DATELINES
DATELINES GOING IN STYLE THE BRONX, NEW YORK Like Henry James's Man About Town, they had to be seen in all the right places: They dined at the most expensive restaurants and lived on the most...
...An ad hoc group called the Cambridge Peace Education Project formed around the hearings...
...What seems to have most distressed the Danish military is Christensen's insistence that their "secrets" are a joke...
...We don't toe anybody's line...
...They said they were tired of spending their energy fighting against the SWP instead of for women's causes...
...She attributed the tension, as well, to "deep frustration with how the women's movement is going...
...Indeed, several members expressed bewilderment at first that anyone would take offense at the comic depiction of native Americans...
...Many of its tombs bear familiar names...
...Consequently, she said, some state NOW officials and chapters aligned with the Democratic Party have responded to the resignations with glee: "They're tickled pink...
...And while the alternative press has picked up on its findings, the major dailies are strangely silent...
...Helmsley's holdings include the Empire State Building and much of what lies in its shadow...
...Hammil opened the attack on Injun Andy at a press conference, demanding that the doltish Indian be deleted from the ads...
...Helmsley read an article about Woodlawn, according to Capodilupo, and immediately contacted the cemetery's "memorial counselors" to arrange for construction of his mausoleum...
...Dismissing all the old "civil defense" ideas of the past thirty-odd years, the brochure tells which nations possess nuclear weapons, how many weapons exist and how powerful they are, what a full-scale attack would do to Cambridge and its environs, and what the citizenry "can do...
...Predictably, though, charges have been dropped, and he now stands accused of much the same crime he committed in Norway...
...Then, late in August, less than two months before chapter elections, the president and four other officers resigned with the charge that the chapter was being co-opted by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP...
...A plausible argument could be made that a college built on lung cancer is the perfect site for papers of a Presidency characterized by moral decay and dry rot...
...A former U.S...
...Defense chief Knud Jorgensen called it "extremely detrimental" to Danish security, and a military intelligence official, Preben Borberg, charged that if Christensen had delivered his information directly to the Soviet Embassy, "it would be termed espionage...
...Supreme Court, and then made a second fortune with the Duke Power Company by inviting northern industrialists to come to the Caro-linas for cheap electricity and even cheaper labor...
...The officials did agree to meet with the anti-desecration group, however, and in the meantime, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and other organizations joined Hammil's association in the protest...
...But a recent study published by California's Air Resources Board suggests that, in fact, government and industry are largely to blame...
...Jeanne Capodilupo fondly eyes the bronze doors with their bas reliefs depicting biblical scenes, and observes, "This is the most expensive mausoleum we have at Woodlawn...
...The list of those interred at Woodlawn reads like the membership roll of an exclusive country club...
...The logo was carried on thousands of pamphlets and pieces of official stationery, and on billboards throughout the state...
...on the face of it...
...Buck Duke built his personal empire in a manner befitting the era: The cigarette cartel depended on cut-throat competition for supply, and on the infant industry called advertising to create the raw throat demand...
...OPEN SECRETS COPENHAGEN Carrying on a time-honored Scandinavian tradition, a twenty-six-year-old Copenhagen editor named Soren Moller Christensen is the latest young upstart to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes...
...Mark I. Pinsky (Mark I. Pinsky, Duke '69, was an editor of the Chronicle, the student daily, and covered the Nixon Library controversy for The New York Times and The Boston Globe...
...About twenty-five people picketed the fair on opening day to express their distaste for Injun Andy...
...Steve Coll (Steve Coll is a free-lance writer in Los Angeles...
...A gothic cathedral provided the inspiration for the mausoleum of John H. Harbock, the financier who promoted the Fulton Street Fish Market in lower Manhattan...
...However, the stationery, pamphlets, and signs would stay—and so would a person in an Indian costume seven feet tall, to greet fair-goers as "Injun Andy...
...The granite slab above the entrance simply says "Helmsley...
...In the article itself and in subsequent press interviews, Christensen pointed out that his information came exclusively from public sources—maps, files, telephone directories, newspapers, magazines, books— and from personal observations made.from public property...
...Christensen also concluded that the Danish Intelligence Agency's ability to "provide NATO . . . with data on every single ship in the Baltic Sea .. . puts the Danish stations on the Soviet hit-list for bombing targets in Western Europe...
