Books Briefly
BOOKS foul play, why has the Government gone to such obvious lengths to keep the lid on? Rashke reviews a number of interesting clues, at least one of them newly published and highly...
...Probing into Violence THE RIDDLE OF VIOLENCE by Kenneth Kaunda...
...9.95...
...1963-1979 compiled by DeLloyd J. Guth and David R. Wrone (Greenwood Press...
...WISE—1536 16th St...
...But beyond these pyrotechnics perhaps exists the single most important new piece of information to reach print: that there is a highly placed FBI official with direct knowledge of a cover-up...
...Most interesting is Fallaci's commitment to this arrogant, selfish man...
...edited by Colon M. Morris (Harper & Row...
...This bibliography is the first scholarly attempt to catalog the evidentiary base so vital to future historical research...
...fectly realized, The Company of Women realistically demonstrates how people intentionally deny their freedoms in order to survive in a rapidly changing world, and develop codes of moral minutiae to justify their pride...
...So far, many have done their part in this troubling case: the jurors, lawyers for the Silkwood family, such journalists as Rashke, and most of all, the so-called "Supporters of Silkwood," a feminist network which has been the backbone of efforts to keep the case alive in the face of apathy on the part of much of the mainstream press and, of course, Congress...
...Panagoulis emergens from prison eager for revenge and hungry for a woman's devotion...
...It is time, once and for all, to clear the air...
...He tried to sabotage her independent and glamorous career as an international journalist, and she in response offered him blind loyalty...
...Several had died...
...Assassination Log THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY...
...Jeffrey Stein (Jeffrey Stein is The Progressive's correspondent in Washington...
...But prospects are not good, it is said, for a favorable court ruling on the conspiracy allegations brought against Kerr-McGee and the Government by the Silkwood family...
...he did not have access to that report...
...The Bureau hasn't given you 60 per cent of the Silkwood file,' Echo told Taylor...
...Few events in modern history have had such a far-reaching impact on American institutions or generated such a volume of diverse literature as the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...This "novel" is about the jail experiences of Greek resistance fighter Alexander Pana-goulis and Fallaci's subsequent love affair with him...
...Fallaci devotes more of the book to describing Panagoulis's unspeakable tortures than to exploring her own feelings...
...He gets both before an assassin cuts short his triumphs...
...With Rashke's new allegations of further Government knowledgeability and missing plutonium, however, Congress has been stripped of any further rationale for turning its back on the case...
...Why a cover-up...
...Resistance Hero A MAN by Oriana Fallaci (Simon and Schuster...
...Arguing that the FOIA and the Federal judiciary have become "the sole avenue to evidentiary truth" in the JFK controversy, the compilers provide an annotated discussion of FOIA suits initiated by researcher-writer Harold Weis-berg...
...Those suits not only pried thousands of pages from Government files but led directly to amending the FOIA in 1974...
...But Echo did not know if the CIA had taken plutonium from the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plant...
...Compilers Guth and Wrone, in their exhaustively researched introduction, succeed in placing the Kennedy murder and its faked investigation in a proper historical context...
...Ultimate answers in the almost two-decades-old debate may rest with the primary evidence dislodged by Weisberg's litigation...
...Interested lawmakers can start by reading Rashke's comprehensive book...
...A politician who wrestles honestly with his or her conscience in public view is a rare bird—and Kenneth Kaunda is indeed one of that noble species...
...Finally, " Rashke writes, "Echo confirmed that the CIA had been diverting plutonium from nuclear plants and giving it to countries friendly to the United States and that a number of CIA agents had been contaminated with the plutonium they had diverted...
...While Kaunda was able to achieve Zambia's independence largely through nonviolent means, the hard case of Rhodesia (and now South Africa) led him to conclude that there are some elites that will never give up their power and privileges without armed struggle...
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...There are at least four more file cabinets full of documents.' " Later, Rashke writes that "Echo cautioned Taylor not to rule out CIA involvement in the Silkwood case...
...Echo," according to Rashke, was the code name of a highly placed FBI source for one of the investigators, Bill Taylor...
...The Oklahoma City jury at least partially dissolved that charge...
...Although he sometimes confuses nonviolence for passivity and does not really resolve how the struggle for justice can be reconciled with the desire for peace and human survival, Kaunda is open and candid about his self-searchings and self-doubts and engages the reader in an ongoing inner dialogue that continues beyond this brief book...
...Yet he does not seem fully comfortable with this: "Far from banging some militarist drum and preaching the inevitability of violence, I continue to pray and work for any reconciliation with South Africa on the basis of justice for all her people...
...It is an eloquently written but familiar story of a hero whose political persona is as well-developed as his personal relationships are immature...
...Rashke reviews a number of interesting clues, at least one of them newly published and highly inflammatory...
...In fact, it cannot be denied that there has been periodic mumbling from some quarters that the Left has "used" the Silkwood case for its own political reasons...
...37.50...
...15.95...
...One chapter details an episode in October 1977, when investigators working for the Silkwood family were beginning to nudge open a series of "national security" trapdoors in the case...
...184 pp...
...He comes to the sad and uneasy conclusion that in the case of white-ruled Rhodesia he had no choice but to allow his country, Zambia, to be used as a base for black freedom fighters and to support their armed struggle to liberate Zimbabwe—not an easy decision for a man who was raised on the teachings of Jesus and was impressed by Gandhi's nonviolent resistance campaigns...
...Along with the first critical analysis of the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations' conclusions, the bibliography includes a case-brief summary of Freedom of Information Act litigation related to the assassination investigation...
...A classic story of love between a man and a woman...
...In fact, as the book develops, Taylor becomes one of its more interesting characters and a metaphor for wise World Information Service on Energy International information and resources on safe energy, uranium, nuclear power/ weapons from the news service of the grassroots movement world-wide...
...463 pp...
...This is heady stuff...
...Here he tackles some questions about violence, whose necessity is usually assumed by international leaders but not by Kaunda...
...NW Washington, DC 20036 USA 202—387-0818 the mystery itself: As he pursues the case, the crusty, cop-talking ex-Marine investigator is beaten up, his life threatened, and his house broken into for his files...
...Out of this mire now emerges the first comprehensive research tool essential to understanding what happened on Dealey Plaza in November 1963...
...Supporting membership $20/yr., includes Bulletin subscription...
...442 pp...
Vol. 45 • August 1981 • No. 8
