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CROSSING

THE

IVIDE

he opening

of

the Berlinwall symbolically

arks the end

of

an era, that of revolution from

above and from abroad.

I t

foreshadows the dis-

ppearance

of

the great divide separating two

alves of E urop e and two conflicting social sys-

ems. This prospect, however, depends on he

issolution

of

Eastern and Western blocs and

ofNATO and theWarsaw Pact. Only when

hat occurs can G erman reunification be put o n

raw up the alance sheet and ponder the onse-

rejoice at the crumbling

f the wall under popular pressure.

Those who take the occasion to celebrate the

un eral of so cialism show their ign orance of its

rinciples. In

1953

a workers uprising in Berlin

remark bitterly that if people disagree with

is to dissolve the

Modrow,

new East German PrimeMinister, argued

that

y deprived of popular supp ort does not de-

to

rule. AlthoughMo drow is obviously

wept along by the tide of events, while the m en

sent in the tank s were mo re firmly in com -

nd , he s much closer to socialist principles

they ever were, b ecause effective socialism

Those who would dig the grave for socialism

at its identification with

m and then w ith imported revolution has

To

be resurrect-

to

be partly reinvented.

an epoch heralds a

of events in East

lution there are plenty of Bastilles

be stormed.

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November 16.

in Salvador

e Salvadoran poetRoque Dalton once wrote that

his country was afflicted with cancers peels, dan-

druffs, crud, sores, fractures, shakes,stenches.

That was before the United States got involved;

4 billion in U.S. aid has turned El Salvador into hell, Since

f Alfred0 Cristiani took office in June,

here was for dissent has vanished. The

death squads run wild; participants

in

the most innocuous

civic activity once more risk being draggednto the dungeons

of

the Treasury Police,aped, hooded with the capuchafiled

with quicklime. Once suchhings stirredpassionsonCapitol

Hill; now Senator Christopher Dodd, who passes for the

liberal conscience of the Democratic Party in such matters,

says Cristiani is our best bet in El Salvador.

This latest pattern of outrages escalated on October 31

with the bombing of the Fenastras union offices, which

moved Assistant Secretary

of

State

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fairs Bernard Aronson to hop on a lane to San Salvador to

ask the far ight to cool it. The answer came that same night

when Salvad oran roops murdered two organizers of the

center-left Popular Social Christian Movement. Army to

Aronson:Takea hike. Sma rter han its paymasters, the

army knows that human rights scruples no longer impede

the flow of dollars.

Th e guerrillas of the F.M .L.N. responded tohe

Fenastras bombing by breaking off peace talks with the

government and by launching, on November 11, their

largest offensive

of

the ten-year war. Whatever its outcom e,

the offensive was an extraordina ry show of force, involving

great risks, and its goal seems to have been, at a minimum,

to

force the government back to the negotiating table, ac-

knowledging once andfor all tha t no settlement will be

possible without the rebels acquiescence.

The logic of this war has never varied. The only result of

building a shield for democra cy-as the Kissinger com-

mission termed it in

1984-

has been to subordinate all

civilian authority to the military thug s. W here is Cristiani?

Whos running the country? the ebels ask repeatedly over

Radio Venceremos. Even if we gran t that he represents a

business class sick of war because it interferes with making

profits, the fact is that Cristiani has no more room for inde-

penden t action than is predecessor, JosC Napo leon Duarte .

When army officers showed up for the first time at the Oc-

tober peace talks in San JosC, Costa Rica, they appeared to

believe that the purpose was to negotiate the terms of a n

F.M.L.N. surrender.After he November offensive, that

self-delusion is no longer tenable.

But the Salvadoran right wing has always been a n incar-

nation of hum an evil in its purest form, and rem oving the

capaclty for self-delusion from such people does not

necessarily inspire a capacity for reason. Instead, it has

reduced them to their most obscene instincts. Slum areas are

strafed and rocketed; even as we go to press, news comes

that six Jesuit priests, their cook and her teenage daughter

were dragged from their beds at 3 A.M. by soldiers and

killed. Among the dead was Ignacio Ellacuria, rector of the

Central A merican University, who had been for years El

Salvadors most dogged advocate of a peaceful settlement.

The army has served notice tha t it will no longer tolerate

such voices. This is now a war to the death.

