One Stubborn Soldier
One Stubborn Soldier Tucker Carlson's "The Making of a Feminist Hero" (June 9), in which he accuses me of hoodwinking the national media into believing that the Pentagon applies a double standard...
...Therefore, if Khatemi wants to reform Iranian society, he will need to make concessions to the reactionaries—probably in the form of a tougher foreign policy...
...Accordingly, Khatemi's actions indicate a desire to trim the system's worst excesses, not reform the system itself...
...Thus, Khatemi's politics and obstacles will mean a Khrushchev-like era (which brought us the Cuban missile crisis) in Iran...
...It is a fact...
...None of which qualifies him to be the leader of anything...
...Paramount, CA Kudos to William Kristol and David Frum ("Confused Conservatives," June 9) for their bulls-eye commentaries on "The Clueless GOP" The performance of Republicans since the election has been pathetic...
...Stephen Xenakis) and a Navy rear admiral (R.M...
...To initiate reforms, Khatemi must get the approval of reactionary spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini...
...But Ensign is nothing if not bold...
...Depositions require notice to all opposing parties and an opportunity to attend and cross-examine...
...The greatest support comes from people throughout the country who value their individual privacy and want the Clinton administration to respect the same...
...I based that on Air Force figures reported in USA Today on April 4, 1997...
...Gerardo Joffe San Francisco, CA...
...Lisa Kelly was charged with fraternization—not adultery...
...John E. Hendershot, Jr...
...One example: Ensign claims he spelled Sen...
...Federal agencies are currently seeking the ability, both legally and technically, to access information from our computers, cellular phones, and electronic traffic in general...
...Lott and Company should understand that a vital part of their base may just sit out the next one rather than support a Clinton with a trunk, tusks, and large floppy ears...
...Khatemi's record does not indicate that he is a reformer...
...It takes a lot of brass to deduce a witch hunt from numbers like these, and indeed data from last year suggest the opposite, that women in the Air Force are considerably less likely than men to be prosecuted for adultery...
...Griffin Smith Little Rock, AK The Still-Clueless GOP William Kristol's skewering of Trent Lott ("Clintonized Republicans," June 9) was abundantly deserved...
...First, he brands me one of television's Biggest Liars of the Year for stating on Good Morning America that Air Force women are four times more likely than men to be prosecuted for fraternization...
...This could be an implicit display of Ferguson's limited enthusiasm for his subject...
...Bill Shingleton Alexandria, VA Deposition in Question In reviewing Bob Bennett's fulmina-tions about Paula Jones's personal background, the Scrapbook (June 16) reported Bennett's leak that the defense team had "secured a deposition" from one of her former employers who was prepared to testify she was a "tramp...
...No explicit reservation was stated, but Ferguson repeatedly quotes Kasich's self-praise...
...It is doubtful that, whatever he may have said, it would have been in the form of a deposition...
...I know that President Clinton has no core values or beliefs and that Hillary Clinton is a duplicitous Arkansas attorney...
...The decision to attach riders to the floodrelief bill served only to reinforce negative stereotypes of the Republican party...
...The figures show that so far in 1997, five women and seven men have been prosecuted for fraternization...
...Her letter, however, did not challenge the accuracy of the statistics I relied on...
...There's a big difference between these statements, but both are false...
...These are the men who represent our party and our ideas...
...Somewhere down the road, our efforts will be rewarded and perhaps even respected by elitist journalists like Neil Munro...
...And "Citizen Soldier's" press release did spell Sen...
...Mitchell) have all been transferred or relieved of their commands in the past two weeks because of accusations or admissions of adultery...
...One Stubborn Soldier Tucker Carlson's "The Making of a Feminist Hero" (June 9), in which he accuses me of hoodwinking the national media into believing that the Pentagon applies a double standard when sexual misconduct occurs, contains several errors...
...By 1982, his radical credentials were so well established that he was named minister of culture...
...Air Force secretary Sheila Widnall submitted a letter to USA Todayattacking the conclusions of the earlier article...
...But I expect Democrats to behave this way...
...As a Republican, I want the editors to be tougher on Lott, Gingrich, et al...
...It is why I refuse to contribute to any national Republican cause at this time...
...To see them behaving so fecklessly is an embarrassment to all of us who collect elephants...
...Iwas disappointed to read Peter Rodman's reference to Iranian presidentelect Mohammed Khatemi as a possible "Mikhail Gorbachev of the Iranian Revolution" ("Mullah Dearest," June 16...
...Slade Gorton's name correctly (Carlson's measure of our professionalism...
...Surely it should have been 0.5 x 10-12...
...In the '70s, Khatemi worked the Militant Clerics Association and the revolutionaries' propaganda arm...
...Describing the ingredients of the homeopathic medication that was prescribed to him, he tells us that it contained only very little of the poisonous ingredients...
