War capital

...The Moon-owned "Deli-Sun" opened recently after beating out McDonald's for the expensive site on North Gapitol Street across from the Post Office at the foot of Capitol Hill...

...Moondogs...

...Years ago, Fager had co-authored an investigative report on the USLP for Cambridge's/tea/ Paper, apparently incurring LaRouche's wrath...

...Among the blue-collar workers who voted last November, some 44 per cent cast their ballots for the most blatantly anti-union, jingoist candidate offered by a major party since 1964...

...Author Jay Peterzell found twenty-five "incidents" involving state and local police and eleven examples of industry spying from 1974 to the present...

...The Reagan Administration is expected to forge closer links with South Africa, but it turns out that Pretoria had a special friend in the transition team...

...It was a theme that dovetailed nicely with the movement toward abandoning legal, rational, and moral constraints on the exercise of U.S...

...Washington is ascurry with Democrats trying to pass for conservatives...

...Noting that five other circuit courts have defined classes of litigants by their activities—war protesters, for example—Silkwood attorney Daniel Sheehan has asked the court to reconsider...

...The SEC study, completed last fall but still under wraps, was provoked by the firing of former bank officer David Edwards after he objected to routine bank procedures which recorded currency transactions in offshore tax havens, instead of in the country where they actually occurred...

...The first documented, comprehensive study of police and industry harassment of the anti-nuclear movement has been published by the Washington-based Center for National Security Studies...

...Crime should not pay," sniffed that pillar of the liberal foreign policy establishment, George Ball, on the oped page of The Washington Post...

...Labor Party (see January briefing), now operating through four front groups on Capitol Hill, was denounced on the floor of Congress by California Democrat Paul Mc-Closkey: The USLP had circulated a "dossier" on a McCloskey staff aide, Chuck Fager, describing him falsely as a KGB "mole...

...On the Senate floor, Democrat Henry Jackson called for "blue-ribbon" panels on international terrorism, and the Radical Right moved swiftly to up the ante on the Democrats' blank check: There should be an investigation of "domestic terrorism" as well...

...and European taxes...

...That was four wars ago, and labor has been falling into line ever since...

...Mine eyes have seen the glory," they sang, the chorus swelling over the snowy tablecloths, over the soft candlelight, over the cigar smoke...

...He might just as well have invoked the glass-and-marble headquarters of the major labor unions, too...

...Then their husbands, bound in black tuxedos and waving cigars, joined in...

...It's happened before...

...Marion H. Smoak, former chief of protocol under President Gerald Ford, signed on as a paid foreign agent of the U.S.-Southwest Africa/Namibia Trade and Cultural Council on September 2, 1980, according to Justice Department files...

...During the transition, Smoak was a member of Reagan's international organizations/Africa team...

...Liberals outside union circles are no braver...

...Samuel Gompers, hoping for a better organizing climate here at home, delivered the labor movement to Wilson's war mobilization...

...Second and perhaps more insidious was Carter's last-minute denunciation of the Iranians as "barbarians"—an epithet Reagan quickly picked up and amplified during his split-screen Inauguration and the extravaganza attending the return of the freed American hostages...

...Already, Washington had begun putting on airs of a war capital...

...The lawyers had won an earlier award of $10.5 million against the Kerr-McGee Energy Corporation when a jury found that Silkwood had been contaminated by plutonium prior to her mysterious death on an Oklahoma highway in November 1974...

...Some maintain an embarrassed silence...

...March briefing No class___A three-judge Federal appeals court has ruled against attorneys for the Karen Silkwood family who were seeking a trial to determine whether her civil rights were violated as a union activist...

...They sang "America the Beautiful" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," which Republicans—old-style Northern Republicans, at least—seem to regard as their anthem...

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...The ladies, dazzling in diamonds, started it, humming at first, waving their lipstick-stained cognac glasses in time to the music...

...They got last-minute help from Jimmy Carter's government before it pulled up stakes...

...Darkest Washington...

...The Teamsters opened their union till to the Republicans...

...Facing down the Mall toward the Washington Monument, Reagan drew his metaphors from the capital landscape—Arlington Cemetery, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials...

...And when one of the most progressive unions, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employes, convened its annual leadership conference in a plush Washington hotel in January, union chief Jerry Wurf offered this bland non-judgment of the Reagan regime: "I'm unwilling at this point to lay down a dictum as to what kind of government this will be—good, bad, or indifferent...

...Today, the alarm bells are ringing again, calling for anti-Soviet or anti-Moslem crusades, wars against darnkess, totalitarianism, and feudalism, wars for justice, freedom, and the American way...

...wrote in 1917...

...Capitol Hill boasts a long-needed all-night deli now, courtesy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon...

...Others are eager to play war games with Reagan...

...To let Iran off not merely scot-free but actually profiting from its obscene conduct would establish an odious and dangerous precedent...

...Lyndon LaRouche's wacky U.S...

...Congress hopes to get a copy of the report but so far has been unable to pry it loose from the SEC...

...On its way out the back door of Washington, the Carter Administration executed two moves— one real, the other symbolic—to prepare the way for Reagan's saber-rattling...

...Bank holiday...

...THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON War capital Jeffrey Stein It was just after midnight on the Saturday of the Inaugural Weekend when the singing began in one of Georgetown's fashionable French restaurants...

...Fools on the hill...

...row Wilson for his "war to end all wars," the war against "barbarism," the war to save democracy...

...First there was the resumption of military aid to El Salvador's murderous junta—a policy that Reagan can now legitimately describe as "bipartisan...

...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has prepared an internal investigative report which, insiders say, will rip the cover off shady bookkeeping practices that have enabled New York's City Bank to escape millions of dollars in U.S...

...McCloskey denounced La-Rouche and the USLP as "demented...

...Nuke watch...

...Liberal, even radical havens once, the unions were first seduced by WoodJeffrey Stein is The Progressive's contributing editor in Washington...

...power in the world...

...But the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that while Silkwood was a member of a class protected by Federal civil rights statutes, her activities, reported to have provoked wiretapping and surveillance by Kerr-McGee, were not those of a union member (Silkwood had allegedly been gathering evidence of safety hazards and the disappearance of plutonium from Kerr-McGee's Cimarron, Oklahoma, facility...

...In other Moonie news, the church is said by insiders to have opened a campus recruiting drive at West Point...

...Two days later, on the West Front of the Capitol, Ronald Wilson Reagan took the Presidential oath and delivered a touching tribute to a smalltown barber who gave his life in World War I. It was patriotic nostalgia at its best, and it was more: It was an exhortation to Americans to recall days of military glory...

...The times call imperiously for the marshaling of liberals of the country for the purpose of making war an instrument for the promotion of social justice and public ownership," Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr...