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...Calf, Solzhenitsyn makes a great deal of my supposed naivete, my impracticality and especially my susceptibility to "pernicious" influences. Among those who (in his view) have hitched themselves to "this strange, huge, conspicuous balloon, which was soaring to the heights without engine or petrol" -- me -- Solzhenitsyn's sharpest, if covert, thrusts are aimed at my wife. Her "deleterious" influence, he suggests, led me to harp on emigration by Jewish refuseniks -- people "who did not feel that Russia was their own country...
...being heard, even from those known for their enduring commitment to Israel. Last week it came from the most unlikely voice of all. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the principal pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S., warned Acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that his government's covert sponsorship of a Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem was seriously threatening U.S.-Israeli relations, and might even lead American Jews to cut back their financial support of Israel...
Taylor presents convincing evidence to the contrary: the groups have become less obvious to the police simply because they have shifted into more covert and more profitable enterprises. "Detroit kids just laugh when they hear people in L.A. are still wearing colors," says Taylor. "What's sweeping this city are what I call CEOs -- covert entrepreneurial organizations. They do not wear gold chains or beepers or Fila sweatsuits anymore. They're probably wearing ragged clothes and driving ratty cars. They've seceded from the union...
This is where the similarity between Blacks and homosexuals ends. Liberals have suggested that Blacks, gays, other minorities and women should band together to fight discrimination. For Blacks this would do no good. We already have civil rights laws that ironically proclaim our legal equality. We must now fight covert as well as systematic persecution that have prevented equality of opportunity for our people. By banding together, each group would lose the individual message of their unique situation. Blacks gain nothing in standing beside gays. This only clouds the true problems of Black America...
...rate in commercial bank failures. Some of the wrongdoing may even be traced to the CIA. According to the Houston Post, the intelligence agency had connections with 22 now failed thrifts, whose officers used depositors' funds for loans to CIA operatives involved in "gunrunning, drug smuggling, money laundering and covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras." The House Select Committee on Intelligence promised last week to look into the charges, which the CIA has denied...