help with a WSJ link

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 12 13:54:56 PST 2002



>Wow. This is bad even by WSJ ed-op standards, ain't it? And very scary.
>Speaking of scary:
>
>Authentic Hero Slain at Last,
>Mourned by Authentic Moron
>Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Reagan's United Nations representative: "Linguist,
>philosopher, poet, politician, warrior, Jonas Savimbi has admirers the world
>over, and I have long been one of them. He is one of the authentic heroes of
>our time."
>
>Professor Gerald J. Bender on the late philosopher-poet who plunged Angola
>into 27 years of civil war: "When the first Unita rep in Washington went
>back home, Savimbi killed him. The second guy was put under house arrest,
>and was later killed in a suspicious shootout. Savimbi personally beat
>another of his representatives, Tito Chingunji, and his wife and children to
>death with rifle butts." (New York Times, March 3, 2002)

Support for Jonas Savimbi was Daniel Patrick Moynihan's finest hour as well...

Brad DeLon



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