The news media lost a great reporter when Stewart Alsop recently succumbed to leukemia. I phoned him a couple of years ago and requested an interview. He turned me down rather brusquely. He frankly didn't want to give an interview to a conservative. … [Read more...] about STEWART ALSOP
KUDIRKA’S MOTHER
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow recently issued an American passport to the 67-year old widowed mother of Simas Kudirka— that Lithuanian sailor who leaped from a Soviet fishing vessel off Massachusetts in 1970 onto a U.S. Coast Guard ship. Kudirka's … [Read more...] about KUDIRKA’S MOTHER
THE WILLY BRANDT CASE
The big news in Europe is that former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has been very closely associated with two Communist spies. His top aide, Gunter Guillaume, has been a Communist spy since 1956, and has been so close to Willy Brandt that the … [Read more...] about THE WILLY BRANDT CASE
POLICY TOWARD CASTRO
For the past several weeks, the Spanish-language press in the United States has been buzzing with speculation and comment about a murder near Miami which, strangely, has gone almost unnoticed by the regular news media. On the Thursday before Easter, … [Read more...] about POLICY TOWARD CASTRO
A NUCLEAR NAVY
A famous story about Napoleon relates that, after he had conquered the European Continent, a young American inventor named Robert Fulton obtained an interview with him. Fulton spread out his designs and models for his steamboat, and described how his … [Read more...] about A NUCLEAR NAVY
ZUMWALT’S NAVY
There will not be a wet eye in the Navy on June 29 when Admiral Elmo Zumwalt departs as Chief of Naval Operations. The controversial Admiral Zumwalt caused much animosity by his famous Z-Gram messages which broke down Navy traditions. His … [Read more...] about ZUMWALT’S NAVY
KISSINGER’S MOSCOW TRIP
Contrary to the gloom-and-doom comments of the Western press, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recent trip to Moscow was really a smashing success. Why? Because he made no agreement with the Soviets. He returned from Moscow without … [Read more...] about KISSINGER’S MOSCOW TRIP
SIMAS KUDIRKA
On November 23, 1970, a Lithuanian seaman named Simas Kudirka leaped from the deck of a Soviet fishing trawler to the U.S. Coast Guard ship called the Vigilant, and asked political asylum. The two ships were anchored side by side in American … [Read more...] about SIMAS KUDIRKA
Failure of Government Controls — April 1974
THE 31st STATE
In 1959, the United States admitted Alaska and Hawaii as the 49th and 50th states of the Union, thus overriding the sincere misgivings of some people who worried about the precedent of admitting non-contiguous territories. Today, the value of Alaska … [Read more...] about THE 31st STATE
