly, the Family Protection Act—the most comprehensive statement of the New Right family policy—actually calls for tax incentives for employer-provided child care...
...Coming from anyone else, that sort of snotty talk could just be brushed off...
...By this time, some 3,000 students had gathered...
...Millions of legal abortions have been performed since then...
...or if El Salvador military personnel caused 7,000 to "disappear" and served up the bodies of four American churchwomen and two AFL-CIO land-reform workers...
...The Afghan army now has been drained, and many soldiers have deserted...
...What has not been done (Phase Two) is the taking over of "medium-sized" plantations, on which most of the coffee is grown...
...So the mayor back-tracked, and declared that he did not envisage the closing of the hostel, but its reorganization...
...O.R.: No, but this is probably what is new in Afghanistan: the affirmation of a national solidarity...
...advisers planned, and Green Berets and troops from the Panama-based Southern Command took part in the counterinsurgency campaign launched in the Zacapa and Izabal provinces in 1966 by Colonel, later President, Osorio...
...Whenever free or somewhat free elections were held, these were won by oppositional forces—and then (twice in recent years) simply stolen by the military...
...Camus, who had belonged to the Communist party and was about to leave it, here explains himself to his teacher and friend: Ma seule excuse, si j'en ai une, est queje ne peux me detacher de ceuxparmi lesquelsje suis née...
...Moving from the internal events of clinics to the larger political scene, it can be suggested that the abortion struggle must be part of a broader campaign for reproductive freedom...
...It was a triumph for an imperial presidency and a surrender of legislative prerogatives...
...Even at its present level, it often simply rewards investment that would have taken place anyway...
...The targets then were twofold: the "state" that was denying women access to legal abortion, and the illegal abortion services ("back-alley butchers") that were causing thousands of deaths and injuries...
...Otherwise people try to live their normal lives...
...That's bad enough, but despite the sixfold price increase "one of the tank's machine guns remains nearly impossible to aim," the Wall Street Journal (April 20) informs us...
...What's so disturbing about a sentiment that can be traced all the way back to the Declaration of Independence...
...Murderous repression of dissident, even moderate groups in Guatemala increased while the regime was celebrating the Reagan victory...
...In the absence of a party that embodies an 271 ideology, that is, a coherent system of interlocking socioeconomic ideas, a voter has nothing to vote for but (1) "a man" ("I vote the man, not the party label") whom he must take on faith, or (2) some single issue, which may mean, since he has but one vote, the ignoring of some other single issue that someone else may stand for...
...Most of the time, I feel paralyzed...
...A report to the New York Times from Guatemala (April 28) says the number of killings under the dictatorship of Major General Romeo Lucas Garcia has reached 5,000...
...ALL THESE INCIDENTS were brought about in the months October-March 1981, at the very same time that the CP's General Secretary Georges Marchais was campaigning for the national presidential election...
...A CLEAR INDICATION that the tears that came to President Reagan's eyes when he affirmed his support of human rights at the Holocaust commemoration would not blur his vision when it came to aid for military dictatorships was the Administration's decision to resume military aid to Guatemala...
...Why...
...But if the Afghan resistance were to become truly an armed resistance, would that not modify this situation...
...In the early'70s activists were outraged by the degrading treatment women received at illegal facilities or in the few hospitals that did perform legal abortions...
...SO THE "TRIUMPHS" of Reagan's policies have thus far been limited to domestic affairs...
...The Sandinistas had gained the support of important segments of the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie and middle classes, which could no longer tolerate Somoza's "old-style" corruption...
...Presiding was a Democratic chairman, Fortney H. Stark...
...In current elections all parties aligned with the church or of any independence have been terrorized against participation...
...The reason for this is that for the first time the regime found itself confronted by an organized and coordinated mass movement given political expression in 1979 by the formation of the (illegal) Frente Democratico Contra la Represion (Democratic Front Against Repression...
...Representatives of the AFL-CIO, of the United Auto Workers, the State, County and Municipal Workers, and of the ILGWU stared in disbelief...
...Urban projects might include homesteading and "sweat equity" assistance, park restoration, graffiti removal, light road, beach, and water work, assistance to shut-ins and the elderly, traffic control, day care and remedial education, and a variety of paraprofessional tasks...
...The issue used to be abortion versus contraception...
...I would not apply this to any specific negotiations that are in progress or that may come up in the future...
...Few can remember a period when it has 273 been slower on the American model-showroom floors...
...The recent failure of the guerrilla "final offensive" suggests the limits of its strength...
...It must be said: the Communist party is not racist...
...And maybe a quid pro quo could be arranged, democratic socialism saying to Democratic liberalism something like this: here are the ideas...
...The expulsion of the historian Elleinstein and of others solved nothing...
...But the Economist is not just another publication: it is the highly prestigious British publication, of fundamentally conservative bent, read by policy-makers around the world for its insights into global economic trends...
...The right has always flattered that instinct, while the left has fought it, although it has sometimes unwittingly contributed to it...
...Undoubtedly, for the same reason that 50 years ago the "immigres de l'interieur" (from the country) flocked together in the same way and why, for example, the neighborhood around the Montparnasse railroad station was inhabited mostly by Bretons...
...now counselors are confronted with clients who appear sufficiently unperturbed by their forthcoming abortion that they shun counselors' offers to "talk it over...
...While domestic car factories have closed, foreign companies have opened U.S...
...E. G. 267 so grievously in the 1980 elections...
...But no...
...270 the right seems to have tacitly acknowledged that its core constituency includes women who work outside the home...
...I don't know how good or bad, authentic or false have been the land reforms of Duarte, and I greatly doubt that many of those who have recently rushed in to praise or deprecate these reforms know either...
...Clearly he does not yet have the power or the will to curb the right-wing terror squads—first, because these find their nest within the military, and second, because the Reagan policy of overwhelming El Salvador with military equipment (which Duarte himself says isn't needed) has the obvious effect of increasing the self-confidence of the military and sustaining its Haigish delusion of gaining a "total victory...
...The chairman nodded...
...The challengers spent $1 million of their money in the losing effort, and the incumbents spent probably more of the Company's...
...time, had felt marginally safer on the campus than outside it...