...The same holds true in Christensen's case: There will be no legal problem in convicting him, should Esper-sen decide to prosecute...
...Members of the Strauss family, founders of Brooklyn's Abraham and Strauss department store, have a replica of an Egyptian barge in front of their family crypt...
...For the first time, it made many people, both Indian and non-Indian, realize what was going on—that there were still problems among Indians here...
...Only one truly spectacular mausoleum is now under construction at Woodlawn...
...One day this September, while the Duke faculty was debating the Nixon Library proposal, Durham citizens were downtown, arguing against a proposed 19.7 per cent rate increase requested by Duke Power, profits from which fuel the Duke Endowment, which in turn helps finance the school...
...I thought it was a cartoon—a comic strip)—it got funnier and funnier," said Graham, a long-time activist on the Council and a member of the U. S. Peace Council...
...That is a white man's stereotype...
...But the laughter quickly turned to rage...
...Police lawyer Povel Kyhl has turned over Christensen's case to the minister of justice, Ole Espersen, who must decide whether or not to prosecute...
...The future inhabitant of the tomb is Harry Helmsley, one of the largest property owners in New York City...
...Democrats, Baptists, and the poor went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, nine miles up the road...
...They expressed the hope that their resignations would warn others "that the SWP is a parasitic political party that drains the resources of others to accomplish its own goals of world socialist revolution...
...I guess it really has—but not the way we intended...
...I always thought Tonto was a good guy," said the fair's publicist, Lew Breiner...
...Out of the hearings and the peace education project's research came Cambridge and Nuclear Weapons, a nine-page brochure that debunks the notion that an entire city can be evacuated to protect residents from a nuclear attack...
...I would...
...The Council and the peace activists grilled the state's civil defense authorities (who defended the plan by saying it was what "the Russians are doing") and began to think about an alternative to going to Greenfield...
...State Fair officials responded that Andy was meant as a compliment to Indians and castigated the critics for not presenting their case in private...
...2, the narrow, winding highway that connects Cambridge and Greenfield, they were told, they should remain in their cars...
...The piece touched off an immediate uproar in Denmark's military establishment...
...One principal conclusion of Christ-ensen's article hardly came as news to Danish peace activists: Denmark's "defensive" listening posts also provide information to the United States for use in "offensive" weapons programs...
...The report, which was ordered by the state legislature because of accusations that local agencies were not vigorously enforcing air quality laws, revealed that 31 per cent of the industries in Los Angeles are in violation of state anti-pollution regulations...
...Espersen is also mindful of the recent outcome of a similar national security case in Norway...
...Another official claimed Christensen had laid the groundwork for the "next holocaust...
...Last June, Nils Petter Gleditsch and Owen Wilkes, peace researchers for the Norwegian and Swedish offices, respectively, of the International Peace Research Institute, were convicted in Oslo on charges similar to those facing Christensen...
...DATELINES GOING IN STYLE THE BRONX, NEW YORK Like Henry James's Man About Town, they had to be seen in all the right places: They dined at the most expensive restaurants and lived on the most proper avenues...
...The link is not inappropriate...
...The main reason given by the power company for seeking the $211 million increase was to pay for continued operating and construction failures at Duke's Maguire Nuclear Station, Unit 1. Money would be no object in regard to the Nixon Library, University President Terry Sanford told the faculty, since every penny of the proposed $25 million facility would be raised "in the private sector...
...Among them was Sam H. Jones, executive director of the Indianapolis Urban League and one of the city's most prominent black leaders...
...The booklet, mailed to 30,000 Cambridge households in September, argues that "the sole means of protecting Cambridge citizens from nuclear warfare would be for nations with nuclear arms to destroy those arms and renounce their use...
...That figure compares to only 2 per cent non-compliance in San Diego and 6 per cent in the San Francisco Bay Area...
...In an attempt to diffuse its impact, the Air Resources Board released the report quietly, without the customary press conference and announcement...
...Proclaiming that "there is no room in our state for an atmosphere that condones stereotyping of any group," they announced that the radio and television spots would be withdrawn...
...The conflict has been brewing, some say, for as long as three years...
