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Volume 7. Number 17 15th year ofpublication Published at UCSD May25 - June 7 1982 Landis Speaks at UCSD CIA Psychological Warfare in Latin America Exposed In the last decade, tour Latin American nations have chosen a socialist road to developement-Chile, Jahmaica, Nicaragua, andGrenada. In the first three cases the C.I.A. responded, among other actions, by virtually taking over the major newpaper inthat country and using it as an instrument of destabilization. Grenada closed its oppisition newspaper. Fred Landis spoke May 12 on t ~+ U.C.S.D. campus on ’C.I.A. psychological warin Nicaragua’. He recieved his P.H.D. from U.of Illinois based upon histhesis ’Psychological warfare and media operations in Chile 1970-73’. He hassince followed the C.I.A. to both Jahmaica and Nicaragua, practically being able to predict each step the C.I.A. uses in its takeover ofthe country’sIongtimeestablished newspaper. He wasable to establish a pattern which the C.I.A. followed to manipulate the newspaper, in order to subvert the left wingMarxist government. The established newspapers were targeted because they arerespected among all classes of people, unlike government newspapers. A distinct pattern was subsequently found in Chile’s El Mercurio, Jahmaica’s Daily Gleaner and Nicaragua’s La Prensa. II INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Palestine,Argentina, Schafly, Funky La Jollaand much more ... "The first step of theprocess is to elevate the owner of the target newspaper to the board of directors of the International American Press Association (a CI.A. puppet). Then claim is made that freedom of the press is threatened. Thus the I.A.P.A.is sent to modernize the newspaper. This includes an international ~vire service, firing most of the editorialists and typesetters, and modernizing theplant with equipment so advanced it sometimes is noteven used inthe U.S yet. Previous to takeover, unrelated continued on page 3 Hard times equals political crisis Nation Faces Escalating Right-Wing Offensive The past few years have seen dramatic growth by reactionary groups ranging from neo-Nazi sects to more mainstream groups such as the Republican Partyand Young Americans for.Fasoism-Freedom. These groups have gained both in numbersand influence, and have succeeded indramatically reshaping the realm of maintsream political debate. Thebudget debate in congress, the growing strength ofracist groups across the country, the recent government actions to remove the few restrictions Congress hadimposed on theC.I.A.: these and other recent events point tothe degree inwhich racist, sexist and anti- poor forces have succeeded inreshaping the national agenda. Although both parties havelong sought to defuse dissatisfaction into these channels, and have sought toreverse the gains made by women and "minorities", until recently both Democrats and Republicans were afraid torisk their political careers by blatant moves inthis direction. Recently, however, this has changed. Even those politicians who feign concern for the plight ofthe poor---motivated, at least in part, by fear of a backlash-- confine themselves to attempts tolimit the severity ofthe attacks onminorities, women, poor and working class people. And although left-wing forces are mobilizing, both locally andnation- wide, the right-wing continues to hold the initiative. Groups like the Moral Majority--the establishment media’sdismissal notwithstanding--are preparing a major offensive, armed with more money row. That article notes a variety of indicators that lead its author, Chuck Fager, to predict a nationwide campaign to further rouse anti-gay bigotry. Hecites an analysis by pollsterDaniel Yankelovich which tied the future of the "Moral Majority" totwo factors, one of them the health of theeconomy. The Moral Majority, Fager notes, is "well positioned to stoke and harness the fires of fear and resentment". Other reactionary groupings are growingas well-and may be in a position toharness the wave of growing discontent ifleft-wing alternatives are not able todisplace them. The reaction iswell-financed, and is using liberalismN demonstrated failure toits advantage. Nationally. groups like the Heritage Foundation are no longer being viewed as kooks and nuts, but are accorded respect perhaps awe---by the press. These groups have strong ties with the Reagan administration, of course, but their real power derives from the millions of dollars being poured into their coffers by the wealthy and their ability toportray their program asone of change. For there isnothing most people are looking for sodesperately right now aschange--either through a return toan idealized pastor through embarking upon a newpath. Andthese groups aremaking strong overtures tocollege communities around the country. Armed with massive subsidies, groups likethe College Republicans, the Moonie-affiliated (and CIA-connected) C.A.R.P. (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principle), and others are making headway at many college campuses. San Diego State is now one of the Moonies’ strongholds, and they are struggling to create a foothold at UCSD. Not content to promote their own ideology, such groups are struggling to suppress allsources of opposition, especially from theleft. Therecent attacks at UCSD against the Committee forWorld Democracy (which sponsor UCSD’s weekly Political Film Series) arebutthelocal manifestation of a nation-wide campaign by theMoonies, Y.A.F.and other such groups to eliminate thefunding of progressive activities bystudent fees (the right wing, armed as it is with massive corporate subsidies, ismuch less dependent upon such funds). continued on page 5 Theinfamous 14-foot spectre accompanied a Women’s Peace Action contingent protesting thetraining of Draft Board members on May 6 at the Catamaran Motor Hotel in Pacific Beach. Theanti-draft picket, which included more than 120. participants, was called by the Committee Against Registration and the Draft and the Peace & Justice Coalition of San Diego County. Peace & Justice Coalition activists also played a major role inorganizing the May 11 Peace Rally atthe Starlight Bowl in Balboa Park which drew more than 3000 1~. ople. Thousands in San Diego Protest War Spring, with its protest and activism, is passing. Thousands marched in San Francisco onMay 15, protesting recent economic policies and the military budget, and more impressively over three thousand people showed up for the Peace Rally onMay ! I atBalboa Park’s Starlight Bowl. TheRally had as its themes Bread notBombs & Protest and Survive, andit wassponsored by the Peace Coalition, a temporary, broad- based alliance struggling now with becomingan ongoing coalition. Entertainment proceeded and followed a three hour program ofspeakers. Daniel Ellsberg, Gore Vidal andRonKovic, among others, spoke; and it is historically significant inSan Diego to beable to pull out 3,000 plus people. But the position of Democrats and the Democratic Party inthe event needs to be criticized. The Democrats, noless than the Republicans, are politically bankrupt. Nosignificant social change can be expected from either party, and theDemocratsshould’not be promoted as a solution to any of the country’s social problems. The Physicians for Social Responsibility will hold their convocation on nuclear war onJune 5 at Golden Hall (downtown), and the opening of the U.N. Special Session on Disarmament will be celebrated onJune 12 with a WALK FOR ECONOMIC CONVERSION from the General Dynamics/Convair plant at 10am which wt’l] end at a BREAD NOT BOMBS PICNIC in front of the Balboa Park U.N. Association Building at noon. The Celebration is being sponsored by the Peace Resource Center and thePeace & Justice Coalition. CISPES and the Committee in Solidarity with Nicaragua are still planning events in mid-July to focus on Central America, andif the ERA does not get ratified, more protest atthe beginning ofJuly can beexpected. The approach of summer means Disorientation Manual time for the New Indicator Collective. it may also bea long,hot summer for many people across the country. I UCSD Computer Students In An Endless Bind As the new indicator went topress, all five of the computer science faculty advisers are refusing tosign enrollment forms forupper division courses for Engineering school students who do not have a 3.2 grade point (G.P.A.) and have not finished all lower division requirements. This.isin flagrant violation of the Committee on Educational Policy’s (CEP) review and decision that the newpolicy--imposed just two weeksago--is unfair to students. The vote by CEP was unanimous, after thecommittee heard arguments from Third College Provost Faustina Solis, an Engineering student, and a faculty member that imposing the newpolicy with no warning, oneweek before registration was patently unfair to students, and that the newrestraints should be immediately revoked. The policy was announced onlythrough flyers posted immediately before registration andwasto affect 1982 enrollments. Thus, CEPhas ruled that all enrollment cards should be signed by theadvison, anda lottery system used to assign seats in theComputer Science classes. It wasnoted by CEPthat if "good" students lost out in the lottery system, that professors could make exceptions toadd those students tothe class. When theC.E.P. asked thecomputer science faculty representative howthe 3.2 G.P.A. requirement was arrived at, he claimed that it wasan arbitrarily selected number. The C.E.P. noted that students need atleast a year before any new regulations can take effect sothat different procedures can beworked out, especially with regulations concerning grade points. Furthermore, because these new regulations were not listed in the catalogue, schedule ofclasses, etc., serious legal questions astothe validity ofthe regulations were raised. The lack of not:;t~-+ion of new regulations violates stud.ents’ rights todue process, and students could have sued toprevent the enforcement of the regulation. The problem of the Engineering school having too little space and not enough faculty cannot be shifted onto continued on page 3

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Volume 7. Number 17 15th year of publication Published at UCSD May 25 - June 7 1982

Landis Speaks at UCSD

CIA Psychological Warfarein Latin America Exposed

In the last decade, tour LatinAmerican nations have chosen a socialistroad to developement-Chile, Jahmaica,Nicaragua, and Grenada. In the firstthree cases the C. I.A. responded, amongother actions, by virtually taking overthe major newpaper in that country andusing it as an instrument ofdestabilization. Grenada closed itsoppisition newspaper.