The U.S. response to these events has been to step up

arms shipments and lie about the source of th e guerrillas

strength.There is, as usual, the obliging truckloa d of

Soviet-bloc arms, allegedly intercepted in Honduras last

month. Maybe there was such a truck; maybe it came

through from Costa Rica and the Nicaraguans failed to

in-

tercept it; mayb e some helpful c o n t r a in Hondu ras fitted it

up; maybe it never existed. The question in the end is aca-

demic. The Administrations pitiful fictions about what

is

happening in El Salvador may serve a larger purpose. As the

Yalta-to-Malta summit draws near, Secretary of State

James Baker accuses the Soviet Union of supporting acts

of terror in Central America. In the Salvad oran offensive,

the Administration may hav e fou nd its pretext for remain-

ing immobile o n the entire spectrum

of

East-West issues.

At one side of the table in Malta will sit a statesma n; t

other seat will be occupied by a

man who

calmly bankro

the murderers of priests.

Moderates

Day?

T

e election of four black candidates to high off

in impo rtant localities on the same day should

dicate that a new progressive politics is develop

around the country. If so the indications ha

been largely ignored. Even before voters went to the polls

the scattered off-off-year elections, Democratic politici

and media commentators were straining to put a very d

ferent spin o n the predicted victories of David Dinkins

New York, L. Douglas Wilder in Virginia, John Dani

in New Haven and Norm Rice in Seattle. The conventio

wisdom quickly produced the line that black moderate

won precisely because of their moderation, which in t

case meant catering to w hite racial fears, keeping Jesse Ja

son atmore han arms length, stroking anxious Jew

voters andontributors,nd avoiding the progress

political agenda like the plague.

A

few days after his squeak er win a re-coun t m ay follo

Wilder told a meeting

of

the centrist Southern-based De

ocratic Leadership Council that utur e Democratic pr

idential candidates should heed the lessons of his elect

and emb race the values of the overwhelming majority

the people in this country . In D.L.C. terms, that enta

running o n a platform of high military budgets, cold w

foreign policy, reduced social spending and tax ab atemen

Virginia Senator Charles Robb , one of Wilders predeces

as gove rnor, seconded Wilders suggestions and condemn

the liberal fundamentalism of progressive Democra

activists and interest groups wh o exercise dispropo rtion

influence over the partys nom inating process. Wh eneve

Democrat with national aspirations starts condemning

nominating process, it must mean that his ambitions

about to takea giant leap.

Not for the first time, the prophets

of

the center are d

regarding history and reality in their eagerness to rational

their own interests. The success of African-American c

didates was a direct result of the most far-reaching soc

mobilization in this century he campaign to enfranch

blacks who by law or custom had been excluded fiom

political process. Th at drive began in the red-dirtcounties

the Deep South in the early 196Os, and it continues to t

day in the ghettos of the North. In its most recent form

mobilization has been led by Jesse Jack son , wh o not o

helped register millions of new voters but injected enormo

energy and a sense of possibility into black commu nities

over the nation. The resulting empowerment provided

base that led directly

to

the victories

of

the f our candidat

and many others less publicized, in November.

From the beginning, the mobilization hada politi

dimension as well as a racial one. It is imp ortan t that bla

be visible in positions of pow er, but the symbols must ha

substance. Too many times, a peoples representative o

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in power ignores the needs of the people-wom en, labor

unionists, farmers or any other struggling community that

Chuck Robb et al. disparagingly callspecial interests.

Becauseneedy commu nities rarely have enough electoral

power to install their own members in office if they did,

theywouldntbe struggling), they form coalitions with

group s hat have similar political needs-and hus give

lasting, institutional substance to the symbols.

The Rainbow Coalition hat produced Jesse Jacksons

presidential primary victories in almost every major city of

the country last year became the base for many of the local

black and progressive) candida tes this time. In New York

City, the vast majority of Dinkinss suppo rt -in campaign

work as well as votes- came from the same area as the

Jackson rainbow. Thls sup port is in no way automatic.

A

candidate who could not make a commitment to the coali-

tion, even tacitly, would surely lose the election.

The problem comes when the candidate goes further and

seeks votes and social legitimization, in the orm of press en-

dorsements and big contributions, from those who are op-

posed to everything the coalition stands for. Dinkins did

some of that; W ilder did a lot more. Daniels and Rice do

not fit the catchall black moderate label attached to

them.) By doing so they make it all the mo re ikely that they

will remain merely symbolic figures, that they will sacrifice

the needs of their broad base-for economic investment,

social restructuring and extended empow erment o the

demands of the few outside the coalition who m ay have put

them over the top.

Dinkins got less than 30 percent of the so-called white

vote. Of that, a significant minority

was

already in the pro-

gressive coalition that promoted his candidacy in the first

place. H e got very little suppo rt from the white ethnics he

spent

so

much time reassuring about crime, drugs, taxes

and whatever else his pollsters cam e

up

with. Perhaps that

was what hehad to do his time. But soon another candidate

will be able to extend the coalition right into that constituen-

cy with economic, class and em powerment issues. Neither

politics nor so ciety is static, as the Robb /Wilder theo ry

holds. The point

of

politics is to change society, and thus

move from symbol to substance.

