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DATELINES Specializing in Waging Peace BOSTON Following the lead of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Union of Concerned Scientists, a wide range of professionals—from teachers and...
...Its monthly dinner meetings in the suburbs are modeled after the Rotary Club, with drinks at 6 and a program at 8. Alan Kay, an investor who makes a point of wearing his three-piece suit on peace marches, says he "always wondered where the business people were, as if they wouldn't die with the rest of the population...
...DATELINES Specializing in Waging Peace BOSTON Following the lead of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Union of Concerned Scientists, a wide range of professionals—from teachers and lawyers to engineers and business executives—have formed disarmament groups in greater Boston over the past year...
...Smile, You're on Candid Camera BERNE, SWITZERLAND Swiss television, known for its low-keyed and noncontroversial programming, shocked viewers recently when the host of a live, experimental talk show began his opening monologue by referring to the President of the United States as an "Arschloch," an impolite German word meaning asshole...
...He already has an impressive list of liberal-left supporters from the Texas and Washington political swirls, and while he is insistently loyal to the Democrats, he is a strong presence in the new wave of progressive/liberal leadership struggling to reshape the party...
...There has been a mob of them hired and a mob of them fired," a worker said...
...Riethmiller was upset by her daughter's decision to move away from home after finishing high school in 1980...
...Stephanie was maced, thrown into a van, and driven to a house in Alabama where she was physically restrained and verbally and sexually abused for seven days before being rescued by police investigators...
...Ernest Beck (Ernest Beck is a news writer and broadcaster for Swiss Radio International...
...Populism is not an ideology...
...Having a vote is a way of keeping a scorecard on these guys," she says...
...This was the grim culmination of a year of harassment by Stephanie's mother, Marita Riethmiller...
...The workers face the constant threat of firing...
...That was a bad context to take the vote in...
...When Markey and Moffett defended the right of the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and anyone else to an NRC hearing before a license is issued, these groups stayed out of the fray...
...It sounds like a bad dream, but in fact, it is the scene every day in Milwaukee, where hundreds of the area's poor must earn their welfare checks by giving eight to twenty hours a week to this pointless toil...
...He has so far made no statements on the Riethmiller case but his image is getting tougher and more cunning...
...As head of the state's $14-million-a-year department, he says, he would involve himself in a broad range of issues, including not only food production and marketing but transportation, energy, and the environment...
...If passed, the law would apply equally to adult children...
...Such "workfare" programs are not new...
...Deprogramming, Patrick Style CINCINNATI, OHIO Saint, missionary, savior of children's souls: Such are the encomiums clients heap upon Ted Patrick, the cult deprogrammer...
...He considers himself a "capitalist" and not a socialist, but he finds political theory constricting...
...It is an ambitious program, and it might set Hightower on the road to other offices—Governor or U.S...
...For years, people have questioned military work in twos or threes, but now they are condensing into tens and hundreds...
...Most have found, though, that they cost more to run than they save in relief money and that they do nothing to prepare the unemployed for regular jobs...
...Finally, in an official communique, the program director, Ulrich Kundig, announced that the talk show host would have to go because of his inexcusable error...
...The year-old organization has about 400 members and recently hired someone to work full-time on nationwide organizing in 1982...
...Environmental lobbyists don't want to lose because it might hurt their credibility," contends Harvey Rosenfield, a former lobbyist for Congress Watch, who originally supported the compromise measure and later regretted it...
...Of course, this isn't the first attempt...
...The 1980 race suggests he is right...
...This unusual turn of events occurred last November when the House of Representatives passed the budget authorization bill for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which included a provision allowing the NRC to issue temporary operating licenses in the next two years for nuclear power plants before public hearings on them are completed or even begun...
...Imagine the sound as you pound away for forty-five minutes or more...
...Said a young man named Stanley: "I thought when they said I'd be working in a factory, I'd be making a lot of money...
...The philosophy may not endear him to the Left, but it strikes a surprisingly responsive chord in Texas, where the agrarian radicalism that preceded populism late in the last century first boiled up...