Fred Landis spoke May 12 on t~+

U.C.S.D. campus on ’C.I.A.psychological war in Nicaragua’. Herecieved his P.H.D. from U. of Illinoisbased upon his thesis ’Psychologicalwarfare and media operations in Chile1970-73’. He has since followed theC.I.A. to both Jahmaica and Nicaragua,practically being able to predict eachstep the C.I.A. uses in its takeover of thecountry’s Iongtime establishednewspaper.

He was able to establish a patternwhich the C.I.A. followed to manipulatethe newspaper, in order to subvert theleft wing Marxist government. Theestablished newspapers were targeted

because they are respected among allclasses of people, unlike governmentnewspapers. A distinct pattern wassubsequently found in Chile’s ElMercurio, Jahmaica’s Daily Gleaner andNicaragua’s La Prensa.II

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:Palestine, Argentina, Schafly,Funky La Jolla and much more ...

"The first step of the process is toelevate the owner of the targetnewspaper to the board of directors ofthe International American PressAssociation (a CI.A. puppet). Then claim is made that freedom of the press isthreatened. Thus the I.A.P.A.is sent tomodernize the newspaper. This includesan international ~vire service, firing mostof the editorialists and typesetters, andmodernizing the plant with equipmentso advanced it sometimes is not evenused in the U.S yet.

Previous to takeover, unrelatedcontinued on page 3

Hard times equals political crisis

Nation Faces EscalatingRight-Wing Offensive

The past few years have seen dramaticgrowth by reactionary groups rangingfrom neo-Nazi sects to more mainstreamgroups such as the Republican PartyandYoung Americans for.Fasoism-Freedom.These groups have gained both innumbers and influence, and havesucceeded in dramatically reshaping therealm of maintsream political debate.

The budget debate in congress, thegrowing strength of racist groups acrossthe country, the recent governmentactions to remove the few restrictionsCongress had imposed on the C.I.A.:these and other recent events point to thedegree in which racist, sexist and anti-poor forces have succeeded in reshapingthe national agenda. Although bothparties have long sought to defusedissatisfaction into these channels, andhave sought to reverse the gains made bywomen and "minorities", until recentlyboth Democrats and Republicans wereafraid to risk their political careers byblatant moves in this direction.

Recently, however, this has changed.Even those politicians who feign concernfor the plight of the poor---motivated, atleast in part, by fear of a backlash--confine themselves to attempts to limitthe severity of the attacks on minorities,women, poor and working class people.

And although left-wing forces aremobilizing, both locally and nation-wide, the right-wing continues to holdthe initiative.

Groups like the Moral Majority--theestablishment media’s dismissalnotwithstanding--are preparing a majoroffensive, armed with more money row.That article notes a variety of indicatorsthat lead its author, Chuck Fager, topredict a nationwide campaign tofurther rouse anti-gay bigotry. He citesan analysis by pollster DanielYankelovich which tied the future of the"Moral Majority" to two factors, one ofthem the health of the economy. TheMoral Majority, Fager notes, is "wellpositioned to stoke and harness the firesof fear and resentment".

Other reactionary groupings aregrowing as well-and may be in aposition to harness the wave of growingdiscontent if left-wing alternatives arenot able to displace them.

The reaction is well-financed, and isusing liberalismN demonstrated failureto its advantage. Nationally. groups likethe Heritage Foundation are no longerbeing viewed as kooks and nuts, but areaccorded respect perhaps awe---by thepress. These groups have strong ties withthe Reagan administration, of course,but their real power derives from themillions of dollars being poured intotheir coffers by the wealthy and theirability to portray their program as one ofchange. For there is nothing most peopleare looking for so desperately right nowas change--either through a return to anidealized past or through embarkingupon a new path.

And these groups are making strongovertures to college communities aroundthe country. Armed with massivesubsidies, groups like the CollegeRepublicans, the Moonie-affiliated (andCIA-connected) C.A.R.P. (CollegiateAssociation for the Research ofPrinciple), and others are makingheadway at many college campuses. SanDiego State is now one of the Moonies’strongholds, and they are struggling tocreate a foothold at UCSD.

Not content to promote their ownideology, such groups are struggling tosuppress all sources of opposition,especially from the left. The recentattacks at UCSD against the Committeefor World Democracy (which sponsorUCSD’s weekly Political Film Series)are but the local manifestation of anation-wide campaign by the Moonies,Y.A.F. and other such groups toeliminate the funding of progressiveactivities by student fees (the right wing,armed as it is with massive corporatesubsidies, is much less dependent uponsuch funds).

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The infamous 14-foot spectre accompanied a Women’s Peace Action contingentprotesting the training of Draft Board members on May 6 at the Catamaran MotorHotel in Pacific Beach. The anti-draft picket, which included more than 120.participants, was called by the Committee Against Registration and the Draft and thePeace & Justice Coalition of San Diego County. Peace & Justice Coalition activistsalso played a major role in organizing the May 11 Peace Rally at the Starlight Bowl inBalboa Park which drew more than 3000 1~. ople.

Thousands in San DiegoProtest War

Spring, with its protest and activism,is passing. Thousands marched in SanFrancisco on May 15, protesting recenteconomic policies and the militarybudget, and more impressively overthree thousand people showed up for thePeace Rally on May ! I at Balboa Park’sStarlight Bowl. The Rally had as itsthemes Bread not Bombs & Protest andSurvive, and it was sponsored by thePeace Coalition, a temporary, broad-based alliance struggling now withbecoming an ongoing coalition.Entertainment proceeded and followed athree hour program of speakers. DanielEllsberg, Gore Vidal and Ron Kovic,among others, spoke; and it ishistorically significant in San Diego tobe able to pull out 3,000 plus people. Butthe position of Democrats and theDemocratic Party in the event needs tobe criticized. The Democrats, no lessthan the Republicans, are politicallybankrupt. No significant social changecan be expected from either party, andthe Democratsshould’not be promotedas a solution to any of the country’s

social problems.

The Physicians for SocialResponsibility will hold theirconvocation on nuclear war on June 5 atGolden Hall (downtown), and theopening of the U.N. Special Session onDisarmament will be celebrated on June12 with a WALK FOR ECONOMICCONVERSION from the GeneralDynamics/Convair plant at 10am whichwt’l] end at a BREAD NOT BOMBSPICNIC in front of the Balboa ParkU.N. Association Building at noon. TheCelebration is being sponsored by thePeace Resource Center and the Peace &Justice Coalition. CISPES and theCommittee in Solidarity with Nicaraguaare still planning events in mid-July tofocus on Central America, and if theERA does not get ratified, more protestat the beginning of July can be expected.The approach of summer meansDisorientation Manual time for the NewIndicator Collective. it may also be along, hot summer for many peopleacross the country.

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UCSD Computer StudentsIn An Endless Bind

As the new indicator went to press, allfive of the computer science facultyadvisers are refusing to sign enrollmentforms for upper division courses forEngineering school students who do nothave a 3.2 grade point (G.P.A.) and havenot finished all lower divisionrequirements. This .is in flagrantviolation of the Committee onEducational Policy’s (CEP) review anddecision that the new policy--imposedjust two weeks ago--is unfair tostudents. The vote by CEP wasunanimous, after the committee heardarguments from Third College ProvostFaustina Solis, an Engineering student,and a faculty member that imposing thenew policy with no warning, one weekbefore registration was patently unfair tostudents, and that the new restraintsshould be immediately revoked. Thepolicy was announced only throughflyers posted immediately beforeregistration and was to affect 1982enrollments. Thus, CEP has ruled thatall enrollment cards should be signedby the advison, and a lottery systemused to assign seats in the Computer

Science classes.It was noted by CEP that if "good"

students lost out in the lottery system,that professors could make exceptionsto add those students to the class.

When the C.E.P. asked the computerscience faculty representative how the3.2 G.P.A. requirement was arrived at,he claimed that it was an arbitrarilyselected number. The C.E.P. noted thatstudents need at least a year before anynew regulations can take effect so thatdifferent procedures can be worked out,especially with regulations concerninggrade points. Furthermore, becausethese new regulations were not listed inthe catalogue, schedule of classes, etc.,serious legal questions as to the validityof the regulations were raised. The lackof not:;t~-+ion of new regulationsviolates stud.ents’ rights to due process,and students could have sued to preventthe enforcement of the regulation.

The problem of the Engineeringschool having too little space and notenough faculty cannot be shifted onto

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Collective CommentaryThe New Indicator Collective wishes

to clarify a number of points concerningthe material on the middle east publishedin our last issue.

The piece by Victor Mitzman-Bloomberg was presented.with errors inthe layout and the order of paragraphs.We regret any confusion this may havecaused, and reprint the piece in itsintended form in this issue.

