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...began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American - we're flag crazed to the point of silliness - and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down...
DIED. HOWARD FAST, 88, best-selling author of vivid historical novels of social justice, including Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...employs is what he calls the clarity art. The clarity art seems to entail making a lot of statements like "There are things that are so sensitive that if I talked about them in a public forum, I would be looked upon badly. I would be called un-American. It would be a bad, bad thing, so it's better for me not to say it." Maybe he is a little nuts...
...history of backing coups in foreign countries shows what can happen when geopolitical games distort our democratic ideals. Democracy and free speech are universal freedoms, the natural rights of all people. For us to criticize our democratic country for the actions of the CIA makes us not un-American but truly the best of Americans. JEROME MCCOLLOM West Milwaukee...
...play about the literary feud between Hellman and Mary McCarthy. To be sure, these two writers are remembered at least as much for their spoken words as for the ones they put on paper. Hellman, the playwright and longtime leftist, made a famous show of defiance before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." McCarthy, an essayist and novelist who couldn't abide Hellman's politics or penchant for mixing fact and fiction, offered a put-down for the ages on TV's Dick Cavett Show: "Every...