...The next day, Switzerland's largest newspaper, Blick, demanded that heads roll at the state-owned and publicly monitored broadcasting network...
...Whole Hog' Hightower Rides Again AUSTIN, TEXAS Two years ago, former Texas Observer editor Jim Hightower mounted what seemed at first a quixotic attempt to capture a seat on Texas's powerful Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil and gas industry...
...Educators for Social Responsibility focuses on the role teachers play in passing on values to students...
...Rod Davis (Rod Davis, former editor of The Texas Observer, teaches English at the University of Texas in Austin...
...Harvard music professor and composer Earl Kim, who organized the 100-person chorus and full orchestra for the concert, said, "We musicians have just been wringing our hands and wondering what to do...
...The jacket copy of his 1976 book...
...This pertinent fact, underscored by Markey and Moffett, had little effect...
...According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, operating licenses have been delayed because of technical and safety problems—not because of the fallout from public hearings...
...He was disappointed to learn the truth, but took the "job" for the money, little as it is...
...Steven J. Korris (Steven J. Korris is a free-lance writer in Milwaukee...
...That's what we're about...
...it now boasts more than fifty organizations, including professional and religious groups, long-established peace organizations, and local committees...
...Richard Raskin (Richard Raskin is a free-lance writer and editor in Cincinnati...
...Imagine the occasional slip, when the chisel bites through a glove or the hammer meets a knuckle...
...The Swiss, usually dozing off by the time the late-night "Rendez-vous" show airs, were instantly awake and on the phone to the Zurich television studio to voice their outrage...
...But pressure mounted...
...According to an extraordinary pre-trial document filed in Ohio vs...
...Victory for either candidate is expected to cost at least $300,000, most of it to be spent on media...
...Make-Work Madness MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Imagine that you decided, for some reason, to crack open a junked engine with a hammer and a chisel...
...According to a story in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Mrs...
...The various groups cooperate and pool information through the loosely structured Disarmament Action Network...
...An hour of this effort might yield one dollar's worth of copper—probably less...
...Judging from his most recent "rescue," however, the California fundamentalist is up to more than Moonie-rustling...
...He was outspent $449,000 to $193,000 by incumbent Jim Nugent, dismissed by the Texas media as "wild-eyed," and hampered by the familiar problems of an underdog's campaign—but he still pulled in 48.2 per cent of the vote, carrying, against all conventional wisdom, such cities as Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth...
...This here ain't acceptable in society," snapped a twenty-three-year-old engine dismantler...
...Althoughthe environmental lobbyists resigned themselves to the improved measure as the lesser of two evils, Moffett hoped his colleagues in the House would do better: "We have a responsibility to legislate to the best of our ability...
...With hardly a fight, the Reagan Administration got its wish to speed up licensing...
...Mysterious things can happen on Capitol Hill: Sometimes environmentalists end up on the same side as their opponents...
...For example, High-Technology Professionals for Peace, probably the first organization in the country to address the ethics of engineering work on weapons systems, has set up an employment agency to help engineers find nonmili-tary jobs...
...By supporting the compromise measure, the environmentalists refused to help Democratic Representatives Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Toby Moffett of Connecticut, who stubbornly proposed an amendment to foil it...
...David Schrader, who directs the two workshops for DePaul, believes the "workfare" program will continue successfully there...
...If you avoid the votes, then you can never make him accountable on safe energy issues...
...He has also written two books, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, and Eat Your Heart Out, both on the corporate takeover of the American food industry...
...Following are addresses for some of the groups: Business Alert to Nuclear War do Alan F. Kay Box 7 Belmont, MA 02178 Communicators for Nuclear Disarmament 44 Hunt Street Watertown, MA 02172 Disarmament Action Network do American Friends Service Committee 2161 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Educators for Social Responsibility do Roberta Snow Box 1041 Brookline Village, MA 02147 High-Technology Professionals for Peace do Warren Davis 52 Walker Street Newtonville, MA 02160 Lawyers' Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control P.O...
...The high concentration of military contracting in the area, and the vigorous organizations of physicians and scientists, both based here, have made Boston something of a national center of disarmament agitation...
