Clinton St. VOL. 8, NO. 1 STAFF SPRING 1986 TABLE OF CONTENTS Czo-Editors David Milholland Lenny Dee Associate Editors Jim Blashfield, Peggy Lindquist Paul Loeb, Michael Helm Washington State Coordinator Judy Bevis Washington State Development Marianne Jones Design David Milholland Guest Designers Candace Bieneman, Tim Braun Reed Darmon, Susan Gustavson Production Assistant Laura DiTrapani Cover Separations Sharon Niemczyk Ad Sales—Oregon Dru Duniway Sandy Wallsmith Ad Sales—Washington Judy Bevis Doug Milholland Ad Production Coordinator Stacey Fletcher Ad Production Joyce Fletcher, Yalcin Erhan, Andrea Camerawork Tim Braun, Laura Di Trapani Typesetting Archetype, Harrison Typesetting, In c ., Lee Emmett, Marmilmar, Sherry Swain Proofreading Steve Cackley Contributing Artists Tim Braun, Dennis Cunningham, Susan Gustavson, Katherine Kramer, Stephen Leflar, Musicmaster, Henk Pander, Jana Rekosh, Carl Smool, Joanna Yardley Contributing Photographers David Milholland Photo Services Craftsman Lithoplate, Photo Art Printing Tualatin-Yamhill Press Thanks Peggy Andrews, Linda Ballantine, John Bennett, Eileen Brady, Mary Cramer, Stephen Conover, Edward/Natalie Diener, Katherine Dunn, Jeannine Edelblut, Jean Pierre Fontentot, Gary Gunther, Miriam Hartline, Craig Karp, Tyra Lindquist, Theresa Marquez, Melissa Marsland, Laurie McClain, Enrico Martignoni, Alice/ Del Milholland, Kevin Mulligan, Chris Nickson, Larry Schwartz, Alex Specter, John Wanberg, The Clinton 500 Vo lun tee rs wanted for office tasks and telemarketing campaign for subscribers. Latter can work into paying position. EDITORIAL igging in the garden in the warm sun this morning, ever-renewing life— the overgrown herbs, unrepentant crabgrass, and soil that broke apart beautifully—made transient the events which dominate the news. The lilacs, azaleas, magnolias, even the tiny daphnes have once again shown themselves lovely, beyond our finest human creations. How easy it would be to let the seduction of the season blind us to the responsibilities we incur for the largely peaceful land we inhabit. The U n ite d S ta tes has been amazingly successful at keeping the greatest violence the world has ever known under wraps (our nuclear arsenal) or at a distance. Yet this is the spring of our leaders’ discontent. Our lame-duck president is casting after demons wherever he can imagine them, and our military has grown cancerous, itching for a fight. From Central America to North Africa, U.S. forces are pressing the limits of nations not a bit our size. I t ’s as if they’re listening to the Marine a n th em - “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli”—and refighting the battles of our early days of gunboat diplomacy, the dawn of an empire which is now at its ebb. Since Reagan assumed office, the national deficit has burgeoned from $1 to $2 trillion, the overwhelming part to build a military apparatus as obsolete as it is obscene. The very architects of this “Peace through Strength” strategy now claim that “the Soviets now have military superiority over the United States on every military front- . . . and they still continue to outbuild us. ” This from the American Security Council, whose members include Senators Dole, Laxalt, Garn and Representative Kemp, people who have spent future generations’ money wantonly for weapons o f every k ind. The creators of this military juggernaut will never rest content. True strength always lies on a firm economic foundation, and ours is shaky where not collapsing. Unemployment remains high and stagnant. Our forests are overcut, our water is polluted, our soil is overfertilized and undernourished. The new jobs being created are more often than not in the low-wage service sector, while we’ve exported our industries and our capital. The U.S. has quietly yielded the world’s economic power, which it essentially controlled through much of the century, especially since WWU, to a resurgent Japan and its eastern allies. We’ve gone heavily into debt to maintain our imperial fantasies while Japan has remained content to huddle under our wings, investing its own earnings back into marketable production and non-military research. We certainly could learn much from them, but have ended up applying only the cosmetics. I ’ve just returned from Central America, where people live in daily fear of being killed by their own governments or invaded by ours. Here the calm and relative prosperity veil our true status in the world. 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Ho fs tader...........30 The Two Viruses of AIDS James Winchell.........................33 Musicmaster Returns.........................36 invest in ourselves, in education and a revitalized, far less militarized economy. And we must bolster the economies of our dependents in the third world, rather than their police and military. I t ’s a time of renewal and hope, if we can find it in ourselves. DM The Clinton St. Quarterly is published in both Oregon and Washington editions by CSQ—A Project of Out of the Ashes Press. Washington Address: 1520 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, (206),682 2404; Oregon address: P.O. Box 3588, Portland, OR 97208, (503) 222 6039. Unless otherwise noted, all contents copyright e 1985, Clinton St. Quarterly. Clinton St. Quarterly 3
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