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majordiseases which arepolitical.
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24 CULTURECRASH ByJohn Krich
As SoutheastAsianrefugees bringtheir war tothecouch, U.S.
therapistsfind somekey assumptionsabout Western psychiatryare
beingshot down. IntoAfrica: the prodigal daughter
returns.Fictionp. 34
28 MASTEROF DISASTER By David Beers
Once dismissed asirrelevant,Newt Gingrich ledthe charge against
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ful Republicanin theHouse. Now the self-styled ethicsczar is
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DEPARTMENTS
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theTV? Edna
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—this timeon aglobal scale.
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right to pollute. battles,butnotthewar.p.24
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Landau's Castro throughgay sex." over 50 percent of this irreplaceable re-
In fact, Gay and LesbianAdolescentSo- source. The timber industry of the Pacific
Saul Landau ("After Castro,"July/August cial Services (GLASS) has been providing Northwestcanbeexpected tofightthis park
'89) seems to think that Castro single- long-term,residential group home care for proposalwith alloftheeconomicandpoliti-
HIV-infected and"atrisk"teens since 1984. cal support it can muster.
handedlybrought about thetremendousim-
provementsin housing,schooling,etc., that Our foster care program, Triangle Project, For more information contact: Siskiyou
Cubahas seensince theRevolution.Not so. also provides long- and short-term foster National Park Campaign, 522 S.W. Fifth,
Castro has had a little help: $30 billion in placementfor gay and lesbian and HIV-in- Suite 1050, Portland, OR 97204; (503)
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have died ofAIDS, and for drug-dependent BRUCEAMSBARY
day by now.Andthat doesn't include mili- Exec. Dir., Siskiyou NationalPark Campaign
and HIV-infected infants.
tary aid. Plus, Cubahas a favorable trade Portland,Oregon
Aslongaswe havebeds available, wewill
agreement wherebyit imports petroleum at
artificially low prices. Granted, Castro de- accept any youngsterunderthe age ofeigh- In his article "The Next Four National
serves somecredit—I'msure there aresome teen from anywherein the country. Parks,"Wallace holds upJapanas an exam-
Third World dictatorswhocould blow $30 TERESA DECRESCENZO
ExecutiveDirector, GLASS ple to emulate based on the percentage of
billion—buthehasn'tworked miracles. West Hollywood, California land thatithasdeclarednationalparks. This
COLIN RUST isvery unfortunategivenJapan's poor envi-
Toronto,Ontario I am a boardmemberof several AIDS ser- ronmental protection record at home and
"After Castro" was perceptiveandprovoca- vice and education organizations. As a abroad.
tive. It mentionedthe Cuban military victo- "long-termsurvivor" of not onlyAIDSbut Despite international protests, the Japa-
ryof CuItoCuanavaleagainstthe SouthAf- of homophobia, I would like Marcus to nese governmentbacks plans to build air-
ricanforcesinsouthern Angola. know that thereis hope, and thatthere may strips over rare coral reefs and log off hab-
also be ahappy endingtohis story. itats forendangeredbirds. Japanfailsto rein
Vainly I looked for basic news about the
battle in the U.S. press. The New York Of coursepeople are dyingand will con- in its corporations that are destroyingrain
Times,which is supposedlythe newspaper tinueto doso.Moreand more,however,the forests and dumpingtoxic chemicals in
with the broadestcoverageof international medicalcommunityis changingits outlook SoutheastAsia.
events, had onlya fewminute references. in regard to survivability of people with Undeveloped landinJapanisn'tsoexpen-
This pivotal battle, which lasted several AIDS. PersonslivingwithAIDSare insisting sive. Alot oftheparkland is mountains that
months, was the decisive event that led to that they are chronically rather thantermi- nobodycan farmorbuild on. . . yet. Yes,the
the positive steps for an independent nallyill, and demandingthattheir treatment UnitedStatesand the world needtopreserve
NamibiaandpeaceinAngola. be approachedwith that factinmind. more of our vanishingecosystems. But the
CHARLESW. ARNADE Two years ago Iburied my loverofmany appeal to save wildernessareas shouldnot
Professor, InternationalStudies andHistory years. We were diagnosedwithin thirty days give credit to those working against those
University ofSouthFlorida of each other in 1985. While missing and verygoals.
Lakeland, Florida grieving for my loss and that of so many MICHIAKISOGA
Itabashi-ku, Tokyo
I seriouslyvalueyour magazineand gener- other friends, I continue to chooseto cele-
brate my life dailyandto haveitbeajoyous Anti-Shrinks Expanding
ally agree with everythingin it. But in this
case I live with conflicting facts. Saul Lan- experience.
DAVID G. FARRINGTON
dau's articleon Castro'sCubaleaves outvi- Thanks and congratulationsforrecognizing
Syracuse,NewYork
tal informationwhen it reports that Castro some of us activistsin the anti-psychiatry!
has ended illiteracy and homelessness in his The Grass Is Greener inmates' liberation movementin North
America ("The Anti-Shrinks,"July/August
country.
You see, I live in Miami, Florida, a.k.a. I was pleasedto see the piece on proposed '89). There are roughlyfifty inmates'libera-
"theother Cuba."Overthepastfifteenyears national parks ("The Next Four National tion/self-help/advocacy groups intheUnited
or so, Castro has shipped upwards of Parks," July/August '89), which included States alone. In Europe, there are at least
200,000 illiterate and/or homelessCubans what David RainsWallacedescribed as the twenty-five anti-psychiatrygroups.
to this city. OldGrowth National Park. However,there In Canada, there are fewerthanten such
Quite a solution, eh? If Landau would are important points about the proposal self-help/advocacy groups,buta number of
come to this community he would see a that he did notcover. ex-inmatesand supporters have produced
not Cuba. The generally accepted name for the na- two very radical anti-psychiatry groups:
transported, transformed,
RICC EDWARD BISHOP tional-park proposal is the SiskiyouNa- RAP (ResistanceAgainst Psychiatry),and
MiamiBeach, Florida tional Park, which calls for a park of just Phoenix Rising, the only anti-psychiatry
over one million acres.It isthe intentofthis magazinein Canada. Anew Canadianbook
SurvivingAttitudes proposal to provide permanent protection titled Shrink Resistant is helpingto support
for much of the largest remaining intact our continuingstruggle.Thanks to the net-
The importanceofnetworkingwas emphat- coastalancientforestecosystem inthelower working,we knowwe are not alone.
ically brought home to me in the second forty-eightstates. DON WEITZ
paragraph of David Kirp's article on HIV- Approximately 98 percent of the land Toronto,Ontario
infectedteens ("A Boy's Life," July/August proposed for the park is managed by the Write
'89). Kirp states that, with Marcus Robin- U.S.Forest Service and the U.S. Bureauof gestions your Mother. Sendyourreactionsand sug-
to Backtalk, MotherJones, 1663Mission
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 IATEST THINKING
By Dixon Terry

Farm Futures
Editor'snote: With his keengraspofeconomics
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ofthe NationalFamilyFarmCoalition.On the last
Sunday in May, while balinghay with his son and
father on his Iowa farm, Dixon Terry was struck
deadby lightning.He was thirty-nine.ANewYork
Timesstorypainted the sceneofhis funeral in vivid
heartland detail, but missingfrom the account was
themessage that Terrydevoted his lifeto spreading.
Here, adapted from a 1987speech, isthethinkingof
Dixon Terry.

HIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME OUR

nation has faced a far-reachingfarm
crisis threateningour soil and water
resources. Some writers mistakenly
attribute the agricultural Great
DepressionintheUnited Statesto theDustBowlera
ofdrought, blindingsandstorms,and parched earth.
In fact, the oppositewas closerto the truth. Falling
farm prices in the 1920s and '30s led first to the
abandonment of standard conservationpractices,
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make up for lower priceswith greater vol- farmers to buy back their land and make programs, because surplus production in-
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manyfarmersdid nothold onto their farms. ment provisions to halt the surplus produc- produced larger crops to try and main-
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dryupand blowaway.Insurancecompanies These three factors—specific soil conser- supply management,massive surpluses
and other lendersfarmed repossessed prop- vationprogramsfundedbythegovernment, accumulated.
ertieswith aneyetowardshort-termprofits, fair prices to farmers, and supply manage- In their advertising,agribusinesscorpora-
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the environmental recoveryof and other lenders encouraged this invest-
DixonTerry was the countryside. Those factors ment for all-outproduction. I was working
no longerexist. As a result,we asahired hand onmyparents' dairy farmin
the best spokesman may be creating another agri- the mid-seventies, and my wife and I were
cultural Great Depression, this trying to borrow money to buy our own
farmers ever had, timeon aglobalscale. farm. But our goal of starting a traditional
moderate-sized Iowa farm went against the
fighting farm Two VERY POWERFULFORCES grain of expansion-mindedlenders.Wehad
and have traditionally opposed great trouble finding lending because we
price and supply management weren'tthinking bigenough.
corporatecontrol. programs. The first are the Bythe endofthe1970s,farmerswere pro-
grain and othercommodityex- ducingata loss and were only keptin busi-
porting corporations that op- ness bytwo factorsthat went hand in hand:
The Rooseveltadministrationresponded pose pricesupport programs.They want to increasing debton inflatinglandvalues and
by forging a national policy to repair and pay farmers the lowest price possible to intensifying production. Bankersand other
restorethesoil andwater resources.Aprice maximize their profits. Secondly, agri- lenders took greater control over farming,
support mechanismkeptcommodityprices chemical firmsthat sell pesticides, fertilizer, dictating production practices, almost al-
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 BAD ATTITUDE
By Barbara Ehrenreich

Pollute the Market

The businesscommunitywas at first alarmedby the
administration'splanto sell the right to pollute. Quite
rightly, they complainedthat the right to pollute had
alwaysbeenfree inthe past. Quiteunderstandably,they
worriedthat a pricetag wouldsoonbeslappedon those
other inalienable rightsenjoyedby the corporate com-
munity: the right to befuddlethe U.S. publicwith fork-
tongued advertising, the rightto movefreelyabout the
globe in search of the hungriest, most downtrodden
employees, the right to sponsor TVprogramsso inane
as to induce the widespread neurologicaldamage on
which the corporateorder dependsfor itspeacefulcon-
tinuation,andso forth.
But not to worry! By thrusting the governmentinto
the pollutionrightsbusiness, PresidentBushmeant only
to demonstrate,once again,theundyingmagic of the
market. Many Americans,raised on Communist-in-
spireddoggerel ("To market,to market,to buy afat. .
and "Thislittle piggy goes to. ."), had come to associ-
ate the market with the more porcine side of human
nature, or to think ofit as somethingresembling a sty.
With the sale of pollution rights, the administration
hoped to establish, once and for all, that the Invisible
Hand, whichhadup untilnowbusieditselftossingfilth
into our streams and breezes, was in fact soft, gentle,
and admirablycleanunderthenails.
Of course, things didn't work out quite so nicely.
First,once the EPA publishedits pricelist, an avid and
seemingly unquenchabledemand for pollution rights
arose among the white overciass. We all know of the
great real-estatemogul who was so pleased with his
son's high gradesin tennisand wine-tastingthat he re-
wardedtheboy withthe righttopolluteamedium-sized
midwesterncity, by air and by water,with thetoxins of
his choice.Not tobe outdone,MalcolmForbespresent-
TWASTHE YEAR THAT THE SUPREMECOURT SET ed Liz Taylorwith the rightto pollutea well-populated

I
asideits black robes for white ones and beganto mountainstate withhairsprayandshreddedfanzines—
cancel all rights as we had known them—civil which she accomplished by running about on foot, fol-
rights, women's rights, minority rights, gay lowed by hundreds of gaily shrieking celebutantes
rights,constitutionalrights.But just as the usual sprayingand shreddingas they tore through the desig-
Canyou judge malcontents were gathering to build a papier-mâché nated land mass.
Statue ofLibertyand launchademocracymovementon Soon everyone was vyingto participate in the con-
a man by theWashingtonMall, two brand-newand hitherto un- spicuousconsumptionofpollutionrights.Onsale days,
suspected rightswere announced: the right to burn the long lines formedoutsidethe EPA: yuppiesseeking the
the size of his U.S. flag, and the right—madeavailablethrough Presi- right to hurl Evian bottles from their BMWs, subur-
dentBush's June 1989environmentalprogram—topol- banites in the market for the right to toss doggydoo
oil slick? lute. In fact, by putting these two ground-breaking onto their neighbors'lawns, even schoolchildren who
rightstogether, it became possibleand entirely legal to had saved their pennies for the right to affix chewed
pollute a major patch of the countryside, if one was so Tridentto the undersides of their desks. It was said that
inclined, with the thick, pungent smoke produced by you couldjudge a man by the trail he left: the size ofhis
thousandsof U.S. flagson fire. oil slick, the density of the chiorofluorocarbonvapor

Illustrationby Gary Baseman MOTHER JONES 9

 lingeringafterhim.
But thatwasn't theend ofit.The magicof
BUDDHIST TH R E S HOLD the market kept unfolding! Soon smart
MEDITATION youngB-schoolgrads,recognizingthat pol-
lution rightswerenowa commodityjust like
SUPPLIES pork bellies and Third Wor1d debts, went
RETAIL & WHOLESALE into the businessoftrading pollutionrights,
• •
St4ues CiisMo,ts Bench and theninto the businessof trading pollu-
•
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• •
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•
AltarSMpphes Po.ers highly speculative"junk rights" involving
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October 27-29 untestedcarcinogensand uninformedpopu-
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monoxide or PCBs. But who cared? Wall
Streetwas jumpingas betswere taken onthe
priceofengorgingWallaWalla withplutoni-
um,onthefuturecostofshrinkingthe ozone
layerto the size ofRhode Island,and onthe
CONCERNED? probabledate of theend of theworld.
Then there was the inevitable pollution
rights—relatedcrimewave. InDallas,a well-
Consider heeledgent was muggedandrelieved ofthe
righttoscatter Styrofoampeanuts acrossthe
entire state of Montana. Then on Wall
A Peace OrientedPortfolio Street, awave ofinsidetrading hitthepollu-
tion rights market. Everywhere, crafty
brokers sought to bribe the ecologically-
minded with tastytofu dishes,hopingthere-
PAX WORLD FUND, INC. by to inflamethe environmentalmovement
"TheFundendeavors throughitsinvestmentobjectives to and thus covertly raise the future price of
make a contilbution to worldpeace."—fromtheProspectus soiling and desecration.
But the market had a solution for crime,
too, as one of the savants at the American
by investing in: Enterprise Institutewas quick to point out.
• non-warrelatedindustries Ifthegovernmentcould sell the rightto pol-
• companies exercisingpollution control lute, why not also marketthe rightsto em-
• firms with fair employmentpractices bezzle, loot, and pillage?Soon corporatejets
• internationaldevelopment and personal helicopters buzzed thickly
aroundtheJusticeDepartment,as represen-
PaxWorld isa no-load, diversified mutual fund designed forthosewho wishtodevelop
income and to invest in life-supportive products and services. IRA and Keogh plans tatives of the overciassbid for the rightsto
available. Minimum investment: $250. lie, cheat, and defraud the public. \XTe all
know of the brilliant career of that young
This is nota solicitation in thosestates where the securities have notbeenqualified. Yale-educated investmentbanker who start-
ed out as a humble broker in pollution
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includIng .11 charges and expenses, will be sent upon receipt of thiscoupon. tion rights futures,and thenredeemed him-
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had beenmore or less forgotteninthe frenzy
ofspeculation,continuedto head for hell in
a hand-basket.But what could I do? I could
City, State, Zip barely afford the righttothrow thumbtacks
in a sandbox. Then I realized: the market
hasasolutionforeverything! Itwas timefor
Telephone No. 0 Day. some comparison shopping. The right to
riot and revolution is a bargain these days.
JusticeDepartmentofficials assureme I can
pay with a creditcard. 0

10 OCTOBER 1989
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 front

And you thought

rock hadlost
Its rebel spirit:
Meetthe
newgeneration.
and some people like it."
Amongthem is Village Voice
critic Robert Christgau, who
praisedthe disc's"shrill tan-
trums andchaotic coher-
ence." GregorySandow of
the L.A. Herald Examiner
sensed theband's "punk at-
titude" as "aterrible free-
dom. . . in whichthe band
itselfprobably doesn't know
what's goingto happen
next."InJuly, J. P. was in-
vited onto the Artists Panel
at theNewMusicSeminarin
NewYork.
Old Skulladvertises, The LP was producedby their musiciandads,but
"Tiffanycan kissour
assi"Fromleft:
GuitaristJ.P. Toulon
Prepubescent the kids wrote and played as theypleased.Lyrics
pummelfast food ("Hot Dog Hell") and school
and drummerJesse ("GetOn the Bus").Two oftheir most startling
Collins-Davies, both songsare tough and topical."AIDS"opens with the
ten, teamwith J.P.'s
eight.year-old broth- cry, "What is AIDS?" and the admission, "Wedon't
erJamieontrash- know muchaboutAIDS," thenshuddersintoa
can-lid percussion P.TouLoN's FRIENDS DON'T TALKABOUTPOL- playgroundpanic attackwithoutblame: "AIDS!
and Yamaha key-
boards. ' lution, AIDS, orthe homelessmuch."They'd
rather talk about fun things,"he admits."But
we think that people needto know more about
How does itmake you feel? Terrible!""Homeless"
beginswith a chant of thetitle whileJ. P.enunci-
ates: "Peoplethat don't havehomes;when I lookin
what's goingon, andto try and help out." "We" are their eyesI see sadness,"and endswith disgusted
OldSkull, apreteen triofrom Madison, Wisconsin. shoutsof, "I'mpissedoff," and "Ihateyou Ronald
Their debut LP, Get OuttaSchool(Restless), ap- Reagan!" Next album, "we maydo someraps,"
pearedinthesummerwith asticker dubbingthem J. P. offers,"butthe words are going to beexactly
"The Youngest Punk Bandin the World." whatwe think and what we feel." DrummerJesse
"People backinMadison have saidit's just a Collins-Davies agrees, "but the nextone will sound
gimmick," J. P. says, "but nowwe have arecord, like music." —AdamBlock