...While cuts in social expenditures and for the general welfare were being facilitated by a hue and cry about state and local preeminence, federal power was being asserted to deprive localities of resources, starving urban areas, and centralizing decisions that added up to demolition of aid to children, to education, to mass transportation, to the unemployed, to the homeless, the sick, and the handicapped...
...AMONG THE CORRESPONDENCE between Albert Camus and Jean Grenier, which is to be published soon, I found a passage dated June 18, 1938 that I should like to quote in conclusion...
...Placing terrorism in the center of American foreign policy has thus occasioned a fascinating exercise in logic...
...The importance of the giant companies is so high that the nation must have better input into their planning and operation...
...After all, hadn't the president shown how tough he was by calling the Soviets liars and cheats and charging they did not even believe in God...
...The threat posed by the Republican-Dixiecrat alliance points up the long and difficult job ahead— rebuilding the Democratic coalition that suffered As the Reagan administration busies itself with supplying military hardware to assorted repressive right-wing regimes in Latin America (Guatemala, Argentina, the lot of them), the publication of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, by Jacobo Timerman (Knopf) could not be more timely...
...General Motors finished the year in the red for the first time since 1921...
...Immediately aimed at some 300 guerrillas led by nationalist army officers, its long-term object was to wipe out any future support for opposition, not only for general security reasons but because of the need to secure "investment stability" for a major, and highly unpopular, nickel mining operation being planned there by a U.S.-Canadian Consortium, EXMIBAL...
...but in order to really change the situation, the whole Afghan resistance struggle would need thorough coordination —and this one can not yet foresee...
...that's not at all what it's about...
...I'm only half right...
...George Marchais has little reason to treat them with tact...
...But how much more profound is that than saying that times change, the weather's different every year, or you can't get a decent egg-cream anymore...
...First, the placing of abortion in such a larger context could help make more people willing to commit themselves to an active defense of abortion...
...And might it not be conceivable that some kind of proper army of the Afghan resistance might be created and trained by the militants of such a party...
...in place of obedience, cooperation...
...When Valverth's cries led to intervention by other students, the men shot him three times in the chest and attempted to escape...
...3) the Republican party, like conservatism in general, is now the party of new ideas...
...So, as George Gilder for instance would have it, the capitalist ethic is not at all a matter of acquisitiveness, nothing like the efficient greed Adam Smith thought a great productive irony...
...and they must comply with the same regulations as the domestic producer...
...The transition of abortion from movement issue to "service" has been a complex one, and while abortion workers are still willing to fight for abortion, they will do so more grimly...
...Neo-Social Darwinism...
...Why is it proving so difficult for its supporters to defend abortion effectively...
...Abortion is frequently referred to as "sad, but necessary," or the "best of several unattractive alternatives...
...Is there any hope...
...it entails a discussion that has at its center sexuality —not birth control per se—and that attempts to link sexuality to questions of both personal and social responsibility...
...Such suburban townships indeed play a role in these events...
...The morning after the Malians' arrival in Vitry, about 50 people, led by the mayor himself, ransacked the hostel...
...Duarte then spent eight years in exile...
...PACKAGING...
...Our readers will remember the extremely informative article by Olivier Roy on Afghanistan in our Winter 1981 issue, which we translated from our sister publication in Paris, Esprit...
...When that didn't satisfy them, the Administration added special equipment to the planes that would double their range...
...And so abortion competes with other issues for scarce movement resources...
...Circulation in El Salvador of the statement put out by Midge Decter's "Committee for the Free World" might also have that effect...
...265 ter Laqueur, an accepted authority on the subject...
...But none of this is a question of money, and no Communist mayor has spoken in this campaign of budgetary problems...
...An election would be almost meaningless unless ways were found for controlling the military and preventing it from intimidating voters and falsifying the results...
...The great wealth extracted from coffee and cotton crops, cattle, sugar, nickel (and, soon, oil) is drained abroad, consumed by the local elite, or, sometimes, invested in limited industrialization 280 that is export-oriented and brings little benefit to the national economy...
...It would distribute the burden of responsibility on every American equally and help, through the "communities" it created, to remove the divisions that are being exacerbated by the volunteer army...
...but the military ignored the results of the voting and declared its own candidate, a Colonel Molina, the victor...
...the abortion opponents are thus willing to take various actions, such as target voting, that the proponents are not willing to use...
...Legal and illegal trade unionism had increased markedly, while social groups such as white-collar workers, professional people, and the church were speaking out increasingly against inequality and government-sponsored violence...
...A recent study by accountant Price Waterhouse found that an investing company pays more tax in West Germany and Japan than in America...
...They intervened because the Afghan regime was about to collapse...
...The final death toll of these attacks was 13, with over 40 wounded...
...I understand, and I confess to some annoyance at the avoidance of an honorable name...
...Several hundred Malian workers, who had been poorly housed in a neighboring community, were temporarily installed in an immigrants' hostel in Vitry-sur-Seine...
...Any form of state or governmental representation has been eliminated...
...And now still greater expenditures are proposed for arming the monarch of Saudi Arabia, the military thugs of Argentina, and whatever other undependable allies can be uncovered anywhere in the world...
...From 1975 on, death threats against its members became regular...
...So much for getting the government off our backs," as Gates put it...
...He still favored the guerrillas, he said, since he had given up hope completely that Duarte's policy could bring good results...
...While those with whom I have spoken remain convinced of the necessity for abortion, their support is now tempered...
...But, without going more deeply into this problem, which has been widely studied and especially in the United States—this [voluntary] regrouping of immigrants by origin [in their own neighborhoods] seems very much to follow from a natural impulse: to stay together, until society's doors begin to open to them...
...288...
...Duarte, for example, recently declared that political exiles like the Social Democrat Ungo are free to return to El Salvador—but added sheepishly he could not guarantee their safety if they came back...
...But that commander might very well be a peasant who has proved to be a competent leader...
...Jerry Watts, in his original Dissent note, "The Draft and the Poor," Fall 1980, also spent most of his energy proving that the volunteer army is prejudicial to minorities and military efficiency, while his critics (Lacefield, Levinson, and Schwartz— "Another View of the Draft," Winter 1981) reassert the anti-Carter line, which interprets the draft as an instrument of American imperialism and militarism...
...Translated by ELFIN VOGEL 284 Anew battle of political statements has begun— this time about El Salvador...
...but perhaps it is more important to try to reach the truth...
...Market socialism, decentralized public ownership married to market principles, is clearly a considerable structural change (both of the market and the meaning of nationalization...