Haiti

GoesBack

T

e government of Gen. Prosper Avril, the Presi-

dent of Haiti, has decided to put all pretense aside

an d get down to the business of governing in the

style to which Haitian dictators have become ac-

customed. For mon ths, soldiers and g overnment officials

in the countryside have been interrupting

or

forbidding

meetings

of

opposition activists, suppressing demonstra-

tions and arresting, bea ting, torturing and sometimes killing

members of democratic or peasant organizations. All this

has become routine,

and

is done o n the qulet, at least as far

as the international news media are concerned, while Avril

announces to the world that he 1s proceed ing relentlessly

toward democratic elections. This talk has also quieted his

most vocal critics among the likely presidential candidates.

On October 30

a

grou p of hirty-three popu lar demo cratic

organizations held a press conference in Port-au-Prince

to protest the deteriorating hum an rights situation an d to

declare amonth of nonviolent resistance to he regime,

to culminate in

a

Day of Refusal march on November

29

the second ann iversary of Haitis aborted elections. Appa r-

ently this was too much for Avril.

On

the evening of

November

1

a truckload

of

soldiers

from

the Presidential

Guard arrested three

of

the best-known leaders from the

press conference: Evans Paul, a former journalist who was

jailed by Jean-Claude Duvalier and is now the head

of

the

Confederation of Democratic Unity; Jean-Auguste Mesyeux,

co-director of the Auton omo us Haitian Wo rkers Federa-

tion, Haitis largest labor union; and Etienne M arineau, a

former sergeant from the Presidential Guard who

was

one

of

the soldiers who helped bring Avril to power in Septem-

ber 1988 and was later dismissed.

The next night, at prime time on the state-run television

station,Maj.Leopold Clerjeune, of the newly baptized

Anti-Gan g Service formerly Recherches Criminelles, the

political police), read an announcem ent: T he three men had

been arrested b ecause they w ere planning a terrorist action

against the government, in which the President and all the

officers

of

the armywere to be assassinated along with cer-

tain civilians, and

a

popular militia would be installed

to

run the country.

As Clerjeune spoke, the camera kept panning off to his

left. There stood the three accused, on exhibit like the ar-

rested students in China: Evans Paul, his face swollen

almost beyond recognition, his white shirt bloodied; next to

him was Marineau , his right eye wollen shut; finally,

Mesyew, a bandage across the top of his head, his face

bruised. They were not allowed to speak.

For a

week the three men were held incommunicado. O n

November 9 they were brought into court and formally ac-

cused. Their physical app earance was shocking. The three

said they had been beaten by a contingent of forty men

while n custody and that the charges against them were

false. They were then rem anded to the penitentiary.

The phony conspiracy propagan da was not unusual from

a regime that has been crying commu nist for mon ths as it

sets about decimating the opposition. Wh at is more ominous

is that the government to ok its repressive violence to a new

level by exhibiting its victims on television. Avril has thus

put he governments

seal

of approval on the orture of

political prisoners and sent a warning to the oppo sition tha

protests will not be tolerated.

A full week after the men were shown on television, the

State Departm ent issued this weak and cynical statement:

The U.S. government urges the government of Haiti to en-

sure that any detainees are treated in strict accord ance with

Haitian law and with respect for their civil and human

rights. At the same time, we urge all factions in Hati LO

forgo violence. We believe that

free

and cledlble elections

leading to the inauguration

of

a clvllian government is an

essential step in finding so lutions to Haitis problems. T he

U.S.

Adm inistration still stands by

its

earlier conclusion tha t

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for

demo cracy, and by urging all Duvaliers, father and son, who neverheld elections;

factions to forgo violence, it implicitly endorses the Haitian

1987,

Gen.HenriNam phy, who preceded Avril in

governm ents charges against the three men. Bu t thats no presidential palace and helped mastermind the massacre

surprise, since the outgoing Am erican Am bassado r, Brun- voters thatstopp ed elections dead.The prospects for f

son M cKinley, told a U.S. hum an rights delegation to Haiti and fair elections are no brighter under the current regim

no t long ago, I dont see any evidence of a [Haitian] policy It is time for the

U.S.

governm ent to recognize a simp le fa

against hum an rights, any more than they have

a

policy abou t Dictators have no interest in demo cracy. AM YWILE

anything else.