We have previously offeredstatements representative of the areas ofgreatest agreement between ourmembers, (see "Peace in Palestine forAll", n! V6N 14, April 14-27, 1981) therehave always been points on which wehave not reached agreement. This seriesof articles is part of a long-standingcollective committment to promotefurther discussion in our community onimportant issues.

Palestine Question: One PerspectiveOne might say that i am outside the

mainstreams of both the New Left andthe US Jewish community. As a Jew, Isupport the establishment of the State ofPalestine. Yet, my analysis does not leadme to withdraw my support for a State ofIsrael.

The eventual re-establishment ofPalestine will show.that the variousfactions and functionaries of thePalestine Liberation Organization are acentral organizing force of Palestinians.The time must come for Israel tonegotiate directly with the PLO. Onlythen can Palestinians possibly accept theexistence of Israel. Most won’t, for atleast a generation after a homeland beingconstituted, if ever. But, it is possible.

The marriage of capitalism andmilitarism in the ruling class, is the majorimpediment to the establishment ofPalestine. The military occupation ofArab lands by Israel is no morereprehensible than the militaryoccupation of Lebanon by Syria. Therefugee problems of the Palestinians areas severe as the refugee problems ofSephardic Jews, before the birth of themodern state of Israel. The politicaldisarray in the area reflects the conflictsof the ruling classes in the region; the

results including refugees. The rule of theminority regime of Begin can becompared to the minority rule of theregime of Assad. Were both to bereplaced by socialist movements, thedeadlock might be broken.

Israel’s alignment with US Capitalmust be broken, in the context of arealignment with the internationalsocialist movements. As the SepharadicJews assert their membership in the non-aligned Third World, and as Euro-Socialism asserts its independence fromNATO, the political face of Israel willbecome permanently changed. Atpresent the Sephardim in Israel hatetheir former oppressors, similarlyPalestinians hate their currentoppressors. Unfortunately theopportunity for cooperation in socialiststruggle seems slim.

The Arab opposition against Zionismmust be dealt with by Israel. For Jews,the modern state of Israel is totallyjustified by the needs of Jewish refugeeswho continue to suffer from a worldwidehistory of displacement and genocide.The major contradiction to this justice isthe scope of the Law of Rerun. The Lawof Return should be limited to Jews whoqualify as political and economic

ANNOUNCEMENTSCAMPUS:

New Indle~lto¢ Colleetl-~, Student Center, UCSD, 432-2016Tuesday, May 2J, 6pm: UCSD Student Center, Rm 209: New Indle~tor ColioeUve meeting.To discuss current issue and plan future issues. Volunteers welcome.Tuesday. June I, 6pro; U C S D Student Center, Rm 209: New IndleMor Colleetqvo meeting. Todiscuss copy for next issue. Volunteers welcome.Friday/Saturday, June 4/5, all day; UCSD Student Center, Rm 210.N~tt Indi~ltorproduction. Volunteers welcome to produce next issue of paper. No experience necessary.

Groundwork Books Co|lgtlve, Student Center, UCSD, 452-9625Friday, May 28 (& every 4th Friday of month), 4:30 to 6:30pro: TGIF. Lively conversations onhow to smash imperialism. Refreshments.Friday, June 8(& every 2nd Friday of month). 4:30 to 6:30pro: Work Palq~. Hard work & goodconversation. No experience necessary¯ Come meet the Groundwork Collective people.

Committee for World Democracy, Political Film Series,432-4430Friday, May 28, 7pro; TLH 107, free:Missing PamonE documentary on the question ofdisappeared political prisoners in Chile, its implications on the intenational human rightsdebate, and the role of current U.S. policies towards Chile. Vlda $~lm: mystically intense, apilgrim’s progress through an unending purgatory set in Brazil’s northeast.Friday, June 4, 7pro; TLH 107, free: Angola: VIotofy of Hope: Compelling account of theAngolan people--their history, their struggle and their victory. A Lut$ Continua: a film aboutguerilla warfare with front-line filming of the troops of the Mozambique Liberation Front by anAfro-American film crew.COMMUNITY:Peace Calender EventsSaturday, May 29, 7 to lOpm, 1st Unitarian Church, 4190 Front St., S. D.: Puloe Fundraleer.Entertainment and desserts. Childcare provided. For tickets and more information call thePeace Resource Center: 265-0730.EcologyFor recycling information: San Diego Ecology Center, 235-0066 and Recycling Co-op everyTuesday at the Che Cafe, UCSD.Grass Roots Cultural Center, 1947 30 St., at Grape St., 232-5009Thursda.v, May 27. 7:30pro, $2: liens Mintz & Elizabeth Evans. Poetry reading. Compellingpersonal images of a dynamic feminist humanism unite these active women.

EducationMid-June through August. National Lawyers Guild will host two student interns this summerwho will develop draft counseling materials for use in minority communities. The interns are inneed of free or very inexpensive housing for the summer. If you can help. please call the Guild at233-1701.June 15 through August, Feminist Free University summer classes for women will be held. Thesemester will feature support groups, work shops and seminars on issues like legal rights, careerchoices, poetry, feminist studies and more. Class schedules may be obtained at 908 E St., SanDiego, CA 92101. Registration by mail will be accepted through June 4. For more informationcall 233-8984.

Saturday, June 12U.N. DISARMAMENT SESSION CELEBRATION

Walk for Economic Conversion begins at General Dynamics/Convair, 10am, andends at Bread Not Bombs Peace Picnic, at noon, in front of UN Association Buildingin Balboa Park. Sponsored by Peace Resource Center and Peace and JusticeCoalition.

MID JULYLook for events focusing on Central America and Nicaragua, sponsored byCommittee In Solidarity with El Salvador, and the Committee in Solidarity withNicaragua.

REGISTRATION PROSECUTION PROTESTSCalled by Committee Against Registration and the Draft for the first working dayafter the first prosecution of a draft registration resister.

refugees, it should not apply to theCapitalist class. This change of policywould be a strong signal to the Arabworld in recognizing their experience. Itwould allow, possibly, recognition ofIsrael’s right to exist, by the Arab rulingclasses. Only when the rights of Jews andArabs are mutually recognized, onlywhen the working classes can uniteacross nationalist lines, only then will the

conditions be present for driving outcapitalism.

it saddens me that the socialistcommunity with which l am familiar,seems to have a one-dimensionalopposition to Israel. I hope I havecontributed, albeit modestly, to asocialist analysis which appreciates thehuman rights of Palestinians and Jews.

Victor Mitzman-Bloomberg

Palestine: Another Perspective

The new indicator collective, of which1 am a member of eleven years standing,has committed considerable energy todiscussion of the ’Mid-East Conflict’.There is good reason for this. It goesbeyond the importance of the region forcontemporary imperialism and worldpower politics.

It cannot be reduced to acceptance ofthe charge, made by some Zionists, thatthe Left in America and in Europe (andsundry parts related by settler-colonialhistory) is obsessed by questionspertinent to Israel unlike concerns withother problems of imperialism; theobsession supposedly stemming from atransmutation of deeply aculturatedanti-semitism into opposition to allthat’s Israeli.

There is undoubtedly an element oftruth to the charge, and many on the Leftwould argue that conscious radicals havea responsibility to :;truggle against allaspects of ’domination ideology’ingrained and instutionalized in society.Sexism, racism, anti-semitism andnational chauvinism weaken theinternational working class and thwartthe struggle to achieve a world of peace,prosperity and real human solidarity andcommunity. But the attention devoted tothe Israel Question should beunderstood in the context of the JewishQuestion and its relation to thedevelopment of imperialism andsocialism.

Within our collective, there are avariety of positions on this question.Specifically, some members support thePLO’s demand of self-determination for

Palestinian Arabs and support creationof material social reality for this, but donot support creation of any state

anytime, anywhere. Some memberssupport the PLO’s proposal of a"democratic secular state", but only as atransitional step towards socialism.Some members of our collective rejectthe one-state PLO model on grounds ofself-determination for Israeli Jews andbelieve that the correct, dialectic view isthat while a two-state solution mightperpetuate and consolidate competingnational communities and might thwart

the possibilities for socialism, it, quitethe contrary, might also be the onlyviable transitional step towards asocialist federation of Arabs and Jews,respecting their self-determination. Ihold this view.

As a non-religious Jew, l oppose thePLO proposal of a "democratic secularstate" on grounds of self-determinationfor Israeli Jews. i do not support thestatus quo nor seek to legitimize the ’fairaccompli’ of Zionist program successes.! support self-determination forPalestinian Arabs and believe this, atsome point, must mean a Palestinianstate, co-existent with a Jewish stateduring a transition to a regional socialistfederation. This would mean a periodduring which mutual Arab-Jewishresolution of the need for reparationswould impact upon the level of trust andcooperation that might be achieved.

