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...search for peace continued last week. In El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with representatives of Marxist-led guerrillas; they failed to sign a cease-fire but agreed to keep talking. More surprising, negotiators for the Guatemalan government and leftist rebels conferred in Madrid. They issued a terse statement claiming, "Both sides consider that the climate of the talks was satisfactory." That was the first hint that either side might be willing to settle a brutal guerrilla war that has claimed 30,000 lives in the past 16 years...
...worst outcome for the U.S. in Nicaragua would be that the contras would wither away as more and more rebels accepted a Sandinista amnesty, and that the Sandinistas would then repeal the few steps they have taken toward democracy. The U.S. would thus be left to deal with a Marxist dictatorship that had cemented itself in power. There is a real danger that by proposing military aid to the contras, which Congress is almost certain to refuse, and by holding out for pure democracy in Nicaragua, Reagan will isolate the U.S. from peace negotiations that are likely to go forward...
Worst of all, the article is a McCarthyite smear of my intellectual and personal integrity. I am not a marxist. I deny it, not because I find the label offensive, but for the simple reason that I am not. There is a great tradition of marxist scholarship both here and in Europe, which has influenced me like many other scholars of all political leanings in my generation. However, while respecting and learning from this tradition of scholarship, I have long disagreed with most of its basic tenets. The most cursory reading of my works should make this clear...
...being a marxist, I have never belonged to a marxist or even a socialist party. If the author of your red-baiting article was troubled by the fact that I was a special advisor to Prime Minister Michael Manley he should have attended my highly critical lecture on the Manley regime. Better still, he should have been manly enough to ask me directly just what was the nature of my advice to the Prime Minister. This, too, is no secret, since I have published widely on the subject. There was really no need for the diatribist to have cornered...
Bork's major statement in the free press area came in a 1984 ruling in which he concurred in the dismissal of a libel suit brought by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist college professor, against the conservative columnists Evans and Novak. In language that went beyond Supreme Court decisions on the matter (and which provoked a sharp rebuttal joined by his then colleague Antonin Scalia), Bork wrote that a "remarkable upsurge" in libel suits and damage awards "has threatened to impose a self-censorship on the press" as effective as government censorship. Because the core value of a free press...