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La Boom
EAREDEFINITELYTHE ILLEGALALIENSOF
American lit," says short-story writer and poet
SandraCisneros,who livesin San Antonio,
Texas."The migrantworkers,in terms ofrespect."For
years Chicanawriterslabored in the shadows.Now
Cisneros andothers arechangingthat. For her upcoming
collection of shortstories, Cisneroshas received the first
major publishingcontract everawarded a work offiction
Chicana lit: "That's by andabout Chicanas;this after winninga Be-
fore ColumbusAmerican Book Award for her
notour myth, previous collection,The House on MangoStreet.
"I'mexcitedabout this whole generationof Chi-
writers... . Ittook us awhile to finish our
thatwarrior cana education," Cisnerossays. "Andby that I mean
Aztec thing." our understandingofgenderand class conscious-
ness. 'Gender' byfiguringout our relationshipto
the machismoofmale culture, and 'class consciousness'—
well,alot of us have spent timeworking in the barrios."
DemetriaMartInez is happy she's beginningtobe
known for herpoetry asmuch as her politics. In 1988,the
Albuquerquejournalistwas indictedforconspiringto
smuggletwo pregnantSalvadoranwomen intothe United
States.The jurybelievedshe was acting strictlyas a jour-
nalist when she accompanieda Sanctuarymovementmin-
ister to meetthe women,andacquitted her. Her poem
"Nativity:For TwoSalvadoranWomen, 1986—1987,"
which prosecutorsattempted to use as evidence against
Photograph by Robert Cardellino
her in the trial, nowcan be read inthebookThree Times
aWoman,just out from BilingualPress.
PoetLoma Dee Cervantes(Emplumada,Universityof
PittsburghPress)sees Chicana.s strugglingagainst both
white cultureand themachismoofLatino males."We're
notjust aliterarymovement,' she says,"we'rea cultural
force againstspiritualandpsychological oppression.
Machismois just another handle fordomination.Weem-
brace our history,we loveour culture, but love can bean
actof resistance."LesbianChicanas are among thelead-
ing new voices, particularlyplaywrightCherrIeMoraga.
SaysUC Berkeley Professorof Chicano StudiesNorma
Alarcón,"It'sfascinatingthat, at least in the artistic com-
munity and among youngpeople, homophobictendencies
of our cultureare not manifest."
Fictioniswhere Chicanasare reallymaking their mark.
Someofthebest: DeniseChavez(Faceofan Angel, due
fall 1989),Ana Castillo (TheMixquiahala Letters),Hele-
na MariaViramontes (TheMoths and OtherStories),
Mary HelenPonce (TheWedding), and, of course, Sandra
Cisneros.ProfessorTeyDianaRebolledoof the University
of New Mexicoexplainsthe Chicanasensibility by point-
ing to a forthcomingChicano-editedbookofessays on
Aztlan,"thatmythicland, that imaginary homelandChi-
cano writershavecreated. And not one woman hasan
essayin there. Why? That's not our myth, that warrior
Aztecthing the men writershave. We'vefound ouridenti-
ty elsewhere. We'vefound ourheroinesand ourrole mod-
els, and nowwe'vemoved onto the largerissues.Our
women writershaveturned outto be better, much better
in someways,atcapturing the complexities oflife."
—Michael DiLeo
MOTHER JONES 15

Fred Ross (right) taught Cesar
Chavez andFred,Jr.(left)
about organizing. Thenew
target: U.S.aid toEl Salvador.
Like Father,
Like Son
Compassion
fatigue: a
I N THEIR DRIVE TO CUT U.S. AID TO THE CON-
tras, Fred Rossandhis grass-rootsgroup Neigh-
borto Neighborhaveout-organizedsomeofthe
most powerfulright-winglobbies.But nowhe fears
a new opponent,what he calls "moral fatigue."
"There were sixty-three voteson contraaid," he
super-organizer's says."Somepeople are just burned out on Central
America."Ross is anythingbut: Neighborto
biggestfoe. Neighboris nowgearingup to defeatGeorge
Bush's planned $415 millionaidpackagefor El Sal-
vador,on whichCongressis likely to vote this fall.
Most ofthat moneywill fuel theSalvadoranmili-
tary and bolster thedeath squad—linked ARENA
x6 OCTOBER 1989
Outfront
partynowin power, argues Ross."Youknow the
difference between China and El Salvador?"he
asks."In El Salvador,we're paying for the repres-
sion." His group is running full-pageads making
thecase that ARENAis, in the words offormer
U.S. Salvadoranambassador Robert White,"a vio-
lent fascist partymodeled after theNazis." And
Neighborsupports House resolutionscallingfor a
negotiatedsettlementof ElSalvador'scivilwar, as
well as acutoffofU.S.aid.
Ross expects this to be his toughestfight,buthe
hasthe rightbackground:his fathertaught Cesar
Chavez aboutorganizing.In fact, theyoungerRoss
may demand toomuch. During the peak ofthe
contra-aidbattle,Neighbor pushedits phone-bank
fund-raiserssohard that many quitinprotest. But
Ross isready to go around again. "The best
antidotefor moral fatigue," he says,"is moral
outrage." —Michael DiLeo
PhotographbyMartin Klimek

Life
Underground
M ARTINDELANEYSOUNDSTHE
cry of a growingmovementthat
insistsdyingAIDSpatients gain
speedier access topromisingdrug treat-
ments.FounderofProjectInform, an
AIDS informationandadvocacynetwork,
he argues that "ifthe federaldrug re-
searchandregulatorybureaucracy
His guerrilla doesn't bend,
frustrated pa-
AIDS drug tests tients and doc-
tors will take
matters into their
may spark a own hands." De-
made that
newmovement. laney threatreality re-
centlyby organizingan unauthorizedun-
dergroundhuman treatment program
using highdosesofthe much-toutedex-
PhotographsbyHaruko (Delaney)
and CarolFriedman
perimentalAIDSdrugCompound Q.
A formerJesuit seminarian,Delaney
says he and the doctors he recruitedto
run the programfeared thousands
wouldn't live thetwo or more yearsithas
taken to developother AIDS drugs.The
FDAaskedDelaneyto stop the renegade
research (oneofsixty patients died during
the program),but alsoinvitedhim to help
develop new community-basedstudies.
"Actually," he says, "I can't imaginea bet-
ter outcome."
Delaney, whoisgay, was pulledinto
this medicalmaelstromin 1984when his
lover developed the AIDS-related condi-
tions that often signaltheonsetoffull-
blownAIDS. "Hadwe followedthe doc-
tors' adviceto justwait, hesurely would
havedied," Delaneysays.Instead, they
used "whatever[promisingdrug] was
availableat the time" and sofarhave
staved off anAIDSdiagnosis.Delaney
predictshis brandofAIDSadvocacywill
benefit those with other life-threatening
illnesses, such as cancer and Alzheimer's.
—DavidIsraels
-ry
ne s''y-
p
vvorriea,
• 1
Not Happy
B OBBYMCFERRIN'S
hit song "Don'tWor-
ry,Be Happy" became
—despite McFerrin'sobjec-
tions—thetheme ofGeorge
Bush'spresidentialcampaign.
NowBushis finding McFer-
nfl's name on a letter urging
him to"reject the Radical
Right'sattempt to control the
rightsandbodiesofwomen"
and warning, "Don'tlet yours
be known as the 'CoatHanger
Presidency.'" Behindthe cam-
paign is theMen Who Care
About Women's Lives, a
group ofmore thannine hun-
dred men claimingtobe the
country's first all-malepro-
choiceorganization.
Men's names also fill a
"Men Support Reproductive
Rights"statementsigned by
Allen Ginsberg,Kurt Vonne-
gut, Benjamin Spock,Isaac
Asimov, and fiftyother promi-
nent writers,actors,profes-
sors, and religious leaders.
EddDoerr,one ofthe coor-
dinatorsof the statement,
explains,"Now that the
Supreme Courthas invited
state legislatures, which are
overwhelmingly male,to go
ahead and restrictabortions,
it'saquestionof men making
laws thatapply onlyto wom-
en. That's playingdirty pool."
—Susan LaCroix
Contact Men Who Care About
Women'sLives, 71 Ashton Ave.,
San Francisco,CA 94112 (415)
337-2061;Men for Abortion
Rights,PU Box6656, Silver
Spring,MD 20906 (301)
598-2447.
MOTHERJONES 17
 HOT SPOTS
By Melissa Baumaan

towns in one of Africa's least

populated and most mineral-
rich countries has brought into
sharp relief the fierce rivalries
that still divide the dominant
Ovambo—also the strongest
force within SWAPO—from the
southern Herero and other
tribes.Behindthewholetenuous
arrangement still looms South
Africa,which seems unlikely to
allow a peaceful transition of
power that couldbe a modelfor
other troubledspots in southern
Africa—Angola, Mozambique,
andSouth Africa itself.
ON THE TARROAD STRETCHING
across Ovamboland to the
border at Ruacana, South Af-
Villagers aroundan
rican armored vehicles patrol
opengraveof continuously,gunsmounted. Many areoperated by
SWAPOwarvictims, former members of Koevoet ("Crowbar"),the ace
near Oshakati.
South African counterinsurgency unit absorbed by
the Namibianpolice (SWAPOL).The force—at last
count three hundredwhitesin charge ofthree thou-

Namibia on Edge sand blacks—remains headquarteredwithin Osha-

kati's "whitetown,"amilitarycompoundsurround-
edbybarbedwire. Most ofthemilitaryfamilies have
moved south, deserting their bungalows,hibiscus
CROSS THE PALM- AND ANTHILL-STUDDED gardens, and sandbag shelters. But a core of
plains of Ovamboland—home to half of SWAPOL officers—most often dressedin shorts, T-
Namibia's 1.5 million people—the hold of shirts,andthongs—still gathersfor a fewlagers each
peace is being tested. The heaviestfighting evening at the International Guest House, where
between the South-WestAfrican People's they toast the fallen empire to German beer-hall
Organization (SWAPO) and the South African se- tunes.
SWAPOand South curityforcestookplace in this area along Namibia's General Hans Dreyer, mastermind of Koevoet,
northern frontier during SWAPO's twenty-three- nowSWAPOLchieffor thenorthernregion,isone of
Africa balance year war for independence. Now, in Oshakati, an the menwhoremained.Dressed in battleshipgray,
Ovambo town that is little more thanalong strip of the towering, silver-haired general stands before a
on the same high woodenbars, liquor stores,and hangouts known as mapof Ovamboland.The war is over, but he is still
cucas, men and women dance deep into the night, huntingSWAPO guerrillas."Look," hesays,"weare
wire in apartheid's flauntingSWAPO caps, shirts, and scarves in soli- trying to locate them, and their arms caches. We
darity—exhibitionism that last year could havegot- have a network of informers.I came up here in '78,
backyard. tenthemkilled. This night theydance in cucaswith and after six months Irealizedthepotentialto coun-
names like Love Station, MississippiJunction, and ter the revolutionaryonslaughtlies with their own
Beverly Hills,celebratingthelatest airliftofSWAPO people.There isnobettercombinationthanawhite
exiles arriving at the nearby Ondangwa airport— manand ten black men tohelphim."
longused asalanding stripforSouth AfricanC-130 Human-rightsactivistsreceive regular reports of
Herculestroopcarriers. physical harassmentand intimidationbySWAPOL.
The spirit in Ovamboland is often euphoric as "Detention,murder, rape, beatings, destruction of
exiles whohavebeenawayforaslong astwenty-five propertyhavebeen goingonherefor twentyyears,"
years return home; but barely contained tensions says FoibeJacobs of the Human Rights Centre in
could ultimately sabotage the peace accord signed Ongwediva. "They're still happening.The troubleis
last Decemberby South Africa, Angola,and Cuba, that people have to reportthe crimes to the people
the primary proxies in one of Africa's last colonial committingthem—thepolice." In April, more than
wars. The U.S.-brokered agreement links the with- two hundred SWAPO guerrillasand civilians were
drawal of Cuban troops from Angola to the with- killed during a surprise raid by South African se-
drawal of South Africantroops from Namibia,and curity forces, an attackthat SWAPO claims was un-
mandatesaNovember1 electionfor anew Constitu- provoked and almost derailedthe peace accord. In
ent Assembly. But the election campaign waged July, the South African administrator-generalfor
acrossthe sprawlingopen spacesand black shanty- Namibia, Louis Pienaar, agreed to remove some

i8 OCTOBER 1989 PhotographsbyGuy Tillim/Afrapix

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A PTAcampaignerfromtheOvahimbatribe.
Koevoet members from the northern
SWAPOLforce after theUN'sspecial repre-
sentative in Namibia,Martti Ahtisaari,pro-
testedthat theyhad "createdanatmosphere
of fearandintimidationamong much ofthe
populationin thenorthern region."
SOUTH AFRICA HAS OCCUPIED NAMIBIA
since invading the German-controlledter-
ritory in 1915. Since then, it has governed
"South-West Africa"as a fifth provinceinits
apartheidsystem. South African admin-
istratorsand protégé governmentshave ad-
ministered the multinational-dominated
mining industry (representingthe bulk of
the Namibian economy), controlled trans-
port and communications, and will con-
tinueto operate Namibia's only deep-water
port at Walvis Bay. In 1971, the Interna-
tional Court of Justice declared South Af-
rica's occupation of Namibia illegal, and
two yearslater the UN recognized SWAPO
asthe "sole and authentic representatives of
the Namibian people." Sixteen years and
billions of rand later—thewar is estimated
to have costSouth Africa up to $350,000 a
day—Louis Pienaar was officially put in
charge ofthetransition,which is supervised
by the UnitedNationsTransitionAssistance
Group. UNTAG has nearly five thousand
personnel in the country, including one
thousand policeofficers, most stationedup
northtomonitorSWAPOL. Fifteen hundred
South African troops will remain in
Namibia until the United Nations declares
theelection"free and fair."
But few trust that South Africa will ad-
ministerthe election fairly. They fear that
more likely it will attempt to impose a
"Mozambique-style"solution: sowing dis-
cord and instabilitythrough militaryand fi-
nancialpressures. South Africa has already
cut its direct financial aid to Namibia by
20 OCTOBER 1989
over two-thirds;combinedwith Namibia's his kraal and articulates his politics: "One
foreign debt of about $300 million,mostly man puts you in the fire, another takes you
toSouth Africa, these cutsareguaranteedto out.We will vote for the manwhotakes us
destabilizethe fledglingnation. Whatever out ofthe fire. . . . Many ofus havechildren
happensafter the election nextmonth,thou- whohave gone. SWAPO has taken care of
sands of former members of the South Af- our childrenand is bringingthemback. It is
rican Defense Force (SADF), SWAPOL, thewild animal of the people."
Koevoet, and the Namibian territorial
forces will remain inside Namibia—a THE DTA, MEANWHILE, IS CAMPAIGNING
spawningground for aNamibianversionof on a platform of "saving" Namibia from
the Mozambique National Resistance SWAPO"terrorists" and "communists,"
(MNR),the SouthAfrican—supportedguer- championingprivate enterprise,education,
rilla movementthat has wreakedhavoc in the sanctityofthe family, and God.Most of
Mozambiquesince its independence. Danny the church communityin this highly Chris-
Tsongarero,a memberofSWAPO's Central tiannation, however,rides behind SWAPO,
Committee, comments, "Look at the way whichhas nurtured this connectionthrough
[South Africa] destabilized Mozambique yearsofstruggle.
and Angola, and to a lesser extent Zim- For most ofthe five thousand white farm-
babwe and Botswana. In none of these ers who own more than 70 percent of
countries has it been as intimate as in Namibia's best farmland, the political dif-
Namibia—it knows every tap and wire ferences between SWAPO and the DTA
here." seem irrelevant. Their defiance surfaces
through bumper stickers like one that pro-
POLITICALLY,THE COUNTRY IS FRACTURED. claims, SLEEP WITH A SOUTH-WESTER,WE
Here in the populous north, it seems likely NEED MORE OFTHEM, and through farmers'
SWAPO will win a two-thirds majorityin local defense units set up by the SADF that
the upcomingelection. But in the southern are still in place. "I don't think most of us
and eastern "homelands," the Democratic will leave, but we fear SWAPO will not re-
Turnhalle Alliance(DTA), a moderateparty spect our property,ownership,religion,law
made up of whitesand the Ovambo'stradi- and order as we know it," says David Key-
tional tribal rivals, hopes to block SWAPO ser, on his ten thousand—acre cattle farm in
from obtaining the 67 percent of the vote Tsumeb. Keyser comes from the conser-
needed to pass a new constitutionthrough vative stock that runsSouth Africa—an Af-
the soon-to-be-created ConstituentAssem- rikaner and National Party member, he is
bly. The DTA and other opponents of also a former tracker for Koevoet. His op-
SWAPO have made a campaignissueofthe tions are limited: move nextdoor, to South
testimonyof150 ex-SWAPOprisoners,who Africa,or stay through a probable SWAPO
claimthat they and others (many of whom victory to hold onto what he believes is
SWAPO claimswere spies for SouthAfrica) rightfully his. "The SADF trained us to de-
were tortured by SWAPO fighters and held fendourselves,gaveusweapons.We trained
in undergroundpits in Angola. our wives, children, and laborers, formed
At times the antics of the election cam- area force units.We'vebeen disbanded,but
paign have taken on Chicago proportions: the structuresarethere, andwe could dothe
UNTAG, thegroup officiallymonitoringthe samething again."
election, admits that busloads of white
South Africans have been crossing the FOR DECADES NAMIBIA WAS A TESTING
border of Namibia to register to vote—at- ground for South Africa's apartheid legisla-
temptingto tip the margin againstSWAPO. tion, and a training field for its troops.
Altogether, thecountry hasseena prolifera- Namibia remains an experiment, a trial—
tion of forty-three politicalparties,many of challenging SWAPO's ability to transform
which are forgingnew politicalalliancesas itselffrom a liberationmovementtoapoliti-
the election approaches. cal party to a parliamentary government—
Though SWAPO issued an election man- and a conspicuoustest ofthe UN's abilityto
ifestocallingfor a mixedeconomy to close brokerapeacefultransitioninvolatileareas.
the gap between black poverty and white Taunted by ties between SWAPO and the
wealth, and for controls over some of the African National Congress, it also chal-
world's richest fishing and mining reserves, lenges South Africa to adaptto a Namibian
the campaignhas centeredaround the sim- governmentthatwill probably be composed
ple question of who will bring peace and of those it once considered "revolution-
food after yearsof war and drought. Down aries"—a portent, perhaps, for its ownday
fifteen miles of white sand track north of of reckoning.
Oshakati, a palsiedand sun-beaten grand-
father, wearing a German soldier's jacket Melissa Baumann is a free-lancejournalist
from World War II, sits on the sand outside basedin Cape Town, South Africa.
 Casey
Kasems
that you
morecarefully
erhima friend.And
at Amen Kasem, known the
world over as Casey, desperately
wants you to listen.
The way he figures it, the y terllard OhaIliall
world is too full ofviolence andpainpreciselybe-
cause people don't listen. Sure, 10 million people
listen to him eachweek when he's introducing hit
songs on radio stations around the world, and
some people are starting to listentohimoffthe air,
when he calls Menachem Begin and Yitzhak
Shamirterrorists. But he's worriedthatthe Shamirs
and Arafats of the world are not listeningto each
other, andin theirdeafnessmay end up blowing us
Photographby GaryMoss/Outline Press
all up. Bad as that would be for most people, it
would be a double tragedy for Casey Kasem; he
plans to be reincarnated, and hewantsthereto be a
worldto come backto whenhe is.
IN THE MEANTIME,THIS WORLD
is treatinghim pretty well. Last
year, Kasem signed a five-year
contract for around $20 million
with the Westwood One Radio
Networksto do his weekly pop
music countdownshow, Casey'c
Top 40. With a formathe origi-
natedover twenty years ago as a
local jock inLos Angeles,Kasem
countsdownthetopsongs ofthe
week, imagining his audience—
since many stationsair the show
on Sunday morning—as "a fam-
ily on the way to church." He
uses twelve or fifteen teasers in
each four-hourshow—"Comin'
up," Kasem gushed recently be-
fore a chart-climber by Cher, "a
rags-to-richesstory:how a poor
girl,ahigh-schooldropoutanda
runaway, with a mother who
wasmarriedsix times and a fatherwith a serious
drugproblem, grew uptobe oneofthebiggeststars
inHollywood"—and joyfullydishes outa constant
supply of minutiae about the songs andtheir per-
formers. Where else would you learn the home-
town of the band Poison? Or how many times
records with the word "angel" in the title have
appeared in the top ten? Why, these aren't just
songs: they're icons around which to buildworlds
MOTHERJONES 21
 of knowledge. Let the academics disassembleJoyce;
CaseyKasem's got Whitney Houston.
He's also got his dedications, which he says choke
him up 80 percent of the time. These heart-tuggers,
sent in by listeners to introduce a favorite song, go
beyond "For Jennifer, because I love her, from Jason";
theyaremore oftenminiature morality plays, in which a
listener bemoans never having said "I love you" to a
now-dead relative, remembers an old love affair torn
apart by selfishness or foolishness, or thanksthe nurseat
an alcohol rehab centerwho helped her soberup. This is
earnestness squared; you can almost hear the writers for
Saturday Night Live and Late Night with DavidLetter-
man sharpening their pencils.
Makethat earnestnesscubed, for iftheTop 40songs are
Casey'sicons, the dedications are his parables. "The dedi-
cations teach that life is worth living," he says, "thatit's
easy to giveup, that itisn't easy to makelife worthwhile,
and that, if you take the time to participate and to give,it
willallcomeback at you. They'reaway ofshowing thatif
you lookforhelpyou canfind it, andthat therearecaring
people in the world." No wonder that in his new $6.8
million house in the Holmby Hills, wherehe liveswith his
actresswife Jean, Kasem is known jokingly as "Gandhi."
The Mahatma never had a staron Hollywood Boule-
vard, of course; he never had a hairdresser he called
"babe,"and he never hadaplatinum-haired wife whowas
named one of the worst dressers of last year by People
magazine. And Gandhinever livedlike this, with aprivate
tennis court and three-hole golf course in the backyard,
and a kitchen full of chocolate tofu bars and meatless
pepper steaks. Throw in the photo of CaseyandJean with
JesseJackson onthe mantel,the two blackMercedeswith
car telephones in the garage, and the copies of In These
Times and Variety stacked in the study, and the picture
emerges of yet another garden-variety rich Hollywood
lefty.
But this isn't that picture: Kasem gets arrested at the
Nevadatest site, all right;he handsout tapedspeechesby
the Christic Institute's DannySheehan and ex—CIAagent
John Stockwell,and he spends Christmas Eve feedingthe
homeless in Washington. But he also, in Jean Kasem's
words,"lives,eats, andbreathes"theone issuethatdivides
U.S. progressives more than any other. Casey Kasem is
obsessedwith the MiddleEast.
Andin Hollywood, as inmostplaces whererich liberals
congregate,he's outnumbered. He's certainly not alone in
his belief that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is
responsiblefor"the deaths, beatings, torture,mass arrests,
deportations, and detention withouttrial ofthousandsof
evveen Palestinians"; very few Hollywood types, though,would
go so far as to say publicly,as Kasem has, that "Arafat's
ds heartis in the right place."