Simultaneously, and in opposition tothe Zionist ’Law of the Return’ andZionist promotion of Jewish nationalchauvinism and racist sentiments againstArabs, I believe all oppressed peoples,including Jews, living within the modernimperialist world system have the rightto self-determination with or without aterritorial aspect. Thus, i hold that the

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n.I. Nicaragua SolidarityCoverage CriticizedTo the Editor

I am writing because your article in theMay 1 !-23 issue by Kyr Dylan on theantiwar movement gives an inaccuratepicture of what the Committee inSolidarity with Nicaragua is.

The article paints the CentralAmerican solidarity movements as afactional jungle where everyone is out tosabotage each other. This kind of articleis not only harmful to solidarity efforts,it is just plain not true.

Committee

Our committee was formed recentlywith the purpose of stopping U.S.intervention, and helping the JorgeMancillas

Nicaraguan people rebuild their country Committee in Solidarity with Nicaragua

in the wake of decades of the U.S.-sponsored Somoza dictatorship.

The committee distributes literature,and provides speakers and slidepresentations. Our meetings andcommittees are open, and includepersons of different political cultural andreligious backgrounds working together.

Everyone who supportts these aims iswelcome and needed in the solidaritymovement. I hope we can count on thehelp and support of the new indicator.

In solidarity,

Funky La JollaBy Rambling Rosie

The problems facing students wishingto take computer science classes hasraised interesting prospects for manystudents who feel shafted by the newregulation requiring them to have atleast a 3.2 average before facultyadvisors sign enrollment forms.According to sources, several studentsdisgruntled by the refusal of the advisorsto sign the enrollment forms, areconsidering manufacturing rubberdepartmental stamps and/or fashioningadvisors’ signatures and offering these toanyone turned away by their advisor...As one self-confessed "computer junkie"put it, it is unfair to impose such a policywith hardly a weeks’ notice--besides ifquestioning authority is healthy,ignoring authority is downrightinvigorating...

Well the word is out... Anoverwhelming majority of the "chooseychoosers, chose to stay away from theAS elections booth. Barely 16% of thestudents turned up to vote in the last ASelections, making it one of the lowestturnouts ever at UCSD... Perhaps whenthe junior bureaucrats get around toaddressing real student needs, one canexpect the general student body to showa little more interest... In the meantimethough, those who voted felt a need torepudiate Joshua Harris’ 18-member"fraternity slate".., most of his slate washandily defeated by members of the"Student Action" slate who captured 6out of the 8 Commissioner positionscontested against the "fraternity slate"...

Rumor has it that members of the"frat slate" on the Council arethreatening the paper’s budget becausethey are upset with the coverage on theAS elections appearing a couple of issuesback...If you remember, that articlepointed out that Josh Harris had beendisqualified the previous year forfalsifying receipts and overspendingcampaign spending limits. It seems someof these so called "studentrepresentatives" would prefer acandidate’s relevant history be sweptunder the carpet and not mentioned atall... It would be interesting to note howthese members vote when the budgetcomes up... As a service, in the next issuemy sources will provide a full votingrecord on budgets if there appears to a bea particular trend among certain ASCouncil members...

Meanwhile over at the ASPresidential suite things are beginning totake shape... President Chu, who

chalked up more abstention votes on keyissues as Commissioner of AcademicAffairs last year than any member inrecent history, has hoisted his true colorslately... According to several reportsfrom the AS Office, at the last RulesCommittee meeting Chu stated that AScouncil meetings are for the benefit ofCouncil members "to conduct Councilhusiness" and not for students to attend.Other reports also announced thatRevelle College Rep., Vince Smith,elected by virtue of receiving less than100 votes, stated that Chu’s idea shouldbe implemented by providing a"clearance" for those students wishing toattend AS Council meetings...

in other business, rumor has it thatChu has included a $15,000 stipendarrangement for himself and Councilmembers in the soon to be released ASbudget, while at the same time cuttingback drastically on other AS fundedprograms and services. The inclusion ofstipends came in the wake of theoutgoing Council’s overwhelming defeatof the proposal at their final meeting lastweek. Interestingly at that meeting, Chubroke his long series of abstention votesby coming out in favor of theproposal...As one AS personcommented "Chu for You" really meant"Chu for Chu"...

Speaking of kickbucks...According tounconfirmed sources, the Sports Editorof the UCSD Guardian was recently seenriding a brand new "Uncle Wiggley"skateboard, a very short while after thepaper published a cover story callingUncle Wiggley’s one of the "finestquality" skateboards available...

Elsewhere on campus, sources haverevealed that UCSD officials areharboring scientific equipment withouthaving the necessary insurance...According to sources, UCSD accquireda linear accelerator--used for particlephysics experiments--as a "gift" fromBerkeley. It appears that in order toavoid paying the cost of insuranceneccesary to protect against the high riskof fire-related accidents involved in theuse of the accelerator, UCSD officialshave housed the equipment at an off-campus location and have made itavailable for use by certain privilegedresearchers... Further, reports indicatethat fire extinguishers are not to befound within close proximity to thebuilding. Occupational hazadous are notwhat they used to be...

Well, enough...See you next time.

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classes under the regulation theEngineering school attempted toimpose. In addition, given the large classsizes and the difficulty of schedulingclasses in the computer science program,requiting students to complete all lowerdivision requirements before taking anyupper division classes represented a realhardship.

Hopefully, yesterday’s meeting ofCEP--which began after the newindicator went to press--will force theComputer Science advisors to beginsigning student’s enrollment forms, andgive up in their efforts to impose this newand unfair regulation.

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CIA Warfare inLatin America...international articles dominated thepaper. But after takeover, the format ischanged. The front page in particularnow takes on a central theme ofimminent chaos. The first central themeis economic chaos within the country.This is simply attained by the U.S.cutting off foriegn aid, internationalbanks cut off loans, and spare parts tomachinery bought from the U.S.isdenied.

Once economic chaos is established,the theme transforms to social chaos.National Enquirer type stories, whichwould be ignored by its predecessor, arenow used to fill the front page. Violence,chaos, death, unnatural events, religiousomens and gruesome food stories. Inorder to resolve these tensions, thesituation is blamed on, first, thegovernment ideology (secialism), thenon the government itself; first characterassasination, then physical assasination.

El Mercurio, Chile’s longstandingnewspaper, had carried a central themeof impending social chaos due to theMarxist government. Front page storiesincluding children falling off a schoolbus, a visit from Castro, a false storyabout Soviet penetration in Chile, with apicture of Salvador Allende in thecenter, exemplify this theme. Throughthe association of violence, death, andplagues, the newspaper has now anenemy in the people’s minds, to the pointthat the military was convinced of a redarmy image.

In Jamaica, the Daily Gleamerfollowed a similar pattern. Before C.I.A.manipulation, international eventsdominated the front page. After thetakeover, sensational headlinespractically jumped out at you. Again, thetheme of imminent chaos was tied toManley’s leftist government. For

3example, a picture of Fidel Castromeeting a Jamaican minister and a stowabout a plot to assasinate police officersand a photo of Manley at a social eventall combine to give a feeling of chaos,especially in the context of an ongoingcampaign. Another front page headlinescreamed out about a 23 year old manraping a 15 year old girl. Next to theheadline was a picture of 3 governmentministers.

The pattern of manipulation wassimilar in Nicaragua’s La Prensa, butwith a more religious tone. The use ofreligious symbolism was used to dividethe church and state. The first step thenewspaper used was an attempt toinflame the parents of students byattacking the educational system as"Marxist brainwashing." This broughtreligion into the political arena. Next,stories about the appearance of theVirgin Maw in the country were used toblame the government for the impendingcrisis. "The cult of the Virgin of Cusps isa response to the fears of communism," aforeign priest said. The Sandinistagovernment was portrayed by La Prensaas anti-religious, a government that Godwanted destroyed. La Prensa’smanipulation of the public’s belief thatthe leftist government was headingtoward chaos was enhanced by the use ofvivid red colors, a color usuallyassociated with chaos.

The stages of psychological warfareare well defined. In fact, the U.S. Armyissues Field Manuals for each stage.Psychological waarfare is a form ofsecret unconventional warfare whichmay, if all else fails, shift to openconventional warfare.

The basic stages of C.I.A.manipulation are as follows:Propaganda portrays a positive U.S.

image and a negative image of the’socialist’ bloc. Psychological operations .are geared towards swaying electionsand foreign policy. Psychologicalwarfare is undeclared war All U.S.

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Paleotine.,.resolution of the contradictions ofracism and colonialism are not merely amatter of national liberations.Oppressed peoples must eventually befree to live anywhere they like, in thewhole empire (as it is today) withoutcurtailment of their rights to association,belief, etc.

Dumping all the world’s oppressedpeoples in reservations, bantustans orwhatever they might be called (Israels?)is not addressing the ultimateresponsibility of the imperialists forsomething akin to class reparations on aworld scale.