...AWACS— Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft— wouldn't quite be able to follow military developments in the Soviet Union but they are perfect for monitoring the take-off of a plane anywhere in Israel...
...Service in the Corps would be a concomitant of citizenship and would last at least 12 months (perhaps 18 or 24...
...How strong, for that matter, can any Social Democratic group be in a country such as El Salvador, wretchedly poor, misruled for generations, without a sustained democratic experience...
...The junta 285 promised reforms and some of its members evidently wanted to enact them, but violent resistance from uncontrolled right-wing elements within the military and more or less passive sabotage from the country's tiny bourgeoisie thwarted these reforms...
...Its center is located in Peshawar, Pakistan...
...I am careful to use the phrase "democratic socialism...
...Now you can see the people of Afghanistan claiming that they belong to Afghanistan, are Afghan as a nation, against the foreign invader...
...0 [Copyright 1981, Gus Tyler columns...
...The people of the village give them the best weapons, the best clothes and food, and these young men go to fight in the borderlands of their ethnic territory...
...On February 7, the Communist mayor of Montigny-sur-Cormeilles, relying on a letter he pretended to have received from the mother of an Algerian family, brought the grave accusation of drug-dealing against a Moroccan family...
...O.R.: Yes, but we must also recognize that, in the Russian camp, there are certainly important contradictions...
...In West Germany the rule for most investments is straightline depreciation over the asset's whole life, and in Japan the rules are almost as strict...
...Even this slim hope, it must be acknowledged, has major built-in difficulties...
...All the labor spokesmen pointed out that the committee was saying in effect that the people and their representatives in Congress were not supposed to have a say in a matter of such dismaying consequences for the poor and the jobless of this country...
...Such are my impressions and conclusions from doing a bit of homework...
...These operations have resulted in the apocalyptic reports that Mike Barry heard in Peshawar...
...Reagan said...
...American conservatives in the past have preferred to avoid quaint notions in favor of a more hardnosed ethic: render unto the Lord what is the Lord's, and unto the seizer what he can seize...
...for the subject of drugs evokes fear...
...Thus President Carter linked his draft registration program to a get-tough policy with the Russians, while President Reagan now is satisfied to associate his less enthusiastic position with his vague campaign against big government...
...The summer 1980 White House Conference on the Family brought to a crescendo that brewing Holy War the New Right was so eager to wage over the symbolic control of the meaning of "family" in American society...
...For example, all men in each village carry arms, and they will shoot if the village or the valley is attacked...
...At the moment, however, at the highest policy levels, what seems to be under attack is nonprocreative sexuality itself...
...Now many activists are clinic employees, and abortion seekers are "clients...
...Ultimately it's going to have to turn there...
...The Corps would comprise five branches in275 cluding an Armed Forces option...
...The timing of the abortion, the known characteristics of the fetus, and the client's age and circumstances all shape workers' responses to the procedure...
...282 • On January 5, 1981, the townhall of Ivry decided to establish a numerus clausus, to limit the proportion of children from immigrant families who would be eligible to attend the community's publicly organized vacation camps...
...While auto executives rail at foreigners and the government, they continue to import whole foreign models for sale under American labels, converting our manufacturers into mere distributors— a recognition of foreign superiority...
...If need be, yes...
...Then they stop and retreat to their bases...
...Land reform would/could make a major difference only if it were accompanied by physical security for political dissidents and recalcitrant peasants were able to create their own free and autonomous institutions (to use the Polish term: Solidarity...
...This is truly a war of the people...
...For though Universal Citizen Service could not guarantee the Pentagon the high standards afforded by universal military conscription, it would be a tremendous improvement over the volunteer army while preserving meaningful choice for Americans, above all those prepared to serve but reluctant to soldier in peacetime...
...beacon of hope to poor Americans, who found little encouragement from state and local governments...
...If accumulated wealth is invested in socially needed productivity and not in tax-sheltered and nonproductive but merely profitable ventures, if corporations cannot move out on labor looking for cheaper hands because labor must be party to decisions, then these are structural changes...
...that of Vitry was Communist...
...Far more decisive is the fact and here we can learn something from Vietnam--that a land reform program imposed by a government of dubious political-moral authority is likely to prove 286 ineffectual...
...OLIVIER Roy: You have to differentiate between two kinds of resistance...
...Such a service could guarantee American military preparedness, enhance the quality of citizen participation, equalize service among women and men, rich and poor, black and white, and generally revitalize the spirit of civic responsibility on which freedom rests...
...They surely must have their militaristic officers, those who want to fight to the finish...
...It is an incumbent's paradise...
...Given the inseparability of most aspects of antiabortion politics from the broader "profamily" movement, the necessity to vigorously defend abortion at this moment makes the family reclamation project that much more difficult...
...Very few of these, it must be said, were inflicted by the guerrillas...
...Secretary of State Haig kept assuring the world that as long as Soviet troops were in Afghanistan and menacing Poland, the embargo would not be lifted...
...On October 28, 1980, the Communist mayor of Aulney-sous-bois demanded publicly that a stop be put to all immigration...
...The very large plantations have been transformed into cooperatives (Phase One), and sharecroppers and renters been made owners of their land (Phase Three...
...The New Yorker published a lengthy section from Timerman's book...
...The only politician who had the courage to fight against alcoholism while in office was Mends-France, and this attitude contributed a lot to his defeat...
...Rather, many within the prochoice camp have a far more equivocal, and in some cases ambivalent, set of feelings about abortion...
...after all, in all countries, or in most, a racist instinct needs merely to be aroused...
...a woman getting an abortion because amniocentesis has revealed a deformed fetus is perceived differently than a third-time aborter who cannot remember to take her contraceptive pills...
...But it does not at all essentially absorb the general population in its activities...
...but it's difficult to see what's new about it just the old "trickle-down" theory given a more up-beat name...
...Its most right-wing sectors have been advocating this for some time, together with the transfer of its resources to the country's three small private universities...
...we saw copies of identity documents taken from some of these...
...Now these men and women—all were from Maghreb—were out in the street, without a chance of finding new lodgings...
...The hope, then, was that intelligence agencies operating worldwide would come up with Soviet support for Haig and Reagan...
...At this point even those American Jewish leaders who thought Reagan's ties to the oil interests would not interfere with his friendship for Israel are starting to have second thoughts...
