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210. See PEHR, II, 3, for the curious history of this and other inventions of
Western propaganda at the time.
211. Alexander Cockburn wrote in the Wall St. Journal that “This is language
we have not heard since the Nazi era,” eliciting a response from editor
Hendrik Hertzberg, who claimed that the journal was “characterizing the
Administration’s view, which we were at pains to distinguish from our
own.” He quoted the passage above which definitively proves that his
plea is an utter falsehood, as the further context makes still clearer.
WSJ, May 6, 29, 1984.
212. Julia Preston, BG, Nov. 15, 1984.
213. Higginbotham, In the Matter of Color, 377, 383.
214. Benjamin Taylor, BG, Dec. 8, 1984.
215. Press Conference, Feb. 21, 1985; NYT, Feb. 22.
Chapter 4
1. Joel Brinkley, NYT, March 27, 1985.
2. David Woods, LAT, March 17, 1982. Lehman said he envisioned a
conventional rather than a nuclear global war with the USSR—
conceivable, but hardly likely.
3. See my Fateful Triangle, chapter 7, for a review until mid-1983; there
have been other cases since and the hazards remain significant. On
1967, see Donald Neff, Warriors for Jerusalem (Simon & Schuster,
1984).
4. For discussion, see my articles in Michael Albert and David Dellinger,
eds., Beyond Survival (South End, 1983; excerpted in the Michigan
Quarterly Review, Fall 1982), and Studies in Political Economy,
Summer 1985, from which some of these remarks are taken; also
Joseph Gerson, ed., The Deadly Connection (AFSC, Cambridge, 1983;
expanded edition, New Society, 1986); and numerous other articles,
particularly by Michael Klare.
5. Graham Allison, Essence of Decision (Little, Brown and Co., 1971), 1,
39; cited by Ron Hirschbein in his discussion of “atomic cultism” in his
Nuclear Theologians, ms.