LETTERS

...But my reading of the book is that even this seeming recantation is conditional...

...CHARLES MONITOR Arcata, California Golly Your April issue was one of the best...

...Keisling writes: “Aryeh Neier, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, has long advocated the expungement of all conviction records, arguing that once a fine has been paid or a prison term served, retention of the information is merely ‘punitive...

...That strikes me as letting the totalitarians know they can literally get away with murder...

...An applicant for a job as a school janitor could be turned down on the basis of a past conviction for child molestation or arson, but not for robbery...

...If you think otherwise, why is it that their own brethren (who held Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Golan Heights) did not grant them this alleged “right...

...It is bad public policy to make ex-convicts unable to get any kind of employment...

...Put another way, if the twice-convicted embezzler wants a job in the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the government would know his criminal history only if he chose to tell it .” Actually, the position I have long advocated is the one set forth in this passage from my 1976 book, Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution: “I would allow discrimination based on past convictions for serious crime directly relevant to a particular occupation...

...The question is whether the Soviet Union and its clients do-and whether we can lessen any threat they may pose by sticking to Senator Moynihan’s legal niceties while the other side treats them with contempt...

...When is Jacoby running for senator...

...A would-be bank clerk could be rejected on the basis of a conviction for embezzlement and robbery, but not for child molestation...

...Later in the year, when the junta had fallen as a result of its aggression, Dr...

...Some things warrant extreme positions .” 1 was unaware of Mr...

...If pornography is sabotaging American behavior to that degree, has it not become the type of crime against our nation that our government should deal with...

...countless reputations and lives were ruined” [“The Case Against Privacy,” Phillip Keisling...

...His recommendation was that Cyprus be split into two, one-half going to Greece and the other to Turkey, with a NATO base in each sector...

...Christopher Hitchens is Washington correspondent for The Nation...

...Flight attendants overwhelmingly hate the term “Stewardess...

...That sounds reasonable except for the fact that we are hearing that pornography is playing a part in some of the violence being committed against women and children...

...Rayfield is satisfied...

...I’m waiting...

...Loub Globe Democmt...

...In 1967, the United States supported a fascist military coup in Greece which had as one of its objectives the annexation of Cyprus by force, to be followed by a partition agreement with Turkey...

...The Cypriots, who were not consulted about this process, rejected the plan on its publication...

...In 1974, Secretary of State Kissinger had direct foreknowledge of a Greek junta attack on Cyprus, and ignored the appeals of his subordinates, who urged him to forestall it...

...From Jacoby’s tone, it seems that she feels that she is in possession of The Truth, and so has no need to argue the merits of the case-neoconservatives, being the closeminded dreary types that they...

...Neier states his position more boldly in his 1975 book, Dossier, urging that “all dossiers described in t h is book ”-in c 1 u ding c0.n v ic t i on record s - be ‘(assembled in one place and a fire set to the lot of them .” He adds, “1 do not apologize for taking such an ‘extreme’ position...

...The curious will soon be able to consult my book on the subject, to be published by Quartet Books later in the year...

...Moreover, that the word “privacy” is not mentioned in the Constitution does not mean, as Keisling suggests, that the Supreme Court has been wrong to regard privacy as a constitutional concern...

...The smugness throughout the piece is typified by its last sentence: “What is wise and intriguing about this book is the way reality is creeping into his thinking...

...VIRGINIA FAIRWEATHER Westport, Connecticut ~~ This Bisected Isle Towards the end of his absorbing essay on tribalism, Gordon Rayfield rather let himself down by asking, “And why has not the United States considered partition as a solution to the tensions in Cyprus...

...Finally, Susan Ohanian’s piece on teacher certification recalled some disgusted reactions when, as a restless mother many years ago, I took some of those courses to supplement my liberal arts degree...

...President Reagan’s pronouncements have put the puppet leaders of this “state” on the same footing as the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus...

...You have been gulled by Arab propaganda to such an extent that you “weep” about Jackson...