...Haig's comments, intelligence officials said" (New York Times, May 3...
...Those persons, in government or out, who did not support abortion could counter their opposition with a strong endorsement of birth control—"so abortion would not be necessary...
...How poorly the security of the country is served by the Reagan budget is accentuated by the drastic cuts for education...
...There is, in addition to these military institutions, an interesting and rather sinister organization called ORDEN (recently "dissolved" but actually still in existence), which combines paramilitary forces with a peasant network that, in exchange for modest privileges, intimidates less privileged groups in the countryside (a large contingent of landless agricultural laborers employed on coffee and cotton plantations...
...They maintain contact with each other, and they form guerrilla commandos...
...This does not mean that all the people are fighting continually...
...others will need adequate contraceptive services, and still others good prenatal and obstetrical care...
...The majority of such victims have been poor peassants and rural workers, but with the emergence in the mid-1970s of strong grass-roots peasants' organizations, as well as new guerrilla groups with firm roots among the people and steadily increasing support, counterinsurgency and repression intensified...
...The July 14 campus massacre, and the abduction a month previously of some 30 leaders of the CNT trade union confederation as they held a meeting within yards of two central police stations and the presidential palace, are merely the most dramatic instances so far of the authorities' response...
...How does this resistance appear, what form does it take: as a unified movement or as a loose agglomeration of guerrilla groups...
...Yet several days later, the District's deputy to the National Assembly and Georges Marchais himelf gave their support to the mayor and, in the name of the Party, approved of his actions...
...the Reagan budget attacks on social service will be especially difficult for women since they are disproportionately heads of poor families...
...This is a totally fragmented but omnipresent and absolutely committed resistance...
...That is, admittedly, a big "if...
...The Moroccan embassy protested...
...But there will be no blinking about propping up corrupt regimes with military supplies...
...Moreover, different kinds of abortion evoke different responses...
...The arrival of the soldiers compounded the anger aroused by Valverth's shooting, and their fury boiled over...
...But there seems sufficient ground for skepticism and even pessimism...
...it is estimated that it has lost at least two-thirds of its strength, and I can state that the remainder is not too ready to fight...
...Teachers, for example, serve as secretaries, nurses, military leaders, and help to establish ties with other regions...
...But then, the party is hardly worried about keeping to the truth...
...Fascism feeds off passivity and complacent privatism, not off a confident and selfreliant citizenry...
...The current strength of New Right groups—among which the antiabortionists are merely a part— poses enormously serious questions about past mistakes and future strategies for feminism...
...Let us not be swept away by scare slogans from the right or fuzzy rhetoric from the left...
...Finally, as though this were not enough of a Passover gift to the Saudis, the Administration moved to send AWACS to these Middle East champions of the struggle against communism...
...To minimize career disruption and maximize flexibility, individuals might be permitted to choose a service period at any time between their 18th and 25th birthdays...
...This is being reversed by the Reagan budget, and as Harold Howe III, former U.S...
...Three assumptions of popular political wisdom often heard since the November 1980 debacle do rob one of patience: (1) the Democratic party must learn to forgo the temptations of "ideological politics...
...We seem at this point to be free of direct, deliberate Soviet domination or control or instigation of terrorist activity...
...I have checked these notes with scholars whose authority seems unquestionable...
...It is also appealing to all colleagues, and to all those concerned with academic freedom, around the world...
...Why have the antiabortionists been so successful...
...Alas for the central issue, FBI director William H. Webster broke the news to a nationwide TV 'audience...
...The International Corps would be patterned after and incorporate the Peace Corps, but it would work under the close supervision of host countries and of the appropriate international agencies...
...By all accounts the Social Democrat Ungo who heads the FDR is a sympathetic figure with whom people like ourselves can sympathize...
...if it shows some signs of independence, the military destroys it...
...The New Right's attempt to channel right-to-lifers' moral objections to abortion into a larger program of sexual retrenchment seems ultimately doomed if the 50year trend toward increasing paid employment for women continues...
...By the mid-1970s, USAC was targeted as a "center of the subversion...
...Not that it is likely to influence Administration policy but it will be widely read and, if we are dealing with people who have a smidgeon of conscience, it might abort some military shipments and direct more fervent attention to the matter of human rights...
...And if the voter is voting for this single issue and not that one (which is what the dissociation of party from ideology encourages), then we don't really have much to rely on, if we're thinking of the common good, except the hope that voters will be somewhat altruistic in their choices of single issues and not vote merely their own narrow self-interest...
...It is of course not simply a matter of right-to-lifers feeling more "strongly" than prochoice forces...
...Two of the three phases of the agrarian reform have reportedly been carried out—Phase One and Phase Three...
...ambassador to the UN, between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes can have a certain analytic validity, but at least with regard to Central America it doesn't necessarily suggest much of a difference with regard to violence, terror, suppression...
...Communism has unjustly appropriated their cause...
...Some have even earned the distinction of being scholars of a sort...
...There is neither a systematic policy of genocide nor of appeasement—and therein lies the problem...
...They propose their own election to shareholders by mailed proxy solicitations at company expense...
...the earning gap between men and women workers has not narrowed...
...A New York Times dispatch the next day described how Reagan's remark "triggered alarm in the West Wing" and "a meeting was immediately convened about `what was said, what was meant and how it could be read.' " The Times went on to report that the White House spokesman "said Mr...
...The secretary of state reckoned without the wily and self-confident oil minister of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose well-trimmed beard is a familiar feature on American TV screens...
...For one glaring instance: while housing and transportation are judged to be key industries, and while housing had become crucially scarce and one giant automotive firm was falling apart and the government was spending giant sums to prop it up, and while both housing and transportation are both obviously dependent upon people borrowing money, the Carter administration appointed to run the Federal Reserve Board a man whose announced policy was to make money as tight as possible...
...Now that the Administration has made it a matter of reducing and worsening standards we're told that the federal government should impose such standards...
...I think that's only fair, since the Democratic party has often connived at the misrepresentation of socialism, which now makes it hard for it to turn forthrightly to its source of ideas...
...At any given moment some women will require abortions...
...But it will take time before the impact of the Reagan budget is felt for what it is and before we measure the havoc it will wreak...
...Britain "has the most generous depreciation rules" and little to show for it...