...and that, failing, they contracted with a deprogramming team, whose measures included "conversation, harassment and yelling," and "at night, of sexual intercourse to detract her from her lesbianism and attract her to heterosexual activity...
...Beyond that, he prefers to work on an "issue-by-issue basis...
...I believe in what is loosely called economic democracy," he explained during a pause in nonstop barnstorming of the vast state...
...Leis—nationally known for his aggressive prosecution of obscenity and sex-related cases (see "Protecting the Aural Majority," December issue)—has thus far shown greater interest in Stephanie's alleged lesbianism than in the rape and kidnapping charges at hand...
...For Hightower supporters, the near-miss was tantalizing: A down-home candidate in a straw hat, espousing vehement anti-corporate ideas in a year that ushered in Ronald Reagan, had almost upset Texas's most powerful establishment...
...The Nurses' Alliance for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which sensibly sees in nuclear war a threat to health, also plans to go national this year...
...Communicators for Nuclear Disarmament offers editorial and graphic arts services for the production of brochures and campaign literature, while the Musicians Against Nuclear Arms staged a benefit concert in February for the campaign for a nuclear weapons freeze...
...We are going to sweep away the right of the public to have full, complete participation in a hearing process...
...He claims an extensive new licensing-reform bill will be introduced in the House...
...Shop Two," the welfare workshop, was dirty, leaky, and spartan, in marked contrast to the modern, bright, and well-equipped "Shop One," where addiction patients worked...
...The Senate is expected to enact a similar bill in the spring...
...Terminations run at fifteen to twenty per week, chiefly for tardiness, fighting, and complaining...
...With Friends Like These____ WASHINGTON, D.C...
...The only rest rooms were in an adjoining chemical plant, and permission to visit them was granted only during three daily breaks...
...That opportunity is now at hand, in the form of a May 1 Democratic primary contest for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, an office now occupied by sixty-year-old Reagan Brown, a savvy but politically vulnerable product of the state's agricultural good-old-boy network...
...The suit, alleging that her parents "participated in" and "sanctioned" the "assault and battery, rape, and sexual abuse which was committed upon her," will not be heard until after a decision has been made in the criminal trial, which is set for April...
...Kundig also said that the network would look into the future of live programming...
...But Patrick—or "Black Lighting," as he likes to be called—prefers to spice his saintly image with a dash of hard-edged cunning...
...With this background, Hightower has been able to create a pragmatic, comprehensive attack on what he considers Brown's do-nothing reign...
...Now the NRC is being told you can start the power plant and listen to the citizens later...
...He argued that plant defects have been discovered during public hearings and that serious plant accidents, most notably at Three Mile Island, have occurred in the first few months of operation...
...They wouldn't lobby in their own behalf...
...Upon her return she was reportedly suffering from nervous and emotional problems requiring ongoing medical attention...
...Riethmiller hired Ted Patrick, who accepted an $8,000 payment for the deprogramming...
...Appointed by former Governor Dolph Briscoe in 1977, and elected to a four-year term in 1978, Brown faces in Jim "Whole Hog" Hightower what is expected to be the battle of his long career...
...But the poor of Milwaukee are apparently the first to be required to dismantle junked engines for a living...
...What you need is a lot of grass-roots involvement over a period of time...
...Politically, Hightower, who now calls himself a "populist," is looking for a "rainbow coalition" like the one in Louisiana that produced Huey Long and that has served as the mechanism of power for mainstream Democrats since the New Deal...
...Under the bill, parents with just cause could obtain a court order to have their child taken into custody for possible deprogramming...
...We have to give them some language, some sense of hope...
...Those who are fired have no recourse, and are not eligible for county welfare...
...It is the industry itself...
...But they have no credibility because they keep compromising all the time...
...The week of terror that ensued makes the "worst-case scenarios" of deprogramming opponents seem trifling by comparison...
...You can't ask 435 Congressmen, or 150 who are on the fence, to cash in all their chips on something when you know there's going to be more important votes in the spring...