The Roots of Jewish OppressionAbram l.eon, a Jew and re~ olutionar.v

communist martyred at Auschwitz at theage of 26 summed up the core of thematter in his brilliant book, The Jewi,~hQuestion: A Marxist Interpretation.Leon examines the economic, politicaland ideological factors reinforcing thecontinued historical distinctness ofJewish communities long after theterritorial basis for Jewish identityceased being a matter under directJewish control--from the RomanEmpire to the mid-twentieth century. Heconcludes that the character and specificforms of the modern oppression of Jewscannot be comprehended in nationalterms any more than the development ofthe world bourgeoisie or proletariat canbe. European feudalism and capitalismare as much responsible for the shapingof the modern Jewish identity as for thebirth of the modern nation-state and itspresent subversion and deteriorationunder the onslaught of transnationalbourgeois interests.

With an analogy to the caste system ofIndia, Leon presents a theory of the Jewsas a caste in the European pre-capitalist

society, an international ’people-class’which, with the emergence of capitalism,became--along with royalty and thearistocracy--an obsolete socialformation. European anti-semitism, forLeon, is the product of the transition.The survival of a Jewish identity islargely a superstructural lag behind theobjective development of the economicbase and todays relations of production.Of course, superstructural factors, e.g.ideologies, motivate human actionswhich impact upon the economic baseand sometimes precipitate dramaticshifts in the directions of thedevelopment of the base It is in thisdialectic sense that Leon considersmodern Jewish identity a product ofcapitalism and imperialism.

Jews, with a class/caste ideologyspecifically grounded in an ancientpolitical tradition of a state, haveactively resisted extinction of a Jewishidentity as a consequence of theobsolesence of an economic function fora class,’caste of Jews in Europe. Zionismis one reflection of this resistance,whereas ’assimilationism’ is a reflectionof the strength of the objective economictrends in the relations of production.The capacity of the internationalbourgeoisie to seize upon archaicdistinctions to forment divisiveness andconflict within the dominatedpopulation is evident nowhere else morestrikingly than in the German rulingclass under the fascist banner reversingthe process of ’assimilation" of GermanJews. This demonstrated capacity hasgreatly reinforced Zionism and otheraspects of resistance to the dying-out ofJewish identity. (However, it must beseen that Zionism mystifies thesehistorical processes and holds that anti-semitism is virtually a part of the’humannature’ (nearly genetic?) of non-Jews.)For these reasons, Leon argues

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thePalestinianPeople

persuasively that a merely territortialnational self-determination for Jews viaa state of Israel cannot be a sufficientresolution of the oppression of Jews. Aslong as imperialism persists, and as longas a substantial Jewish minority existsscattered about the empire, anti-semitism will remain one of the rulingclass’s options as a tool of domination.And the descendants of ancient Israeland Judea are no more likely to relocatein any particular ’homeland’ than are thenumerous communities of Chinesedescent throughout the world. Only theabolition of class society, the objectivematerial base for exploitation anddomination, only world communism caneventually create a safe environment forthe free expression of cultures,communities and their cooperation.

Leon’s analysis, unfortunately, is tooEuro-centric. It does not take intoaccount relations with the Arab world.

The utility of anti-semitism as a tool ofdomination is a much mystified subject.Barely is the context of Europe’scomplete relations with the semiticpeoples mentioned. The Jews are, afterall, a minority within the semitic world.During the middle ages the Arab worldcontrolled a great deal of Europe’s accessto relations, trade especially, with Asiaand Africa, and Europe’s Jews wereoften essentially intermediaries with theArab world. As such, they were bothvalued by Europe’s ruling elites andassociated with the advantages the Arabelites held over the Europeans. Thehistory of development of European seapower, European expansionism andcapitalism is bound up in this earlyrivalry with semitic economic andcultural influence. Neither the historicantagonism of Christianity and Islamnor the com,+lex position of Judaism canbe de-mystified outside of this materialprocess.

The psychology of Europeans inrelation to the Arab world in the middleages could perhaps be comprehended bycomparison with the psychology oftoday’s ’Third World’ post-colonial/neo-colonial peoples in theirrelations with the United States. Themaster-slave dialectic discussed byFanon is relevant to this point.European anti-semitism translated thebackwardness of Europe in the middleages in the face of Arab culture into ahighly available symbol and mystifiedoutlet for hostile impulse, in the form ofthe European Jew. The backwardness of

Germany, more recently, in relation tothe other capitalist powers begged theresurection of an archaic anti-semitismas’ a rallying theme for renewedmilitarism when Germany’s defeat in itsattempt at imperialist expansion inWorld War I made it momentarilydifficult for the German ruling class to,aobilize the German masses againstBritish and other imperialistcompetitors.

An Inheritance of EmpireAnother great confusion for people

who ordinarily support nationalliberation struggles against imperialismarises in the Zionist program for aJewish state. There has been a consistentpresence of a Jewish minoritycommunity in Palestine. The Romanexpulsion in 70 A.D. was neither totalnor did it, on the other hand, occur in asituation in which Jewish communitieshad not already been widely establishedin other areas of the Roman Empire. Theempire as a whole had become alegitimate ’homeland’ for Jews and othersubject peoples. Today, U.S.imperialism, unlike its Europeanpredecessors, does not offer the full’benefits’ of citizenship to the people ofits ’client states’ and subordinate allies,yet it remains an absurdity to speak ofescaping, more than temporarily, theevils of the empire by moving from oneregion of it to another. But this escape isthe core of Zionist logic. Relocation toPalestine did offer the meager advantageof dealing with the e[tablishedinfrastructure of the small PalestinianJewish community, but the majority ofJewish refugees from Europe in thetwentieth century have been, like today’s’boat people’, more interested inmigrating to prosperous centers of theempire where short-term prospects seembrighter. (This is not to ignore theconscious efforts of Zionistorganizations to increase the Jewishpopulation in Palestine.) It is verylargely the contradictions (includingcollusion) of German, British andAmerican imperialism that must becredited with the mass relocation ofJewish refugees of the WWII period intoPalestine. The exacerbation of Arab-Jewish relations, and the use of thisconflict to manipulate and weaken theregion’s population, and the populationof European Jews, in its struggle againstimperialism was a conscious policy ofthe imperialists. Thus it can well be heldthat the Zionist program is in manyrespects a tool the imperialists havemanipulated in forging a new post-WWIi manifestation of anti-semitism.

it has been easy for Arabs, and manysections of the Left world wide, toassociate the waves of Jewish settlers inPalestine with the model of Europeansettler colonialism. Despite thewidespread anti-semitic Europeanrejection of Jews as alien non-Europeans, European Jews havecorrectly understood their culture to begreatly European. These Jews havetransplanted, ironically, European skin-color prejudices and chauvinism againstnon-Europeans into Palestine. TheArabs and Jews of non-Europeanancestry have born the brunt of thetransplanted Euro-centrism. But thereremains a crucial difference betweeen theJews settling in Palestine and Europeansettler colonialism. The historicallycontinuous community of Jews inPalestine, and also elsewhere in the Arabworld, must be taken into account.

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Right--WingNationwide

Offensive Escalates

C.A.R.P. is not the only such nationalorganizaiton. Several well-fundedreactionary groups are now focussing oncollege campuses, trying to end thetraditional moderate-liberal orientationprevalent in universities andindoctrinate the next generation ofcorporate and state managers.

The College Republicans are anothersuch group. According to a recent articlein the Los Angeles Times, there are now125,000 members of this group, oneleven hundred campuses. They supportReagan’s plan to axe student loans, andhave issued a poster which depicts theSoviet army marching through RedSquare with the slogan "The SovietUnion Needs You! Support the U.S.Nuclear Freeze." The group’s nationalchairperson, Jack Abramoff, has beendenounced--according to the Times--by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnistMary McGrory as "a McCarthyite...who looks for Communists under everyrock." But the College Republicans areone of the more moderate--speakingrelatively--of the right wing groups nowrising to the surface (as scum rises to thetop of the pond).

Another group, which is careful tocultivate an appearance of scholarlyrespectability, is the IntercollegiateStudies Institute. I.S.I. describes itself asan organization "dedicated to furtheringthe values inherent in our Americantradition. The norms and institutions ofthat tradition.., constitute," they claim."the essence of Western civilization andafford the greatest opportunity forfreedom and order." I.S.I. boasts of thelarge number of its alumni active in theReagan administration, a list whichincludes former National SecurityAdvisor Richard Allen, Heritage

Foundation President Edwin Feulner,Secretary of the Navy John Lehman,among many others.

Heavily subsidized, apparently bycorporate interests, the I.S.I. publishes 6journals, offers fellowships to right-wingprofessors and graduate students, offersa nation-wide program of seminars,works to place reactionary lecturers atcolleges throughout the country, andsubsidizes the distribution of severalbooks to its membership. Membershipin I.S.I. is available without charge tostudents and faculty, and includes freesubscriptions to two I.S.I. publications,the semi-annual IS! Campus Report andthe Intercollegiate Review. The Reportis a tabloid, summarizing recentactivities .by the organization, andoffering discussion of various issues. TheReview purports to be a journal ofscholarship and opinion.

