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...hunger strike may be in order, Mr. Murphy. If you don't feel like doing it, you may be able to pay the Lyndon LaRouche supporter sitting in the Square...
Larew on LaRouche: If you've walked through the Square this week, you've probably noticed the forlorn activist by the T-station who has launched a solitary hunger strike to free Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a former communist turned right-wing fanatic, is now serving a 15 year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion. The convictions stem from a credit card scam in which LaRouche's operatives stole more than $2 million...
From his perch on the fringe of the American political spectrum, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has accused Queen Elizabeth II of drug trafficking and blamed the International Monetary Fund for creating and spreading the AIDS virus. Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, among others, have earned spots on his list of Communist spies. But last week LaRouche gave his conspiracy theories a more personal and self-aggrandizing touch. In an Alexandria, Va., courtroom, he declared that as a result of his conviction last month on fraud charges, "the vital interests of the United States have been put in jeopardy." A four...
...Gentleman from the New York Times calling out to House Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Leader Tom Foley, who have just visited President Bush at the White House: "Come on over here and dump on them." Recall Lyndon Johnson's characterization of this singular capital: "A lot of people just love to feel bad in this city, everybody attacking everybody else, always telling you why you can't or shouldn't do something you ought to. The way up seems to be to chop somebody else down...
...home, the strain of the war effort was rubbing harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly invisible enemy. Nonetheless, official American confidence was largely unshaken. The Communist enemy was believed by Lyndon Johnson's White House to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...