IN MEMORIUM:
David Dellinger, One of the Chicago Seven, Dies
By David Gram, AP, 5/26/04
Peace activist David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven arrested and tried for their part in the violent anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, has died at 88. Dellinger died Tuesday, said Peggy Rocque, administrator of Heaton Woods, the Montpelier retirement home where the activist had been living. Dellinger was a pacifist who devoted much of his life to protesting. A member of the Old Left whose first arrest came in the 1930s during a union-organizing protest at Yale, he was a generation older than his Yippie co-defendants in the Chicago Seven case.
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WEEKEND QUOTES
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
- - President Merkin Muffley
http://wso.williams.edu/~mhacker/strangelove.html
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
- - Muhammed Ali (sentenced June 5th, 1967 to 5 years in prison for refusing the be drafted for Vietnam)
"I talk regularly with our son. I've been doing that since he was a little kid. It's not always about policy. It's not, What do you think, Dad, I should be doing?' That kind of thing. It is more the relationship of a very close family staying in touch, one with the other."
- - George H.W. Bush (former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, NY Times, 9/14/01)
"Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization."
- - Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin, born June 5th, 1799, Russian author, often considered his country's greatest poet & founder of modern Russian literature.
JUNE 5th IN HISTORY
1878 -- Mexico: Revolutionist Francisco "Pancho" Villa lives, San Juan del Rio, Durango. Same day, in 1978, México issues 100th anniversary Pancho Villa stamp series. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/panvill.html
1968 -- Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy shot by in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic party; dies. A former staff member for Red-baiter Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 50s Witch Hunts, recast as a populist in his quest for the White House. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was convicted of the murder.
JUNE 6th IN HISTORY
1884 -- Worlds first roller coaster opens, Coney Island, New York City, USA http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/4162/
1897 -- Crazy as Foxes?: Frank Samuelson & George Harvo set out in a small open rowboat from New York Harbor to row across the Atlantic in the 18 foot "Richard K. Fox." With no mast or sails (only 5 spare pairs of oars), they pulled constantly for 55 days, reaching St. Mary's in the Scilly Islands (off England) in 55 days.
1916 -- US: Founding of National Women's Party.
In 1923 the National Women's Party pushes an Equal Rights Amendment in Congress. But many women's groups, especially those tied to the labor movement, oppose the effort. The amendment sparks a dispute that rages among feminists even in the 1990s. Some say the sexes are very similar &, therefore, women deserve equal treatment. Others oppose it because, they say, women are superior in many ways. By the 1960s, the party's membership shrinks to just a few hundred - mostly veterans of the suffrage movement who have endured jail terms & force-feedings during hunger strikes. A new generation of feminists label them "little old ladies in tennis shoes."
1935 -- Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tibetan spiritual leader, lives.
1944 -- D-Day, 150,000 Allied troops invade the beaches of Normandy, France.
1949 -- England: George Orwell's 1984 published. 25,000 printed. 23,000 sell in 4 months.
In Huxley's dystopia, there were no big brothers to watch over us. As far as he was concerned, none were needed. As Postman summarized: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one . . . Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us, Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. In 1984 . . . people are controlled by inflicting pain, in Brave New World they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. "In short, Orwell feared that we hate what will ruin us," Postman concluded, "Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell
1960 -- J. Edgar Hoover memo says Lee Harvey Oswald currently in Moscow may be an imposter. Doesn't mention cross-dressing.
1961 -- Archetypal psychoanalyst Carl Jung dies, Küsnacht, Switzerland. Some of his theories are the basis of a form of literary criticism known as Archetypal Critic.
"Only the good die Jung." http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rsauzier/Jung.html
1966 -- Author Truman Capote holds famous "Black & White Ball" - widely regarded as most glittering bas of the decade.
1968 -- Comedian Dick Gregory begins hunger strike in Olympia, Washington jail after his arrest in support of Nisqually fishing rights.
1968 -- Robert Kennedy passes.
1971 -- AIM camps atop Mount Rushmore; in the sacred Black Hills. 20 are arrested.
1982 -- Lebanon: Israel invades south Lebanon to destroy PLO military bases. They stay until this day in 1985, but for a narrow security zone.
1981 -- In the US, a backlog of 6,000 Haitians facing deportation hearings.
1981 -- Maya Yang Lin wins American competition for design of the Vietnam War Memorial.
1982 -- Lebanon: Israel invades south Lebanon to destroy PLO military bases. They stay until this day in 1985, but for a narrow security zone.
1982 -- US: Antinuclear rally draws 85,000 people to the Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Wonder & Tom Petty perform.
1983 -- Nicaragua: Three US diplomats expelled for plotting to kill the foreign minister.
1984 -- India: Sikh Temple at Amirtsar occupied by Indian Army, 300 slain.
1988 -- Fun-damentalist media watchdog Donald Wildmon claims he's seen Mighty Mouse snorting cocaine in a recent Saturday morning cartoon. Though animator Ralph Bakshi explains the rodent was sniffing flowers, the scene is cut from future broadcasts.
1989 -- Greenpeace officials announce at least 50 nuclear weapons & 9 nuclear reactors, the products of U.S. & Soviet naval accidents, were lost on the ocean floor since World War II. Using data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the group (in conjunction with the Institute for Policy Studies) found over 2,000 major peacetime naval accidents have occurred since 1945, resulting in some 2,800 deaths. Accidents ranged from loss of an entire vessel & crew to minor collisions & fires that left little damage & some injuries.
1989 -- Sacramento, California citizens have had enough of "low-cost & safe" nuclear power; Rancho Seco nuke plant vote shuts it down. There was a near melt-down (an event surprisingly covered-up until after the Chernobyl disaster in Russia) in 1985.
2012 -- Transit of Venus occurs. Rapid Transit Tickets go on sale tomorrow @ Recollection Used Books.
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THE BOTTOM LINE
Like Father, Like Son
by Harley Sorensen, by the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, July 21, 2003
Here are three of my favorite quotes:
- "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
- "It depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
- "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile."
The first two quotes, as everybody knows, were uttered by former President Bill Clinton. The last, published in the May 17, 2002, New York Times, was attributed to Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor to President George W. Bush. All three quotes fall into the broad category of obfuscation, telling the literal truth with intent to deceive.
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