...Those who resigned (they included two vice presidents) accused SWP members who belonged to the NOW chapter of "severe and constant disruptions" of board and committee meetings and "vicious" verbal attacks...
...Gleditsch and Wilkes received three-month suspended sentences (they could have been sent to prison for up to four-and-one-half years) and were each fined 10,000 kroner (about $1,700).plus about the same amount in court costs...
...Capodilupo, in charge of public relations at Woodlawn, is given to sighing...
...Injun Andy—they ought to give him a medal," said Jan Hammil, an Apache who heads American Indians Against Desecration...
...We have very little to smile about...
...In addition, readers were admonished to bring their credit cards, checkbooks, and passbooks, but leave their pets and firearms behind...
...I have surely made mistakes...
...As Espersen decides whether to prosecute, he must be mulling over what Christensen is already i convinced of: Convicting "people for pool' ing open information...
...Hubert at the Chateau Amboise in France—a chapel designed by Leonardo da Vinci...
...The problem for the government will be in convincing the Danish people that they, along with Chris-tensen, have no right to the sort of information he brought to light...
...In other words, he had described and even depicted the naked emperor...
...But Duke realized a fortune from the dismantling of the tobacco trust by order of the U.S...
...No doubt the Soviet Union knows what I know, and better," he says...
...So fierce were the internal battles that an outside mediator was called in...
...Interim officers took charge...
...But at Sanford's urging, the executive committee of Duke's board of trustees voted 9-to-2 to cede the land and proceed with the library...
...The court ruled that in 1979 they had committed the crime of collecting—from open sources—and publishing information about electronic listening posts in Norway...
...The researchers will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, but it is difficult to see how their conviction could be overturned without overturning the law itself...
...DATELINES FAIR PLAY INDIANAPOLIS A bumbling cartoon character named Injun Andy, with a bull's-eye painted on his nose and all the eloquence of a drunken Tonto, seems an unlikely hero for native Americans...
...Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Forsvar has not appeared since February, and Christensen says he has been warned that future issues which attempt to follow up the last one will be seized...
...Henny Sender (Henny Sender is an economics reporter for Dun's Business Month in New York City...
...Carol Seligman, one of the SWP members involved in the fight, said that those who resigned have made statements "they knew were untrue" (a charge leveled at each other by both sides), but that real ideological differences do exist...
...The general membership approved a resolution which condemned "red-baiting and other forms of scapegoating" and reaffirmed dedication to such issues as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights...
...It is facing mounting accusations that it makes too few inspections and overlooks obvious violations because of ties to big business...
...But historian Sydney Nathans, echoing the fear that a Nixon Library would be the first step in a process of political rehabilitation, called the papers "an archival Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and added, "We would possess it, but would it also possess us...
...In the event of a traffic jam on U.S...
...Its 400 acres are not subject to real estate taxes, and the endowments which guarantee perpetual care also provide a steady income for the cemetery...
...she feels the rich today have lost that flair, that affinity for gargoyles and sphinxes, which they displayed in Woodlawn's days of glory...
...No one challenged Christensen's assertion—though the military insisted (in Borberg's words) that "the information may look quite innocent...
...No provision was made for those without cars...
...But the chapter remained confused and troubled by what had happened, and by the public airing of its dirty linen...
...The university would merely be required to cede the land to the Federal Government, so that the General Services Administration and the National Archives could run it when it was completed...
...But the myth of secrecy is crucial: It prevents public discussion of spying facilities and preserves the intelligence service's decisive role in shaping national security policy...
...Even Kern County, the second-worst area in the state, had a rate of non-compliance less than half the rate in Los Angeles...
...That is a good thing, Jeanne Capodilupo says, because these days few people have the taste and foresight to commission lavish monuments...
...Last year, the District's head of enforcement was fired after a local newspaper published a series of articles detailing the agency's lax procedures...
...Carol Polsgrove (Carol Polsgrove is a contributing editor of The Progressive...
...Samuel H. Kress, another of the great retailers, also selected an Egyptian motif...
...As in the Danish and Norwegian cases, there was an initial uproar about "espionage" and the suggestion that Wilkes was a Soviet spy...
...As construction workers slide granite slabs into place, she sighs, "Wouldn't you love to be buried here...
...The rich had flair in those days," Jeanne Capodilupo sighs as she shows a visitor one of the more elaborate mausoleums...
