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Comment Terrorism Begins at Home As the cycle of international violence spirals upward, the distinction between "terrorist" and "counterterrorist" becomes blurred: Israeli troops occupy Lebanon...
...Meanwhile, Israel imprisons 766 Lebanese and Palestinians in violation of international law...
...Lehrman, who said the meeting was a private venture, brought with him the blessings of President Ronald Reagan, Private Citizen Number One, and passed out framed copies of the U.S...
...Khomeini has shown that guns can topple a U.S.-backed ruler, in this case the terrorist Shah...
...Caspar Weinberger aspires to be Lord High Executioner as well as Secretary of Defense...
...The Navy's top civilian said American subs would attack the Soviets' sea-based missiles 'in the first five minutes of the war.' " There is, of course, no reason to assume that the Soviets would just stand by while one leg of their nuclear force was destroyed...
...T, visits schools, and hosts golf tournaments to raise funds for her pet crusade...
...Three days later, eight U.S...
...But behind the cheery publicity campaign, alcoholism and drug rehabilitation programs are scrambling for Federal funds...
...As the events of recent weeks spun out of his control, President Reagan pulled out all the rhetorical stops...
...Voluntary efforts and personal initiative certainly have their place...
...Beating the Sandinistas will be ho more difficult than falling off a log, one U.S...
...This theory of comparative advantage presumes a free market in labor—a condition that has been distorted by repressive political climates and antilabor legislation in much of the Third World...
...Government could probably stamp out domestic private terrorism...
...Send your suggestions to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Just as in the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam war, self-deception comes cheap and easy...
...the arrest of journalists who tried to publish interviews with members of the Red Brigades...
...In fact, Navy Secretary John Lehman threw cold water on the idea in a recent off-the-record speech to Scandinavian security experts...
...It was this country's foreign meddling, after all, that triggered the current wave of lawlessness...
...Members of Congress often invoke this argument when pressing for bigger tanks or NATO "modernization...
...In Costa Rica, where 750 commandos are being trained by Green Berets, the new antiterrorism program serves as a smokescreen to conceal the militarization of that democracy...
...the fire is returned at cafes in San Salvador...
...The perpetrators include Reagan and Gorbachev, Khomeini and Peres, Duarte and Mugabe...
...She preaches with Mr...
...I see in this another U.S...
...The nuclear powers, which threaten civilian lives every day and hold the planet hostage, are the ultimate terrorists...
...All the News That's Fit to Print #^uestion: When is a test of socialism not a test ^Kof socialism...
...Reagan's approach, intensifying the U.S...
...Lying is a time-honored White House tradition, in fact...
...Is it any wonder that they seek redress...
...To cope effectively with violence directed at U.S...
...The intended target escapes harm...
...authority for the police to conduct unrestricted wiretapping and warrantless searches...
...It has known about serious design flaws at Davis-Besse since 1975, but it let the Toledo Edison Company repeatedly postpone improvements...
...Through this program, the police agencies of some of the most repressive regimes on Comment Earth—Turkey and Honduras among them—are being bolstered...
...Last spring, the State Department acknowledged in Congressional testimony that it is "relaxing a bit the long-standing ban on aid to foreign law enforcement organizations...
...Almost every government, East and West, has committed or encouraged such atrocities...
...The theory holds that the stronger a nation's conventional forces, the less incentive it has to resort to nuclear weapons when war breaks out...
...A comprehensive antiterrorism strategy is being developed by a Federal task force under the direction of Vice President George Bush...
...warships shell Beirut...
...Government entailed an emergency law under which suspected terrorists could be jailed for up to twelve years without trial...
...Bored with domestic right-wing politics, he carries water for the CIA...
...But if protectionism does not solve the problem, free trade is no answer, either...
...In early June, he was in Jamba, Angola, of all places, holding hands with Adolfo Calero, a leader of the contras in Nicaragua, and Jonas Savimbi, who heads the rebel forces in Angola...
...It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last...
...Holy Toledo...
...For the Secretary of Defense, killing is an all-purpose cure...
...Such reasoning may help soothe the troubled conscience of those who prattle about peace while voting for higher military budgets, but it has no bearing on reality...
...On this score, the President has no moral standing to judge others, for he has bloodied his hands in Nicaragua, Lebanon, Grenada, and El Salvador...
...Under the headline Socialist Victory Appears Certain in Greek Election, Henry Kamm reported from Athens in The New York Times for Monday, June 3: "Prime Minister Andreas Papan-dreou's Socialist Party appeared certain early today of victory over the conservative New Democratic Party...
