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To: james-rockford who wrote (12311)	7/3/2003 3:56:09 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Yes, those scrawny arms & legs are real. However, that part of her anatomy which usually identifies one as female looks like the Dakota Flat Lands.

To: james-rockford who wrote (12311)	7/3/2003 5:38:21 PM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

And I agree with her argument that McCarthy has been unduly demonized. There were a lot of Communists in the State Department and Hollywood back in the day. Even if we accept that as true (and I don't), it doesn't make it right. A lot of the people victimized by the Ramparts division of the LAPD were quite possibly low life scum. That doesn't make those cops any less evil, especially since those who wield power should be held to the highest standards.

To: james-rockford who wrote (12311)	7/5/2003 4:33:06 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Peter Jennings reported: "the alleged Communist Spy Alger Hiss died today." Alleged!! Former KGB Officers have said he was a Soviet spy, and had documents to prove it. Ann Coulter made this same statement during her appearance on Fox News, and with similar confidence. It is utterly false. "The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought." --- Molly Ivins <<< In 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the possibility that the new, post-Communist Russian regime might open up some of the Soviet intelligence files, former President Richard M. Nixon and the director of his presidential library, John H. Taylor, both wrote to the Russian historian General Dimitry Antonovich Volkogonov, who had become President Yeltsin's military advisor and the overseer of all the Soviet intelligence archives, to request the release of any Soviet files on the Hiss case. Nixon's and Taylor's letters to Volkogonov have not been made available to researchers. In 1992, Alger Hiss made a similar request to Volkogonov, and also sent identical letters to several other Russian officials. In response to Hiss¹s request, Russian archivists and researchers reviewed their files, and in the fall of 1992 reported back - by letter, fax, or orally - that they had found no evidence that Alger Hiss had ever been a member of the Communist Party USA; and, similarly, that they had found no evidence that he had ever been an agent for the KGB, for the GRU (Soviet military intelligence), or for any other intelligence agency of the Soviet Union. >>> homepages.nyu.edu This site has a comprehensive review of the facts: homepages.nyu.edu Tom