...There are, in fact, only eight known members of the Socialist Workers Party among the almost 800 members of the San Francisco NOW chapter...
...Also, because we went public with it, they cannot call it espionage without making fools of themselves...
...The justice minister is caught between the pressures of a growing peace movement and the demands at home and from the United States for increased Danish military resolve...
...In return, Duke University would have access to what one supporter of the library called "a documentary treasure...
...The tomb of Oliver Harry Perry Belmont is an exact replica of the chapel of St...
...Woodlawn was founded in 1863 but its heyday came forty years later, when the Nineteenth Century's robber barons began shuffling off to their final rewards...
...And Greenfield officials, the Cambridge Council learned, had never been consulted...
...A final twist in this modern-day fairy tale is Owen Wilkes's August arrest in Sweden by security police...
...Jim Jordan (Jim Jordan is the Boston correspondent for The Guardian...
...The lack of a non-white on the board may explain Andy's existence in the first place...
...Though Calvinistic piety probably dominated the lives of most of Woodlawn's permanent residents, pagan themes dominate their burial ground...
...The SWP believes in demonstrations and rallies, period" said Linda Festa, who gave up her chair of the NOW chapter's abortion rights committee earlier this year as a result of conflicts with SWP members (she calls them "operatives" and believes they take orders from the Party...
...Acting President Paula Lichtenberg added another cause: the chapter's failure to adjust, organizationally, to its own growth in the last five years...
...But there is some popular support for the young editor, and even within Justice Minister Espersen's own Social Democratic Party there are signs of anti-military sentiment...
...If Duke had not opposed Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican nomination in 1904, perhaps Roosevelt would not have turned his trust-busting Justice Department against the American Tobacco Company in the years that followed...
...In addition, radio and television audiences were treated to commercials featuring Andy mouthing such witticisms as, "Me speakum pretty good English...
...She thinks those who resigned "have blown the situation out of proportion...
...We've always been a dissident chapter," she said...
...The report is expected to have a devastating impact on the Los Angeles Air Quality Management District, which is responsible for enforcing anti-pollution laws...
...Jules S. Bache, founder of one of the great Wall Street brokerage houses, is entombed in a model of the Temple of Isis...
...And James David Barber, head of the political science department and author of The Presidential Character, warned "as one potential user of a Nixon archive" that the documents were not worth the added expense of creating the "attendant puff-machines here at Duke...
...No one could possibly say that what we published was not public," the Forsvar editor said...
...Nor that another founding retailer, James Cash Penney, chose a final resting place reminiscent of the Acropolis...
...Capodilupo hopes other wealthy New Yorkers will emulate Helmsley's example...
...But she did say the San Francisco chapter has long been perceived as "an SWP chapter" because of its preference for demonstrations over lobbying—and because of vocal SWP involvement...
...HEAD FOR THE HILLS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Last March, Saundra Graham and her colleagues on the Cambridge City Council received copies of the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency's latest nuclear evacuation plan...
...Meanwhile, the city has been coughing through its traditionally worst months of smog, September and October...
...SWP members said the accusations were unjustified and unfair...
...Eighty years later, a bronze likeness of old Buck himself—stogie in hand—presides over the Duke University campus from a marble pedestal, and members of the university community debate housing Richard M. Nixon's papers on its grounds, forever linking the two names...
...ALL TOGETHER, NOW SAN FRANCISCO It had been a difficult summer for the board of the San Francisco chapter of the National Organization for Women...
...FUN WITH DICK AND DUKE DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA James Buchanan Duke, whose American Tobacco Company financed both the power company and the university which bear his name today, was reportedly so distraught by the assassination of William McKinley that he built a life-sized statue of the martyred Republican President and placed it in the garden of his opulent estate...
...It seems that Injun Andy—or, more precisely, the protest he precipitated—did more than raise public consciousness about Indians in the state named for them...
...The Council's anger at what Graham called "this crazy plan" resulted in immediate hearings on the evacuation procedure...
...Nothing in today's mass-merchandise Woolworth stores would lead a casual shopper to suspect that the founder, Frank Woolworth, reposes in a model of an Egyptian temple, guarded by stone sphinxes...