Among the American values touted inI.S.I. publications are the virtues ofmonarchy (for Latin America, due to"the nature of the Latin Americantemperament"), and the need toabandon the quest for equal rights. Asone I.S,I. lecturer, Mel Bradforn (authorof A Better Guide Than Reason, one ofthe books available through l.S.I.), put itthis way: "Trying to preserve property,serve tranquility and promote equalrights, all at the same time, insures thatnone of these prospects will beaccomplished." While many might agreewith this statement, most of us wouldprefer to abandon the quest for order orthe preservation of property andprivelege; but the l.S.l, will have none ofthat.

Despite their massive subsidies,groups like the I.S.I. are having troublegaining a foothold on the campuses.Under headlines like ’*Is the CampusConservativeT’, I.S.i. members admitthat it is not, but argue that with moremoney and effort they can make it so. AsI.S.I. member Edward Peters put it:

Gone are flag bumings, sit-ins, studentstrikes, calls for a ’Free University," andmost ’underground" student papers...

But Mr. Peters goes on to state thatdespite these hopeful signs, the"evaporated campus liberalism" has not

been replaced by conservative thought.

Indeed,Peters goes on to lament the factthat contemporary campus leadersaccept as givens such outmodedconcepts as the idea "that universalsuffrage is necessary to goodgovernment, that property interests areby nature inimical to social values," andthe like. Similarly, he decries the effects"of a 60s trend ’to give students a voice inthe selection of campus speakers,’ ".Peters notes that this unfortunate policyleads to student-invited speakers andcrowded auditoriums. "Meanwhile,Russell Kirk, James Hitchcock, orThomas Sowell remain all but unknownto most college students". Thus doesI.~.1. lose the opportunity to get itsstable of reactionary speake;s fundedthrough student fees, and its propagandadisseminated to students. Not throughrepression, but through an unwillingnessto listen to the drivel they wish to spout.

But despite such difficulties, I.S.I.claims to be growing. And they, andother like-minded groups, are using thevast resources at their disposal to gettheir message out. A nationalfoundation, the Institute forEducational Affairs, is offering grants toall comers interested in establishingright-wing papers on their campuses.Even at UCSD, where the unlamentedFree Triton died after years of lingeringbecause no students were interested inworking on a rag that so blatantlypandered to corporate interests, the rightis pouring funds in. The CaliforniaReview, currently preparing its firstissue, is one of these new journals,subsidized by national reactionaryorganizations and thus able to enterbusiness despite the lack of anappreciable base of support (see box fora description of one of the Review’s sisterpapers). The Review has been givenoffice space behind the police station bythe administration, and will soon beginbombarding us with reactionarypropaganda. One can only hope thattheir coverage will be better than that ofthe Free Triton, which resorted to red-baiting of the crudest sort.

While groups like these--nominallywithin the mainstream of currentpolitical activity, if at the outer-mostlimits--continue to work on thecampuses, less sophisticated groups likethe Nazis and the Klan are in theworkplaces and high schools.

These groups are having their greatestsuccess recruiting working-class youthsdisillusioned with the status qua, angrybut unable to see thei~ real enemy. Theyoffer easy solutions to these problems,easily identifiable targets for their angerwhich can be attacked--in smallnumbers, for the present--with relativeimpunity. Similarly, such groups offerworkers easy outlets for the rage andfrustration built up through the grind ofworking in an alienating environment.

And these groups are now striving forgreater legitimacy. In recent years, largenumbers of Nazis and KKK membershave run in elections, and in severalinstances have gained nomination inboth parties. Michigan Klan leaderRobert Miles put it this way in theJanuary 1982 issue of the newsletter hepublishes:

The time for political work comes thisyear. No need watching Washington.After all, that cesspool will only becleansed by the coming fire. Your duties...require attention to gaining control of thelocal territory in which you are located.Build the base of your pyramid of powerbefore you concern yourself about thecapstone. Use your low profile, your’secrecy’ to penetrate either of the twomajor parties, or utilize the independentcandidacy approach. Enter quietly. Keepthe battle flag in the bridge flag box untilyou choose the correct time to run it up atthe two block. Be wise. Be cunning. Beobservant and use your intelligence togain power. Any seat attained m anelection is a fingertip grasp of power.

Miles places strong emphasis inbuilding legitimacy and workingtowards the unification of what he calls**racialist" groups. And his strategy ofentering the major parties has beeneffective. Both parties have shownthemselves to be comfortable homes forthe Nazis and the Klan, with the

Democrats nominating KKK GrandDragon Tom Metzlzer to Congress, and

article appearing in the April3, 198Zissue of The Nation. The article dealswith LE.A. subsidization of right-wing papers at a varieO’ of campuses.UCSD’s California Review hasapplied to L E.A. for .funding:

... The (Dartmouth) Review may bethe only campus paper whosejudgement on matters of taste is moreoffensive to undergraduates than toalumni. An interview with a Ku KluxKlansman was illustrated with apicture of a black banging by a noosefrom a tree. Other examples ofReview humor: "Genocide is neverhaving to say you’re sorry," a quotefrom an anonymous student...

In a style reminiscent of CREEP,Review editors last spring ovtained aconfidential membership list andmeeting notes of the Dartmouth GayStudent Alliance. They then printedthe names of the club’s officers...

Despite its tactics, The Review hasbecome the puckish mascot of theNew Right. Its progress has beencheered in the pages of The NationalReview... and President Reagan hassent the paper a letter ofendorsement, which it uses to solicitsubscriptions... It has a comfortable$100,000 annual budget, one third ofwhich comes from advertising, onethird froth grants (I.E.A. and the

John M. Olin Foundation have bothgiven $10,000) and one third fromalumni...

5me Republicans nc, minating a well-known Nazi, Harold Covington, to runfor state Attorney General.

Groups like these find their rhetoric,their claims and their tactics legitimizedby the growing tendency for establishedmainstream politicians to tap racistsentiments to help justify their policies.And there is no question but that theyare growing, especially among theyoung. At a recent Nazi demonstrationin Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13 of 16 Naziswho demonstrated on March 20th(before being run out of town by 2,000enraged people) were under 20. Most ofthem appeared to be high school age,and a few appeared younger than that.The Klan and the various Nazi groupshave ~pent much of their energy in recentyears attempting to recruit high schoolstudents, and this appears to bebeginning to pay off.

During the same period, the left hasmade little effort to make contact withstudents in high schools, partly as a’

result of the failure of many suchattempts in the early seventies. Althoughthere have been some successes, withnew underground high school papersbeing formed in Columbus, Ohio, andDenver, Colorado, in recent years, fewleft groups have made much effort toreach these students. However, ongoingdraft registration offers an invaluableopportunity to make contact with highschool age men, at least, in a field wherethe right cannot compete. Byencouraging draft resistance, by going tothe high schools and using this alreadyexisting issue, we have an opportunity toreach high school students, and redirecttheir anger towards their real enemies.And there are some indications ofsuccess among groups that have beentrying this since last year when concertedperiods of registration ended,eliminating the opportunity to catchpotential registrants at po#t offices in asystematic way.

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US Media CoverageMalvinas Disto ed

Collective Note: The New IndicatorCollective does not support the actionsof either the British government or theArgentinian junta in the war over theMalvinas islands.

it has come to the attention of a greatmany people locally that the issue of theArgentine-British dispute over theMalvinas Islands (aka. FalklandIslands) has been grossly misreported bythe majority of the American media. Theissue is not so much accurate reportingas it is complete reporting. It is, of

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Did you know they need official visas inorder to visit their (purportedly) owncountry? By proclamation, a Britishcitizen must be either a native of Britainor the child of a Briton. It has beenadmitted quietly and in passing that theylost all rights and privileges after thebirth of the second generation (there arenow 4th and 5th generation there).Argentina requires no visas of theresidents, and has even offered them fullcitizenship since as far as the Argentinesare concerned the islanders have been

course, no surprise that Americans haveseen and heard more often the Britishviewpoint since the British can articulatethe common language much better andare also much more adept in the practiceof influencing public opinion. What maybe of interest to those who have kept upwith the dispute since April 2nd are someof the hard, indisputable facts which themedia has seen fit to exclude and/orwhich the Argentines have not hadopportunity to express here. For one,most people do not realize that theislanders are not real British subjects inthe eyes of the British or the Parliament.

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CIA Warfare in LatinAmerica Exposedgovernment agencies pool theirresources in order to subvert. The C.I.A.tries to mobilize the local people againstthe government.