...it's a matter of community built through gift-giving, which imposes the obligation to gift-give in return...
...Perhaps the most devastating comment about the effort to make "terrorism" the issue for American foreign policy came from WalIt's "snake oil," says the Economist, in writing about President Reagan's proposed "investment incentives...
...26, 19810 When the Reagan-Haig people, and their intellectual accomplices, talk about opposing "terrorism," they turn out to be strangely mute about the right-wing murder squads that in 1980 killed most of the 10,000 people who were political victims in El Salvador...
...Most of organized feminism, though, is gearing up for the struggle...
...Etienne Balibar, the Communist philosopher and student of Althusser, was expelled from the CP for recalling in an article in the Nouvel Observateur how long it had 283 taken the Communists to decide to give aid to the Algerian population, and how difficult it had been for the Party to renounce its traditional policy of opposing all the Algerian parties that favored independence, because they were not Communist...
...The municipality that had been housing the Malians belonged to the majority party...
...A commander leads 30, or 40, and at most 200 or 250 men...
...The Hezbi (Integrationist Muslim) party has active militants...
...But to the extent that this is shared by others in the prochoice movement, it complicates the immediate task of defending abortion...
...As in all personal dealings, there is an exchange, which means that the members of the big families who are abroad will supply the members of the resistance who fight inside the country with arms, food, and money...
...Meanwhile, among democratic socialists the merits of "market socialism" are debated, as is worker participation in management beyond profit-sharing, as are methods of socializing investment...
...plants and have more planned...
...The thoughtfulness exhibited by abortion personnel is admirable and, I would argue, a precondition for the ultimate development of a humane abortion policy...
...Molina's term expired in 1977 and then, in another stolen election, a General Romero was declared the president...
...Speaking a few months ago at a conference in the U.S., Ungo acknowledged—he is an honest man—that if the guerrillas won he could not be sure that he and his friends would be strong enough to prevent the imposition of a "left" dictatorship...
...I'll try to make it so...
...As an integral aspect of citizen training and a substitute for pure military conscription, it would be a fair and worthwhile alternative to the draft...
...The Democratic party, or its intelligent segment, knows where it has to look if it's not to be an adjunct to Republicanism...
...has given verbal support, could outlaw certain birth-control devices as well as abortion...
...Now a party that claims to be of the left has mounted a campaign that encourages and instigates racist reactions—while affirming that nothing could be further from this party than racism...
...Tragically, Duarte and Ungo, who from a distance would seem to be natural allies, have split and become bitter enemies...
...The agent's body was burned with petrol...
...The government of the United States seemed to be saying that with Soviet troops in Afghanistan and clear indications they would remain there, with Soviet troops in Poland as well as on its borders and with a contemptuous refusal to give any assurances of Polish independence, there were other considerations that weighed far more in the balance...
...And the solution for the ills of democracy, as Jefferson noted a long time ago, is not less but more democracy...
...As though fearful of some future political retribution for their war against the poor, President Reagan's senatorial gladiators, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, are planning to emasculate the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
...Irving Kristol has written that supply-side economics is "the last, best hope" for American capitalism, and if it fails, conservatives can "forget all about political economy...
...But where there are many combatants over a large area, as in Jelalabad, one can find three or four different organizations among the resistance fighters...
...they fight for three weeks or a month and return to their families at the time of the harvest or whenever they are exhausted, or to take care of personal business...
...behind both the military caste and the landowning oligarchy (no more than a handful of families) stands the power of the United States...
...For antifeminist women too are in the labor force, many of the women who are not working outside the home cannot afford more children, and many people realize that they simply cannot control the sexual behavior of their teenage children...
...It uses racism to pick up votes here and there, and these methods are more despicable than dangerous...
...Yet, sensational press coverage has made it seem much more acute and threatening than it actually is...
...But perhaps the "economic democrats" have a point...
...The facts are that Japanese and German auto companies pay their workers almost the same as and often more than American workers...
...Now they could make it to Tel Aviv and back...
...The Reagan budget provides for a $18I billion increase in such expenditures by 1986...
...Where it is weak or nonexistent, the village is their basic unit...
...Most of this violence took place in the countryside, but a new factor in the 1970s was the escalating use of terror in urban areas...
...Surely the Federal Bureau of Investigation would have the hard evidence...
...We are told it contains many tendencies and organizations, but this does not yet answer Lenin's famous question: who/whom...
...A recent classic confrontation at SCM Corporation confirms the invincibility of an incumbent directorate...
...There seems to be a fairly regular alternation between open authoritarian rule by the military and efforts to erect a civilian facade...
...for my documentation, I am borrowing some essential material from Droit de vivre, the monthly publication of the LICRA (Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisemitisme), and I shall now begin with a brief chronological account of recent actions the CP has instigated, mainly in the suburbs of Paris...
...We hear a great deal about "supply-side" economics...
...El Salvador has not known, in any precise sense, a totalitarian regime, since the militaryoligarchical rulers have not troubled themselves, or commanded the sophistication, to develop ideological justifications...
...even at the negotiating table, never shall it be forgotten for a moment that wherever it is taking place in the world, the persecution of people, for whatever reason—persecution of people for their religious belief—that is a matter to be on the negotiating table or the United States does not belong at that table...
...IT IS TIME TO CHANGE the system of selection and removal of directors (which include the top executives...
...Timerman, ultimately released after worldwide protest, now lives in Tel Aviv...
...Ten thousand out of four and a half million: a terrifying proportion...
...A more complicated problem is that of the desired "image" of the feminist movement and how the abortion struggle is to be related to it...
...They fight under the authority of those whom they call their "commanders," and who are always from their village or from their tribe, but not necessarily scions of the great families...
...The systematic butchery set no teletypes humming...
...Between them they contained something over 20 men, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying 9 and 45 mm machine guns and shotguns...
...Each appears to have attached himself to a force he cannot control and that may, in the end, destroy him...
...The cities are occuppied by the military forces of the official government and by the Russians...
...Probabilities THE DUARTE REGIME, dependent on, even as it has been trying to gain some independence from, the military, has undertaken a land reform program...
...Since legalization, the relationship between abortion activists and potential abortion seekers has changed significantly...
...Incumbents or their replacement nominees are always elected at the annual shareholders' meetings...
