‘Z & DM King of Zyd Stockert Paying last respects to Clifton Chenier. . .even the bartenders are dancing. The Clinton St. Quarterly is published in S Oregon, Washington and National edi- S tions by CSQ—A Project of Out of the 5 Ashes Press. Oregon address: P.O. Box I 3588, Portland, OR 97208 —(503) 222-6039. Washington address: 1520 j Western Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101— J (206) 682-2404. Unless otherwise ! noted, all contents copyright ©1988 ' Clinton St. Quarterly. sc-®] * Clinton St. Quarterly—Spring, 1988 3 Rhonda Kennedy Merilee Bunker, Lisa Miller Account Representative— Washington Philip Minehan Ad Production Stacey Fletcher, Qualitype, Robert Williamson Typesetting Harrison Typesetting, Inc., Lee Emmett, Marmilmar, Arrow Typesetting, Qualitype Camerawork Craftsman Lithop'.ate, Inc. Cover Separations Portland Prep Center, Inc. Printing Tualatin-Yamhill Press Thanks Judy & Stew Albert, Robert Anderson, Linda Ballentine, Walt Curtis, Dru Duniway, Jeannine Edelblut, Molly Hershey, Anne Hughes, Keith Jellum, Maria Kahn, Craig Karp, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Deborah Levin, Peggy Lindquist, Zak Margolis, Theresa Marquez, Melissa Marsland, Doug Milholland, Kevin Mulligan, Larry Needham, Laura Russo Gallery, Norman Solomon, Northwest Film & Video Center, Missy Stewart, Sandy Wallsmith, John Wanberg, The Clinton 500 Cover image: Carmen Miranda. C.T. Chew of Seattle, self-proclaimed World’s Greatest Fake Artist, ” has a one-man show currently at the Seattle Art Museum. This is a self portrait. This Meeting Did Not Happen, This Birth Never Occurred— Bob Sawatzki Kabengo is born to an Amazon as midwives and the forces of nature vie with the State of Utah. I Tipped a Toddler— Leanne Grabel Mommy in the Hollywood District works through the spinach shards and fantasies of exile in Bali. Paternity— Ruthann Robson Recreating that “family feeling without father.. .the magic of numbers and the art of accounting. Praise Failure—Rick Rubin One man’s experience crossing a 13 year desert of personal pain and growth.. .keeping lean and limber during the hard times. Noriega. . .North. . .Nugan Hand . . .Just say No! People, campaigns and events have whirled around so much recently that it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. With a senile, lame-duck president in office, eager to clear his administration’s squalid slate, it’s a dangerous period for our nation and the world. It’s critical that we make connections between what seem at first to be totally unrelated incidents. Consider what is unfolding—the U.S.-fed crisis in Panama rises to front page status. Bud McFarlane is convicted for withholding information from Congress on the Iran-Contra scandal. Nicaragua invades [Contraoccupied] Honduras. Lt. Col. North, Rear Admiral Poindexter, Ret. Gen. Richard Secord and arms dealer Albert Hakim are indited for “conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government.” The U.S. sends the 82nd Airborne to [client-state] Honduras, not surprisingly pushing the “North & Co.” indictments back to page 16 (Oregonian- Mar. 18). Geo. Bush eliminates his Republican opposition and Jesse Jack- son emerges as the Democratic frontrunner. Att. Gen Edwin Meese’s house of cards begins to collapse as key aides resign. The Iran-Contra affair has unveiled a Byzantine web of relationships exDad—John Callahan Dad brings WWII to the homefront. Growing up with a flattop and forks to spare. Downtime—Bernadette van Joolen A young woman is helped to discover she’s a special person by a man on his way out. Year of the Tree—Jon Robertson Tapping into Tree Time.. .making a home in the deeply rooted world of old growth. tending worldwide, all clumsily choreographed by the White House and the CIA. Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny’s book, The Crimes of Patriots, an in-depth look at the CIA- front Nugan Hand Bank, helps explain the rot that led to that bank’s unraveling in 1980 and the roots of our present crisis. Secord, ex-CIA head William Colby and an immense cast of mafiosi and “ex-U.S.-military” men were using the bank for drug money laundering and illegal arms transactions long before the Reagan administration was installed. Nugan Hand Bank had offices in the opium fields of Thailand, did business with the Sultan of Brunei and the Marcos family, and stole hundreds of millions of dollars from “depositors” across the globe. It took advantage of lax banking scrutiny in Panama, the Cayman Islands and even its home base, Australia. Bank officials destroyed boxes of documents without being challenged, even after the bank had fallen. Meanwhile, an agent of the bank was sent back to Saudia Arabia to fill up large plastic bags of currency in exchange for unwritten “claim numbers.” The CIA and Defense Department refused cooperation with banking authorities of any nation, preferring to pretend that nothing untoward had happened. Multi-Cultural Education at the Crossroads—Melissa Laird Northy schools unfold strategies for building past prejudice and reinforcing pride. Taking the Tea—Barbara Kerley f It JO/ The view from Hari Bahudar's teashop on the road up from India. Take your time. . .things come around again. The Reagan team thought they d learned much from the Nugan Hand experience. That profits from drug money laundering could be used for foreign policy initiatives invisible to Congress. That saying “No!” to drugs in the U.S. would serve as effective cover for illicit operations elsewhere. That U.S. citizens care less about what happens to foreign individuals than their fellow Americans. This level of deceit may not blow up in George Bush’s face, but it should. It’s time for us to “Just say No!” No to Contra-aid. No to the far-greater sum (estimated to be 5 times the aboveboard congressional appropriation) of CIA money channelled to the Contras. It’s time to look behind the Noriega crisis in Panama to imagine why the U.S. is desperate to unrail one of the original Contadora sponsors. Strange the lack of press coverage on the 22 Latin American nations who have urged the U.S. to end its meddling in Panama. Or on the underclass supporters who continue to keep Noriega in power. It’s truly time for the U.S. to turn a new leaf in its relations with the world, to stop playing policeman and start picking up its own economic pieces. Soon. Or we re due for some nasty surprises.
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