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Dear editor, On Labor Day, some 300 trade unionists rallied in Portland, Maine, in support of striking Greyhound bus inspired by "the dream of Martin Luther King. drivers. Rank-and-file members from De Klerk's honeyed words found a willing audi- about 30 different unions were present.
"tribes" and to pit them against each other. Several Democratic Party candidates On numerous occasions, white men (sometimes also came, looking for votes—including Congressman Joseph Brennan, who is seeking re-election to his previous position as governor of Maine.
In the middle of Brennan's boring It has been the policy of Western powers since WWI to "divide and conquer" the Arabs in the region. First, to perpetuate colonialism but, more recently, to keep the petrodollars away from the large Arab masses, where this money could be used to threaten Israel.
The best evidence of this recent policy is the mere fact that it is our country, with its large Israeli lobby, which has gotten the most hysterical about Saddam, even though we are the least dependent on Iraqi oil.
The desire of Saddam for a "greater Iraq" and also for the greater Arab state, which was promised, is no different than our very own notion of Manifest Destiny in the last century. Remember that "trumped-up" war that we had with Mexico in 1846? Perhaps we should give all that oil in Texas and California back to Mexico, which we stole from them?
Why not deal with Saddam and recognize that the balance of power has shifted? Israel, which was supposed to be our strategic asset, is clearly only a liability to us now. Provided that Iraq recognize Israel's right to exist at its pre-1967 border, we can settle this mess right now and save ourselves the $5 billion that we give to both Israel and Egypt each year to perpetuate this ill-conceived foreign policy.
David McLaughlin, Mill Valley, Calif.
Porn
Dear editor, Your recent explanation that SA is opposed to sexual censorship was reassuring, but not entirely. As the Philadelphia gay newspaper Au Courant put it (Sept. 17), "If porn can be called offensive, it is because its power structures are white, male, and heterosexual (and, we would add, capitalist-E.H.).