...Critics of a peacetime draft might be mollified, and alienated liberals would be given an opportunity to put their principles into practice—while the military would have a chance to build an army that would be both more efficient and more democratic...
...In the regions where the Russians constantly intervene (the Ghazni, the Jauran, the Kounar, and so on), the civilian population has been evacuated and only the fighters remain...
...Universal Citizen Service would solve a number of the practical and legal questions that presently plague planners...
...287 I do not pretend to be able to answer these questions...
...The links between these two sets of events are obvious...
...Working-class suburbs, however, are not necessarily poor...
...On February 11, the municipality of Montfermeil refused one of its employees the official apartment to which he was entitled, on the pretext that he was an Algerian...
...a left authoritarian government might be more responsive to the material needs of the people...
...As though to prove that the new Administration could surpass previous ones in presenting an image of America of divided counsel and conflicting policies, we had the matter of the grain embargo against the Soviet Union ordered by former President Carter...
...The very Grumman Corporation that produced buses for New York City that fell apart after a halfhour's service is a major supplier of military armament...
...Only the major parties have active members inside Afghanistan...
...Both sides went to the media with press releases and full-page Wall Street Journal ads...
...Decisions of momentous consequence are now being made by the managements of big industry without the knowledge of the public or their stockholders, some of which can disastrously affect us all within a few years...
...Since the Communists can no longer count on those among the intellectuals and on the fringe of the petty bourgeoisie who once were their staunch supporters, they are trying to gain votes among those workers who otherwise vote on the right, and there are many of them...
...May we hope that UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick will be the least bit moved, and perhaps hold a seminar on Jacobo Timerman's book with her deputies —most certainly her deputies...
...For the latter, abortion represents one of several possibilities to be explored...
...The assumption behind my argument, of course, is that the purpose of an ideology is the service of people...
...Richard Schweiker, the new head of Health and Human Services, has not only courted right-to-lifers but also has expressed his opposition to federal family planning programs...
...0LIVIER MoNGIN: Since you have recently had the opportunity to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan for the AICF (Action internationale contre la faim), it seems useful to come back to your first analysis of the situation in Afghanistan that appeared in Esprit in May 1980 [Dissent, Winter 1981...
...No doubt, there are still errors in what I have written...
...If each politician is running on his own ticket whatever the party label (which is what the dissociation of party from ideology encourages), then we don't really have much to rely on but hopes of the politician's good and honest nature...
...There were then resignations, shifts, maneuvers, including the resignation of the first junta in early 1980, the creation of a new one with Christian Democratic participation (especially Duarte), a split among the Christian Democrats with a segment of the party going over to the opposition, Duarte becoming president of the junta in December 1980, Ungo becoming the formal political leader of the opposition in exile, and so forth...
...Yet, because of demand there is often a three-month wait for delivery of the new foreign models...
...The New York Times estimated that in the six months beginning November 1970 at least 2,000 people died...
...Yet, the Russians do have many bases, and they have succeeded in keeping the country's main roads open...
...queje ne pouvais abandonner...
...Although they have a population of modest incomes, paying modest or low rents, these are also the communities in which large, medium-sized, and small industrial plants are located, and they do generously feed the municipal budgets...
...One still remembers that...
...Would neo-supply-side be acceptable...
...These efforts, which have at best a small chance of succeeding, have met with stiff resistance from the Reagan government and been rejected by the Duarte regime...
...But, says the Economist, "American companies are not overtaxed by international standards...
...Therefore, he added, a manifestation of their rejection by the community had been unavoidable...
...Recognizing that tying its fate to that of the landowning oligarchy, its former senior partner, might be disastrous, the military now seeks to play a more independent role...
...Ceux-la, le communisme en a injustement annexe la cause...
...Until the Duarte government is able or willing to provide this, its land reforms may be regarded with a great deal of skepticism...
...But when pundits and politicos say that the Democratic party needs "new ideas," I fear they're simply saying that something that looks different is needed to get the party elected...
...It is no coincidence that these men (with a rare, 'oken woman or ethnic among them) largely and act:vely support the same social and political doctrines...
...They fight whenever the armies of the government or the Russians approach...
...The chairman's reply was bold: "That's a good question...
...Whatever the political motivations of right-to-life leadership— which many suspect has little to do with abortion per se—it is undeniable that many rank-and-filers genuinely believe they are fighting to defend life...
...This multibillion expenditure would be "an undisguised government handout for business and an inefficient carrot for boosting investment...
...What should they do...
...Lacking a base in more than those limited segments of the urban middle class that support the Christian Democrats, Duarte cannot contain the military nominally under his rule...
...How come the Russian soldiers are so ineffective...
...That is a tragic possibility, but it must be faced...
...O.M.: According to your analysis, it seems that there is a kind of status quo that could be prolonged for quite some time...
...The reasons are not hard to find...
...Eos...
...It was a brutal death...
...On February 10, at an organized rally in the 13th District of Paris, Georges Marchais protested against the settling together, or "the regrouping of thousands of native Asians" in the District...
...What's true of American liberalism is what's often said of conservatism: it generates no ideas of its own, rather responds reflexively to ideas of other camps...
...that what gains it does bring are expensive...
...From time to time, on the other hand, operations are exactly targeted and very deadly...
...It also means a willingness to engage in the kind of discussion that legalized abortion and other social and technological changes of the last decade have made necessary...
...for the type of warfare the resistance people fight does not require it and does not require such coordination...
...My only excuse," Camus writes, "if I have one, is that I cannot separate myself from those among whom I was born and whom I could not forsake...
...So, presto, it was lifted...
...Almost any paragraph is worth quoting: This account I am writing—it's painful...
...However well-founded the mayor's reasoning may have been, the procedures that were employed caused a scandal...
...If the Democratic party is then to "be in charge of that," the worst thing liberals could do (because people will suffer) is to concede that conservatism has "new ideas" and to follow the advice to forgo ideological politics...
...This is no suggestion that the Democratic party must become the "Social Democratic party" or "Democratic Labor party...
...So the CP has been well aware that, for all these reasons, a significant number of its nonactivist people would cast their votes, from the first round on, for Mitterrand...
...This campaign killed 10,000 civilians in two years...
...but, as is rapidly becoming the new credo of a beleaguered left, crisis presents opportunity as well as danger...
...If, for example, somebody said, "I speak Afghan," that meant "I speak Pashto...