...With such martial measures, the U.S...
...In the process, it would come to resemble a police state, bereft of the pretense of democracy...
...There is no "international conspiracy" against the United States, but there is a growing international consensus that Washington should mind its own business...
...Leadership means consistency...
...Then an Indian airliner is blown apart...
...Cold Turkey Nancy Reagan is not the first lady, or even the first First Lady, to recognize that drug and alcohol abuse is a serious problem, but hers is perhaps the most prominent voice raised against this pervasive disease...
...troops will have to come to the defense of his tattered regime...
...The "Buy American" rallying cry simply misses the boat, for U.S.-owned as well as foreign firms are tipping our balance of trade...
...The utility company called it an "unusual event," but it bore frightening resemblance to the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island...
...And, as Tiny Tim might say, God help us, every one...
...Whether by conventional or nuclear forces, preparations for war are not to be confused with means of keeping the peace...
...The Slippery Log It turned out to be even easier than the Reagan Administration had expected...
...trade imbalance is not attributable to Japan but to subsidiaries of American corporations that manufacture goods abroad and then export them to this country...
...Comment Terrorism Begins at Home As the cycle of international violence spirals upward, the distinction between "terrorist" and "counterterrorist" becomes blurred: Israeli troops occupy Lebanon to squelch Palestinian terrorism...
...If the rebels make significant advances, Marcos said, "then we may have to ask for the help of allied troops as provided for in the mutual defense pact...
...And the get-tough approach was discredited half a century ago...
...Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos hinted broadly in June that it may not be too long before U.S...
...Less than two months after the House of Representatives denied the President the $14 million he had sought in aid to the contras fighting the government of Nicaragua, the House turned right around and voted to give the contras $27 million...
...The primary challenge facing the United States comes from terrorism abroad, not at home...
...Protection Plus In all the public agonizing about trade deficits and the "Japanese threat," one point is rarely made: To a considerable extent, the U.S...
...Whether or not the Ayatollah Khomeini officially sponsors terrorists outside of Iran, his example certainly inspires Middle East revolutionaries...
...There is no rationale—ever—for threatening or taking human lives...
...On June 9, at least sixteen pieces of equipment failed at the Davis-Besse nuelear plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio...
...It is more important than markets, military bases, "listening posts," malleable governments, or even oil...
...As chairman of a group called Citizens for America, Lehrman had organized the first conference of Armed Movements Fighting Against Soviet Expansionism, which brought together CIA-supported cadres from Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Laos, and Angola...
...The house exploded with glee, cheering, and cries of "U.S.A...
...In effect, the elections were more a test of the personal popularity of Mr...
...The ill-fated Lebanon squad was one such outfit...
...But fighting simultaneous wars will be no simple trick...
...Government fueled terrorism by doggedly defending its perceived "interests" against the wishes of most of the people...
...Papandreou...
...Salvadoran forces, armed and trained by the Pentagon, level rebel-held villages...
...the Shiite population responds with violence of its own...
...We don't want a group of jack-booted young men here, goose-stepping, saluting, and clicking their heels," says former President Jose Figueres...
...The Nicaraguan people may not be as easy to hornswoggle as members of Congress are...
...installations and traveling citizens, our Government will have to adopt a policy of nonintervention...
...But AA often works with those rehabilitation and referral programs that are currently suffering under the budget axe...
...Terrorists, he said, are waging war "against all of civilized society...
...military personnel and CIA officers are now training "antiterrorist" commandos in about a dozen countries...
...In the case of the Shiites, "they have traditionally been the downtrodden second-class citizens of Lebanon," reports The Wall Street Journal, "saddled with the worst land, crammed into the poorest slums, and stuck on the lowest rung of the political ladder...
...They would feel compelled to escalate, and the atomic furies would be unleashed...
...I feel compelled to add, God bless our rhomboid...
...planners say "the Nicaraguan people would rise up in support of an invasion," The Times reported...
...Third World nations need to grow grain to feed their people, not luxury items—strawberries, cashews, pineapples—for Western tabletops...
...But even as we recoil in horror from the violence perpetrated against innocent civilians, we are well-advised to try to understand the pain and frustration from which such violence arises...
...Inevitably, some of those governments will use CIA intelligence to stifle dissent, contending that "civil disorder" is the prelude to terrorism...
...No longer comfortable with being a Jew, he converts to Catholicism...
