<HTML>I'll give it to you, Charles. I have known a number of predictable apologists for Stalinism over the years, but no one is as capable of blindly defending the indefensible as you. Somehow the Doctors' Plot, and the purges of Jews throughout the USSR that accompanied it, not to mention the purges throughout Stalinist satellites throughout Eastern Europe, somehow missed your radar scope of the great, benevolent pro-Jewish USSR under the rule of kindly old Uncle Joe. Oh, inconvenient history. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>