...He has been quoted as saying that he wants to use encryption to catch people "who might be planning a crime...
...Lawrence H. O'Neill New York, NY Big Brother Is Watching Iwas dismayed to learn that Neil Munro has defied common sense to favor the Clinton administration's encryption technology ("The Cyberspace Liberation Front," June 16...
...That statement is extremely vague and alarming to Americans who value their right to conduct private conversations, whether by e-mail or phone...
...Recent developments within the highest reaches of the military command add further weight to our contention that a gender-based double standard exists when sexual misconduct is involved...
...Moreover, Khatemi has to cope with outgoing President Rafsanjani, who will head an expanded Expediency Council, and radical darling Nateq Nouri, the speaker of the parliament...
...A fourth, Air Force General Joseph Ralston, has just withdrawn his name from contention as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because of an adulterous affair in his past...
...Moreover, administration opponents consist of more than just free-speech/free-market advocates, as Munro suggests...
...By insinuating that privacy advocates are paranoid and the administration's goal is simply "to protect investigators' interest" in accessing encrypted material to conduct a court-ordered wiretap, he missed the entire point...
...It would hardly be worth responding to such a minor point, except that, along with his letter to the editor, Ensign faxed the press release in question, presumably as exculpatory evidence...
...Gorton's name correctly in a press release Citizen Soldier sent out earlier this year...
...Their method poses a real danger to individual privacy in this country...
...Gorton's name was still misspelled, twice...
...Even if Khatemi were a reformer, he would face serious obstacles in the Iranian system...
...Khatemi's lone reformist acts came in this post when he slightly loosened controls on media and allowed live music...
...Lott's clumsy comments regarding the Kelly Flinn matter bespeak either breathtaking gullibility, egregious misapprehension, gross dis-ingenuousness, or blatant pandering...
...Those of us who have been vocal on this issue know that it is not what the government is trying to accomplish, but the way they're going about it...
...Reserve for Kasich Ifound it difficult to judge whether Andrew Ferguson intended to offer unhedged praise of John Kasich ("It's His Party," June 16...
...Robert Vane Indianapolis, IN William Kristol's scathing analysis of Trent Lott's left-field remarks about the Kelly Flinn debacle was exactly on the mark...
...The effect of Judge Susan Webber Wright's ruling to delay trial during the president's incumbency is to hold discovery in abeyance as well...
...John Longhouser and Brig...
...Two Army generals (Maj...
...His ridiculous attempt to "get real" during the Kelly Flinn affair was about as transparent as Gingrich's love for beach volleyball...
...What does bother me is that Republicans are so politically ignorant...
...This is just another sterling example of why so many conservatives are utterly dismayed with the leadership of the 105th Congress...
...Lisa S. Dean Free Congress Foundation Washington, DC Correspondence Gorby Rising in the East...
...Second, Carlson erred in that Lt...
...His family came to prominence due to close relations with the family of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, relations that continue to this day...
...Tod Ensign New York, NY Tucker Carlson responds: Ensign did not originally claim that women in the Air Force are more likely than men to be prosecuted...
...Paul M. Vetterick Beaverton, OR Grand Proportions Ienjoyed reading the delightful essay "Homeophobia" (June 2) by Christopher Caldwell...
...In all probability it was an ex parte statement given to one of Bennett's investigators...
...For instance, "only .5 x 1012 mg of belladonna...
...The budget deal is almost a complete cave to President Clinton, Tom Daschle, and Katie Couric...
...My political support for John Kasich will wait until he displays a fuller understanding of the great misfortune Bill Clinton has visited upon this country...
...The data Ensign cites from USA Today are meaningless, both because they represent only the first four months of the year, and because the sample he uses— 12 prosecutions out of almost 400,000 Air Force personnel—is absurdly small...
...Since women constitute about 15 percent of the Air Force, this works out to four times as likely...
...While many in the United States believe Khatemi is Iran's Gorbachev, their analysis could stand a dose of the facts...
...Whether it be the further surrender of our sovereignty via a Chemical Weapons Convention, the worldwide export of Planned Parenthood through generous appropriations, sponsorship of new medical encroachments, or the massive infusion of new funds for a dubious Department of Education, this is a far cry from the promise that Republican victories brought in the 1994 and 1996 elections...
...While each of these generals has suffered adverse action, none is being court-martialed and all will retire with full pensions and other privileges...
...FBI director Louis Freeh has made no secret of that...
...But that is 500 metric tons...
...This procedure is designed to eliminate "surprises" at trial, as threatened by Bennett...
...I know that the Clinton administration is one of the most corrupt of the twentieth century, and I could not care less...
...Instead, during his May 19 appearance on Good Morning America, he maintained that "the Air Force is prosecuting four times more women than men for fraternization...
Vol. 2 • June 1997 • No. 41