...Hightower, who has been serving as president of the Texas Consumers Association to keep his name and financial contacts alive, says this time he'll get the money he needs...
...The television management offered its apologies to the American people and the listening audience, but said the show and its outspoken host would remain...
...But her story took its most incredible turn upon reaching the office of Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Simon L. Leis Jr...
...Now, imagine doing this noisy work in concert with 500 others, men and women, all in one big room, and all in an atmosphere of fear and hostility...
...It's not that we got to have a piece of the pie...
...In presentations to business groups in the Boston area, Kay and others discuss arms control in marketing and business terms and try to show how the arms race drains resources and stokes inflation...
...The group is trying to develop resources and lesson plans on the weapons issue, and self-study sessions help teachers find ways to "deal with kids asking the ultimate question," in the words of high school history teacher Elizabeth Lewis...
...Patrick, et ai, the state intends to prove that Stephanie and her roommate were "engaged in lesbian activities" together...
...Hightower maintains that Texas, the nation's third-largest producer of food and fiber, could have an impact on "structural" problems in the food delivery system...
...The suspicion that Stephanie was "controlled" by Patricia Thiemann— her roommate and long-time friend—grew until, finally, Mrs...
...The group also believes engineers have a unique understanding of weapons technology and can thus play a key role in educating the public...
...Anna Gyorgy, director of Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project, sees it another way...
...As it happens, the Riethmillers need no such protection from the law...
...In the early 1970s, he directed from Washington the Agribusiness Accountability Project, a nonprofit research group funded by consumer and labor organizations...
...Having already lost his probation on a previous felony conviction, Patrick awaits the Ohio trial from a San Diego prison cell...
...Ironically, Ohio legislators are now considering a bill that would provide an avenue of legal recourse for parents like the Riethmillers...
...Last October, four of Patrick's hired hands abducted a young Cincinnati woman suspected by her parents of being "a convert to lesbianism...
...it's more a process," he says, and adds that the core of his politics is opposition to large economic units and support of decentralization...
...The organization has filled a vacuum," says Alan Hochberg, one of the organizers...
...It makes us so happy that we can get up here and play...
...Senator, perhaps—later in the decade...
...There is so much stalling because of all the lovely groups that you support, that run around with signs and stop everything," California Republican John Rousselot said...
...The industry is just beginning to gear up on this...
...No other candidate in Texas, and few in the nation, are running on this kind of platform...
...The scrap dealer who supplies the junked engines is expected to pay about $150,000—5 to 10 per cent of the program cost—for the copper and steel that is returned to him...
...that the roommate became "the dominant force, somewhat controlling the life of Stephanie Riethmiller...
...At the U.S...
...It is fertile territory...
...Imagine wood chips flying as the engine digs into your work table...
...Ironically, the agriculture race is more suited to Hightower's background than the 1980 Railroad Commission contest was...
...Riethmiller was indicted on kidnapping and abduction charges, the document names neither her nor her husband as defendents in the state's case...
...embassy in Berne, an official called the incident "unfortunate," but refused to say whether the United States had put pressure on the television management to sack the offending talk showman or whether the pronouncement about Reagan had fouled the usually cordial relations between the two countries...
...they obtained it gratis from its executors...
...There was no food on the premises, or in the area...
...By contrast, a $2.75 million civil suit filed by Stephanie Riethmiller names her parents as co-defendants with Patrick and his band...
...Ted Patrick, however, was not so lucky...
...Some professions had organized against the arms race even before the conference, others coalesced during the talks, while still more have formed independently in the following months...
...While Mrs...
...Milwaukee County has virtually abolished its welfare system and replaced it with the ear-splitting workshop described above...
...It is not the public that has done in the nuclear industry," Markey countered...
...The document goes on to state that Marita Riethmiller—locked in a house with her daughter throughout the week of abduction—knew nothing of this "latter method of deprogramming...
...Twelve organizations formed the network under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge in January 1980...
...Kids are immobilized by the thought of nuclear war," she says...
...That's hardly an achievement to boast about, as the workers will attest...
...Scrap dealers used to set the engines on fire so the copper would melt out, but clean-air laws put an end to that...