...The pay indeed is excellent...
...Within this resistance abroad, there exists only one party in the modern sense of the term, meaning an ensemble of organized militants centered around a program...
...Some on the campus believe that such an intervention would be too costly for the regime's reputation and generally counterproductive...
...In October 1979 he was ousted by a coup of "progressive" military officers (some of whom had come to believe that to rule without any popular legitimacy was to risk the unhappy fate of Somoza in Nicaragua...
...In other areas, notably day care, 3 2 Since intrauterine devices and certain low-dosage birthcontrol pills work by preventing the implantation of the fertilized egg, some have argued that they too would be banned by the human life amendment...
...There is no guarantee that independent directors will automatically improve management, but we can't afford not to try them...
...The source of "liberal" ideas, the source that liberalism seems to be running out on, and perhaps is running out on because it fears the logic of "what's to be done now," is democratic socialism...
...The vehicles then drove off...
...cut off the water, electricity, and telephone...
...The guerrilla fighters besiege, and hinder the free circulation of convoys—they simply affirm the presence of the resistance...
...try this, try that, 272 this and that often in absolute conflict...
...Earlier, these laws, which provide procedures for the expulsion and `voluntary" repatriation of aliens, had been sharply criticized and voted down in the National Assembly by the left, including the Communists...
...The reawakened Dixiecrat-Republican alliance in the House voted for a budget that takes from the poor and gives to the rich...
...Not just abortion but almost all aspects of the feminist agenda seem to be unraveling: the ERA's chances grow dimmer each day...
...Early in the pronouncements of the new Administration both the president and the secretary of state declared that terrorism—and certainly not human rights— was the issue for America...
...The troops prudently withdrew, leaving their colleague to his fate...
...So Marchais spoke with anger and contempt of their neighborhood as the "Hongkong sur Seine...
...On Monday, July 14, 1980, the 8-black pulled in with its load of students taking vacation crammer courses, It was 8:45 AM, the busiest time for arrivals at the campus...
...but the only such act of retaliation by USAC members throughout the long purgatory to which they have been subjected...
...As Gates describes it, the chairman gave a long and uncomfortable answer...
...As both an ideological and practical matter, abortion seemed most manageable to these workers when they could experience it as part of a larger mosaic of human activity...
...I SAID EARLIER that liberalism is running out on ideas instead of running out of them...
...The best known of these are the National Front of the Gilayni family and the party of the Modjadidi family...
...In the decades since World War II the federal government has stimulated education, especially for children of the poor and for racial minorities...
...Trying everything at once means you have no ideas, only a patchwork of reflexes—now a little fiscal, then a little monetarist policy—to get past this slump or that inflation...
...If the people must pay the social price for their failures, then the people should be represented in their operation...
...Verily, "Give and you will be given unto' is its fundamental theme...
...It wasn't the party line, that's the trouble...
...His remarks were greeted with applause and his anti-Israeli jokes caused "general laughter" among the oil-wise listeners...
...The New Right, in complicated collusion with the Reagan administration, has succeeded in dramatically raising the ante...
...What government was it and what was its response...
...As to the matter of drugs, the demagoguery of the Communist campaign is most striking...
...Kirkpatrick, the U.S...
...The system has delivered into the hands of a few largely unknown men, who are essentiak'y untouchable and irremovable in their offices, tremendous concentrated economic and political povPr...
...One often-mentioned scenario is that antiabortion policies will be utilized as a diversionary tactic once it becomes clear that the economic policies are not working...
...They involve about 100 tanks, 50 to 100 armed helicopters, and several thousand men...
...The 1976 earthquake, which wrought its worst destruction in poor areas, demonstrated dramatically the inequities of Guatemalan society, and led to strong criticism of the government by USAC members inivolved in reconstruction...
...Guatemala's natural resources are abundant, but in the hemisphere only the people of Haiti live worse...
...It was not the first...
...The recruits the Armed Forces did draw under these conditions would have undergone useful introductory training and would comprise young men and women attracted to military duty rather than those fleeing from hopeless civilian lives...
...A "moderately repressive" authoritarian dictatorship is said to be less dangerous for the world than a Communist regime...
...There have been efforts both by the European Christian Democrats and the Socialist International to propose a truce in El Salvador, to be followed by elections and a new civilian government...
...That hostel—it houses 426 unmarried workers, among whom 376 are of 10 different nationalities—belongs to a public organization, the Sonacotra...
...And, furthermore, in spite of the tax cuts, the greater wealth generated by them will create greater tax revenues —although it's not clear what those revenues would be used for, unless it's the military, which is not to suffer from the tax cuts in the first place...
...What we don't need are cliches...
...Kirkpatrick favors is likely to drive increasing numbers of its subjects to left-wing guerrilla movements...
...By the end of 1980 deaths among civilians were running at about 20 each day...
...Now, if the Afghans should achieve a more intensive level of combat, the opinion of those generals would gain more weight in the Russian army...
...claim them, name them—but in return please don't refer to the Soviet and Chinese blocs as the "socialist" camps...
...So, two-thirds of the population must scrape an average per-capita income of $35 from the land left over from the great estates and from seasonal work on them, while 80 percent of the children are malnourished...
...But how strong is Ungo likely to be vis a vis the Castroite, Communist, Marxist-Leninist tendencies within the guerrilla movement...
...The July 14 massacre was a horrific indication of an apparent stepping-up of harassment...
...So here are a few remarks based on a reading of whatever I could find that might help people on the democratic left orient themselves to the conflict in El Salvador...
...Supply-side economics itself is almost as theological (in the popular sense: obscure, vague, and faith-demanding) as the theology thereof, to which I'll get presently...
...the resistance has not brought about new political or administrative structures, which could contain the scheme for a new society...
...In observing these workers, I was continually struck by their efforts to place abortion into a larger framework...
...The resistance inside the country is of a general kind: it means that one fights in Afghanistan...
...Representatives are amateur lawmakers, juries are amateur judges, elected officials are amateur administrators, and conscripts are amateur soldiers...
...To encourage that "climate" the Economist recommends applying the giveaway money to "reducing the federal deficit" or to "lower interest rates...
...Military conscription is once again on the national agenda, but neither conservatives nor liberals, neither proponents nor opponents of registration seem interested in confronting the underlying issues of the place of national service in the life of a democratic republic...
