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...hearings over the past three years. The highlight was an icy confrontation in May 1989 between Baltimore and John Dingell, the powerful chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. At the time, the scientific community rallied behind Baltimore, one of its brightest stars, calling the hearings a "witch hunt" and Dingell a "new McCarthy." Dingell called in the Secret Service, which began going over lab notebooks with the forensic equivalent of an electron microscope...
...course, as many historians are quick to point out, there was a certain level of legitimate concern about Soviet spies in post--World War II United States. But what McCarthyism did was to take that legitimate concern and turn it into a full-scale witch hunt...
Mazowiecki is cautioning his countrymen that economic experiments could bring disaster and warns that an anti-Communist witch-hunt could lead to civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
...Married a Witch (Columbia; Michael Grais and Mark Victor) The writers of Poltergeist I and II want to capture the spirit yet again. But this one sounds like a feature-length Bewitched rehash. And probably not as funny...
...predicted "a witch hunt" against her and her supporters would follow...