...Last February, Christensen wrote an article entitled "Electronic Intelligence: A Guide to the Danish Links in the Chain," and published it in his quarterly anti-military journal, Forsvar (Defense...
...Brooks Egerton (Brooks Egerton lived in Denmark in 1979 and recently completed an internship with The Progressive...
...We just wanted a new image to shake up the fair a little...
...His home and offices have been searched and sealed, but very little of his information about Sweden was confiscated...
...the Great Trickster, who graduated from the Duke law school in 1937, had much in common with the Tobacco Rogue, a provincial, plutocratic pirate...
...What was taken, according to Christensen, was a considerable body of correspondence from him to Wilkes—and all of Wilkes's research for a forthcoming book on military intelligence in Greenland...
...The civil defense agency was telling 100,000 Cambridge residents that, should the bombs start to fly, they should get in their cars and drive 100 miles to the western Massachusetts industrial town of Greenfield...
...The Danish government has cooled off enough from Christensen's insult to realize what a tricky situation it has on its hands...
...Hammil expressed her coalition's dissatisfaction: "The state of Indiana is depicting Indians as fools, with that silly, happy-go-lucky smile," she said...
...With its high gates and expansive lawns, Woodlawn would even look like a country club were it not for the replicas of Egyptian barges, Greek temples, and Renaissance chapels, and the assortment of sphinxes, gargoyles, and lions which dot the landscape...
...The Academic Council was convinced, voting 35-to-34 to cut off all library negotiations with Nixon and his attorneys...
...In the early days, Duke University customarily drew its students from the ranks of affluent Republicans and Methodists...
...But when the dust settled after the Indian caricature was adopted as the official mascot of the 1981 Indiana State Fair, some of Andy's worst enemies were calling him a blessing...
...intelligence officer, who asked to remain anonymous, agrees: "Everybody in town knows where these things are...
...Woodlawn itself is now wealthier than were many of the millionaires interred on its grounds...
...And when they died, they were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery...
...Injun Andy, often pictured with "squaw" and "papoose" in tow, appeared about a week before the August opening of the fair in Indianapolis...
...The officials backed down—part way...
...The police soon came for a visit...
...Christensen was charged not with spying but with violating a Danish statute that prohibits describing or photographing "not commonly accessible military installations" without permission...
...A history student at the university in Copenhagen, he freely admits that he knows little about electronic communications...
...Christensen, who knows Gleditsch and Wilkes, praises their work as having "shown the way" for peace research...
...It suggests they increase their knowledge of nuclear technology and politics by contacting such groups as Mobilization for Survival or Physicians for Social Responsibility...
...is dangerous for the legitimation of the present political systems in Scandinavia...
...But however small their number, according to the officers who resigned, the SWP women are outspoken and persistent and, in addition, are supported by sympathizers...
...As a footnote to the City Council's criticism of the state civil defense plan, Council member David Wylie pointed out that a nuclear attack would not only send 100,000 Cantabrigians to Greenfield...
...Espersen, a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party, has chosen to leave Christensen in legal limbo for the time being...
...During the last year, differences between the SWP faction and some of the other members have surfaced over civil disobedience (SWP opposed it), ties with labor groups (SWP favored stronger ties), and involvement in electoral politics in addition to mass actions...
...The residents of two Connecticut towns are also slated to motor up to the town of 20,000...
...Even in the matter of the Nixon Library, the rivalry continues: Former North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin, a Democrat and Nixon's Watergate nemesis, has placed his papers at Chapel Hill and has offered a leatherbound copy of his book, The Whole Truth, for display in the lobby of the proposed Nixon Library in Durham...
...but when you piece it together it begins to look quite different...
...Two of those eight serve on the board, which has a fluctuating membership of about twenty...
...beneath its spires, impassive gargoyles gaze at passing aircraft...
...Dan Carpenter (Dan Carpenter is a reporter for The Indianapolis Star...
...SMOG: THE REAL VILLAINS LOS ANGELES The shroud of polluted air that hangs day after day over the Los Angeles basin is commonly attributed to automobile exhaust and the area's bowl-like geography...
...He also helped draw together a coalition of civil rights and antidiscrimination groups that may bring about minority representation on the all-white State Fair Board...
Vol. 45 • November 1981 • No. 11