...The big argument for swift write-offs is that this is a way to ease taxes for our overtaxed American corporations...
...But how can we expect such actions when the Federal Reserve Board is determined to check growth with its high interest rates and the Reagan administration is about to increase— yes, increase—the federal debt, despite its savings at the expense of the poor, by giving away to corporations a sum equal to about a quarter of the federal budget...
...The mayor now organized a demonstration below the windows of that Moroccan family, replete with shouts and placards, accusing them of this crime— although the police, it turned out, knew nothing about the matter...
...The other side, by calling itself "prochoice"—as opposed to proabortion—is making a statement about the qualified manner with which it approaches abortion...
...He then declared that the Malians so increased the number of immigrants in the community that it exceeded its "threshold of tolerance...
...The resistance abroad is the one that is most talked about in Europe because it has offices, press services, and so on...
...Despite the fact that just about everybody in Washington—liberal as well as conservative—is ready to embrace "incentives" as if they were motherhood or Dolly Parton, the Economist warns that "America may be about to follow Britain in finding out the hard way that accelerated depreciation has been oversold...
...Arms might pass, then, through one organization to the others who would ally themselves with it, but the divisions would remain...
...The cost to Uncle Sam over the next five years would be $165 billion...
...After all, it was openly proclaimed and public knowledge that the Soviets supported Libya, Syria, and the PLO, all sponsors of terrorism...
...Before the Russian invasion, the term Afghan meant essentially the Pashtoons, the dominant ethnic group...
...I have no clear "position" to offer on the struggle in El Salvador, only some near-certainties, probabilities, and questions...
...Still, it is an entirely fragmented and parochial resistance...
...Most of those I've seen appear to be little more than rewritings of statements produced in the '60s about Vietnam, and this doesn't encourage one to rush in with a signature...
...Antiabortionists in Congress are proceeding on two fronts to outlaw abortion altogether: with a constitutional amendment banning abortion and with "Human Life bills" that would declare a fetus to be a "person" so that abortion would become a criminal act...
...There is something shameless about Ford Motor Company executives abandoning the Company's 75-year-old free-trade policy to seek government protection from Japanese imports...
...I think it could very well succeed, and condemn itself through its success: trickle, trickle...
...The answer, of course, was the government of the United States, which repudiated General 263 Haig's declaration...
...The [Khalki] troops now are conscripts who are kept on after having served their time, and who dream of nothing but deserting, not necessarily to join the resistance but just to go home...
...These foreign-operated plants have their production sold months before it is even built...
...The beacon is dim...
...The world turned its back while Guatemala underwent a long Saint Bartholomew's night...
...The Human Life Amendment, to which Reagan A somewhat similar argument for the necessity to place the defense of abortion in such a broader context has been made recently by Linda Gordon, in "The Long Struggle for Reproductive Rights," Radical America 15 (Spring, 1981): 75-88...
...States' rights were invoked whenever it was a question of improving standards of unemployment compensation or welfare...
...Largely because of this ambiguity, some Right-to-Life groups have been opposed to the amendment, arguing it would detract from the goal of banning abortion...
...In the Middle East the major terrorist organization is the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Translated by ELFIN VOGEL 279 Just inside the campus grounds of the National Autonomous University of San Carlos (USAC), Guatemala City, stop the buses that carry students between the campus and the city center...
...There are reports that Duarte, said personally not to be a bad fellow, has strengthened his position somewhat vis a vis the military...
...But that is about all...
...This change in their mentality is very important, but it does not lead to new structures...
...and with the next cycle, well...
...In 1972 a ticket headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte, leader of the Christian Democrats, and Guillermo Ungo, leader of the Social Democrats, clearly won the election...
...But the U.S...
...However, there are some readers in the Administration...
...In the countryside, there is a general uprising, but quite in accordance with traditional structures...
...This time, to its credit, the public rallied strongly to the cause of the immigrants...
...Nevertheless, University members, while knowing that direct intervention would come at any Excerpted, with permission, from a lengthy report, based on a statement by USAC's psychology faculty, in Index on Censorship...
...But things are changing...
...there is furious mental activity going on back at the socialist source...
...I understand now that if I have one obligation, it is to give to my people the best I have—to try to defend them against faleshood...
...This goal has led to the campaign against the immigrants and to the accusation of drug-dealing, in an effort to appeal to the least admirable impulses in that part of the population...
...its minutely aimed skirmishes extend only to the guerrillas involved, who are constantly on the warpath, while the rest of the population goes about its everyday life...
...Many abortion clinics, under pressure from their staffs, have begun to diversify their services, moving especially into prenatal and obstetrical services...
...We expect to have in our next issue a report from Paris on the political implications of this event...
...there is no real evidence of Soviet-sponsored terrorism within the United States...
...For whole areas would pledge allegiance to this party in order to get some of these arms...
...Yet in place of military hierarchy it could offer equality...
...After all, even if the land reforms don't go deeply enough, they could be improved...
...In certain respects, the current activities of the Reagan administration make such a broad-based campaign easier for prochoice forces to mobilize...
...Their activities would focus on projects that the tax-supported public sector cannot afford and in which the private sector finds no profit, and would be conceived and carried out with the cooperation and guidance of responsible local authorities and community groups...
...We now provide some excerpts from a conversation, again taken from Esprit, in which M. Roy expresses his views on more recent developments in Afghanistan...
...An officer earns five times as much as a teacher, and a non-com three times as much...
...The first is simply bad and confused counsel, conflicting insanely with the second, which is a matter of inexact diction: instead of "run out of ideas" it should be "run out on ideas...
...These people, obviously, are refugees from the former Indochina...
...Since it's common knowledge that immigrant families are always the poorest, and don't usually have the benefit of paid vacations, this measure worked simply to deprive the poorest of an important public, community social service...
...And we have some "old ideas" whose implementation is long past due, such as comprehensive national health insurance...
...Je comprends maintenant que, si j'ai un devoir, c'est de donner aux miens ce que j'ai de meilleur, je veux dire essayer de les ddfendre contre le mensonge...
...But it's amusing that economic-political conservatives, who have so long twitted liberals for an assumed belief in man's quite simple altruistic nature, have now come around to donning romantic fustian themselves...
...he cares about democratic values, he does not want to see a leftauthoritarian dictatorship in El Salvador...
...Their employees, locations, and markets are all American...
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