OUR PRO-SOVIET GHERKIN
<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 the
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
associate
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'. -- Juergen on Larry Parr
It was not I but the Fabian Webbs who told us
that under socialism there would be only one brand of
fountain pen. Greg Kennedy begs to differ. And, too,
Greg's duplication of effort notion is what the Webbs
had in mind.
The problem is that societies that organize
from above to produce single-brand economies leave
people living like dogs.
And those fountain pens will be produced so
that every family can have a new one (one pen for
family, to be sure) every five years or so. In his
bitterness at his own failure in life, Greg imagines
he coulda been THAT contendah had he grown
up in Moscow and been trained by a Soviet master.
Juergen, our pro-Soviet Gherkin, is right that
the NY City Tribune was connnected with the Rev. Moon,
just as the highly respected Wa****ngton Times is owned
but not managed, by the Rev. Moon.
As for Glasnost News & Review, which I
edited, roughly 300+ members of the U.S. Congress
subscribed. Current Demo. House Whip Steny Hoyer was
on our board of advisers, as was Sen. Robert Dole,
Jeane Kirkpatrick and Rep. Tom Lantos. Among those
who contributed generously to the Center for Democracy
was -- strangely enough, I guess you could say -- I.
F. Stone, who early in his career wrote tracts
excusing the Soviet attack on Hungary. To give Izzy
Stone some credit, he was notably contrite when we
discussed his early years on a number of occasions.
The difference is that our Juergen never learned and
still seethes with hatred of the hundreds of millions
of people who threw off communism.
Sorry, Juergen, good Gherkin.
Among the contributors to the magazine I
edited were Boris Yeltsin (when he was mayor of
Moscow) Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, his
wife Elena Bonner, the late U.S. ambassador to the
U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Father Gleb Yakunin, etc.
Sorry, Juergen, good Gherkin. I know it
hurts. Gawd, how it must hurt a Soviet apologist.
Now, just toddle off there.
The Historian wrote:
> On May 10, 5:04 am, J?rgen 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 the
> > 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
associate
> > 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
>
> From 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.
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