...However, the appeal of these new professional organizations clearly extends beyond Boston, and many of the groups are working to establish themselves nationally and set up regional chapters...
...Others complained that they had been called to the workshop for what they were told would be "industrial jobs" or "factory jobs...
...According to court documents, their deprogramming efforts included a week of incarceration in which Stephanie Riethmiller, nineteen, was handcuffed, verbally harassed, and repeatedly raped...
...There was little doubt by the end of 1980 that Hightower, thirty-eight, subject of public television specials, network news items, and editorials in The Wall Street Journal, would seize the next opportunity to champion his version of Huey Long's "Smokehouse" politics ("If you want ham, you got to go to the smokehouse to get it...
...Lei Our Children Go!, captures the desired mix perfectly: "By the man who rescues brainwashed American youth," it proclaims, "from sinister 'religious' cults...
...So today, in Milwaukee, the copper is removed by hand...
...Our feeling was you use this debate to build the case that the industry propaganda has been lies and deceptive, but don't indicate how weak you are at this stage because as more evidence comes in, we'll get stronger...
...If Hightower wins—and troubled economic times are kind to popular uprisings, even those at the ballot box—radical populism could be the successor to liberalism as the energizing force of the Democratic Party...
...But an Associated Press-NBC News Poll conducted two weeks after the House vote revealed that a majority of Americans don't want any new nuclear power plants and they wouldn't like living near one...
...Hightower sees his roots there, and believes he can adapt rural anti-bigness to modern consumerism...
...a number of local and state governments have tried setting them up...
...Box319 Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 Physicians for Social Responsibility Boston Local Chapter do Tom Graboys 210 Mason Terrace Brookline, MA 02145 Union of Concerned Scientists do Paul Walker 1384 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Waging Peace 105 Memorial Hall Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 —John Junkerman (John Junkerman is a free-lance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Most Washington lobbyists don't appreciate the potential strength of the grassroots safe energy movement...
...If you never force issues to a vote, then you can't go back to the grass roots and say this guy voted no, let's organize to get him out...
...DePaul gets money from the county and CETA for operating "work relief"—money that has created twenty-seven staff positions for De-Paul, and helps pay the salaries of several permanent administrators, including Schrader...
...The workshop was opened last June, run for the county by DePaul Hospital, a Catholic rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts...
...In sum, a dollar's worth of Milwaukee County work relief creates a nickel or a dime's worth of metal...
...Susan Jaffe (Susan Jaffe covers environmental issues for The Village Voice...
...Because the measure was considered an improvement over an earlier version, environmental lobbyists for the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen Congress Watch, and the Environmental Policy Center all supported it—and so did the Edison Electric Institute, several other nuclear industry trade associations, and the pro-nuclear AFL-CIO Building Trades Department...
...The workshop is now moving to larger quarters, where there will be vending machines, rest rooms, and, in view of recurrent injuries, a nurse on duty...
...that "as concerned parents" the Riethmillers sought "to wean their daughter from this relationship without success...
...You've got to pick and choose your fights," says Brooks Yeager, a Sierra Club lobbyist...
...Meanwhile, the Lawyers' Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control holds luncheon meetings downtown and addresses the issue from the perspective of conflict resolution...
...The strategy of organizing along professional lines developed during preparations for a disarmament conference at Harvard University last May...
...And a lot of noise...
...We have to have the knife to cut it...
...The result has been a wide array of approaches to the issue...
...Business Alert to Nuclear War has limited itself primarily to self-education...
...Box 9171 Boston, MA 02114 Musicians Against Nuclear Arms do Earl Kim 57 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Nurses' Alliance for the Prevention of Nuclear War P.O...
...In her distress, she began making telephone calls to Stephanie's associates and employers, asking about her whereabouts and activities...
...Waging Peace, the group that organized the Harvard conference last year, helps coordinate activities and is preparing an organizing manual based on the professional group strategy...
...If we do not make an effort to change this bill," Markey argued, "we will truncate the democratic process...
Vol. 46 • March 1982 • No. 3