...However, I question whether one can validly compare salaries in South Dakota directly with salaries in Washington, D.C...

...The Celts, Scots, Welsh, Flemings, Walloons, Basques, Copts, etc...

...As editor of a magazine that goes to multinational consultants, I read many articles on political risk, albeit from a business point of view...

...The article was a thorough and fascinating departure from the usual and the Chicago Tn‘bune cartoon an inspired bit...

...JEFFREY M. LANDAW Baltimore, Maryland A Discordant Note I have been in the habit of letting your short reviews in the “Political Booknotes” section clear the way for my reading list, and generally I think myself well informed by your contributors...

...The current enforced partition is the source of “the tensions in Cyprus,” and not the “solution” to them...

...Neier introduces the passage quoted above by saying “if exceptions are allowed” that this is a “better way...

...ARYEH NElER New York, New York The author replies: Mr...

...There are plenty of bad governments that don’t threaten us...

...Put up or shut up...

...I can’t think of one that has addressed the tribal issue as does Gordon Rayfield’s convincing analysis, “The Tribal Trap I’ Of course, one might say that the major world powers are simply the Hatfields and McCoys writ large, but that’s quibbling...

...The sidebar on the cigarette manufacturer’s efforts to addict the Third World was particularly sickening...

...Mostly, it’s used by bifocaled business men...

...The following year, according to George Ball in his memoirs, the United States “established an underground contact” with the extreme right wing guerrillas headed by General George Grivas...

...LOUIS E COOPER Bethesda, Maryland In your great May article, “The Case Against Privacy,” you state that one area in which government should not interfere is the area of books, magazines, and films which adults read and watch...

...I’d had the opportunity to read the book before checking the reviews on it, and I found Hiestand completely beside the point and downright ill-mannered in suggesting that the whole of the book was nothing but a collection of political bromides...

...My favorite, though, was the retired high school principal who professed to be teaching a course with the word psychology somewhere in the title...

...By my count, this represents a full two decades of commitment to partition on the part of the United States...

...Don’t Knock Neocons %mar Jacoby’s review of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Loyalties [‘Lon Political Books,” May] would have been interesting had there been more of Moynihan and less of Jacoby...

...This term is the non-sexist term, while “Stewardess” (“Tilting at Windmills,” April) is really passe...

...WILLIAM FRANCIS FREEHOFF Kingsport, Tennessee The editors reply: McCarthy seldom called people communists...

...One last factual matter: Keisling refers to congressional testimony by John Shattuck “of the ACLU...

...Jordan’s population is about threequarters Palestinian...

...I can name several who were communists if you really want to know...

...But being a nurse I can always say what I say to my friends who smoke: at least you’re keeping me in business...

...The article was long overdue...

...Tilting at Windmills,” March...

...GIDEON ROSE New York, New York The question about the Soviet Union isn’t whether it’s better or worse than liberal democracy, as Tamar Jacoby seems to argue in her review of Daniel P. Moynihan’s Loyalties...

...Shattuck recently left the ACLU to take a position at Harvard...

...In 1963, only three years after Cyprus became independent of the British, Dean Acheson was asked by Lyndon Johnson to devise a strategic plan for the island...

...Its leader, King Hussein, is the interloper, as he represents the Hashemite Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

...In its entire history, Palestine never had a separate political, economic, or other identity, being a backward Syrian province When did it suddenly acquire nationhood...

...I agree with a good deal of what Phillip Keisling says in “The Case Against Privacy...

...ERIC JORDAN Stockton, California Phillip Keisling’s article, “The Case Against Privacy,” is marked by sloppy thinking and sloppy research...

...Neier’s 1976 book...

...I would feel more comfortable if the salaries in each area were first adjusted for the cost of living in that area...

...Also, I was not president of the ACLU...

...After describing a British proposal that seals conviction records but allows employment discrimination for specific occupations, Mr...