r chart sunremacv.
Pro a yjust as ewwou e ate arabbi ontelevision,
but there,was Kasern on KNEC in Los Angeles late last
year,tradingwildly divergentviews ofMiddleEasthistory
with Rabbi Marvin Gross, director of the western region
oftheJewish Federation. GonewasCasey thehappyking
Kasemat aprotest of rock trivia,; in his place was a, somber, almost sad-
Capitol Hill against looking man in professorial gold-rimmed glasses who is
homelessness. identified as "an entertainer and Arab spokesman." He

PhotographbyWide WorldPhotos
slammed the Israeli government for saying, as he put it,
"We'll never give up the West Bank, the settlers won't
leave,we won'tgiveup Gaza, we don't recognizethe PLO,
and we're not interested in a two-state system."
For those who know Kasem, the most telling moment
of the half-hour debate came at the end, when he shook
Gross's hand andsaid—earnestly,ofcourse—"I am look-
ing forward to the day whentheMiddleEastis at peace."
Chalk up anotherone for the Gandhi of the airwaves,the
champion ofconflict resolution.
CASEY KASEM'S EMERGENCE AS AN ARAB SPOKESMAN
beganin 1982,when the Israeli armyinvaded Lebanon.He
stepped up the pacea year later, whenthe U.S. battleship
New Jersey began shelling the Shouf Mountains from
which his father had emigrated to the United States more
than eighty years before.
Like many children of immigrant parents, Kasem tried
hard for mostof his lifeto blend in. He spent hoursrefin-
ing his baseball skills as a kid, refused to speak Arabic at
home as a teenager, and embraced the concept of the
melting pot as an adult. Even when many U.S. ethnics
began to celebrate their roots in the 1970s, Arab-
Americans remained in the shadows. There were no KISS
ME, I'MARAB coffee cups in souvenirshops, no ARABSDO
IT IN THE DESERTbumperstickers on pickup trucks.
Butin the early1980s, with his career oncruise control,
Kasem started to noticethat "you can'twatch television
forsixhourswithoutseeingan Arab orMuslim defamed,"
andhegrewtiredofeditorial cartoonsskeweringArabs as
oil-thirsty,lecherous subhumans. Drawing on his show-
business contacts, he began writingletters to newscasters,
talk-show hosts, and film and televisionproducers, pro-
testing what he called "the vilification and defaming of
Arabs in motion pictures and television."
When a book called The TV Arab came out in 1984,
detailingthe viciousnatureofArabimageson commercial
television, Kasem boughthundreds ofcopies and sentone
to anyonehe could thinkofwho might be able to produce
or direct a show featuring an Arab who wasn't "a bil-
lionaire, a bomber, or a belly dancer." He stopped doing
most ofthe commercials and cartoon voices that filled up
his week, and used his newfound free time to devour
books about the Middle East. Though he never said a
thing onthe radioshowabout his nascentethnicpride, the
wordwasout in Hollywood. Casey Kasem wasan Arab.
"It took a lot ofballs forhim to step outat a time when
stereotyping of Arabs was at an all-time high," says Zev
Putterman, a television producer and Jewish activist.
Kasem himselfsays his coming-out was neitheragonizing
nor risky, and maintains to this day that financially, his
refusalto do commercialsfor meat products has hurthim
more than his public Arabness has. After all, there are
caring people in the world; how could it hurt to simply
standup for who you are?
But strip away the language of song dedications, and
Casey Kasem knows better. He willtell you that his new
house has "the most sophisticated security system possi-
ble"; Jean will tell you that she's never seen a look on
Casey's face like the one he wore on an October day four
years ago, when he found out thathis friend Alex Odeh, a
leader of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Com-
mittee, had been blown apart by a bomb planted in his
OrangeCounty office.
WithOdeh's murder, MiddleEastviolencehadcometo
Los Angeles.Kasem began lookingfor a way to use the
power of his voice, the power of the word, to defuse the
tension. He hadalways believed that he could change the
livesof teenagers by reminding them to ask for help when
theyneed it and to give others help whentheycan; wasn't
theresomethinghe could do to getArabs andJews talking
to each other?
A year later, Kasem found a young Jewish lawyer
named Michael Lame, who had started running work-
shops in the United States and Jerusalem that included
Arabs andJews. Lamewas shooting high with the work-
shops—sessions at which participants confrontedtheir
own, and each other's,prejudice—arguing that ordinary
citizens could use dialogue to urge their governments to
negotiate, just as U.S.-Soviet citizen diplomacy helped lay
the groundworkfor the
Reagan-Gorbachevarms
reduction agreement.
Lame, a serious politi-
cal sort who didn't have
muchtime to listen to the
radioorwatchtelevision,
hadnever heard of Casey
Kasem. Soon, however,
his nonprofit Foundation
for Mideast Commu-
nication had a volunteer
who was so enthusiastic
that, according to Lame,
"it was almost like hav-
inganotherstaffperson."
Kasem, who has always
prided himself on being
"a very good salesman," Off-air, Kasem favors
began sellingthe Founda- politicians overpop stars.
non.Hejoined the board
of directors, licked envelopes, went to long meetings in
tiny apartments, and spent hours on the phone urging
Jewish andArabacquaintancestocometo the workshops.
Andas thefinalstepin Kasem'scoming-out as an Arab,he
and Zev Putterman began speaking at synagogues and
Rotary Clubs—Kasempresenting a Palestinian view on
the Middle East to contrast with Putterman's Zionism,
while both ofthem pleaded for dialogue. "The only wayto
change the environment of hate, fear, and mistrust,"
Kasem toldanyone who wouldlisten, "is throughconflict
resolution,one on one, enemy talking to enemy."
The dialogue approachfit perfectly into the world ac-
cording to Casey. "No matter how much you disagree," he
says,"youhaveto keep the dooropen so you can commu-
nicate." Socially, he continues to mix with friends that
includeinfluentialRepublicans aswellas followers ofIsra-
el's racistRabbi Meir Kahane. He even badgered for two
years a business associate who was a Kahane supporter
untilhe attended a Foundationworkshop,leading Putter-
manto mutterthat "Casey's eithernaive or a saint."
"There was a time when (Continued on page54)
MOTHERJONES 23
 understoodgroup of newcomers to the UnitedStates. We've
heard plenty about the psychological scars left on Vietnam
vets, but little about the conflict's other headcases. For allour
involvement with Southeast Asia, Americans remain pro-
foundly ignorant of the emotional baggage over 900,000
refugees have carried here since the end of the war. From
tribal hill dwellers to urban sophisticates, Americanized de-
linquentsto Buddhistmonks,Vietnamese,Cambodians,and
Laotiansarelumpedtogetherin contradictorystereotypes: as
graspingparasites and overachieving threats, today'swelfare
hounds and tomorrow's nuclear physicists. They are also
burdened by an underlying racial myth—particularly ap-
plicableto these dogged survivors—thatAsians are psychi-
callyindestructible, immuneto emotionalcollapse,uniquely
outfitted by religion and temperamentto endure all that life
heaps upon them, or at least to keep their troubles hidden
behind the doors offamily.
Yet whereversignificantnumbersof SoutheastAsianshave
settled,it's become obviousthat upheavaland uprootedness,
battle fatigue and culture shock havetakena toll. According
to a recent California State Department of Mental Health
study, while 67 percentofthe U.S.populationhas no needfor
mental-health services, only 5 percent of Southeast Asian
refugees have none. While 15 percent of Americans report a
moderateto severe need for such services, the figurerises to
HY? Wiry AMERICANS SO SELFISH? I WANT TO ASK over 30 percentforVietnamese andalmost50 percentamong
thepresidentrightnow. Why you needmoney?You Cambodians—over55 percent
want money,here is my money! You want friend, I among Hmong tribal people. Before refugee
be your friend! Why you say no when I say yes? While many refugees present
Americais freedom, 1 told, freedom of speech. But their problems in terms of therapistscan
when I say this, they say I crazy!" Patient A rages, somatic, or physical, com-
weeps,and pounds on the desk of his therapist. For plaints and rarely seek helpun- recommend
this twenty-nine-year-old refugee from Vietnam,the til their symptoms are severe,
promised land is the Department of Psychiatry at one clinic found that 44 per-
a cure, they
San Francisco GeneralHospital.Theyoungestoften centofits clients were suffering
children, he was put out to sea by his mother and went three from major depression, 13 per-
first have to
days without foodand water, drinkinghis own urine to sur- cent from a constellation of
vive. At a Philippine resettlementcamp, he began showing complaints known as post-
share their
signs of schizophrenia. Sponsored by a Catholic service in traumatic stress disorder: re-
New York, he lived in an orphanage and washed dishes for current nightmares, flash-
patients' view
1 1.
seven yearsin a Chinatownrestaurant. "Iworkvery hard, so backs, and distress associated 01aisease.
hard. Then I seethatwhat you put in one garbagecan, itcan with past events. ________________________
feeda hundredVietnamese. Iwantto call to the president—I And why not? The Depart-
want thephoneright now! I ask him,please,makeAmericans ment of Mental Health study reveals that 63 percent of in-
not so selfish. In Vietnam,we help each other. Here, no one coming Cambodians have experienced the death of a close
helps. Theysay Ineeddoctor,but I amdoctor,too. Whenyou family member. Many refugee women suffered rape during
go up, I makeyou go down. Ihearyourvoice. I see into your their exodus.Add the ruthless exigencies ofAmericanization
heart! So why, whywe cannot be friend?" to theprocess ofhealingthewounds of war andyou have an
unprecedented experiment being performed on the human
To BE A FRIEND, ONE MUST FIRST BE ACKNOWLEDGED, AND psyche. The leap in consciousness required of immigrants
Patient A is part of the unrecognized undersideof the least- from preindustrialbackgroundsis probablygreater thanthat

14 OCTOBER 1989
The Photographs
Since 1986, Leah Melnick
has beenphotographing
Khmer communities in
the Bronx, New York,
and Amherst, Massachu-
setts. "War is not some-
thingthat just happens
'someplace else,'" she
says. "The victimsofwar
are inour communities.
Thephotographs ex-
plorethe meaning ofre-
building a culture,
a
restructuring society,
and healing personal,
family, and spiritual
losses while struggling
with the pressures ofad-
justing to anew land."

MOTHERJONES 25
of any group in history.Lossof communityand self-esteem, e don't want
challenges tobeliefsystems, and generational conflicts lead to
what one professional calls "a monumental amount of
stressors." As underfunded community clinics and social-
to create more
service bureaucracies struggle to formulate a response,
they're graduallyforginga new approach to psychotherapy.
popcorn," says
Traditional concepts of mentalhealth are being challenged in
thefaceof a populationwith a symptomology as elusive asits Evelyn Lee.
"Those are
meansof conceptualizing mental life. Bringing thewar to the
couchoffers a freshopportunity to re-examine the underpin-
flingsofour therapeuticsocietyand the assumptions ofWest-
• t' little
yellow
ern psychiatry.
kernels that, under
THEB FAMILY ARRIVES IN S DIEGO FROMLAOS.DURINGA
physical examinationatthe Universityof California hospital, pressure, turn white."
a doctor notices the son has a harelip and announcesthat it
can be easily and painlessly removed. Offended,the family
leaves the hospital.Several yearslater, thefamilytellsa social
worker that during their escape from Laos they were forced
to walk many miles and go for days without food. To stave
off starvation,the husband killed a bird with a rock. But the
bird had not died immediately. At the time, the wife was
pregnant with their son. When he was born with a harelip,
thefamily believed that this was themark ofthebird'ssuffer-
ing. Removing thatmark would alter the cycle of nature,the
balance between man and animal, between past and future
lives. There is danger in human intervention on this scale.
Besides,the familysees nothing ugly about the harelip. It's as
beautiful as anythingthat emerges outof pain.

BEFORE REFUGEE THERAPISTSCAN RECOMMEND A CURE,

they firsthave to share theirpatients' view of disease—and
not justimpose a biasedsetofdiagnoses. "AskCambodiansif
they'vehad conversations with dead relatives and the major-
itywill answeryes,"saysDr. Paul DeLay,anexpert in refugee
health services. Some SoutheastAsians consider hallucina-
tions andout-of-bodyevents quite ordinary.SomeMien butt
headsas asignofrespect, while othersdo notbelieve in using
the word "no." Others consider funerals happy occasions.
Dr. Tuan Nguyen of San Francisco's Departmentof Public
Health suggests that coping with these refugees involves
adopting a differentview of human beings' relationship to
nature. "These are agriculturalpeople who experience joys
and sorrowswithin the frameworkof certainseasonalcycles.
Their self-definition may be much more community-ori-
ented. Wehaveto rememberthat their 'I' is not 'I,' and'you' is
not necessarily 'you.'"
It's no simple matter getting clients to repair personal
damage or recount personal loss when they may not view
their experiences strictlyin terms ofwhat the West regardsas
a"personallife."Thisiswellillustratedby Oakland, Califor-
nia'sground-breakingAsian CommunityMentalHealth Ser-
vices, begun in 1974 largely to serve Asians in Alameda
County and now staffed by counselorsfluent in twelvelan-
guages. Acrosscity linesin self-absorbed Berkeley, there'sno
lack of work for a glut of shrinks: Jungian, Reichian, or
bioenergetic. But the Oakland clinic spends much ofits time
reachingoutto those in the city's expandingCambodianand
Laotian communities who may not see the valuein dredging
up painful memories."We have to send our counselors out
into the field, to establish trust by (Continuedon page52)
26 OCTOBER 1989
Previouspage, top:
Foster brothers
working out inthe
bedroomof a Bronx
apartment. As chil-
dren, two ofthe
threewere soldiersin
Cambodia. Bottom:
A Buddhist monk
riding the New York
Citysubway. This
page, clockwise:A
Khmer bride before
her wedding inthe
Bronx; a women's
supportgroup learn-
ingto bakecorn
muffins; a Khmer
family inAmherst
sortingcans and bot-
ties for redemption—
theysend the pro-
ceeds to their rela-
tivesin Cambodia.
 RITHEJAM
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Is PUnr
 Newt Gingrich,
New Right celebrity
and Republican
point man on ethics,
says he's confident
he can shift the

Master of planet." But will

he be the next
victim ofhis own
paranoid style?