...But political analysts interpreted the results more as a rejection of a return to the right-of-center politics that dominated Greece for thirty-five years after World War II than as an expression of faith in Mr...
...intelligence-gathering efforts around the globe, sharing information about terrorism with allies...
...That's a good boy...
...Oppression engenders resistance, often armed resistance...
...Founding Father Pity poor Lewis Lehrman...
...The United States will stop private terrorism only when it stops sponsoring state terrorism in the Third World...
...Alcoholics Anonymous, a nonprofit self-help group now in its fiftieth year, has saved millions of lives...
...The final document was evolutionary, not revolutionary, and only then was it signed off...
...Members of his Cabinet and most of the mass media pundits parroted the line...
...The troops tied up many of the strikers and left them lying on the floor...
...The treatment of drug and alcohol abuse is greatly aided by a medical infrastructure—detoxification centers, outreach and information groups, in-patient and out-patient services...
...The radioactive core might have melted down if plant operators had not discovered the malfunction in time...
...Our 'packing constitution' defines the rules of the game for everyone...
...Not content with counting his millions, he runs for the governorship of New York—and loses...
...That pact is—naturally—with the United States, and it was signed in 1951...
...It's good to have the First Lady smiling for a worthy cause on the evening news...
...Habits of thought are hard to break, though...
...It kind of makes you proud...
...The economies of all countries would be better off if they were regulated by rational trade and production policies—if they were geared toward meeting domestic rather than foreign demands...
...The recent accident could be chalked up to the laxity of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
...To most Greeks, the election, in which 7.5 million people are eligible to vote, is a referendum on the nation's first experiment in socialism...
...His proposed solution—to stop terrorism by escalating state violence—will only water the roots of terrorism...
...We do not seek the military overthrow of the Sandinista government," Reagan assured weak-kneed House Democrats the day before the vote, and seventy-three of them bought it...
...To recognize the pervasiveness and brutality of official terror is not to minimize or excuse the behavior of nongovernmental terrorists...
...Put another way, the United States is reverting to the sordid practices of the 1950s and 1960s, when it routinely schooled Third World police in the techniques of torture and repression...
...Mozam-bican and Cambodian rebels were no-shows...
...The red rhomboid with white behind the words 'Oscar Mayer' on a yellow field has become the visual standard for quality meat products...
...Protectionism would work only if it were construed in the broad sense of protecting the integrity of nations and their workers...
...Under the headline Greek Vote Today Seen as Test of Socialism, Henry Kamm reported from Athens in The New York Times for Sunday, June 2: "Greek voters are to decide Sunday whether to grant a second term to Prime Minister Andreas Pa-pandreou, the Socialist leader...
...But the Reagan warriors might be in for a surprise...
...Papandreou's version of socialism...
...Such demagoguery is inaccurate—the Shiite hijackers, at least, had clearly denned political objectives—and it clouds the question of violence...
...The same mistake is being made in South Africa, the Philippines, El Salvador, and elsewhere...
...The suicide squad has been inside the White House all along...
...David Barret, a leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, has noted, "It is misleading to talk of terrorism as a 'threat to civilization,' except in the sense that all violence, including war and state violence, is incompatible with a truly social and civilized condition...
...Declaration of Independence to each of the participants...
...If terrorism "is a war in which innocent civilians are targets," as President Reagan maintains, then the governments of the United States, El Salvador, Israel, and India, among others, are terrorists in every sense of the term...
...the destruction is answered by an exploding truck at the Marine compound...
...Ronald Reagan responds by providing the Salvadoran army with "additional military assets...
...In much the same way as the founding fathers of our country sat down to hammer out the Constitution of this great Republic, we sat down with all the key players and worked out our packaging design strategy...
...And if you don't have men willing to die for their country, you don't have a country.' The same Times article reported one Manhattan audience's response to a trailer for Rocky IV, due to open in November...
...They deserve all the contempt and censure meted out to individuals and political groups that rely on weapons to achieve their ends...
...The Indian government moves against Sikh separatists...
...U.S.A...
...Even before the panel began its study, Bush hinted at what to expect: He professed admiration for the way Italy handled terrorism in the last decade...
...Americans will remain vulnerable to violent backlash until our leaders recognize that nonintervention is in this nation's highest interest...
...Administration officials also plan to expand U.S...
...B-26s bombed Cuba to open the inglorious Bay of Pigs invasion...
