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Dreyfuss, Simeon
REPORT CARD Simeon Dreyfuss Wrestling the Juggernaut HOW TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS TO REVERSE THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE by Matania Ginosar 2645 La Mensa Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. $1.00. UP IN ARMS by...
...it was not written to persuade anybody to do anything...
...But there is a disturbing emphasis in the report: "We should refrain," according to Ginosar, "from activities that may be exciting but do not directly pressure individual Congresspersons to stop budgeting money for nuclear weapons build-up...
...The only way to stop the flow of $100 million per day for nuclear weapons is through Congress...
...If the volume of materials coming into this office is any indication, the blinders are falling from people's eyes and their faith in the protective power of nuclear arms is vanishing with the mist...
...THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS INDUSTRY by Kenneth A. Bertsch and Linda S. Shaw Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1319 F Street NW, Suite 900, Washington DC 20004...
...Given the routine obfuscation of the nuclear era, this task alone is a radical act...
...It merely provides information...
...We also need patience...
...The Nuclear Weapons Industry provides no simple answers...
...In a plodding, legalistic manner, the author documents case after case in which the Reagan Justice Department has not only neglected to enforce civil rights laws as written but often has litigated in clear opposition to the spirit and intent of such laws...
...3.50...
...Fuentes was blunt and eloquent...
...Of all the dangers in the Reagan Administration's civil rights policies," the report states, "the danger that looms largest is that they will breed widespread contempt for the law...
...The source of change in Latin America is not Moscow or Havana," he said...
...never suggests that the United States has led every major step of nuclear escalation, from thermonuclear weapons to MIRVs to cruise missiles...
...Congress can control the purse strings, if it has the courage and is pressured to do so...
...He addressed not only the future aristocrats at graduation but also the whole country...
...UP IN ARMS by Sandra Sedacca Common Cause, 2030 M Street NW, Washington DC 20036...
...This book begins by concisely summarizing the evolution of strategic policy and arms control in a way that pulls no punches...
...The report is an organizer's manual, describing how to build mail-alert and phone-tree networks to pressure swing Congressional representatives at times of crucial votes...
...After painting a quick portrait of the varied cultural roots of Latin Americans—Catholic, Native American, Mediterranean, authoritarian—Fuentes asserts that Latin America is currently engaged in a monumental struggle to define its own cultural and political institutions...
...We must solve it by ourselves...
...The fifteen-page pamphlet was written by Matania Ginosar, a former computer specialist with the Department of Defense...
...Not so the Investor Responsibility Research Center's 400-page study of the nuclear weapons industry...
...Fuentes Speaks HIGH NOON IN LATIN AMERICA by Carlos Fuentes Manas Publishing Company, Box 32112, Los Angeles, CA 90032...
...It is history...
...If left to ourselves we will try to solve these problems by creating national institutions to deal with them...
...Written by senior research associate Sandra Sedacca, the 130-page Up in Arms clearly defines nuclear jargon from "circular error probable" to "window of vulnerability," and provides a readable survey of the mainstream policy debates...
...This report is about a radical and shameful assault on law enforcement in the United States," writes Muriel Spence, legislative counsel for the ACLU...
...All we ask from you is cooperation, trade, and normal diplomatic relations...
...What he seeks from the United States is friendship...
...Both ours and yours...
...Arms control talks are misleading," Ginosar writes...
...Two-thirds of the book is devoted to profiles of twenty-six leading arms manufacturing corporations...
...The author extols "the power of knowledge" to provide a basis for citizen action...
...Unfocused and unnecessary effort is one of the biggest obstacles to our success...
...We need time and culture...
...Sometimes we must do it—as has occurred in Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, and Nicaragua—through violent means...
...Not your absence, but your civilized presence...
...Common Cause has put together a slick, well-written primer on the mysteries of nuclear weapons, nuclear doctrine, and arms control...
...It isn't flashy or rhetorical...
...This lapse makes it difficult for a reader to put the current round of escalations in perspective...
...These three reports show a cross-section of responses...
...The Justice Department has flouted the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, among others...
...The real struggle in Latin America is, then, as always, a struggle with ourselves, within ourselves," Fuentes insists...
...And it scrutinizes the potential economic impact of a nuclear freeze and industrial conversion to non-nuclear weapons production...
...It looks into the role of PACs, lobbying practices, and the "revolving door" that moves employees between industry and government...
...22.00...
...Free...
...The Arrogance of Power IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND THE COURTS: THE REAGAN CIVIL RIGHTS RECORD by Muriel Morisey Spence ACLU, Suite 301, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003...
...The assault is being led by President Reagan, directed by his White House advisers, and carried out by the Attorney General and top officials in the Department of Justice...
...For example, her discussion of "Who's ahead...
...In the summer of 1983, Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican novelist and for several years his country's ambassador to France, delivered the commencement address at Harvard University...
...Nobody else can truly know it: We are living through our family quarrels...
...The Reagan Administration shows contemptuous disregard for the laws that do not suit its purposes, says the American Civil Liberties Union...
...How to Influence Congress to Reverse the Nuclear Arms Race seeks to focus the energies of recent antinuclear converts on the task of effective grass-roots lobbying...
...One wonders if his condemnation extends to strategies outlined in the other two reports...
...The report is the result of a year and a half of study by the authors, impelled by the conviction that "information about the corporate role in nuclear weapons production" is not readily available...
...Unfortunately, Sedacca avoids some hard questions...
...Based on an analysis of unclassified Defense and Energy Department contracts, these profiles examine specific weapons systems as well as the relationship of military contractors to the Government...
...Now this address is available in pamphlet form...
...The aim of his speech is to put the turmoil in Latin America into a proper historical perspective...
...We must assimilate this conflicted past...
Vol. 48 • May 1984 • No. 5