If these goals fail, a military coup isnecessary, in which the regular militaryforces of the U.S., and those friendly toit, are involved.According to Landis:

In the Reconstruction stage, forcesfriendly to the U.S. are in disputedphysical control of the entire nationalterritory. The country has been pacified.A think tank of U.S.-trained economists,attorneys and journalists is set up to

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g ight-W i ng OffensiveMounts Attack

Thus, the growth of reactionarygroups is a phenomenon that is nation-wide, aided by a massive infusion ofmoney from corporations and the richwho are determined not to lose their gripon power during the growing economiccrtisis. Although this article has focussedupon the growth of reactionary forces oncollege campuses, similar forces remainat work in the community. They haveplayed a key role in stopping the EqualRights Amendment, in stirring up a

living on Argentine soil for over acentury. The British who now appear soconcerned for the welfare of theislanders, have, in the past, sent boats tothe islands about once or twice a yearand then only to reap the few resourcesthe islanders produce. Argentine boatsand aircraft visit there almost weekly todeliver food stuffs, supplies, medicine,etc. Argentina has provided the islanderswith free medical aid, including ferryingemergency cases to mainland hospitals.The islanders have only a primary schoolsystem on the island. Britain offers noupper level schooling, whereas

advise the new pro.capitalist government.Ideally the economy is restructuredaccording to the theories of MiltonFriedman, as in Chile.

Of those examples under discussion,only in Chile has the final stage beenreached. That was because the CIA failedin its frenzied attempts to throw theelections of 1970 and 1973. In Jamaica theCIA suffered a defeat in the 1976 electionsand came prepared for the 1980 campaignwith both military and electoral options.

Contrary to the Chilean example,success was achieved for the CIA inJamaica in the third stage, psychologicalwarfare. That stage is currently well underway in Nicaragua. Timely and firmdefensive measures, and particularlyeducation of the populace to the nature ofpsychological warfare, can and willprevent a CIA succeu there.

renewed surge of racism, sexism andanti-gay bigorty, in creating a climatewhere the mounting attacks against therights of labor are not only tolerated, butall too often successful.

These groups are on the offensive,nation-wide. And only through massmobilizations, through exposing andcounter-attacking the real enemies, byrecapturing the initiative and thepopular imagination can the left hope tocounter this thrust and revitalize themovement fighting to bring peoplecontrol over their own lives.(opies of all articles and documents re/~,rred

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Argentina offers secondary andUniversity education free of charge.There is no reason to argue why theislanders have in general chosen to sidewith Britain, since traditionally peoplehave almost always sided with those withwhom they have closer cultural andethnic ties. Argentine understands thatcultural ancestry is the only reason thatthe islanders have supported the British,but it appears the media has not.

On the issue of U.N. resolutions, surethe U.N. Res.#502 calls on Argentina tocease hostilities and withdraw from theislands. But did you know that U.N.Res.#2065 put forth some 15 years agocalled on Britain to sit down seriously, tonegotiate with a variety of groups toresolve the issue of sovereignty, therebyeliminating the last few remnants of the

would you feel? Galtieri admitted earlyin April that in the past,’one sure fire wayto force someone to return to negotiate isto make it in their best interest tonegotiate.

Unfortunately, the media’s neglect offacts like these (and there are numerousothers) have almost intentionally swayedpublic opinion in favor of the Britons.Although recent events are beginning toshow who may have been more justifiedin their claims, there is no doubt in theReagan administration’s mind (orwhatever they use) who they want to win.Anti-American slogans are appearingwith increased intensity, and what isparticularly unfortunate is thatAmericans in Argentina will bear thebrunt of the abuse all through the foolishactions of the dismal duo, Haig andReagan.

We have all heard that Americanshave formed an opinion, but there aremany that question the evidence overwhich these opinions were formed. Evenfewer know what the distortions and theeliminations are, and where theyoccured. The media, for the few goodintentions they say they have, havebecome the epitome of the hypocrit.

--Mark Pratarelli

colonial era. The Falkland Islands wereamong the colonies listed. It is alsoworth noting that the islands were takenby force in 1833, and Argentinians thenresiding there or stationed there werechased away. However, the real issue inthe Argentines’ eyes is that the Britishhave for over a century failed to dedicatethemselves to any serious negotiation.Many people don’t know that inFebruary of this year the Britishcountered an Argentine proposal bysaying they were going to suspendnegotiations for some 25 years until theyresolved more pressing problems. Howevil

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Palestine...Toward Solmlem

If, in the speculative absence of anymigration of European Jews during thiscentury, the Jewish community inPalestine had organized and fought fornational self-determination it wouldprobably have won widespread supportfrom the Left and from other ThirdWorld national liberation movements,despite the fact that it would haverepresented an aspect of autonomyfrom--but not necessarily oppositionto--the Arab national liberationstruggle. The situation would have beenmuch less complex than the actual onetoday. But it remains the Jews of non-European ancestry, the Sephardi, thatmay hold the key to Israel’s relationswith the Arab world within theforseeable future. They are mostly ofNorth African and Middle-Easternancestry and they comprise the majorityof Jews today in Israel. They facediscrimination from European Jews,called Ashkenazi, in Israel and haveshown signs of a much greateridentification with the oppressed peoplesof other parts of the Third World, withone large exception. They are todaymore militantly anti-Arab than theAshkenazi are. There is a material basisfor this in recent history.

The Arab regimes in many instancesreacted to the establishment of the stateof Israel by punishing the Jews living intheir own countries. Many Sephardiwere deported or had their propertyexpropriated, despite the fact that theyhad litle to do with what was going on inPalestine. Many migrated to Israel, andhad even less choice in the matter thanthe Ashkenazis who preceded them.Even Yasser Ararat once criticized theLibyan regime for penalizing LibyanJews for things Israeli Jews were doing.The prospects for the Jews of Israelagreeing within the imaginable future tothe PLO’s proposal of a ’democratic,secular state’ (even a socialist one asHilton Obinzinger and other members of

the Jewish Alliance Against Zionismsuggest as the only real democraticpossibility) is nil. Israeli Jews will fight tomaintain self-determination.

A socialist Palestinian state on theWest Bank and Gaza Strip could,however, establish a basis for theeventual achievement of many of theobjectives of the PLO and of Israeli Jewsas well. Peaceful relations withneighboring states could free the IsraeliJewish workers to concentrate onabolishing the Israeli bourgeoisie,building socialism and internationalistcooperation with Arab workers. Mutualpermanent residence agreements couldredress Palestinian Arabs’ aspirations toreturn to their homeland and Jews’aspirations to be free to live in Palestine(and perhaps even eventuallyreconstruct disrupted Jewishcommunities in the Middle-East andelsewhere). Socialist cooperationbetween a revolutionary Israel and arevolutionary Palestinian state coulddevelop federation and stept towardforms of shared citizenship. UntilPalestinian Arabs and Israeli Jewsmutually recognize their rights to self-determination, nothing positive can beexpected.

For the forseeable future, the forces ofbourgeois and feudal reaction within theArab world and the forces ofimperialism will continue to strive tothwart all truly internationalist socialiststruggles in the Middle East. Thus even iftoday’s Israel and all neighboring Arabstates entered into treaties similar to theCamp David accords, the oppression ofArab and Jewish workers and peasantswould remain a time-bomb. Meanwhile,the Israeli regime is as bourgeois,repressive and barbaric as any in thecapitalist world and progressive peoplemnust struggle to differentiate betweenopposition to this regime and supportfor t.he historic right of Israeli Jews toself-determination. Support only for theright of Palestinian Arabs to self-determination will not !ead to a solution.

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Review: Vietnam War

After every war in which America hasfought, history books have interpretedthat war to suceeding generations byemphasizing the necessity ofinvolvement and defending thecorrectness and morality of America’swartime role and conduct.

After the Vietnam war this tendnecyto justify US involvement to the bitterend became most noticeable. As the U.S.government had lost its good nameduring the war, an almost campaign-likeeffort was made to reestablish thepublic’s confidence in the system. Aproduct of this effort in 1982 is NormanPodhoretz’s book "Why We Were inVietnam" (Simon & Schuster. 1982.$13.95). In his book Podhoretz. editor ofCommentary and high-brow hR-man forthe neo-conservative movement.discusses why we went in, stayed in andgot out of Vietnam. Podhoretz quotessources selectively and cleverly twiststheir conclusions to fit his purposes. Forinstance, for a discussion of the 1968 Tetoffensive, Podhoretz relies on PeterBraestrup’s massive study "Big Story"which argues that the media turned aVietcong defeat into a communistpropaganda victory with the result thatmany Americans turned against the war.Where Braestrnp means that the media’smisinterpretations was a matter ofinadequate journalism rather than aquestion of ideology, Podhoretz, notsatisfied, goes one step further. Heclaims that it was the media and anti-

war activists who were America’s realenemies because they dared to questionthe efficacy of U.S. poficy in Vietnam.The worst enemies, Podhoretz believes,were intellectuals like Susan Sontag andMary McCarthy who, by defending theNorth Vietnamese, lent credibility tosuch "dangerous radicals as JaneFonda."