...If the four recently accused Navy spies are convicted, he says, they 'should be shot, though I suppose hanging is the preferred method.' The preferred method, as it happens, is imprisonment—in the United States as in most Western nations...
...But only within the framework of our strategy...
...they favor voluntarism and get-tough law enforcement...
...Reagan properly reviles "state-sponsored terrorism," but that menace encompasses much more than he acknowledges—Death Squads, "sweeps" of guerrilla strongholds, army massacres...
...There is, perhaps, a kernel of wisdom in the protectionist argument...
...corporations (the big three auto manufacturers are a prime example) establish plants overseas to exploit the enforced cheapness of labor...
...presence around the globe, will just intensify the problem...
...As if invading Nicaragua weren't trouble enough, the Pentagon may soon have its hands full across the Pacific...
...Washington prepares to strike back...
...mistake in Latin America in the making...
...intelligence officer told The New York Times, which devoted a two-part series to explaining how the United States is ready to invade Nicaragua...
...And the health of America's agricultural communities would improve if labor-intensive methods replaced some of the costly agribusiness technologies...
...mistreatment and torture of prisoners, and controls on foreigners working in Italy...
...Costa Rica has not had an army since 1948...
...The Italian method that drew such favorable attention at the highest level of the U.S...
...Shiite militants retaliate by hijacking an airplane full of Americans...
...Dissident terrorists are motivated by the exploitation, alienation, and powerlessness they have been compelled to endure...
...Conventional Foolishness In the arcane world of strategic planning, there is a doctrine so tidy that it attracts the support of a broad range of liberals and conservatives...
...After towering shots of the two fighters, Rocky and the Soviet champion, a dramatic voice was heard: "Get ready for the next world war...
...With Liverwurst and Sausage for All Excerpts from remarks delivered to a trade meeting by Don Levy, manager of design and graphic communications for Oscar Mayer & Company: "Let's take a look at what we're doing...
...Answer: A test of socialism is not a test of socialism when the socialists win...
...In Iran and then in Lebanon, the U.S...
...Listen to John F. Kennedy on April 12, 1961: "There will not be, under any conditions, any intervention in Cuba by the United States armed forces...
...one squad detonates a car bomb, killing eighty and wounding 200...
...There are people in their midst I have categorized as cryptic Bolshevik revolutionaries.' —Richard Casillas, director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's district office in San Antonio, Texas, discussing the sanctuary movement...
...Now if the rest of us—including the victims of Reagan Administration cutbacks—only had something to smile about...
...Our 'founding fathers' have reviewed, questioned, argued, and examined this packaging plan very carefully before they put their John Hancock on the line...
...The issue is not one of good versus evil, as Reagan would have it, but of violence versus nonviolence...
...12/AUGUST 1985...
...Oh, yes, it has its Bill of Rights...
...In classical economic theory, a nation exports what it produces at least cost...
...Comment 'The strongest feelings a man has/ Sylvester Stallone recently told The New York Times, 'are his religion, his feelings for his loved ones, and his love for his country...
...At home, too, the Reagan Administration's initiatives threaten to restrict freedom...
...More important, though, the mishap demonstrates that Three Mile Island was not an aberration: Atomic time bombs tick across the land...
...If we reach, or when we reach, Heaven's scenes, we truly will find it guarded by United States Marines/ —President Reagan, June 22, 1985 U.S...
...As at Three Mile Island, two feedwater pumps—the main one and its back-up—stopped supplying coolant to the reactor vessel...
...they assassinate Indira Gandhi and, in reaction, more Sikhs are murdered...
...Red, rhomboid, and yellow are to the supermarket what red, white, and blue are to our country...
...Nancy and Ronald Reagan prefer to think in terms of individual willpower and, failing that, punishment...
...Two-Front War...
...Today, there is only one colonial power in the world, the Soviet empire," the CIA boys said in announcing their Democratic International, "an empire more vicious and oppressive than all others that passed before...
...In El Salvador, for example, the U.S.-trained antiterrorist team was recently used to break up a strike by public hospital workers...
...The CIA, still in Beirut, establishes counter-terrorist units made up of Lebanese citizens...
...So Reagan lied...
...It ensures everyone has an opportunity to participate, to freely express their views, thereby molding and shaping the future of our collective efforts...
...A correspondent from Defense Week interviewed members of the audience afterward: "Once a conventional war in Europe begins, Lehman said, American attack submarines will waste no time in launching an assault on Soviet nuclear missile submarines wherever they may be deployed...
Vol. 49 • August 1985 • No. 8
