Re: The Match That Wasn't

On May 10, 5:04 am, J=FCrgen R. <jurg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >      I will post an article that I wrote a year or so
> > before the collapse of the Soviet Union that appeared
> > in the old NY City Tribune as well as Glasnost News
> > & Review dealing with the single-brand-fountain-pen-no-
> > capitalist-waste type of economic logic.
>
> Just to put in perspective who this fruitcake is:
>
> NY Times: January 5, 1991
> The New York City Tribune, a Monday-through-Friday newspaper founded by
th=
e
> Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1976, suspended publication yesterday. The
paper's
> paid circulation, which reached a peak of 400,000 during the newspaper
> strike of 1978, had dwindled to 12,000, said Thomas D. Zumbo, the
associat=
e
> editor. News World Communications, which owns The Tribune, described the
> suspension as a tem****ary "rest" forced by a poor economy.
>
> The other 'Journal', 'Glasnost News & Review', rated no
> mention when it began, nor when it went broke. But it
> is clear that it was a channel for unfiltered Cold War
> jibberish, news re****ts such as 'Russian ballpoints are
> even splotchier than ours'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Parr

=46rom a 1990 article in Whole Earth Review:
Glasnost: Larry Parr, US. Editor. $24/year (6 issues) from Center for
Democracy in the USSR, 358 W 30th Street/Suite 1-A, New York, NY
10001; 212/967-2027.

The Center for Democracy in the USSR shut down in 1991.