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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4437)	8/27/2001 2:20:24 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Hi Ray! re:the Rssian Empire vs. the States France and Britain. You could summarize the conflicts in a few words: thrift for open seas. This has been a constant through the centuries. Now that the Letton states (Baltic Sea havens) and Ukraine(Black Sea haven) are independant, the Dem Rep of Germanyand Poland's Hansea havens lost, Russia has to redo from start . And Russia will. Forget democratization and openess to Western culture: Russia needs havens. You can't ship a container to Russia in the Winter. I don't know how this will turn out in the 21st century.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4437)	8/27/2001 3:32:11 PM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Hi Ray, I know that Ho Chi Minh lived as an exile near Paris in 1946, much as Lenin lived as an exile outside of Russia earlier in the century. Kissinger, in fact met a French microbiologist at a conference in Paris in 1967 by the name of Herbert Marcovich. Marcovich has a friend Raymond Aubrac who had become very close to Ho Chi Minh and the US ended up using Aubrac a secret negotiating channel to Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese. They were code named the "Pennsyvania Negotiations" unfortunately not much came from them. The North Vietnamese, all along figured they would wait out the US involvement and be there to take over when The US grew tired of the conflict. I do think that the US did furnish some supplies in the 1950's but I don't believe that any advisors, or troops were dispatched until the 1960's, and the real escalation of involvement occurred right after JFK's death. I cannot agree with the history you present regarding the Kennedy-Krushchev tete a tete. I had seen Richard Reeves Booknotes interview where he talked about his Biography of Kennedy, I had recently gone over the transcript, and that's what I'm using as my source, for my earlier reference. He did some really great research on Kennedy. Author: Richard Reeves Title: President Kennedy: Profile of Power Air date: December 12, 1993 booknotes.org ........LAMB: You tell us early in the book that he lied. REEVES: He lied very easily. LAMB: That bother you? REEVES: Lying in America bothers me. To an enormous extent I think that it's undermining both the democracy and the republic. People are not being punished for lying. In that time you were punished more for lying but he was facile at it. One of the reasons Khrushchev beat up on him so badly was that Kennedy had told people that he had studied at the London School of Economics under Harold Laski, but he had never been there. Everyone thought that this was a real scholar on Marxism -- John Kennedy -- and on communism, but he knew almost nothing about it. It was the reason that Khrushchev was able to tie him in knots at the Vienna Summit in June of 1961. Kennedy is sitting there defending colonialism and imperialism in the military dictatorships and like that, because he went in there and tried to defend the status quo against a trained dialectician, and he was eaten alive. He walked out of the that room and said, *"We have to go into Vietnam. We have to confront them because they think I'm too weak and foolish."* It's amazing to see how physically ill Kennedy was during his presidency LAMB: Would you vote for him for president today? REEVES: Today? I would vote for him for president today, but he would not be president today. His health problems would have become public, and they were just too severe and too debilitating to make it possible. Today's press and political context are such -- the man was taking, in constant pain, every drug known to man including being injected with amphetamines. Dr. Max Jacobson, later to be known as Dr. Feelgood, traveled secretly with Kennedy to keep him up with corticosteroids. These things all had side effects, including depression. Increased sexual desire was one side effect. All of that would have come out, including the fact that he was lying about having Addison's disease, which was a terminal disease that he kept in check by stashing medication in safety deposit boxes around the world because he was the first Addisonian to ever survive traumatic surgery, which trauma triggers the -- the disease is a withering away of the adrenal glands, and when they're gone you die. But the cortisone could substitute, they found during the war. His operation, without his name on it, was so famous among doctors that his entire medical history was in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1957, without his name. It just said, "the 37-year-old man," but today the press would have found it. PS. this internet is a scary thing, all kinds of info that we can go and dig up -vbg- and if the markets were not so darn somnambulant, it would not be History Monday Funday The nuclear arms race of the late 1940's and 1950's certainly did lead to this domino doctrine that got the US involved in Korea and Vietnam, while getting the Russian's into Afganistan and eastern european conflicts. John