. . .

ts been the law

of

the jungle out there.

TheStateDepartment habitually suppo rts he wrong man

my

Wilentzs book,

The Rainy Season: Haiti Si

for he job in

Haiti:

from the

1950s

to the

1970s

the Duvalier, was

published in June by SlmonandSchuster.

UNCIVIL LIBERTIES.

CALVIN TRILL

My dentist weeney To dd , D.D.S.

had his receptionist phoneme to say

that I should come in for an appoin t-

ment. I figured Sweeneywas having

cash-flow problems again.

What is it this time? I asked the

receptionist.

H e says that he was looking at your

X-rays, and you need a crown in the

lower left something

or

oth er, she said.

I

dont mean w hat is it with me, I said. W hat is it with

him? Did th e kids college tuition bill just com e in? Wife

redecorate the rumpus room? Would you mind just shout-

ing back there andasking him how much he owes for what?

Id like to get myself p repared.

I

cant, the receptionist said. Hes in the Caribb ean un-

til next Tuesday.

I

was afraid

of

something like this,

I

said.

Before he left he gave me a list of patients to call, she

said. H e told me thathel l need you for an hou r on theirst

appointment.

An

hou r on the first appointment? I said. Sounds like

Jamaica. Or maybe Antigua. This

is

definitely no cheapie

to

the Bahamas. Th at time he went to the Bahamas he

only

needed me for a half-hour session with the dental hygienist.

May

I

ask

if he took the wife and kids?

And his in-laws, the receptionist said.

Erghh,

I

said, with some feeling.

I

think were talking

gold crown here. Maybe even root canal. That mother-in-

law

of

his lives high

off

the hog.

I

showed up for the hour appointment anyway. Whats

thealternative?

I

dont think Im

u p to

auto-dentistry. I

cant imagine myself bellying up to he mirror, opening my

mo uth w ide, and saying, Is it just my imagination, or does

that bicuspid look a little shaky?

I

could sw itch dentists, of co urse, but Ive become

sort

of

used t o old Sweeney . If you listen closely while hes wo rking

on yo ur teeth -you have to listen closely because, being

rather clumsy, he makes

a

lot of noise banging around the

instruments- you can hear him mumbling about whatever

expense in the To dd amily it was that got you into thechair

in

the first place. After years of tha t,

I

suppose Id feel

something wasmissing

if

a dentist didnt accompany his

drilling with a lot of talk about how much electricians

charge

for

a simp le rewiring jo b these days.

Besides,

I

dont know any other dentists. I dont adm

that to Sweeney To dd, D.D.S.,

of

course. In fact, Ive be

telling him for years that some friends

of

mine are alw

singing the p raises

of

the dentist they all go

to

-a relativ

recent arrival from

Kyoto

known to his grateful patients

Magic Fingers Yam amoto.

They say hes

got

the ouch

of

an angel,

I

said

Yamamoto, as

I

settled into the chair and prepared mys

for the assaults

of

a deeply tanned Sweeney To dd, D.D.S

had to raise my voice a bit, since Sweeney, in his effort

recover a mirror he had dropped, had knocked the rest

his instruments on to the floor.

Open w ide, please, Sweeney said. H e has never been

fected in the slightest by talk

of

Magic Fingers Yamamo

Also,Yamamoto belongs to some Buddhist sect th

believes the exchang e of large sums

of

money corrupts t

soul,

I continued. For crowns and bridges, he do

wonders with the same material used fo r the com mon pap

clip. His fees, of course, ar e nomi nal. Basically, he seeks

rewards in inner fulfillment. He spits on money-

o r

would

if

he werent so polite.

Spit, please, Sweeney said.

Sweeney had stopped his banging arou nd and was stan

ing next to his instrument cabinet peering at some X-ra

What do you ee there, Sweeney? I asked. A n

transmission for your BMW? A long weekend with

missis

in the Adirondacks?

Sweeney held the X-rays up to h e window to get a bet

look. Wontbe able to get away for the nextfewweek

ends, Sweeney said. W ere oing an add ition to the kitche

You never cease to amaze me, Sweeney,

I

said. I

seen those television commercials that show doctors see

all sorts

of

little bitty doo dads hrou gh he miracle

C A T scans r not seeing them , really, because all of

patients in those comm ercials tur n ou t to be

O.K.

-b

youve got to be the only medical man who can look

at

X-ray with your naked eye and see an addition to yo

kitchen. Whats your secret?

I

have a better X -ray machine, Sweeney said, knocki

over a water

g l s s as

he turned toward me. But its exp

sive. Very expensive. Op en wide, please.

Copynght

1989

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