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By David Beers

hen I debated Mondale,theytold offers his hand, Dole, the man who once called Newt
meto go for thejugular. So I did," Gingrich and his allies "the young hypocrites," looks
Bob Dole says, his impishgrin sig- past him, barelyacknowledging the gesture.
naling the Washington ballroom Butbythetime Gingrichhas hadhisturn atthe micro-
full of listeners that a punch line is phone, Dole's concernfor Foley seems passé. Gingrich
coming. "Unfortunately, it was my has emerged, after all, as the point man for Republican
own." upstartswho expect their party to becomedominant in
Dole laughs. His audiencelaughs Congress, andtheyhaveused ethics as a potent battering
along with him, but a bit impatiently, ram against the Democrats. Gingrich mesmerizes the
because Bob Dole, Senate minority room with his triumphant gloating over the still-fresh
leader and GOP patriarch,is in an un- resignations of Wrightand Democraticwhip Tony Co-
natural role here at the mid-Junemeet- elho.The applausebuildsas Gingrichneatlyseguesfrom
ing of the Republican National Com- ethics to ideology: "The valuesoftheLeft cripplehuman
mittee. He's thewarm-up act. The crowd is eagerto hear beings,weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact
fromNewtGingrich, the newHouseminoritywhipwho survive as a country.. . . The Left in Americaisto blame
ledthepolitically fatal attack onSpeakerJimWright,and formost ofthecurrent,major diseaseswhichhavestruck
who just this week made more headlines when the scur- this society." Then Gingrichwarns of a left-wing "ma-
rilousrumorthatnewSpeakerTom Foleyis not onlygay chine" out to get both him and RepublicanNational
but a childmolesterwastracedto his office. Committee Chairman Lee Atwater. "You're gonna see
Towardthe end ofhis talk,Dole rues the bloodletting weird things coming out of this city over the next few
inWashington,mentioningthe"tragedyforJohn Tower, years, becauseyou're watching the death throes of the
Robert Bork, and yes, for Tom Foley. I love politics. I machine, and you'rewatchingitspower to smear, and its
know it's rough and tough. I know we can have our powerto intimidate. And the next timeyou hear anyone
differences.And I know we want towin. But it'sgotta be say, 'Let's fire Lee Atwater,'the firstthing you ought to
basedon wanting to win for somegood reason."When know is.. . they are eitherleft-wingers or theyhavebeen
Gingrich, the man who once called Bob Dole "the tax intimidated by left-wingers."
collector for the welfare state" mounts the stage and Gingrich's last words, comparingBush to

PhotographshvJames K. W Atherton (top)andRalph/lB. Pictures


The Real
Ethics Debate
thics!?"roarsRalphNader. "WheredoesMother
Jones get off usinga piddly-ass beltwayword like
ethics? Corruptionis the issue. Ask theaverageper-
son outsideofWashington'Why areyoudismayed
with Congress?', and they're not gonna say, 'Well,
there's a problemwithethics.' They're gonna say:
'Theseguysarein the pocket oftherich, thebig
corporations,the fat cats. They don't care about me.'"
Nader chargesthat Congress—Democrats and Republicans
alike—isn'tinterestedin real ethicsreformsthatwould lessenthe
powerofmoneyedinterestson the Hill.Andhe seems to havea
handleon publicopinion.A recentHarrispoll found that eightin
ten adultsbelieve "individuals,groups, and corporationswhich
contributeto politicalcampaigns end up havingtoo muchinflu-
ence overthepublic officials towhose campaignstheycontrib-
ute." Most considered"taking moneyin return for political
favors"the worst ethical violationa politiciancould commit;only
4 percentconsideredextramaritalsexmore serious.
Suddenly, in the wake of recent scandals, clean-government
groupslikeCommon Cause,CitizensAgainstPACs, and the
Nader-foundedPublic Citizenare gainingmomentum. While their
agendas overlapquite a bit (NewtGingrichdismisses elements of
all as "socialist"),Public Citizen's is the most aggressivelydemo-
craticwith a small "d." Here arethe basics:
• Limitoverall spendingandprovidepartialpublic
financing. Candidateswhovoluntarilyagree to establishspend-
30 OCTOBER 1989
ing limitsand raisea thresholdamount ofmoney from small
contributionswouldreceive fundsfrom voluntary taxpayer check-
offs.Spending capswould guaranteethatcampaignspendingdoes
notreach obscene levels. Just as important as these ceilings is the
floor:publicfinancing wouldguaranteethat any major party
candidatecould be heard evenwithout access to big money.
• Curtail the role of PACs. Atpresent, PACscan give
$10,000to a congressional candidateduring an electioncycle.
Their influence is actuallyevengreater,since similarPACs run in
packs,giving en masseto favoredcandidates.PAC donations
duringan electioncyclewouldbelimitedto $3,000 orless under
the Public Citizen plan.Also, a limitwould be placedon an
aggregate amount a candidatecan receive from all PACsduring an
election cycle—$125,000 forHouse races and up to $1.5 million
for Senate contests.
• Guaranteetelevisionandradio time for candi-
dates. Asa conditionoftheir right tobroadcast overthe public
airwaves,TVstations would be required toprovide a limited
amount offree airtimeto qualified candidates.
• Ban honoraria. MembersofCongressand their staff
wouldno longerbe allowedto take speakingfees and free trips
from special-interest groups.
Campaignspendinglimitsand publicfinancingarethe most
importantofthese reforms,ones Congressis least likely to impose
on itself, says MichaelWaldman,directorof CongressWatch, a
division ofPublicCitizen.With a re-election rateof 99 percent,
membershavelittle incentive to changethe presentsystem.
Newt Gingrich,ever readywith apartisan blast, says the
Democrats, in their drive to preservea majority,"have rigged the
game betterthanNoriega."Would he, then, limitcampaign
spending? "That's the oppositeof a goodreform. Thefact is, in
almost any other businessin Americawe spend vastlymore
Illustrationby VictorJuhasz
moneytryingtocommunicatewith theAmericanpeoplethan
we do in campaigns.Look at the cost of advertisingbeer."
Eliminate honoraria,then? Gingrichdismisses that as "anti—
free enterprise, anti—privatemarket. My speeches are frankly
worth $2,000.III were a privateconsultantI wouldmake a lot
more." In fact, Gingrichthinks membersofCongressshould
havemore timeoffto make moneygiving speeches. He sug-
gests, "You may want tomake rules thatno associationor
companies doingbusinesswith thecommittees I serveon could
haveme give a speechfor money,[and]rulesthat sayI haveto
give a real speech."
Gingrich's own reformagenda containsproposalsdesigned
to weakenthe incumbent'sadvantage,includingabolishing
congressional junk mail, requiringcandidatesto startcam-
paignfunds from scratch everytwo years, limitingPAC money,
and requiringthat 50 percent of directcontributionscome
from themember'sown district. "If anybodyspendsover
$100,000outoftheir ownpocket, there wouldbe no contribu-
tion limitstothe other candidate,which is an explicitly anti—
rich peopleprovision,"Gingrichsays. Atthe sametime, he
wouldincreasethe amount ofmoneyindividualsand busi-
nesses couldgive to parties,and the amount parties couldthen
funnel into races."That's hardly a moneyed-interest set of
conditions,"declaresGingrich.
MichaelWaldmanbegs to differ. "Republicansdon'tlike
public financing, becausethe way they've traditionallywonis
to outspendDemocraticincumbents.They say no PACs,but
they alsosupport avastlyincreasedabilityto channelmoneyto
parties from rich people,and that'sgoingto be Republicans."
WhileGingrich and his peers tryto figureouthowto reform
Congress without challengingtheir ownpowerbases,cynicism
spreads,PhilipStern, co-chairofCitizensAgainstPACsand
author of The BestCongressMoney Can Buy, says peoplevote
less and less becausetheylive in "anAmericawhere money
powertalks louder thanpeople power.That leads to a senseof
futility. The ethics debate is not really about ethics.
It's about democraticrepresentation."
Ralph Nader believes thatastheDemocraticparty
becomes increasinglyreliant on big money, it aban-
donsits original bedrock ofpoor and working-class
"The Left is
voters. If Democrats can ensure incumbency by
courtingPACs, there's littleincentiveto mount voter to ame or
registrationdrives. "Over 350 districtsdon't have a
competitive secondparty gettingmore than30 per-
cent ofthevote. Insafe districtsthere's no interestin
the current
thepoor voting,"saysNader, adding,"T\Tis the new 1.
precinct. The two parties areskeletonsbeamingelec- ciiseases
tronic ads at one another." 'While Gingrich wants to
strengthen the fund-raising power of the parties,
Nader wants to hold them accountable. The only
which have
way tounseatentrenched,money-backedpoliticians,
he says, is with "a new kind of politicalmovement struck
that can fluctuate strategically, without any ad-
herence to party labels."
Inthemeantime,don'tlooktoNewtGingrichas a society."
shiningexampleof evenhis ownproposed reforms.
Not onlydid he receive $265,697 in PAC moneyfor
his 1988re-election campaign,he's one of Congress's
highest spenders on junk mail. Naturally, he also
pocketedclose to the limit, $26,800 of $26,850,al-
lowedperyearinhonoraria. "The idea that a congressman
would betainted by acceptingmoneyfrom privateindustryor
private sources is essentially a socialistargument," explains
Gingrich. —D.B.
Eisenhower and Atwater to Patton, are nearly drowned out
by cheers and whoops. Atwater rushes onstage to hug and
raise fists with Gingrich.RNC co-chairJeanieAustintakes the
microphone, eyes shining. "Isn't he something? Maybe we
can all getthat onvideotape!"Gingrichis flushed, soakingup
the ovation.Bob Dole is no longer in the room. The hatchet
is passed.
THE NEXT DAY GINGRICH IS ADDRESSING A FAR LESS FRIEND-
ly crowd on his home turf. Georgia's Sixth Congressional
District wraps around southern Atlanta, encompassing the
busyinternational airport, fast-growing suburbs, textile-mill
and farm towns, the state's richest county (where Gingrich
does best in elections), and pocketsof blackpoverty.Though
Griffin, Georgia, is no metropolis,the agriculturalcollege's
oldbrick auditoriumis filledwith someone hundredconstitu-
ents, many of them downright hostile toward their con-
gressman. The first question comes from Ed Henderson, a
bespectacled Republicancollege student and formerGingrich
campaign worker.He's upsetthat Gingrich—who onceurged
the expulsion of RepresentativesGerry Studds,a Massachu-
setts Democrat,and Dan Crane, an Illinois Republican,for
having sex with congressional pages—hasn'tgone after Rep-
resentative "Buz" Lukens,a Republicanfrom Ohio convicted
of having sex with a sixteen-year-old girl. "Now Newt, I
know the two of you are goodfriends. . . andvery likelyhe
votedforyou, giving you the one-votemajorityyou needed to
become Republicanwhip." Henderson is then disappointed
with Gingrich's answer that Lukens should be investigated
and censured but not expelled because the sixteen-year-old
girl, unlike the pages,wasn't inthe careofCongress.
A single mother stands up. If Congressis so worried about
its own pay raise, why did Gingrichoppose the minimum
wage hike for people like her? "I don't
knowof a singleeconomistwho disagrees
that when you raise theminimumwage
you kill jobs for the poor," Gingrich
shoots back, then suggests, over some
snickers, that a tax cut for minimum
wage earnerswould be better policy.
SeveralEasternAirlines employees
take turns accusing Gingrichof ignor-
ing their plight while he was ranking
minority member of the aviation sub-
committee of the House Public Works
and Transportation Committee. Gin-
grich's district is reputed to have more
aviation workers than any other in the
country,and more than athird are strik-
ing Eastern workers. That he gave up
the committeeassignmentand became
whip has only deepened their skep-
ticism, and the dark rhetoric that
worked so well for Gingrich the day
beforein Washingtondoesn'tseem to con-
nect here. His railingagainst the "corrupt lib-
eral welfare state" draws no applause. And Gin-
grich's now-patentedwarning that "over the next six oreight
months you will see a fairly serious effort to go after me"
elicits only a few chair squeaks.
Gingrich's problem is that here the most tangiblevillain at
MOTHER JONES 31
themomentis not someliberalbureaucratbut that symbolof
unregulated capitalismrun amok: Frank Lorenzo. Most air-
line pilots are military-trained Republicans, and Gingrich has
alwaysbeen able to count on their votesand money. Now, in
addition to the Eastern strikers, much of the local Airline
PilotsAssociation has becomewaryof Gingrich. Eventhough
hewearsa big anti-Lorenzobutton pinnedtohislapel andhas
vowedto have Lorenzoinvestigated,he's also accepted cam-
paign contributionsfrom Lorenzo'sTexasAir. Whatirks the
strikersmost is that Gingrichfailed to support a House mea-
sure asking PresidentBush to convenean emergency board to
arbitrate the dispute.In earlyJune, a strikingEastern machin-
ist—one of Gingrich's constituents—killed himself, a drama
that seized the local imagination far more than the Wright
resignation.
"I supported Newt when he first ran," says Eastern pilot
PatBroderick afterhe and colleagues havemet privatelywith
Gingrichlater in the day. "When we went to him with the
Easternsituationheshiedaway from itbecausehe sawitasan
attack on big business." In the 1990 election, saysBroderick,
"I'd be very surprisedif Gingrichwins." In a July 1988poll
conducted for Democratic opponent David Worley there is
ample evidence of this sentiment: less than half the constitu-
ents sampled could say, "Newt Gingrichcares about people
like me."
IT FIAS BEEN FIVEYEARS SINCE MOTHERJONES LAST LOOKED
in on RepresentativeNewton Leroy Gingrich. Then in his
third term,hewas grabbingattentionwith tiradesdelivered to
an empty House chamber—butbeamed into living rooms
The Cases
I Against Gingrich
ongressmenare notbribed anymore. Theysimply
have a lot offriendswhoarewillingto help themout
whenevertheyfindit necessary."—NewtGingrich,
J Gingrich'scriticsread it differently, chargingthat the $5,000
candidatefor Congress, 1974
Thetoo-generoushelp of influence-seeking
"friends"andshady dealingsregardinga bookeven-
tuallyhung SpeakerJim Wright.Now, the same elements may
proveNewt Gingrich'sundoing.In late July, the House Ethics
Committeewas preparingto launch an official investigation of
Gingrich.
Then inearlyAugust, thepicturedarkened still further for him.
Representative Bill Alexander,a Gingrichfoe, sent a letter to the
committee alleging hehadevidence of"over twohundred" in-
stances ofpotentiallyunethicalpractices—including illegal cam-
paigncontributionsand a "questionable"real-estatedeal.
Aprimary object ofthe committee'sscrutinysofar is the
unorthodox deal Gingrichconstructedto promote his 1984book
WindowofOpportunity. When his publisherdeemedthework
notmarketableenough towarranta hardcoverrun and extensive
promotion,Gingrichcreateda privatepartnership,COS Limited,
managedby his wifeMarianne.Twenty-one donors, most ofthem
wealthybusinesspeopleorinfluentialRepublicans,includingbeer
32 OCTOBER 1989
nationwidevia C-Span cable television. When he repeatedly
accused the Democrats of being "blind to communism,"an
enragedSpeakerTip O'Neill committed his now-legendary
miscalculation in 1984. "You deliberately stood in that well
before an empty House, and challenged these people, and
challenged their patriotism," roared O'Neill, "and it is the
lowest thing I've ever seen in my thirty-two years in Con-
gress." Itwas the Speaker, though, whoseremarks were ruled
out of order and strickenfrom therecord as too personal an
attack, and the confrontationmoved Gingrichfrom cable to
network news.
WhenMotherJones reporter DavidOsborne went back to
Newt's roots a shortwhile later, he discovered a politician
nothinglikethe cleancrusaderimageGingrichhad promoted.
Friends and formerstaffers inhis own districtsouthofAtlanta
toldon him as a candidatewho ran a "familyvalues" cam-
paignwhile cheating onhisfirstwife, Jackie,thenappearedat
her hospitalbedsideas sherecoveredfrom surgery to negoti-
ate a divorce. They described a moderate Republican who
relied heavily on moderate friends' hard work in two failed
electiontries, butwho, in his victoriousthird attempt, heeled
sharplyto the rightand shoved those friendsaside. Osborne's
profilehas become akind ofshadow dossier: itwas circulated
by the Democrats during the Wright scandal, and a recent
Washington Postprofiledrewheavily from it.This summer, in
the speech that so excited theRepublicanNational Commit-
tee, Gingrichdenouncedthe 1984 article as "truly vicious."
He has never, however,rebutted the piecefactually. His for-
merwife, JackieGingrich,says today,"All I cansay is Mother
Jones scooped theworld on Newt Gingrich."
baronJosephCoors, kickedin $5,000 each foradvertisinganda
Gingrich book tour. PublisherJimBaenthenagreed to print the
book in hardcoveras well aspaperback, ensuringGingrichthe
higher royalties possiblefrom hardcoversales.
Marianne Gingrich was paid$11,500by thepartnership,and
the Gingriches have netted $24,036 inroyalties—onsales of only
29,000 copies. Baen has saidhe knows ofnosimilardeal inthe
publishingindustry;Gingrichhas termedit"weird," but defends
it as astraightbusinessventure.
contributionswere illegal gifts. Someofthepartners haveindi-
cated thatgivingGingrichexposure,not makingmoney,was their
mainmotivation."It was a soft investment,"local developerJoel
Cowantold MichaelHinkelmanoftheAtlanta BusinessChroni-
cle. "The reason I got involved was becauseIwanted to help
disseminate his [Gingrich's] ideas." COS Ltd. lost more than
$100,000duringthebook's first five years, and partners got tax
write-offs, which maybe illegal. Accordingto thetaxpublication
Highlights&Documents,"Ifthe point ofthebookwasto
promote Gingrich'scareer,thentheexpensesofpromoting it
could beclassified aspoliticalcampaignexpenditures,"which are
not tax-deductible.
WindowofOpportunityinvestorsand their familymembers
also contributedatleast $60,000 to Gingrichcongressionalcam-
paignsbetween1978and 1988. Andsome ofthemhave bid on or
received federal contracts. One questioncertain to be uppermost
inthe mindsoftheethicscommittee:Didn'tmanypartners join
his high-riskventuresimplybecausehewasin a positionto sway
legislation to their benefit? "Thiswasno riskier thanaBroadway
 Five years ago, Gin- with an "unlimited" fu-
grich was hard to takese- turein theparty. Gingrich
riously. He promoted has become not only the
wackyideas such as state- second most powerfulRe-
hood for space colonies publicaninthe House,but
and replacing Social Se- itsself-styled ethicsczaras
curity with mandatory well—personally filing the
IRAs. He headedthe Con- charges that eventually
servative OpportunitySo- brought down Speaker
ciety, a kind of young, Jim Wright. The Wrighti
rightist, best-and-bright- Coelho debacle made
est club in Congress, but some ethics-reform leg-
didn't manage to author islation inevitable, and
any significant bills. And Gingrich will be one of
Bob Dole wasn't the only its key architects.
one branding Gingrich a Of course, "ethics re-
hypocrite. Earlyon, it sur- form" could mean a se-
faced thatGingrichthe ul- Gingrichbeing challengedata town meeting in Griffin, Georgia. rious improvement in
tra-hawk used student how democratically the
and parental deferments to avoid Vietnam duty. Then his United States elects and pays its Congress, or it could mean
penchantfor pork-barrel and liberal-style spending was dis- quite a bit less. (See "The Real Ethics Debate," page 30.)
covered by conservative columnists like George Will, who Gingrich, forone, sees ethics in the starkestofpartisan terms.
dubbedGingrichand friendsthe "Conservative Opportunist About not only Wrightbut the entireDemocratic leadership
Society." (Gingrich once lobbiedfor the sale of locally made in the House,hehasasserted: "Thesepeoplearesick. . . They
Lockheed planes—toLibya.) Even fellow RepublicanRepre- areso consumed bytheirown power,by aMussolini-likeego,
sentative MickeyEdwards dismissed Gingrich as "irrelevant" thattheir willingness torunover normal human beings and to
in 1984. destroy honest institutions is unending." But direct a few
But now, Lee Atwater tells me he considers Gingrich, who questions about his own ethics Gingrich's way, asking him
still has authorednosignificant legislation, one ofthe "twoor about his own suspect book deals or any other of the odd
three most important" Republicans, a "profile in courage" arrangements now under investi- (Continuedonpage42)

play,"asserts Gingrich."I'm a publiccelebrity. . . sois William F. For a self-styled championofentrepreneurship,Gingrich'sown

