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Serbia, Nixon, and other nightmares
Slack in Memphis?
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Date: Wed, 19 May 93 11:46:24 -0400
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Date: Wed, 19 May 93 09:36:23 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
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Subject: Serbia, Nixon, and other nightmares
_Tapes: Nixon laughed about Watergate_, from the Ithaca Journal, May 18,
1993, p. 5A
Washington (AP) - To Richard Nixon two decades ago, the Watergate burglary was
"like a comic opera," an incident so bizarre few Americans would believe it
was linked to the White House.
But the tapes made public by the National Archives on Monday also depict the
president as obsessed by the burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters.
In the conversations, he plots to confine the blame and withhold evidence from
investigators.
On one occasion, Nixon and top aide H.R. Haldeman discussed the widespread
belief that blame stopped with the five men arrested after midnight June 17,
1972, in the Watergate office building.
"Nobody believes the truth," Haldeman said, and both men laughed.
[...]
"Anything that's a bizarre as this - and interesting - is going to be a
national story," he [Nixon] told Haldeman on June 21. But in the same
conversation he went on to say, "The reaction is going to be primarily in
Washington and not the country because I think the country doesn't give much
of a shit about bugging."
When G. Gordon Liddy, a campaign committee aide, offered to take full blame for
the break-in, Nixon told Haldeman, "He's a true believer ... and we'll take
care of him."
After all, the president went on, "Is the worst that he'd break into the
Democratic committee? Christ, that's no blot on a man's record!"
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_The Nightmare's Roots: The Dream World Called Serbia_, from the New York
Times, May 16, section 4, p. 1
[...]
State-run television, which is the main source of information for most people
here, often features guests who proclaim odd and wondrous theories. One
writer who often appears on talk shows asserts that Serbs are "the second
Biblical people," chosen by God like the Jews but destined forever to be
misunderstood and persecuted. Another regular guest assures viewers that at
the moment when final destruction threatens the Serbian nation, a fleet of
vampires will arise from the cemeteries to overwhelm its enemies. Serbs, he
warns, should stockpile garlic to be sure the vampires do not mistakenly
attack them.
[...]
It is not just television that treats Serbs to such spectacles. Serbia's
leading institutions include people who, in other lands, might be behind bars
or in padded cells. One leading member of Parliament heads a terror squad
that specializes in blowing up mosques. Another, a convicted bank robber, is
one of Interpol's most wanted criminals. Others are small-time thieves and
triggermen. Many democratically oriented deputies have quit the Parliament in
disgust.
What does such a Parliament debate? In one recent session, the principle
agenda item was a proposal to ban use of the letter U. This is the initial of
Ustashe, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia under Nazi occupation in the
1940's, and Croatian fighters in Bosnia sometimes paint it on the ruins of
Serbian houses they have destroyed. Use of this letter by the Serbs, members
of Parliament argued, constitutes virtual treason and publishers should be
required to substitute the letter V.
[...]
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Date: Wed, 19 May 93 10:01:39 PDT
From: "To err is human - to err often is male." <carrollj@nemail.enet.dec.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: carrollj@nemail.enet.dec.com
Subject: Slack in Memphis?
Hi folks!
I am on vacation next week May 23rd thru May 31st in Memphis, TN - looking
for suggestions on Slackful places to go/people to see/things to eat, etc
You know - Temples, organ donor parties, Clubs, Rock Gardens, Leaning
Towers, Thai Restaurants, condemned building sites - that sort of thing...
Or, yes, or kill me.
Jim Carroll, High Priest of the New Fransician Tall Tree Church of the Sacred
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