The purpose of Podhoretz’s polemic isobviously the legitimization of theVietnam war. "Why .We Were inVietnam" would most certainly not befavorably received by authors WilliamL. Griffen and John Marciano. In theirimportant book "Teaching the VietnamWar--A Critical Examination of SchoolTexts" (1979), they have examined the most common textbooks on Vietnamused in high schools and colleges acrossthe country Their argument is that therehasn’t been a conscious conspiracy todeceive a generation about the truth ofthe Vietnam war but that throughgrants, by the money made available forcertain films, and through textbookselection a long tradition of uncriticalpatriotism has been reinforced.

Vietnam won’t go away. And we havenot yet learned its lessons. What isneeded is a new school of analysis tobalance the endless stream ofpropagandistic history of whichPodhoretz’s latest is part, so as to givethis and coming generations a fairchance to judge for themselves.

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FALWELLWANTSYOURBABY!

Pregnant and desperate? video Bible-thumper Jerry Falwell wants your baby.Falwell’s Moral Majority recentlylaunched a Save-A-Baby campaign to~teer women with pregnancies awayfrom abortion clinics and into thecustody of his congregation. If the~oman’s family will not support herduring the pregnancy, she will be housed,,~lth a "Christian" family in a "sheperdhome" until she delivers. If the motherdecides to offer the baby for adoption,the baby will be given to a Christianlamily, thus saving two lives: the "fallengtrl," who wil be born again; and thebaby, who will be given a "real start" in al=alwell-blessed home.

So far only five pregnant women haveresponded to the Save-a-Baby pitch,which was delivered on Falwelrs Old7~rne Gospel Hour TV show. ButFal~elrs goal is to produce 100,000unwanted children this year.

Falwell is also using the Save-A-Babyappeal in the direct-mail advertising tosqueeze more money out ofcontributors. Part of these donationswill pay for a "Tomb for the UnbornBaby," to be constructed on a Virginiamountain "in memory of the millions ofaborted babies that have died in Americasince Januaty 22, 1973" (the day theSuoreme Court legalized abortion). In~,’turn for $15, Falw’elrs group sendsdonors a "Precious Feet" lapel pin ,whose tiny toes and arches are"approximately the size of a baby’s feetin its mother’s womb, ten weeks afterconception."

Save-a-Baby director Dave Flemingsays the program helps young womenlearn the joys of self-control anddomestic labor: "We all ought to be ableto control ourselves and abstain frompremarti~l sex. There were one and ahalf million abortions in this country lastyear--sin caused that. The act offornication and adultery." While undersupervision in the sheperd homes, thepregnant women--many of whom willbe teen-agars--will be taught "sewing,housework, personal hygiene" and otherfemale functions.

Not suprisingly, reproduction rightsgroups are appalled by Falweli’s newcampaign. "They are manipulatingyoung pregnant women in the mostgrotesque way," says Jill Benderly, co-chairperson of the Committee ForAbortions Rights and AgainstSterilization Abuse. "Not only do theycoerce women to bear a child, but theyalso attempt to brain wash her whileshe’s in their custody. It’s another formof female slavery."

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It Was Just OneYoung Boy?

Ronald and Nancy Reagan werebooed by members of the audience asthey entered the presidential box at theJFK Center for the Performance Arts inWashington on March 10 to watch aballet performance. Although only aminority of the 2,200 people werebooing, the loud boos appeared to becoming from several sections of theauditorium. There had been no publicannouncement that the Reagans wouldbe attending the performance that night.

An official who has been with theKennedy Center since it first opened saidthis was the first time any president hasbeen booed there. Even Richard Nixonwas never booed. Each president sinceNixon has visited the center at least once.The unnamed official added that hewould "certainly agree" that more thanone person was booing. During theintermission, the Reagans were asked byreporters why they thought the booinghad secured. Nancy chimed in with, "Itwas just one young boy, just one youngboy!" to which Ronnie added, "Heprobably had a broken spring in hisseat."

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Why Wer’re InEl Salvador

Representative Robert K. Dornan,California Republican, asserted (onpublic televisions’s .¢trNeil-l.ehrerReport) that if the US military andeconomic aid were withdrawn from ElSalvador, there would be "a flood ofbusboys to Miami."

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Peeling Paint atthe Pentagon

How can people busy protectingAmerican power abroad be expected towork in poorly painted offices at home?Faced with peeling and dirty walls,courageous generals and admirals at thePentagon have taken matters into theirown hands by covering unsightlyblemishes with plaques, maps, andweapons photos. Some have even takenthe ultimate step--painting their officesthemselves.

Unfortunately, this sort of individualinitiative meets official disapproval atthe Pentagon. Although the Pentagonpaint crews are way behind, the buildingadministrator claims that "we can’t havejust anybody painting. Some might do itall fight, but others would slop paint allover the place." And sloppy paint in highplaces would certainly send the wrongmessage to Moscow.

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William F. Baxter, chief of the JustmeDepartment’s antitrust division, asquoted in the New York Times: "No onein his right mind could possibly supposethere was a connection between theconcentration of economic markets andpolitical power."

Progressive

Ma Bell PicksUp Your Tab?

There has been a recent, dramatic risein long-distance calls which are billed tofederal agencies in Washington. TheFederal Trade Commission, forexample, was billed for $5,000 inpersonal calls placed from othernumbers during February alone. TheBell System has been unable to find theperpetrators and have picked up the tab.

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Live SpongesFor Nukes

Leaky steam generator tubes innuclear plants mean large numbers of"jumpers" are hired by the utilities tojump into the generators to effectrepairs. These temporary workersreceive burnout (3 rein) doses within few 30-90 second exposures, and arecommonly known in the industry assponges.

South Dade News

Question ParentalAuthority

Two groups in Baltimore, the familyProtection Lobby and the LibertyLobby have pressured the Baltimoretelevision station WJZ.into cancellingpublic service announcements thatencouraged abused children to ask forhelp. The announcement, produced bythe US Departemtn of Health andHuman Services and urging abmedchildren to speak to a teacher orminister, were labeled by the groups as"undermining parental authority."

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SufferingSuffrage

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When Phyllis Schafly arrived mCleveland Feburary 12, local feministswere ready with an action designed toupstage her. To challenge Schafly’scharacterization of her opponents asbitter, disillusioned career women, thePro-Choice Action Committeetransformed itself into "Ladies AgainstWomen" (LAW), whose motto is: "I’dRather Be Ironing."

Sporting pillbox hats and whitegloves, about 75 "ladies" gathered infront of the City Club, a privateluncheon enclave for business tndprofessional people and self-proclaimed"Citadel of Free Speech," where Schaflywas to speak. Members of LAW andCHICKS (Coalition for HarboringIndefinite Chastity and KaffeeklatschSentimentality. aka Akron NationalOrganization for Women) waved signsthat read, "Suffering not Suffrage,""Sperm Are People Too," and "You’reNobody Till You’re Mrs. Somebody,"and chanted, "Hit us again! Hit usAgain! Harder! Harder!," and "59¢ is to-o-o much!"

In advance publicity, LAW claimedthe rally was co-sponsored by suchgroups as Another Mother for WorldDomination, The Vulture League,League to Protect Separate Bathrooms.Bedtime For Bonzo Anti-EvolutionLeague, Voices of the Unconcieved.Future Fetuses of America and theNational Association for theAdvancement of Rich White StraightMen. A tounge-in-cheek statementreleased the day of the event washowever, signed by the chapters of theNational Organization of Women, theNational Abortion Rights ActionLeague, Women’s International Leaguefor Peace and Freedom, Coalition ofLabor Union Women, and other groups.

No LAW members belong to the CityClub, but about a dozen attendedSchafly’s speech as guests. Their beadedand feathered hats, laceyhandkerchiefs,ropes of pearls,and ubiquitous whitegloves dotted the business-suited crowd.Photographers flocked around twowomen who appeared barefoot andpregnant.

.Schafly’s speech entitled, "Do we wanta Gender-free SocietyT’ evoked imagesof women forced into military combat,and children deprived of "round-the-clock, self sacrificing, loving care." MostLAW members maintained theirladylike poses, punctuating her crisprhetoric with gasps of horror. (LAW, ofcourse, opposes a gender-frec society."We can’t just hand out genders free toanyone who wants them, argue BarbaraWinslow. "The only thing that should befree in America is the market.")

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Nuclear Crack willPlug Themselves

A Rockwell International Corp.engineer has reported that due to theaerosol nature of radioactive releases,even a 30 inch diameter hole in a reactorcontainment building will eventually beplugged up by the escapingradionuclides adhering to the edges ofthe crack. In the case of a 10.4 inchdiameter crack only 147 pounds of thera#ioactive aerosol would escape beforethe hole plugged itself.

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