Buckley.WilliamF. Buckley routinelyraisesalot ofmoneyfor
National Revieweveryyearwithout any legislative influence."
Sothey invested in the bookbecauseGingrichis acelebrity, not
because heis a congressman? "That's right," Gingrichreplied.
LongbeforeGingrichcould call himselfa celebrity, however, he
raised$13,000 for another book. In 1977, after two losses,
Gingrich was gearingup for athird, successful run for Congress,
but was strappedforcash, saythose closetohim atthetime. A
groupofprominentRepublicanbusinesspeople formeda - June 30, 1987, only $900.00 was spent on
limited partnershipto advancehim the moneytowrite a
novelabout the RussiansinvadingEurope.Gin-
grich usedthe $13,000 to take his familyon a
research trip to Europe,but heneverpro- Ethics isn't
duceda completemanuscript.Gingrichsays
p
this,likethe COSpartnership, was an
aboveboardventurethat didn'tworkout;
an issue tor
he simply found outhewas no novelist.
The deal forthe 1977novel "was nothing
more thanasweetheartarrangementbya
Gingrich, says
p
selectgroup of Newt Gingrich'swealthy
friends," chargesArkansasRepresentative
atormer aiae.
BerylAnthony,Jr.,chairman ofthe Demo-
cratic CongressionalCampaignCommittee "It's atool
(DCCC). "Afterelevenyears and no book, it
now appearsthe real objective ofthis business to complete
partnershipwas to allow Gingricha means for
financial gain notavailableto the average
American." his agenda."
venturestend to raisemore accusationsthanmoney.Last year,the
DCCCchargeda Gingrich-headed politicalaction committee,
Conservatives for Hope and Opportunity(CHO), with mail
fraud. An April 1986direct-mail piecesignedbyGingrichassures
previous donors, "Your gifthas beenput to work helpingCHO
fund conservatives runningforthe House ofRepresentativesin
this year'selection,"thenhits upthe reader for more money.In
fact, whileCHOraised$217,868.80from March 1985through
directcontributionsto candidates.The rest was
spent on directmailings,fees for consultants
and vendors,andtravel for Gingrich.
OnJanuary 31, 1988,ninedays after the
DCCC filed its charges,CHOtoldthe Federal
Election Commissionthat because it "is now
obviousthat CHOcannot get outofdebt,"it
had ceased fund-raising.That averted an inves-
tigation,butAnthonyis convincedGingrich
and his PACknowinglybilkedthe public. CHO
treasurerRobert Weedhas admitted, "Wereal-
ized about the middleof1986that we were
goingtocrash." AsksAnthony,"Iftheyknew
CHOwas a failurein mid-1986,whydid they
continueto make claimsto donors thattheir
moneywas goingtocandidates?"Gingrich's
defense: "Everythingwe didwas clearly, with-
out any question,within the normal
patternofAmerican politics."—D. B.

PhotographbyJohn Spink MOTHER JONES 33

DoctorKAM
It
I KAZ F was a pleasanttrip to Mlima Moja. But what abouttiletrip out?
The doctorate achieved, she fled homeward as if the
ascent into privilege had not begun right there. She
had specialized in Strategies of Economic Develop-
ment. Beyond stats and models, she concluded the
economists she had studied with were nicepeople but
that they were in no position to know how Africans
couldlift themselves from poverty to wealth without
the use ofslaves, colonies, or Bantustans.
Home from the Westernworld, she was appointed
Technical Adviser in the Ministry ofEconomicDevel-
opment. She fed the Principal Secretary factual data
and technical advice on planning. Because she had
Photo by Sebastido Salgado/Magnum

A Short Storyjiy
Ayi Kwei Armah
'o-
taken the jobwithout firsttryingtheinternational honey boats,
the Principal Secretary nicknamed her Doctor Kamikaze. A
week after she started work she told the man to drop it. He
seemed hurt, but promised never to call her Doctor Kamikaze
again.
The Principal Secretarydidn't dislike paperwork, buthehada
civil servant's soul andwas comfortable signing documents, not
writing them. Soon the two settled into a pleasant office mar-
riage: she wrotethe memos, he signedthem.
In time, she realized that she and her fellow economists had
been theorizing about vigorous mountain streams when all they
were required to con-
template was a mo-
tionless pond losing
RDAs therewere to be Regional Finance, Administrative, then
Liaison Agents. Each agent would havean assistant. One hun-
dred and sixty new high-level bureaucratic posts in just one
microstate: she thought the notion was so absurd she felt re-
lieved.No intelligentcabinet would accept these proposals.
On a cool eveningthe news began with the announcement
that His Excellencythe President had approvedan innovative
development blueprint guaranteed to launch the country into
full-fledgedmodernity by the year2060.Sheturnedoffthe radio
andwent to bed.
In the morning she was surprised to findthe Principal Secre-
tary had come to work
early, He was cheerful,
eager to talk about the

A
water through evapora- changes.
tion. "You deserve it," he
Three months after said, his voice breaking.
her arrival some joker "Deserve what?" she
tripping through the in- team of giraffes flowed into asked.
ternational development "You didn't listen to
maze hurled a concep- sight, then disappeared among silvery saplings, the news last night?"
tual brickinto the pond. as if riding on the breeze. "I felt tired," she said.
"It's your celibate
Up came the cyclical
question: what are these [AwrnA life."He showedher the
governments doing to newspaper. "There.
end their crisis of nega- That'syou. RDA for Vu-
tive economic growth? The government reflex was quick, mod- imaRegion. Excellentperks. Two cars: oneVolvo, onejeep. You
ern: hire consultants. In the officeair a hot name floated above won't needyour salary to live on. The peasants will bringyou
the others: SYNDEV INTERNATIONAL, HOUSTON. She wrote a gifts of food. Afterone yearyou'll berich.You're the first wom-
four-point memo on the choice, which not only brought the an to landsuch a ministerial appointment."
PrincipalSecretaryrushing to herofficebut also made himforget "A fate worse than rape," she said.
his promise never againto call her DoctorKamikaze. "I wasjokingthen."
Reminded, he apologized. "But what are you trying to do: She was to report at the State House conference room the
speak truth to power? Leave that to the watchtowerpeople." following morning. She arrived five minutes early to find the
She said: "I'll revise every pointyou think unsound." others already assembled. The President arrived, a small man
"Your points are reasonable." He ticked them off. "One: who might havemade an excellent headteacher in a viable na-
We're paidto think, not to hire foreigners to think for us. Two: tion. He read a speech about loyalty, then withdrew into an
We're broke; we can't affordAmerican experts. Three: SYN- office behind the dais, and the new officialstook turnsgoingto
DEV has no experience in the field anyway. Four: We have him for shorttalks.
competent people. Why notputthemto work? Veryreasonable. When her turn came, the President told her he hoped she
Look, I'll tear up the memo for you." would consider this transfer up-country a welcome challenge,
"What's the problem?" not, as many high-echeloncadres would assume, a punishment.
"If this goes to the President, he'll jail you or make you a Itwould helpherget toknow thecountrynotas anideabutin its
minister.Eitherway it's a fate worsethan rape." profound reality. On her way out she saw the presidential dais
"You're hiding something from me." andheardthe distantechoofa school hymninhermind.It made
"Money," he said. "There's a tiedU.S.aidgrant forthe study." her infinitelysad.
"If I take personal responsibility, will you send it in?" she In her school days there'd beena sports festival each year, a
asked. month before the exams. A prefect in her final year, she had
"Certainly." accompaniedthe school team to the school hosting the events.
Walking about that strange compound, she found it hard to
SYNDEV ARRIVED, A TEAM OF FOUR BRIGHT AMERICANS. believe it was a school in the same sense hers was. No clock
They got suntanned in December at their SeasprayHotel opera- towerto regulate the students' movements, onlyhand bells rung
tional base, took helicopter trips to regionaltownsto collect on- erratically along the corridors. Toilets,cleanporcelain fixtures at
the-spot data,and leftinApril. InJunetheir report arrived.Title: her school, were holes in the groundhere. Unused to such ar-
Blueprint forDevelopment. rangements, she'd wet herself badly the firsttite she tried them
It was a high-resolution job, tastefully ventilated with charts and had tofinda placeto wash offa sprayof old urine from her
andgraphics, fragrantwithoptimism fromfirstto finalpage. Yet bottomwhilefromthefield another ofherschool's victory songs
nomatterwhich way sheturnedit, it looked like a practical joke. wafted into her ears.
In the interests of efficient management, the country's ten re- On her return, curiosity had pushed her to read about her
gions were to he doubled. Each regionwas to have its minis- school. In the library, she discovered the other school received
terial-level Regional Development Agent. A grade below the less than a quarter the subvention allocated hers, and had to

36 OCTOBER 1989
educate twice thenumberof students. of the place as iftheywere a consolation for lossesunaccounted
Contemplating theenormity ofgainsunaccounted for,she felt for.
afraid. On the way to her dorm she almost panicked at the The clerk saidnothingwhensheaskedto seethenext site. The
thought: what if I'd gone to the other place? Relief followed a road was bad, and it took over an hourto reach the dam site.
calmerthought:I am here. Sunlighttouchedhereyelids,andshe There was a structure on the spot; it wasn't a dam, though. It
felta breeze lift her. was an abandoned jetty. The clerk said a German priest had
After the final exam, prizeday came. Thatyear also she won come to set it up earlyin 1945. He'd died of heartfailure when
several prizes. Butpartway into the school anthemshe remem- theNazis were defeated.
bered a spray of old urine and her happiness soured. The song Back at work she had the clerk prepare letters inviting the
over, she looked at the headmaster reciting the year's triumphs, contractors listed on the disbursement sheets to a meeting with
introducing the prize-day speaker. She saw the speaker's poi- all regional agents. The clerklookedat her in dismay but com-
ishedshoes,andhereyeswandered down tothemobile stairway plied.
she'dhaveto climb to receiveher prizes. The contractors came, four men. She'dmet thembefore, only
The top step was steeper than the lower steps. So each then they'dcome as members of the Regional Partycommittee:
prizewinner had to do a slight hop at the end of the climb. In the Chairman, the Secretary,the Treasurer, and the Liaison Of-
previous yearsshe'd done it without a thought. Now she won- ficer. She startedwith theinformation in thefiles: each contrac-
dered if she would havethe energy. torhadreceivedfunds fromthegovernment treasury forwork to
Thespeaker wound up. Work hard, be loyal, disciplined; the be done.
heights reached and kept by greatmen. Then it was time to go The RegionalParty Chairman putin a correction. "The gov-
forthe prizes. She heard her nameand startedup themakeshift ernment has no money.Aidmoney. Foreign loans."
stairs. For aflash she was sure shewasn't going to make itup the She didn't follow up the point. "At the sites I found no con-
final step. struction work done," she said. "I trust you havea satisfactory
But from behind her came a tide of affectionate applause. It explanation."
entered her feelings,touchedher consciousness,conjured away The Chairman stared at the tabletop. The RDA recast her
herpanic, calmed herfearof failure. Shefeltliftedabovethe last statement as a question. The Chairman rose: "Weneedtime to
step, and in the same motion she smiled up at the firstlady as prepareour defense."
they reached out to each other. The tidal wave of affection The DevelopmentAgentexplained that she was not accusing
broughther backto her seat, died down, then gently rose for anyone. She wasasking, as a routinepart of the preparationfor
another chosen child. doing herjob, exactlywhat hadhappened.
"Weheardyou thefirsttime,"theChairmansaidin adignified
ITWAS APLEASANTTRIP TO MLIMAMOJA,CAPITALOF VILIMA tone. "Giveus time. We'll give you your explanation."
Region. She traveled in a green army Mercedes vanwith tiresso Early Tuesdaymorning she found a majestic sheep, its white-
new theylookedoiled in the sunlight. Once,offthe road to the ness heightenedwith bluelaundrydye, tied up outside her front
right, a team of giraffes flowed into sight, then disappeared door, Thewatchmansaidarelative oftheRegional Party Chair-
among silvery saplings, fluidin their motion, as if riding on the manhad broughtit.
breeze, in the distance ahead, the mountain from which the Shewroteanotethankingthe Chairman butdeclining thegift,
towntook its nameswung into view, a remotebluish white top and added a reminder that the Civil Service Code proscribed
above a spray of clouds, a summit with no visible means of such gifts. Thewatchmanleftwith the sheep, lookingmurdered
support onthe earthbelow. in his soul.
The townwas a modest interruption inthe mountain scenery. Wednesdayafterwork thePartySecretary came with anoffer
Themainstreet, haphazardlytarred, wentup totheadministra- ofa bungalow he'doriginally intendedfor himself, beautiful on
tive buildings on a steep hillside. Lower down there was a red- a scenic ridge. She declined the gift, recycling the now-limp de-
roofed school nextto a hospitaldyingforpaint.Apartfrom that fense—theCivil Service Code.
therewas just theunplannedvillage. Next Monday, the Party Treasurer came. He bore no gifts;
The thirdday after her arrival she startedwork. She asked to only a conversation circling round the importance of rela-
see allfilesondevelopment work done todate.Whatshe gotwas tionships, the sacrednessof a person's livelihood, especiallythe
acatalogofunrelatedprojects: resurfaced roads, bridges,water- livelihood of men, family heads each with numerous depen-
works facilities.She drewup a scheduleofinspection trips. dents. Cut onedown,you starvewholeclans to death.
When shown the itinerary the clerk in charge of logistical The third Monday the Party Chairman came. He gave every
details seemed distressed. "1 don't understand," he said. She sign of having forgotten the incident of the rejectedsheep. He
explained the obvious: "Take outroad and trackmapscovering called the RDAhis beautiful daughter and wishedher a pros-
the region. Pinpoint each project listed as completed. I needto perouscareer.
see whatwe have to startwith." "Wehereknow more about you than you suspect," he said.
On the way to the firstprojectsite the clerk was morose. The "We know you've got all the degrees a human being can get
project indicated shouldhavebeen a solid concrete bridge. The withoutgoingcompletely mad. Oneday you'll tell us all about
Kijitovalley cameinto sight. Oppositealonehill onthe far bank books, aeroplanes, skyscrapers, the wonders beyondour hori-
the jeep stopped.She looked at the map. The river was nar- zon. But todaylet me talk aboutwhat Iknow: lifein this region.
rowest at this point, between foothills on the rightbank and a "When the President firstcamehere, he needed help. He was
wooded spuronthe left. The bridge shouldhave been here. agitating against the colonial government. It was a risky busi-
Shelooked from the river to the clerk. The clerklooked atthe ness. But he had grasped something: there was a new world
vehicle floor.She satthinkingofthe river's powerandthe beauty coming, and there would be room on the mountainpeak for a