...STANLEY HARRISON Lynn, Massachusetts The Third Palestine “Tilting at Windmills” [May] refers to Hart and Mondale as “cowards” and Jackson as “right” on the “need” for a Palestinian homeland...

...Incidentally, Keisling mentions the case of United States v. Arthur Young & Co...

...Kissinger supported the landing of the Turkish army on Cyprus, which turned one third of the Greek Cypriot population into refugees...

...He would imply that they were and leave the rest of the job to the press, which in the fifties was much more conservative than it is today...

...One instructor welcomed a class of certification students by saying something like, “Well, you’ve paid your money-what do you want to do each Tuesday evening...

...I could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge...

...In the case of David Lloyd, a member of Truman’s White House staff, two of the headlines were “Says White House Man With Reds” (Boston Post) and “Charges Red is White House Speech Writer” (St...

...The Times deserves the Uriah Heep Award for false piety, and Dr...

...I was executive director...

...would Keisling contend that the Supreme Court therefore has been wrong to view freedom of association as a First Amendment issue...

...Michael Hiestand‘s comments on John Anderson’s book [April] constitute a glaring exception...

...The First Amendment never mentions freedom of association...

...RICHARD FAST Oberammergau, Germany Go Ahead and Smoke Congratulations on “Getting Away With Murder” [Ken Cummins, April...

...have long-standing legitimate claims to self-determination...

...Today, the United States arms and pays the military dictatorship in Turkey, which has proclaimed the onethird of Cyprus which it occupies to be an “independent” state...

...Sorry about the title...

...Unfortunately, he sets up a straw man in criticizing the “view in which privacy is considered an inviolate right, much like freedom of speech or religion, and worthy of the same, absolute standard of protection .” Freedom of speech and religion are not absolute, and I doubt that even the ACLU (which seems to be Keisling’s particular bete noire) would argue that such freedoms-or the right to privacy-should be absolute...

...BERNARD BRODSKY Brooklyn, New York Incomparable Worth I agree that money will not necessarily secure quality teachers...

...And it is interesting to compare salaries in various areas with respect to what is being produced...

...He droned through a textbook each week, always pronouncing Freud, “Frewde...

...but fails to report that the Supreme Court decided it on March 21, holding unanimously that a corporation’s tax accrual workpapers are not protected by a so-called “accountant’s privilege,” since, among other things, an independent public accountant is “a disinterested analyst charged with public obligations...

...DALE A. GRmE Madison, Wisconsin ~~ Got Something Against Bifocals...

...Furthermore, there are in existence two Palestinian states (one is Israel...

...Other victims of this tactic included Dorothy Kenyon, Reed Harris, and Frederick Kenyon...

...I suspect that if the adjustment were made, the differences in national ranking might be much less extreme and the conclusions you draw different...

...are, wouldn’t understand anyway...

...Keisling’s reference to me illustrates the latter...

...Getting Away With Murder” was both well-documented and incisively argued...

...The purpose of the contact, openly admitted by Ball, was the removal of the elected government of Archbishop Makarios and the imposition of partition...

...Gitlitz should do the presenting...

...I advocate this position on public policy grounds as well as privacy grounds...

...It’s been hard for me not to get cynical about “responsible” national magazines and newspapers when on one page they report righteously about stopping drugs that “sap America’s strength” and then on the next page carry an ad for a drug that will probably kill more people in this year than heroin or cocaine will in 20...

...Years ago Stewardess Magazine changed its name to Flight Attendant...

...In this matter, at the very least, Anderson was quite provocative...

...What more must be done before Mr...

...I would hope not...

...Name one-just one-person whom Senator Joe McCarthy said was a communist who was not-in fact-a communist...

...CH R I STOPH E R H ITCH ENS Washing ton, D.C...

...The Palestinians do not...

...He was flippant throughout, totally uninformative, and either unwilling or unable to address the substance of the bookthe capacity of the two parties to put together a workable economic agenda for the country...

...if he now embraces this somewhat less extreme view, I stand corrected...