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American airline employees are also unaccustomed to recognizing suspicious behavior. For example, in 1991 Isaac Yeffet, former director of worldwide security for El Al and a 30-year veteran of the Israeli secret service, sent a TV producer with a hidden camera to buy tickets, using cash, at New York airports under the names of several well-known terrorists, including Abu Nidal. The producer did so, with ease. Yeffet says he pleaded in vain during congressional testimony after the Lockerbie tragedy for a more effective airport-security plan. "Unfortunately," he says, "it is easier to talk to a wall than...
...blown away by the article on the [nightclub and restaurant chain] House of Blues [MUSIC, July 1]. I could not believe that its founder, Isaac Tigrett, suggested the black community had turned its back on the blues music genre. How could this middle-aged yuppie white man make an intelligent assessment of the role blues has in our community? Blues is a result of the racism, poverty and hopelessness felt in the black ghetto, experiences Tigrett has never been familiar with. For the record, blues music was never ignored by the black community; it has simply manifested itself in different...
...audience. When I asked an older gentleman why more in his community didn't attend, he put his hand on my shoulder and said solemnly, "Son, my people have been livin' the blues for 200 years; most see no sense spending their time listening to it." I agree with Isaac Tigrett's comment that it is a tragedy "the black community abandoned the blues and the audience became white." Bravo to Tigrett for taking this American art form out of the little clubs and into the world! PHIL LOBEL Los Angeles
Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories. It wasn't quite fair even then; early works by authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke relied as much on clever plot twists and thought-provoking views of societal evolution as on visions of rocket ships and interplanetary travel. Still, there was sufficient truth for the stereotype to sting...
Still, Tigrett seems to revel in being the bad boy of the blues, the Dennis Rodman of an authentic American musical form. "I came to the Blues Foundation symposium last year, and one of the lectures was titled: 'Isaac Tigrett, House of Blues: Devil or Angel?' " says Tigrett with a laugh. "And I went down there, and I said, 'I am the devil.' I said, 'I'm going to take this music and take it away from small-minded people who want to keep it in dirty little clubs. And I'm going to do what I do best...