MOTHERJONES 37
few Africans able tocontrol the colonymore
cheaply than the white governmentagents.
"I was a.WorksDepartmentcashieratthe
I
time. risked my career to help him. He's
beengratefulever since. That'sthe secretof
his power: thatmandoesn't forgethis help-
ers.
"Atfirstheimaginedhe'dcreatetheParty
by persuading honest individuals, one by
one.Itold him to beapolitician,notapriest,
and to see the notables instead. Once they
agreed with him the rest followed. That's
how we did our part to plant the seeds of
independence.
"But power brought the Presidenta sad
surprise. On the mountaintop he found no
fruit, only rind and pips. Sometimes fruit
gets like that. Pretty, but cut it open, the
wormshave beenthere. It's bitter, our inde-
pendence.
"Wearetold that farfrom having fruit to
share, every African nation is in debt. My
beautifuldaughter, even debtors can't stop
eating. Whatto eat when the fruits ofinde-
pendence have vanished?Whatever comes.
Loans.Aid.Where are youfrom?"
The personal question caught her off
guard.Recovering, sheanswered:"The cap-
ital."
"Wentto schoolthere?"
"Yes."
"The school, no doubt?"
The accuracy of this probe made her
laughas shenodded yes.
"And after that you went abroad to all
thoseuniversities,"the Chairmansaid, smil-
ing. "How longdidyou stay overseas?"
"Seven years," shesaid.
"Nice.Timetoreadand think. No worry-
inghowthebutcher kills, the farmer digs. So
young,yetalready you've been givenevery-
thing.Tosee theworld, thencomehome toa
spacioushouse, cars, servants."
"They're notmine," she protested."They
come withthe job."
The Chairman laughed: "And what's a
government job like yours but a lifetime
promise you'll never starve or worry? Be
kind, my daughter.Don'tlookdown on us.
Verybright,the fruit taken straightfromthe
sun. Here we're contenttowaitfor fruit that
drops into the mud, where we live. Don't
search too deepundertherootsofyour luck.
You might have to ask yourselfwhy, after
thenation paidforyoureducationand sent
you abroad to open your eyes, the same na-
tion welcomesyou back with a job that
makesyou rich in aburgled country, instead
oforderingyou topaya lifetime bill."As he
rose to go, his smile was inclusive, protec-
tive, loving.
The planned meetingof contractors and
DevelopmentAgents took place as sched-
uled the nextMonday. The RDA readher
38 OCTOBER 1989
terms of reference, emphasizing her duty to
findout what had been done with resources
allocated. The Party Chairman opened his
eyeswhen the RDA ended her speech,and
hehad to reply.
He spoke of peace. "Peace in each soul.
Peacein the nation and in the great world,
why not?Everyyearthe value of the crops
we sell in the markets of the world goes
down. People say: 'You're being robbed.'
"Weanswer:'Peace.'Withpeacealittle of
the stolen wealth finds its way back here.
Aid. Loans.And," he nodded pleasantly to-
wardtheRDA,"scholarshipsforour young.
When the Finance Minister signs a loan
agreementand the moneygetsshared in the
capital, we don't march there to call the
sharers thieves.If we did, life here would
become a dance of guns. And the same
whiteswhogive grain so reluctantly to help
us live would rush to give us bullets to help
us die.
"We prefer peace. When we get a little
something,we distributeit carefully. That's
whywe're all atpeacehere." The other con-
tractors walkedoutwithhim.
In the postmortemconversationthe Re-
gionalFinancialAgentsaidthe RDAshould
have avoided antagonizingthe local Party
notables,goingtoseethe dam site,theroad,
the bridge.
TheRDAaskedtheRFA: "Did youknow
these constructionsdidn't exist?"
"Everyoneknows that."
"There'sbeenawaste ofnationalfunds,"
the RDAsaid.
"Not really," said the RFA. "The nation
no longer has any funds. That's what the
PartyChairman and Secretary were trying
to tell you. They don't believe anyoneis de-
veloping anything here. Every fool knows
where the project loans went. The Chair-
man set up a timber businesswith foreign
exchange. Touch him,you wound thePresi-
dent.The Party Treasurer isashareholderin
the Seaspray Hotel system. His partners in-
clude the President's wife. She has a slogan:
'My husband'sbusiness is integrity; my
businessis business.' One more thing: 'If
you quote me I'll deny everything." The
meeting crackedup on that one.
To keep unsettling thoughts at bay she
turned her energies to practicalwork. The
area around the regionalcapitalwas poten-
tially goodfarming territory,but water was
a problem. Studyinghydrologicalstats she
foundthis strange.The placeshould abound
in mountainsprings.
She set out to investigate, taking long
strolls after hours. About nine kilometers
from the town she was shown a spring of
such volume and power that she returned
chastened because it was unused.Ancestral
permission had to be sought for tapping the
water,she was told. She assumed that was a
problem, but the priestess guarding the
springwas pleasedwhen consulted.
"It's not my opinion you want," the
priestesssaid, "it's the ancestors'. You plan
to take the water to irrigate common land.
Takeall youneed. But the day you decide to
sell it to traders, you'll have to kill me to
unlock thestream." The priestess addedone
condition: that a stand of trees near the
spring,cut down the previousyearby a cer-
tain timbermerchant,be replanted.
At the RegionalWorks Department the
RDAfound plastic tubing that had lain un-
used because officials had assumed the
custodian of the waters was a wild tradi-
tionalist who wouldn't let the spring be
tapped. She talked to technicianscapableof
layingirrigationpipesbuttooyoungtohave
reached decision-making positions in the
Works hierarchy. What remained was to
bringpeople together to work.
The PartyChairman had traveled to the
capital in some haste, the RDA was told.
The Party Secretaryhad accompaniedhim.
She askedto see the AssistantSecretary, and
found a calm, quick-eyed fellow about
twenty-five years old, who in a single day
brought together over a thousand indi-
viduals armed with diggingimplements.
In a week the trench was complete, the
pipes were laid and fitted, and the water of
the spring began its controlled flow to the
fields nearthe town. Workingwiththis gen-
erous line of people stretching down the
mountainside, the RDA felt her thoughts
blocked by theknowledgethat only she and
a handful of bureaucrats would draw sal-
ariesfrom thecommon work.
The Regional Party Chairman and the
Secretary returned from the capital to find
over a thousand Partymemberscelebrating
the completionof a long-postponedirriga-
tion project. The young Assistant Secretary
went to greet them in the street, but they
ignored him publiclyand went home. The
next day the Assistant Secretary was ex-
pelledfrom thePartyon chargesofattempt-
ing to createa factionloyal to himselfprior
to a powergrab.
The third night after the water began to
flow, the RDA was in her bedroom reword-
ing an appeal on behalf of the sacked As-
sistant Party Secretary, re-examining old
contract files andtrying to decidewhat fur-
ther stepswere called for in the case of the
phantom projects, when thelightswent out.
She could hear the generatorstill throbbing.
She took her bedside flashlight and went to
the fuse box in the entranceway.She was
checkingthe fuses when she was seized by
severalstrong but palpably nervous hands.
She was carried rather gentlyto the kitchen
and made towatch (Continuedon page46)
 TRIPS
By Robyn Davidson

Rock Dreams
N THE BEGINNING,BEFORE

1 the world took on its pres-

ent form, carpet-snake
people journeyed from the east
and settledatasand hill contain-
ing what they came to call the
Uluru water hole. Soon after, a
Between Australia's party of venomous snake men
came from the west to attack
Caucasian and their peacefulsettlement.At the
close ofthe battle, Uluru rose up
aboriginalcultures —a monolith bearing all the
is Ayers Rock, one physical and metaphysicalsigns
ofepicdestruction.A water hole
of the country's that now sits at the foot of the
Rock came from the blood of a
mostspectacular dying carpet-snakeman; a frag-
mentofstoneis theseverednose
sites and symbol of a venomoussnakewarrior; a
largecave was formed from the
of its emerging mouth of a woman weeping
withgrief for the loss of her son
identity struggle. and spittingarukwita, the spirit
of disease and death, over her
enemies. is not a rock, it is my grandfather. This is a place
Thus was created Ayers Rock, one of the most where the dreamingcomes up, right up from inside
spectacular sites in Australia. For the Pitjantjatjara the ground."
aborigines, descendantsof the ancientcarpet-snake
people, theRock, locatedatthecenter of avasttract I FIRSTVISITEDULURU PARK OVER ADECADEAGO. IT
of desert spreading over three Australian states, was underthecontroloftheNorthern Territorygov-
formsan axis around which theuniverseturns. Eth- ernment,whichpromotedstate rightsand economic
nocentricityperhaps, butwhen yougaze for the first developmentatany cost. The governmentwas pro-
timeatAyersRock, floatinglikeLeviathanina sea of mining,anti—landrights, and decidedly antagonistic
orangesand, it's easyto agree with them. Uluru, as toward "southern do-gooders,"ofwhich I was one.
theycall it, is like nothingelse on earth. During the protest years of the seventies, land
It rises,isolated and improbable,over a thousand rightsfor aboriginesbecameanarticleoffaithacross
feet abovethe dunes.From a distanceits size is diffi- the spectrum of left and moderate politics. Liberal
cultto appreciate,but as you travel closer, its gran- whites—lawyers,anthropologists, advisers of all
deur begins to penetrate your consciousness until, sorts—arrivedin Alice Springs, about two hundred
walking aroundthesix-milebase,you are receiving a miles northeast ofUluru,to work fornewly formed
powerfuldose ofwhatJorge LuisBorges called"the black organizations.Ihad gone theretopreparefora
wonder distilled from elementary things." Euro- journeyacrossAustraliabycamel,and soon became
Ayers Rock, center peans,whohavebeenon this continentfor onlytwo involvedemotionallyand professionally in the ab-
oftheaborigines'
world,at sunset
hundredyears, also have a special feeling about the original battle for land. But in 1977 it was time to
(right); an place, clingingasthey dotoanythingthatenhancesa leavepolitics, alongwith everything else,behindme.
aboriginal rock sense ofnational identity. I set out with my camels on a journey that would
painting atKokadu
National Park. Aboriginalpeople not only come from the land, take me right through Pitjantjatjara country, and
theyarethe land. Conceptsof ancestor,descendant, that would, yearslater, provide the materialfor my
country, story line, and ritual art form an eternal bookTracks.
continuum.Or, as aPitjantjatjaraelder putit, "This WhenI firstcameuponUluru, I had beenwalking

PhotographsbyGeneRussell(right),and DylanAndrew, MOTHER JONES 39

both courtesy ofThe TravelImage
for twoweekswithout seeing a soul. Up one ange trunks of desert poplars, and, furring ignorant men go into a women'splace, they
sand hill, down another, and on eitherside the ridges of the dunes,pincushionsofpale rape all women—not just us [aboriginal
of me an infinity of dunes stretching away green spinifex. I struggled to the top of a women], but all women everywhere.They
into blue. I was not looking forward to sandhill, and thereitwas: theRock, bruise- ruineveryone with their ignorance."
seeing the Rock, having overdosed on its colored, striped by waterfalls,and capped
shape on billboards advertising life insur- with gray mist. The rain came down in TOURISM IS NOT A BENIGN INDUSTRY. UN-
ance and on T-shirtssold in kitsch shopsin buckets,butwhatdid itmatter?Iwas inthe less it is rigorouslycontrolled,itcan funda-
Alice Springs. Butwhen Isaw that greatblue heart ofthe world and I was happy. mentallyalter the natural environment and
mass shimmering on the horizon, I was Until I turned a corner and saw Yulara. adversely affectthehostculturethattourists
spellbound. Uluruwas too ancientto becor- This was no village; this was a blueprint wish toexperience. The custodiansofAyers
ruptible. town complete with a Sheraton hotel, a Rock arelucky in many respects:they have
Ispentaweekthere, exploring everycave, mock Greek amphitheater,and tourist-trap thepowertovetothe useoflJluru. (Recently
fold, and gully of it. Therewere three small boutiques. We rented a car and drove they turned away a musician who offered
motels at its base, a little shop, and some straighttothe Rock. enormous amountsofmoneytomake avid-
houses for the rangers. Aborigineslived in As it swelled before us, the "skin" of the eo on top of it—anew definition of "rock
humpiesjust outsidethe settlement;tourists Rockwas changingfrom steel graytopurple clip.") Even so, many of them are abandon-
wandered into those camps taking pho- to shiny red. We parked thecar and stepped ing itformore privatesettlements out in the
tographs.I spentanother weekthere before outinto the freezing wind.The pathtookus desert—away from public display. They
continuingwest into blissfulemptiness. around thewesternface, pastthewhite line worry about and feel responsible for the
In 1983, after eight yearsoflobbying,the painted upthesideoftheRock. By the timeI climbers who fall to their deaths, and they
Pitjantjatjarawere granted freehold title to had walkedamile, Iwas so numbwith cold are powerless against the trespassers who
thepark, which they thenleasedback to the that it seemed perfectly sensible to take off blunder about in fertilitycaves, ignorant of
government. They receiveda share of the my drenchedclothes and plungeinto one of the deep distress this causes.
financial benefits of tourism and, more im- thenew waterholesbeneatha cascade thun- Eventually, the veryelementthat nowat-
portantly,acquireda majorityon the board deringdown atusfrom the gods. The water tracts so many visitors to Uluru Park—
of management. Since the arrival of Euro- was pure as crystal, and so deep in places aboriginalculture—couldbe subsumedbya
peansin the area duringtheearlypartofthe that itwas bluishblack. kind of tourist imperialism;or the Rock it-
century, the Pitjantjatjara had been forced Aftermy impromptuswim,we continued self, the return ofwhich was such an impor-
off their country by ranchers and miners, walking around the Rock, struggling tant aboriginalvictory,could be taken over
been employed asvirtual slave laboron the throughtheneedlesofrain until we cameto by commercial interestsafter all. As one dis-
great cattle estates,and hadtheirhalf-caste a sign notifying the public that this small gruntledPitjantjatjaraelderput it, "You are
childrentaken from them by welfare agen- fenced-off area was a sacred site closed to money people, with money to burn. You
cies. They had watched their young men visitors. A group of tourists was reading it; work like hell for money.We work for the
force-marchedthree hundred miles to pris- one ofthemcrossedthe fence and headedoff land,to look after the land."
on inneckchains for thespearingofasheep for the cave. Icalledhim back and explained All this isn'tto say that we shouldn't join
and seen relativesblinded or killed by the in my most polite voice that the Rock be- the hordes visitingthis wonder of theworld
British nuclearbomb tests at Maralinga. In longed, morally and legally, to the aborig- —only that tourism is full of uncomfortable
returning the Rock to its original owners, inal people,and that he was their guest and ironies. Even with the best of intentions,
white Australia made a gesturetoward ac- about to break their law. Since he couldex- cross-cultural travelerscan never be a neu-
knowledging those injustices. The hand- plore everypart of the Rock except two or tral presence.
overceremonywas, by most accounts,very three tiny sections,I added, whydid he feel
movingdespitethe outrage expressedinthe the needto trespass? Hewalkedon. Robyn Davidsonis an Australian writerliv-
local press. As one headline put it, "Ayers I recalledthe words ofa frail, elderly ab- inginLondon. Her latestbook isAncestors,
Rockiswhite man'sdreamingtoo." originalwoman whoonce told me, "When publishedthis month by Simon&Schuster.
ADECADEISA LONGTIME TO LIVEWITHOUT
experiencing the sand-hillcountryofcentral
Australia.Whenafriendcameoutfor aholi-
day last autumn, I decidedto return toUlu-
ru. After getting off the plane, I gave in to
nostalgiaand pantheismand walkedthefive
milesto Yulara—a village built twelve miles
northof the Rock to house tourists, taking
theecologicalpressureoff the Rock and the
social pressure off the aborigines who still
live atits base. My friend, reluctantto walk
such a distance, climbed into a bus along
with all the American,Japanese, and Ger-
man tourists.
The duneswere the color ofconch shells,
of rosebuds. Thanks to the rain, there were
explosions of color everywhere—purple
parakeelya, bright yellow grevillea, blue
shrubs sprouting scarlet flowers, silky or- "Ourdaughtertells usyou're achoreographer."

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GINGRICH
(Continuedfrom page 33) gation by the
House Ethics Committee'sspecial outside
counsel Richard Phelan (who also led the
investigation ofJim Wright), and Gingrich
is likely to say, "If you're a whistle-blower
in the conservative movement . . . there
are no holds barred in trying to destroy
you." (See "The CasesAgainstGingrich,"
page 32.)
Thisis vintageGingrich,and itis also a
vintagekind of U.S. politics, what Richard
Hofstadter over two decades ago named
"theparanoid style." Whatseemsto work
someofthe time with some ofthe people,
what demagogueslike McCarthyhaverid-
den tobold, ifultimatelysoiled,fameisthe
practiceof positioningoneselfas the lone
warrior exposingandbattling anevil, alien
conspiracywithin as well as outside the
country.Ithas traditionallybeena politics
of resentmentagainst power centers and
social change that has played especially
wellinthe South.(In 1968, Gingrich'sdis-
trictvoted for George Wallace in thepresi-
dential election while surrounding areas
voted for Nixon.)
The paranoid style was supposed to
play less well in the NewSouth,the more
educated,white-collar,postindustrialdis-
tricts like Gingrich'sown. But Gingrichis
expert at convertingup-to-date concerns
into grist for his conspiracytheory.While
heclaimstoholdoutapositivevision—the
high-tech,deregulated utopia outlinedin
his 1984bookWindowofOpportunity—
for Gingrich, it's not morning again in
America,it's the twilight before perma-
nent, moonlessnight.
Take drug abuse. We associate drugs
withthe"values"ofthesixties,do we not?
And thechildrenofthe sixties are nowthe
Democraticpoliticiansandliberal bureau-
cratsand "left" media ofthe eighties, who,
Gingrich argues,havespentthelast"twen-
ty years misleading this country about
howdestructivedrugs are." Therefore,he
continues,the Left isto blame for the pre-
sent crack epidemic and the country's
other drug problems.Now that commu-
nism isn'tthe credible evil it was even five
years ago when Democrats were "blind"
to it, "Islamic extremismmay well be the
greatestthreattoWesternvaluesand West-
ern securityin the world," Gingrich says.
"It's steadily replacing communism as a
threat on anactivebasis."
In Washington,where the media lusts
for the big quote and politicalparties can
always find a role for a rhetoricalpit bull,
Gingrich has made a career ofthis kind of
talk. At home,Gingrichfine-tunesthe sig-
42 OCTOBER 1989
nal for the particular frustration of each
interestgroup.Afterthetownhall meeting
in Griffin, Gingrichallowsme totagalong
with him to a session with a group of doc-
tors and insurers at the Griffin Hospital.
Dr. Alex Jones, the white-hairedchief of
medicine, asks why Medicarecovers less
whileredtapegrows.CouldNewt betheir
advocate,modifytheprogram?
Gingrich listens for a while, then
launches into a discourse on the "Har-
vard[-style] centralized bureaucracy-driv-
en model of health care, which is inher-
ently, catastrophicallybad. . . . There are
two realitiesto the current system: one is
thegovernmentistryingtocheatyou. And
the second is the governmentis lying to
you about what it's doing." Gingrichsays
his "bias" is to abolish the whole federal
health-care bureaucracy. "I'm very se-
riously thinkingabout putting a billin, just
a symbolic bill that says look, you can't
reform that culture. . . Nobody on the
battle line would notice that they were
gone if you decapitated the top twelve
thousandbureaucratsand started over
with a new model."
Instead of Medicaid, he proposes tax
credits for doctors whenever they treat
card-carrying indigents, a farfetched
scheme for dozens of politicaland prac-
tical reasons,not the leastofwhichisthat
it would force the poor to rely purely on
the kindnessof health-carestrangers. But
that, anda "symbolic"attempt atbureau-
cratic decapitation,isallthat is offered to-
day by Gingrich.At one point, while ex-
plainingwhy malpracticesuits persist, he
tips his hand: "The public has to have a
bad person," helectures. "It's thenature of
Western culture."
This follows the grand overview:
"There has been a fifty-year-long war be-
tween the Left, which loves socialized
medicine, loves coercive centralizedbu-
reaucraticpower. . .andtherest ofus.And
they're very smart," he says, pausing for
effect. "They always conceal their greed
for power in the language of love." His
listeners are no friends ofbureaucrats,yet
they seem startled at the distancethey've
traveled in the half hour since Dr. Alex
Jones askedthe originalquestion. Jones,a
confirmedconservative and Gingrichfan,
admitslater thatGingrichhadconjuredan
appealing,but impossible, dream. "You'll
always have the bureaucracy," he says,
comingbacktoearth, "butIthink itcan be
reformed so the patient is number one."
NEWT GINGRICH, A FORMER HISTORY
teacher, clearlyimagineshimselfa historic
figure. "I have anenormous personalam-
bition. I want to shift the entire planet.
And I'm doing it," he declared in 1985.
These days he equates his toppling of
Wrightwith the momentousevents in Po-
land, China, andthe Soviet Union, and he
has alreadycreated an archive for his per-
sonal papers at West Georgia College,
where he was terminated (ironically, for
notpublishingenough)in1978 after seven
years of teaching, according to Dean
Richard Dangle.
Sometimes, apparently, the fine points
of congressionalethics can seem an obsta-
cle to history-making, though. Dolores
Adamson, Gingrich's self-assured former
aide, is in a position to know. Gingrich
asked her to stay on as district assistant
when hesucceededDemocratJack Flyntin
1979; at his request, she took him to the
local mall and showed him howto warm
up to people, stand in line with kids wait-
ingforBraves autographs, "go up to some-
one and beacongressman."Adamsonwas
happy to oblige; at firstshethoughtNewt
was "great." Inthefirst months,Adamson
remembers,"He wouldalwayssay,'Ifever
I get outofline, call me down.'"
But after the first term, "It's like he
turned a corner," Adamson says. "There
seemed to be a new Newt. . . He quit
being the humbleservant." For one thing,
Gingrichbegantoinsistthathis everypub-
lic utterance be taped. "And I asked him,
'Don'tyouthinkthatwhen we record your
voice at every meeting you go to, that
you're looking like a pompous someone
who wants to hear themselves talk?'"
Adamson remembers."He said, 'No, it's
important.' . . . He thought . . . there'd
probably be a museum someday where
you could go andcheck one ofthosetapes
out." If posterity was slighted because a
staffer failed to record him, Gingrich
woulddock thatperson's pay upto$200—
and dock Adamson's as well. Then, for
good measure,"He'dcut you down, blast
you unmercifully."
Adamsonrememberstussling with Gin-
grich most,though, overmatters ofethics.
"Doloreswas his conscience when itcame
to ethical things. She was all our con-
science," says Dot Crews, a veteran Re-
publican activist whoworked inthe office
then. "She was a real stickler about keep-
ingcongressionalandcampaignstuffsepa-
rate, very, very tough." But Gingrich
wasn't conscientious, Adamson says.
Though the rules prohibit it, Gingrich
many times tried to use tax-paid staff and
officespaceforcampaignwork, according
toAdamson."Iwould say no, youcan'tdo
that. You'll have togoto someone'shome.
• . . We went to a [Congress-sponsored
seminar]for ethics. We had a manual this
high. So whywere we arguingabout it?...
It always would amaze me how insignifi-
cant Newt thought allofthatwas. Because
tomeitwas significant."Adamsonneared
the breakingpoint when, after returning
fromaweek-longvacation, she found out
that against her wishes Gingrich had put
the districtofficestaffto work editingand
copying earlydraftsofWindowofOppor-
tunny."Inmy mind,itwas illegal,"Adam-
sonsays,andbystrictinterpretationofthe
law and House rules, she may be correct.
Not long after that confrontation with
Gingrich, Adamsonquit.
Gingrichhas said that only one staffer
helpedwiththebook. But DotCrews,who
alongwith Adamsonhas notdiscussed her
relationship withGingrichpubliclybefore,
confirms Adamson'sversion. She remem-
bers working on the book, though one
higher-up triedto convinceheritwas just a
government-related policystatement, not
"strictlya businessventure" as Gingrich
has since proclaimed.Crews,whoworked
in Gingrich's office until she resignedin
1984, says that after Adamson left, Gin-
grich andhis staffbeganto"blurthelineof
separation between congressional and
campaign work."
That line has apparently continued to
blur at taxpayers' expense. Recordsshow
that Gingrich took members of his con-
gressional staff off the payroll to work on
his campaignsin 1986 and 1988 and then
gavethembig, temporaryraises when they
returned to congressional work. If the —.
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This kind of aggressiveness fairly charac-
terizes Republicanparty-buildingatthelo-
mein the backseat.Gingrich isinthe front
passengerseat,staringahead,saying,"The
callevel,sayinsiders.At a recentstate con-thing that shockspeople. - . isthat I mean
vention, one of Gingrich's closest aides,
MelSteely,grabbed and draggedaprecinct
what I say. I don't use hyperbole." I ask
whyhe didn'tfire KarenVanBrocklin, the
chairmanseveralfeet in an attemptto con-
vince him to support a Gingrich favorite.
aide whospread the lie about Foley, and
Gingrich doesn't miss a beat, calmly ex-
The man suffers from cerebral palsy and
was badly shaken, according to two eye-
plaining that Van Brocklin had done a
great job leaking damaging information
witnesses, and Gingrich later apologized about Wright to the press, "and she was
for the incident.(Steely refused to talk to .
never burned.. . I would have given any
MotherJones.) person with that track record one major
Then there isBob Cooley'sstory,which, mistake." He goes on to blame the New
if nothing else, demonstratesjust how York Daily News columnist who linked
much paranoia the Gingrich style can Van Brocklinwith the rumor: "He called
breed. The Republican aircraft mechanic her. . . . She answeredhim honestly, she
workedon the 1986re-election campaign told him flatly we were not investigating
and hostedorganizingmeetingsinhis large Foley. . . . He then turned that into a
home. Two weeks before the election, viciously dishonestcolumn."
someone broke in, strewed garbage all The week before, openly gay Massa-
over the floors, and wrote "Newt Sucks" chusettsRepresentative Barney Frank had
intoothpaste onthemirrors. At the time, calledVan Brocklin "Madame Defarge,"
Cooley, and lots of voters, assumed Gin- telling meinaninterviewthatshe "wasnot
grich'sDemocraticenemieswere to blame. only passing the rumor along, but in the
Gingrich won by a healthy margin. The most despicablefashionsayingFoley likes
crime remains unsolved, but Cooley— littleboys.Whenpeopleusethesesmarmy,
whohas since soured on Gingrich—today smearing methods, use it as a weapon, it
is convinced that unbeknownst to Gin- reinforces the idea there is something
grich, some of his own people staged the wrong with beinggay."
break-into taintthe opposition. But Gingrichdoesn'tyieldan inch."It's
For L. H. "Kip" Carter, another former a disgustinglydishonest column," he
Gingrich ally, the smearing of Speaker finishes, as the car comes to a stop forthe
Foley has a familiar ring. He was Gin- day'snextmeeting.
grich'sfirstcampaigntreasurerand one of "Andwhatyour aide didwasn't disgust-
his closest friends and advisersuntil be- ing?" I ask.
comingdisillusioned with the young con- "No. . ." pipes up Ward, but Gingrich
gressmanin 1979. "Wecreateda monster, shuts her down with a sharp, angry, "Let
and I'll never be able to do enough good me talk!" Hisbig silverheadcomes wheel-
thingsin mylifetimeto balance thescale," ingaround, and he fixes his suddenlyfierce
the businessman nowtells the press when- eyes on me. "Mother Jones smeared me.
everhe gets a chance.But he's paida price All right? You are lucky that I believe you
for his conversion. After Carter blasted guys are trying something different. No
Gingrichpublicly, a rumor begancirculat- Democrat defended me. No Democrat
ing that Carter was a homosexual,even- said TonyCoelho shouldn't havesentout
tuallyworking its way into the local Car- hundreds of copies ofthat article.Andno
roliton paper. Carterwas forced to deny newspapersaid itwas dishonest, demean-
the rumor in print. ing, or wrong, and nobody was fired.
Most jaded ofallamong Gingrich'sfor- Now,KarenVan Brocklin madeamistake.
mer supporters, though, might be Lee But a number of hypocritical left-wing
Howell, Gingrich's first press aide. news mediapeople and hypocriticalDem-
Howell,along with Carter, provided a lot ocraticpoliticians . . . noneof whom ever
of information in the first Mother Jones minded when John Tower was being
profile. Nothing since has changed his sni,eared, none of whom ever minded
mind, says Howell today. "Newt's like a when Bob Bork was being smeared,sud-
bully. Remember when you're kids and denlyfound religion becauseit was one of
there's always some tough-talking little theirs. Now I apologized personally to
kid,andwhen somebodystandsup tohim Foley.. . . All Iask for is a fairshake, and I
he caves in? Newt's never had anybody feel very deeply and veryvehementlythat
stand up to him. Newt's scenario is al- thepressoughtto adopt thesamestandard
ways: We're talking the truth, and you're for conservatives and liberals . . - and in
playingdirty." Washington, D.C., in 1989, they don't.
A YOUNG, CLEAN-SHAVEN AIDE IS DRIV-
Andthat's why I wouldn't fire Karen Van
Brocklin."
ing. PresssecretarySheilaWard sits beside Gingrich throws open the car door,
leaving me to sort out these ethical stan-
dards. The rules of guerrilla warfare
would seem the best guide. Karen Van
Brocklin, a very useful person, made a
"mistake" and finally got "burned." The
verified facts of Gingrich's record are no
different from the most personal false-
hoodsspreadbyVan Brocklin,becauseall
are damaging "smears." Gingrich will
crack down on his ownsmearartistwhen
the enemy cracks down on its. Victory is
paramount.
I askSheila Ward if Gingrich'sburstof
belligerence towardher is common. "You
were here. You saw," is allshewill say.
EVEN IF NEarr GINGRICH IS STRIPPED OF
his power bythe ongoingethicsinvestiga-
tion this winter,or turned outby dissatis-
fied voters in Georgia next year, it is his
wing of the party, representing younger,
more aggressive conservatives, that is on
the ascendancy now.Andso his approach
to party-building, the deft useof fear—of
drugs, crime, terrorism—is bound to be
honed sharper still by an entire new class
ofconservative politiciansinelectoralcon-
tests ahead, no matter what happens to
Newt Gingrich.
But if Gingrich wins his guerrillawar,
what would a "reformed"Congressfullof
Gingrich types be like? Hardly a kinder
and gentlerplace.Would it bemore demo-
cratic and responsiveto constituents'
needs? Not likely,would saythethousands
ofairline employees in Gingrich'sdistrict
who find him too interestedin the party
line to make their needsa top priority. A
publicans will soon be the majorityparty
in the country and in theHouse.Hedraws
a diagramon a napkin, placingthe names
Buckley,Goldwater,andNixonon arising I,,
line until "Watergate" plummets the
curve. Then the line moves up again,
through Reaganand nowBush, pullingfi-
nallyabovewhereNixon was. Thisishow
he tracks the U.S. public'snatural affinity
for Republicanversus Democraticvalues,
and one isonlytoconcludethatNewt Gin-
grich believes hewill bethenextchampion
onthecurve,higher eventhanReagan and
all the rest.
I ask Gingrich about his "new ideas" the tablesturnI
that he keeps predicting will seize the in up now for
voters' imagination. What new and
positive, for example,can heoffer regard-
greatissues of
ing the crack epidemic? Eventually he ac-
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KAMIKAZE
(Continued from page 38) as the papers
were burnedover the stove. She was then
taken backto her bedroom,tiedto her bed,
and leftin peace.
It was the watchman who freed her. He
had been briefly kidnapped, but not
harmed. It occurred to her that at no time
had she beenfrightened.There'd been a pe-
culiargentleness to the night'sviolence. She
concludedthis was an eventplanned not to
shake her but to produce an effect else-
where.
The special Civil Service telegram from
the capital camebefore noonthe next day:
HALT EVERYTHING RETURN IMMEDIATELY
HQ SIGNED PRINSECMINDEV. She reported
back to the Principal Secretaryin her old
officeand was instructed to wait until the
Presidentwas readyto receive her.
"The news says you were a mover and
shakerinVilimaRegion,"the PrincipalSec-
retary said, shakinghis head in disbelief.
"You seem to think I went looking for
trouble," she said.
"Not I," the Principal Secretary said.
"The RegionalParty Chairman. In his last
but one phone call he saidyou'dsubverted
the youthwing."
"It's naturalto consult the AssistantSec-
retarywhen boththe Chairman and theSec-
retary areaway," she said.
"Logical,not natural,"the PrincipalSec-
retarychuckled."YoushowaPartybig shot
some teenagedeputy can do his job better,
that's telling him to drop dead."
"Whatwas his lastcall about?"
"Security," the Principal Secretarysaid.
"Yours. Your behaviorhad so angered the
Partyfaithfulsomemilitantshadtried tokill
you.Isittrue youaskedtosee theworkdone
with aid funds?"
"Iwas supposedto."
The PrincipalSecretarystoppedlaughing.
"Whatwere youlooking for?"He wouldn't
stay for an answer.
The President's call came at the start of
her thirdweek ofwaiting. Shewas ready at
8:55. She was able to go in at 11:23 after a
delegation of twelve women wearing the
presidentialportraitontheir bellies and bot-
toms came out smilingand flashing airline
tickets.
The Presidentwas pensive, asifhe needed
to collect his wits after the Party women's
visit. "Your work in Vilima. Efficient. So
fast," he smiled at her. "Congratulations,
and thank you. Water had been a problem
there. You solvedit."
"I tookpart in solvingit, Mr. President,"
she said. "There werepeople readytodothe
work, once itcould getstarted."
"I understand," the Presidentsaid. "The
problem then was leadership?" She pre-
tended the interrogativeinflectionhad
passed herby. He didnotinsist. "We've been
askedto send a qualified expert to Geneva.
Your work indicated you'd be the best we
could sendthere. The UNDP ResidentRep-
resentativewill briefyou." In the silence he
didn't dismiss her. He seemed bothered by
some explanationungiven. "Don'tthink of
your recall from Vilima as a sanction,"he
said finally, and she understood he had de-
cided to leave out explanations, to touch
only the core. "Politicalrelationships can't
be ordered neatly. I calledyou back not be-
cause you were wrong. You were outnum-
bered.A thousand youngpeople with you.
But youwere outnumbered,you know,even
ifagainstyou therewas onlythelocalpoliti-
cal bureau."
And you, she thought. She had expected
the thought to stop there, but something
deeper than her self-control let it through:
And me. Aloud she said: "Thank you, Mr.
President."She saw his pupils as she said
farewell. Theywere gray, notbrown. Under
his white hair his headseemed unnaturally
small,asiftheexerciseofpowerhad shrunk
it.
The PrincipalSecretarywas elatedwhen
she told him where she was going. "Same
bureaucracy," he said, "but the interna-
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Come drop some foreign exchangein my
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Ab,IJNCTAD.Which department?"
"Invisibles."
"Don'tsoundsorueful."
"I feel I'm getting initiatedinto some oc-
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"You are." For a flash she felt weak, but
thenunaccountablyasurgeofenergyrose in
her. The questionsrising in her mind gave
way to apleasantrushofwarmth.She heard
applause,not in her mind's ear,but all over
her body. It was mingledwith almost-for-
gottenphrasesfrom schoolsongs,thesound
risingina friendlywavethat liftedher away
from thepresentplaceand moment,beyond
the prevalence offailure.
©1989 by Ayi Kwei Armah. Ayi Kwei Ar-
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defines beingalone as being without a man,
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print, where the onlyspecific questionabout
lesbians,under "Sex," is "If you are not a
lesbian,howdo you react when you meet a
woman whom youknow is a lesbian?"
WomenTogether, WomenAlone is a sort
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one sectorofthe women'smovement.
ElizabethV. Spelman's InessentialWom-
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while criticizing the homogenizing essen-
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Spelmansuggeststhat anyone who says
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Many contemporary feminists, when they
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DannyLyonis perhaps bestknown for his picturesof the civilrightsmovement, taken
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 PATIENTC, AYOUNGVIETNAMESE,SUFFERS depression in all cultures. It has the same
REFUGEES from an eating disorder. She consultsher vegetativesymptoms." During refugees' ad-
fortune-teller, who divines that "a strange justmentto theirnew land, survival skills are
(Continued from page 27) helping with manfrom the East will heal you." C tells a stretchedto their fullest, and most families
such basic needs as findingadequate hous- San Francisco clinicworker about her faith areable to focuson new challenges and new
ing and financialassistanceor employment inthis prediction.The therapistrecallsthata learning. It'sonly after this "overcompensa-
before we can counsel them on mental- psychiatric socialworkerfrom New York,a tion," when refugees becomereasonablyset-
health problems,"says Director of Clinical young man, has just joined the staff. C's tled, that "decompensation"can trigger se-
Services Diana Li-Repac. The shame and therapistsays that you must never discount vere symptoms. Old wounds emerge and
stigma attached to being seen goinginto a thepatient'sbeliefs, thatyou mustrelatetoa new ones grow from conflictsbetween the
mental-healthcliniccausessometo feel that patient as a "good aunt" would. Southeast quicklyassimilatedyoung and their overly
they might jeopardize future opportunities Asian clients require a shrinkwhocan be a strict elders.Corporal abuse and marital vi-
for marriage."AmongSoutheastAsians,no healer, evena friend—notan aloof and ob- olence become more common. "Refugee
one would come in and announce,'I'm de- jective monitor."Thetherapistsin theclinic parents often seeAmericanculture as being
pressed,'" saysPaul DeLay. need to respectthe patient's cultural values toopermissive, sothere's agreatdeal ofpar-
Those who come usually want a quick and the family's tradition. . . . You know ent-childconflict,"says Diana Li-Repac.
fix. "When they go to a doctor, they expect you've won trust when your clients say
to receive something," says Cambodian you'vegota goodheart," C'stherapist says. PATIENTD IS A FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLDMAN
counselorTouch Sim. "Anything, evenif it's Some patients put their faith in coin-rub- referred to the clinicbecause he can't con-
an aspirin."Many don't return afterthe first bing,chantingmantras,orshamanism.And centrate in Englishclasses. At first, he com-
visit.ExplainsDr. Evelyn Lee,chiefprogram faith is the onlymedicine atherapist can of- plains only of the chronic pains from
directorofthe Department of Psychiatryat fer.SoC isreferredtothestrangerfrom New shrapnelwounds he sufferedin the Cambo-
San FranciscoGeneral Hospital, "Our pa- York. She knows she will be cured by this dianarmy. Afteraperiod of stabilityduring
tients say 'Fix the handle of my cup' and "man from the East." his adjustmentto the UnitedStates, D is in-
don't understandwhyyou wantto look all volved in a car accident while learning to
aroundthe cup." Sim observes,"They don't AT WAR'S END, THERF WAS ONLY A HAND- drive.Throughnofault ofhis,awomanpas-
see the use in all that talk, talk, talk." But ful of psychiatrists in Vietnam—notcount- sengerin a second car is badly injured.The
enoughclients eventually come back to keep ing those brought over to consoleinvading event stirs memoriesof the war, triggering
counselorsoverworked and clinic waiting forces.TherewereprobablynoLaotianana- flashbacksand auditory hallucinations.He
lists long. That's because, asDianaLi-Repac lysts.Throughout SoutheastAsia, maladies has recurrent dreams about being buried
says, "The presentingsymptomis rarelythe ofthe mind are traditionallyviewed as im- alive. Twice, D tries to commit suicide by
whole problem. There's a lot of confusion balancesofthebody,treated byvillage heal- lying in the middleof a busy street. But his
betweenphysical pain and cultural pain." ers with herbal remediesand acupuncture; concern for the victim of the car accident
Counselorsare further hampered by the orasimbalances ofthespirit,treatedbyholy enableshim to speakaloud for the first time
lackofreliable clienthistories.'While mental men or shamans,who have the power to of two daughterswho starved to death on
conditionssuch as insanity orsexual devia- exorciseancestral ghosts. SoutheastAsians the South China Sea. He describes to the
tion canbegroundsfortheU.S.government believe numerous souls can inhabit or re- therapisthowhis wifecommittedsuicideon
to deny immigrantsentrance, few of those inhabit the body. "In the SoutheastAsian the boat after the death of their daughters.
fleeingSoutheastAsia have beenscannedfor concept, an individual has at least three Hestops havinghallucinations.Heno long-
much more thantuberculosis,syphilis,and souls, and the greatest misfortuneis to die erfears beingburied alive.
leprosy. Doctorsreporting to theU.S. Immi- with no male heirs to feed these immortal
gration and Naturalization Service tendto souls,"saysTuanNguyen."Ofcourse,there How is IT THAT SUCH MEMORIES DO NOT
view complaints in terms of intestinalpara- are differingbeliefs inall the countries.You bury theentireSoutheastAsiancommunity?
sites rather than emotional unhinging. cannot just lumpeveryonetogetheras'Indo- Partof the answer is thatthe refugeesthem-
American diagnostictools like the Hopkins chinese.'That's acolonialterm."Amongthe selves have stepped forward to become
Symptom Checklist 25 are beginning to Mien tribe, for instance,the standardtreat- trained in their new country's methods of
comeout in Cambodian,Laotian, and Viet- ment for depression is slaughtering a pig. care-giving. At last count, there were eigh-
namese versions,and, fortunately,therehas Someoftherefugeesare notevenusedto teen Vietnamese mental-health profes-
so far beenno equivalentofthe 1917 H. H. conceptualizing in a written language,so it sionalsin thetencountiesofCaliforniathat
Goddardstudy—alow point in the practice would be absurd to force them into an "in- have thehighestconcentrationof Southeast
of refugeepsychology. By testing Eastern sight-oriented"Westernapproach. By con- Asian refugees—including Minh Ta, an ide-
and SouthernEuropean immigrantsatEllis trast, Asian approaches to mental health alisticyoungmanpracticinginSanJosewho
Island with questionsfull of Americanval- could be called"result-oriented"—notsuch speaksofwanting toenterthe mental-health
ues and referencepoints, makingno allow- abad idea when youconsiderthenumberof field "ever since I saw the children of my
ance for languagedifficulty, Goddard came neuroticsstuck in analysis twice aweek for village throwing Stones at a naked mad-
up withresultsthat deemedsome50percent decades, The Asian view of an individual woman." Evelyn Lee, who was raised in a
of all immigrants admitted to the United tends to be more holistic, suggestingthat Chineserefugee family, prefersto stressthe
States "feebleminded."This conclusionled everyone functions within a web of rela- positive featuresof the culture refugees
to Goddard'sinfamous argumentthat "it is tions, includingpastkarma and futurefate, bring. "I think we must recognize the
never wise to discard a scientific result be- and that everyone has a spiritualbalanceto strengthin refugeefamilies, notjust the pa-
cause of apparent absurdity." But with the be maintained. thology," argues Lee. "We can all learn a
current waveofimmigrants,thereisadiffer- What unitesEastandWest,in the end,is lesson by identifying what makes most of
ent set of "apparent absurdities"that can't the human psyche and its responsemecha- theFOBs—that'sfreshoff the boat—andthe
bedismissed. nisms. "Depression,"says Paul DeLay, "is JOJs—justoffthe jet—cope so well withun-

52 OCTOBER 1989
precedented change."
Like all stereotypes,the image of hardy,
industriousAsiansis a backhandedcompli-
ment rooted in some elementoftruth. "The
new refugees bring with them ahighlydedi-
cated group orientation," Lee says. "They
give each other a tremendous amount of
community support, and where families
have been destroyed, they are able to re-
create extended family networks. The
strong belief in fate can help in the accep-
tance of cataclysmic events. The emphasis
on hard work and discipline enablesmany
ofthe SoutheastAsiansto maintain self-re-
spect and focus quickly on new dreams.
Above all, they are products of someofthe
oldestcultures,culturesthat emphasizetrust
in neighbors, gratitude for the smallestges-
tures,and patiencewith hardship." The ref-
ugees,according to Lee, are writing a pre-
scription for mental health that other
Americans would be wise tofollow.
"Don't forget, this is a society where
alienation and loneliness are the major
problems,"she argues. "We can't just take
people who come out of isolation and de-
pression and help them assimilate into a
mainstreamthat is largely isolated and de-
pressed." Given the current psychic condi-
tion of the nation theyare entering, South-
eastAsiansfacedifficulties norefugeeshave
everencountered."In 1940," Leecontinues,
"highschool studentslisted the main prob-
lems to be running in the halls, talking in
class, too much gum-chewing.In a 1980
survey, the answerswere drugs, rape, alco-
hol, and suicide." Argues Lee, "Our job
shouldn't be to accustom people to these
things. We don't want to create more pop-
corn—thoseare little yellow kernels that,
underpressure, turn white. We mustn't
complete a genocide by forcing people to
give up their identities."
E, HANDSOMEAND AFFABLE, IS A CAMBO-
thancounselor.Hewas recruitedby asocial-
welfare group when he was still in arefugee
camp and has since supplementedhis natu-
ralskill athelpingotherswith courseworkat
a junior college. His dress and confident
mannerseem entirely Westernized. "In
Cambodia," he scoffs, "there was only one self.
word for crazy: chakourt. There was only
one hospitalandthe people senttherenever can be done to calm PatientA or answerhis
cameback. Cambodianpeople believe that incessant plea, "Why you say nowhen Isay
mentalproblemsarecausedby loosespirits. yes? Why we cannot all be equal? Why
Whenyouhaveaproblem,then youconsult Americaso selfish?" America drives every-
a Buddhistmonkora shaman.When Iwas a one crazy. Like so much madness,A's prob-
boy, I went into an area oftheforestwhich I lem is seeingtooclearly, beingjust alittletoo
was warnedmighthaveghosts.Iwoke inmy
sleep, eyeswide with acryingspellandcon-
vulsions. Maybe it was a childhood fever,
and maybe I had seena tiger. My fatherhad
to call the monks to chase the ghosts from
me.I was curedwithofferingsofstickyrice,
palm sugar, and eggs. My father, too, had
the power to talk to ghosts.My brother,he
died from ghosts."
Whenthe KhmerRougecameto power,
Ehad just finished amongthe top ofhisclass
atthe policeacademy. "Only fiveorsixfrom
my graduating class of one hundred sur-
vived. I avoidedexecutionbecauseIwas val-
uable asateacher.I escapedthelabor camps
and spent four months walking acrossthe
country to Thailand with only one pair of
shorts." As Etellshis story, tears forminhis
eyes. Heis his ownbestclient. "Sometimes I
get too emotional,Iam too close to aprob-
lem. But I must use my experiences to go
with my patients to the depths oftheir suf-
fering. So many Cambodians, they sit at
home and watch thetelevision, theycry and
see thepast, theysee themselves dyingin fire.
So the first thing isto get them involved, to
get themina group.Theywon'tsaythey are
goingtoamental-healthclinic. Theycall itE
clinic, after me. For my people,I am not a
social worker, I am a community leader. I
am like a shaman to them. There are many
shaman in Oakland.They still sacrifice ani-
malsin theirhouses.Icannot tell youwhere,
becausethatisillegal."Anddo Cambodian-
Americans still seek the power to placate
ghosts? "Of course," says E. "There are
plentyof ghosts inCalifornia,too."
AREN'T MOSTAMERICANSHAUNTED BY -
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Evelyn Lee paraphrases the intuitive
wisdom of a friend: "When I came here, I
was like muddywater.Afterthreeyears, the
mud has settledand the water is clear. The
lastthing Iwantis people to stirup themud
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what is different."Respectingdifferences is
hardly an American specialty, especially
when dealingwithdifferingconceptsoftime
and rationality,spirit and flesh. Yet if our
psychiatricsystem can respect and absorb
some of our latest immigrants' means of
maintaining wholeness, then the United
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Jim Zogby, director of the Arab American
some special new Institute in Washington. But when local
Jews were among those whorallied to sup-
port the seven Palestiniansand one Kenyan
items in our arrested in 1987 by Los Angeles police on
suspicion of terrorism, Zogby and other
Arab-Americans began to think that Ka-
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THERE'S NOT MUCH SIGN OF THE DEEPER
Casey during his weekly countdown, no
with ourNovember hint that heknows that theintifada isnot an
Italianrockband and the 1967War was not
a battle between the Beatlesand Stones for
issue. Lookfor it next chart supremacy. "I've been very careful,
with the lettersthat I readandthe informa-
iion thatIuse, notto bring in politicsonthe
radio show," he says. He did some radio
month!
promos, independentlyof his show, for the
Great Peace March in 1986, and readone
dedicationthatyearfrom a manwhoasked
him to play "Imagine" as a tribute to the
nearly sevenhundred people on that walk
from coast to coast. It remains his all-time
favoritededication.
Buthealsosayshecan't think ofasonghe
would refuseto playif itwas inthe Top 40,
evenRayStevens'nasty 1962 hit "Ahab,the
Arab." Hisreluctanceto bepoliticalon the
air is a question of credibility,he says; lis-
teners would be turned off if he started to
proselytize. Besides, they've known him for
yearsas the schmaltzytunespinnerwhoad-
viseslistenersat show's end to "keep your
feetontheground andkeepreachingfor the
stars." It's an image,he says,that helpshim
bring radical politicsto mainstream Amer-
ica, to the familydrivingto church. "Time
and time again," he says, "I've had people
come upto meatrallies for the peacemove-
mentand say, 'You give us credibility, be-
cause of your career, because of what you
represent, because of the way you look."
For Kasem, who wears richly patterned
sweaters as a kind of trademark on his
weekly TVshowAmerica'sTop 10, this last
partis important. "Oneofthethings wrong
with the antiwar movementin the sixties,"
he says, "was the way people dressed. If
thosesame peoplehadbeen dressedinshirts
and ties and coats, America would have
been more willingto listen with both ears."
So in Hollywood, political credibilityis
54 OCTOBER 1989
preserved by telling listeners that Stevie
Wonder'srealname is Steveland Morris and
that Bruce Springsteen's "War" isa coverof
EdwinStarr's 1970hit; politicalcredibilityis
risked by slipping into the trivia mix that
Wonder'shometownofDetroit isacenterof
Arab-Americanculture, or by saying that
theworld'snuclear arsenalhasgrown by44
percent since 1970, makingwar even more
dangerousnowthanit was during "War" 's
firstincarnation.
And while Kasem worries about on-air
politicsdamaginghis professionalintegrity,
he readily makes an off-the-airconfession
that would seem a far bigger risk. It turns
outthat CaseyKasem, themaster oftheTop
40 countdown, knows far less about pop
music than his show would have you
He doesn't listen to the stuff in his spare
time; he doesn'tevenlistenwhen he's work-
ing, since all he does in the studio is record
theintrosandoutrosto thesongson theTop
40. You could play partofthe number-one
song in thenation tohim, and he mightnot
recognize it.Playpart ofnumber 40to him,
and he's almost sure to draw a blank. He
doesn't carry tidbits of pop trivia around in
his head, and he doesn't research or write
the show. He comes in once a week, after
spendingseveralhours editingthescriptthat
a team ofwritershassent him,andreadsthe
script into the microphone,often using sev-
eral takes for eachsentence.'When his day is
done andhe's drivingdownWilshireBoule-
vard, his carradio is off andhis tape deckis
playinga speech by MalcolmX or Martin
Luther King, Jr., or GoreVidal. Off thetop
of his head, he's as likely to know that
Wilshire Boulevard is named after an early
utopian socialist ashe isto know howmany
times Prince has had a song in the top ten.
"I've seen lots of singers live," he says
when pressed."I saw Elvisin Vegas and the
Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. I've seen
Sinatra,SammyDavisisgreat,Mathisis fun
to watch, andI've seenJulio at his best.
But I've never lovedlisteningtomusic."
Perhapsthis is businessas usual in Holly-
wood, where your fans don't reallycare if
you know your pop musictrivia as long as
yougiveittothemin atonethat says youdo.
Art has always thrived on illusion shared
betweencreator and observer; why should
Casey'sTop 40 be any different? Kasemis,
after all, a salesman, a wildly successful
commercial pitchman.The Top40 is simply
the most lucrative product he represents.
Yethe insists thereis athreadbetweenthe
pitchmanand the politicalactivist, a thread
thathis friends seeaswell."Casey'safusion
of popular culture and political culture,"
says Jim Zogby."Hismessageontheradio is
the positive affirmationof life,work,truth,
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and justice. Itsoundscorny,but after all,it's
the same visionthat has inspiredmanypeo-
pleon the Left for allthese years."
That vision continues to inspire Casey
Kasem,to give him thejuice he needstorun
from event to event, from meetingto meet-
ing. This is no time for complacencyfor a
fnan sensitive to images of Muslims and
Arabsin the media;a new wave ofMuslim-
bashingis upon us inthe wakeofthe death
threats against Salman Rushdie,which
1(asem says he opposed. And once again,
levision comics are getting laughs with
kes about ashowofhands beingimpossi-
ble in Iran because no one there has any
hands left.
The contrast between Kasem's political
dedication and his musical dedications is
sometimes hard to figure.He probably has
the largest weekly audience of any pro-
gressive in the country,yet he keepshis pol-
itics outofhis radio showexceptinthemost And whileitisChomsky'spoliticalthink-
generalofways. He sayshecan't yet afford ingthat most attracts Kasem, thebestmeta-
to give away a million dollars a year,even phor for understandingthe unlikelymix of
thoughthat would leave him at least a mil- cornydiscjockeyanddedicatedpoliticalac-
lion annually in pocket change after taxes. tivistmightbefound inChomsky'slinguistic
He revelsin his celebrityhood,eating outat theory—that each sentence has a surface
see-and-be-seenSpago's and then signing structureand an underlyingdeep structure.
autographs for homelesspeople when he's Think of the breathless disclosure of Phil
arrested with them. In the end, he may be Collins' mother's maiden name as Kasem's
reaching for the same stars as other pro- surfacestructure; Dana Carveyand David
gressives, but his feet aren'talways on the Lettermancertainlydo. But think of Arab-
same ground. Jewish dialogue and outrage over military
But if Casey Kasem is no saint, he's not spending as the Chomskyan underlying
naive either. He accepts the loopy notion structure,thetrue sourcesofCaseyKasem's
that as longasyou're famousforsomething, unyielding earnestness. Along with home-
you can be quoted inallseriousnesson any- lessness,animal rights, and several other
thing.It'sthestate ofU.S. politicaldiscourse hits,theymake upKasem'sreal-life top ten.
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tolli calledme up and saidshe just gota ticketlaidon "Janet?"Isayhe must havethe wrong number andI'm about to
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Cascadia."Cascadiawas a rich street and Istarted thinkingabout voice.ItellClarissa it'stime for bed and she asks me ifStinkercan
all the houses I knew up there with color TVs, shag carpets, come upstairswith us. I say okay,thenI notice the VOS all over
Trimlines, and full boxes of Ding Dongs in the freezer. "Okay," Stinker's back.
I said. By thetime they'reasleep it's ten o'clock.The house is freezing
Mr. Munce picked me up at seven o'clock in an old green cold. On the table downstairs I notice a fishbowlfull of cloudy
station wagon with big bite water with something moving
marks all over the dashboard. and I realize there is a fish in
It turns out there's a cruddy there. I decide to change the
partofCascadiaI didn't know water.When Igetthefish inmy
about and the Munces' house hand the phone ringsagain.
was on it. "Janet?" the man says.
Mr. Muncetells me to go in- "You got thewrong number
side and get Mrs. Munce for again."
him. When I open the door "Janet, wait!" he says. He
there's this smell and by the sounds like he's crying and I
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rash across her faceyankingon When the phone rings again
the ear of a giant black dog I get the sickest scaredestfeel-
whohaslongstringsofslobber ing in my stomach and just let
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and then I hear feet running in and it's a little girl in a yellow myhands and breaksinthe sink. Ilookatthe goldfish swimming
nightgownwholooks at me and starts screamingalso, Then the in theYogi Bearglassand pickup thephone.
sound of high heels, and Mrs. Muncewalks in screwing on her "Why areyou doingthis to me?"the man says.
earring and asks the nightgowngirl if she wants a spankingand "I swear togod, you got thewrong number," Isay, "this is the
thentellsme she can't remembermy name. I get a feeling in my Munces'residence. There'snoJanet." Finally he believes I am not
stomachlike I am goingto throw up and then I noticethere isno Janet and asks me if I will just talk to him anyway. In the back-
w ground Ican hear"Color My World"playingand I think thereis
Mrs.Muncetells me the dog's name is Stinker, the baby'sname no way he can be a killerifhe is playingthat song. So I say okay
isAngela,theother one isClarissa,and if shegivesmeany trouble and he tells me about Janet, howmessedup he is about her and
spank her good. I'mthinking,How amI goingto getoutofthis?, howshe gavehim thewrong number probably on purpose.
and thenMrs. Munce turns down the thermostat,hands me a His name is Victor, he's nineteen from Santa Monica, he is
baby bottle full of green Kool-Aid, goes out the door, and The stationedat Fort Lewis, and he hates the army.I feel so bad for
End. howsadhe is.I'm lookingat theMunces' record playerand all of
Ipickup thebabywhohas blackdoghairs stucktoherfaceand a suddenI see thealbumBridgeOverTroubledWaterand! getthe
go overto Clarissa whois crying atthewindowand Isayit'sokay, idea to play it for Victor. "Hang on," I tell him, and I put the
your mom will be back soon. Clarissa hits me and I tell her the phone next to the speaker and start playing the song. All the
number-onerule is no hitting and shehits me again.The doorbell words seem so significant to Victor's life and my life too. I start
rings and it's the paper boy comingto collect, a seventh grader imagining him and me together,him forgettingall about Janet. I
from my school named Tonio. He tells me the Munces suck be- think about howthis baby-sittingjob was all worth it and how
causethey neverpay.Then the baby reachesout herhands tohim later when Victor was my boyfriendwe would tell everyone the
and Clarissa leans against me and for about one secondit's like incredible story of howwe met. Andthenthe song ended and I
these are my kids and this is my house and I about tell Tonioto picked up the phone and said "Victor?" and there was no one
shut up and getoff ofmyproperty. there.
It takes a long time to get the baby to sleep. Nothing works WhenMrs. Muncecamein itwas pastI A.M. I told her about
exceptto keepon holdingher so I hold her and holdher until it's the fishbowl and that I was sorry and that she didn't have to pay
pitch-blackoutsideand I sit on the couch lettingClarissafix my me and she said okay and she didn't. Before I leftshe said, "Give
hair witha greenchewed-up brush.I feel a blobofsomethingcold me your number in case we need you again," and I made sure I

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