IN THESE TIMES JUNE 30-JULY 13,1982 7 Radio Marti. turn it into a shortwave radio station and Last August Cuban delegates told U.S. get it off WHO's or any other AM sta- RADIO MARTI representatives that they intended to tion's territory. The amendment passed build two 500-kilowatt stations on the AM. enthusiastically. 1040 and 1160 frequencies. Only after State and DOD supporters of Marti are that announcement did the FCC recom- dismayed. "It would torpedo the mend the 1040 frequency to Radio Marti. project," said Yale Newman, a member politics Whether the FCC chose it on its own or of the Commission and would-be pro-* at the request of an interagency govern- gram director of the new station. "There ment task force depends on which agency are very few short wave radio receivers in you talk to. This January, the National Cuba." Newman and others are now Telecommunications Information agency hard at work lobbying Energy and Com- airwaves, assigned AM 1040 to Radio Marti. (On merce committee members, trying to June 14, Assistant Secretary of State for make the case that funding a Cuban interAmerican affairs Thomas Enders parallel to Radio Free Europe is really a sent a letter confirming this sequence of top priority. ar style events to Sen. Charles Percy [R-I11.], whose Foreign Affairs committee looks Direct action. government act "as your point man" at the Marti proposal in July.) But despite State Department official By Pat Avfderheids —i.e. run interference, or handle Cuba "They chose a frequency that cannot Miles Frechette's earlier assurances to on the jamming question. They also say possibly work," said Salomon. "You Congress, Radio Marti enthusiasts may HE IDEA OF A C-OVSXNMENT- 1 Duncan claimed that jamming the signal have to ask yourself why. Maybe they're not wait for congressional approval to run station to broadcast news would warrant a "surgical" removal of doing it to provoke a response." start work on the station. On June 7 about Cuba tc Cubans — the jammer. Duncan, however, now WHO representatives took their pro- Broadcasting magazine announced that named, with unperceived denies he used the word "surgical" in test to legislators. Congressman Tom the Navy was building several radio irony, Radio Marti after the that conversation, only saying that Cub- Harkin (D-Iowa) didn't take much per- towers just off Florida. The owners just Cuban poet-martyr who called the U.S. an jamming would be regarded as an suading. He had already gone on record happened to fit the specification of Radio "the belly of the [imperial] beast" — has "unfriendly act," and that "a variety of calling Marti one of the "most im- Marti. The news promptly raised hackles had a faintly fantastic air to it since it options would be available to us." aginative ways to waste money" propos- both in private industry and in Congress, was proposed almost a year ago. The problem of interference between ed by the administration and a pet pro- where Wirth among others made The ironies were a Little too sharp. Cuban and U.S. radio signals is long- ject of "right-wing activists." He was Here was an expensive new item — more statements of protest and met with standing, and if Florida broadcasters instrumental in sending the House bill Defense Department officials. than $17 million for the first 18 mon- have been loud in their protests, so have authorizing Radio Marti into the Energy The construction pleases some ths—at a time of brutal slashes in the been the Cubans. The problem is bound and Commerce Committee, where it slid members of the Commission. "It would social "safety net." Further, many ar- to get worse as Cuba continues to into Timothy Wirth's (D-Colo.) telecom- gued, the station's services were unneces- be an option for us," Newman said of strengthen its radio capacity. But govern- munications subcommittee. Wirth, who the Si-million worth of towers, "if Con- sary. After ail, Cuba picks up commer- mental negotiations keep breaking down, has pushed hard to protect public radio Continued on page 8 cial radio stations' signals — stations that most recently in November at interna- and TV from budget cutbacks, is no carry not only news but the latest popular tional telecommunications talks in Rio de fonder of Marti than Harkin is. He music and constant natural advertise- Janeiro. The U.S. arrived with intrac- questioned the funding of Marti at a The military ments for the American way of life. If table negotiating terms and the Cubans time when administration officials "are that wcien't enough, Cuba also gets walked out in frustration before the con- unwilling to spend even one penny to Voice of America Spanish-language pro- ference ended. At that time, other foreign build public radio facilities in the U.S., may not wait gramming via a Florida transmitter sta- delegates to the conference criticized the which bring news and information to the tion, Radio Marathon. U.S. for negotiating in bad faith. U.S. American public." for Congress to So why have administration, State and representatives claimed they had not ex- On Wirth's turf, a deceptively simple Defense Department (DOD) officials pected much to happen. amendment was proposed. Thomas approve "Radio fought ss hard for Radio Marti in the One of the negotiating sessions offers Tauke (R-Ia.) and Al Swift (D-Wash.) 5 face of congressional reservations, even clues that bolster WHO executives' in- among staunch Republicans? proposed limiting Marti to a governmen- terpretation of the secret agenda behind tal frequency, which would automatically Free Cuba.' In the latest round of congressional jockeying to block funding for Radio Marti, a possible explanation has sur- faced. And the explanation looks faintly NOVEMBER ELECTIONS more fantastic than the proposal itself. Foreign policy Cold Warriors may be looking fcr an excuse to physically at- tack Cuba. Perhaps they hope that once Radio Marti Is set wp on an AM frequen- Look left Democrats cy at 1040. Cuba mil snake good its threat tc jam the frequency with massive power. This ccuid be interpreted as an By John Judis act of war— grousds to destroy the jam- ming facility on the ssianc. This theory NEW HAVEN, CT doesn't come from conspiracy mongers UST AS THE EXHAUSTION OF lurking left-off-center m the Washington postwar economic and foreign shadows. Hi censes from outraged Mid- policy stimulated the supply-side western broadcasters and members of fad among Republicans, it is en- Congress v/hose patieaee has about couraging a new politics among worn out. somJe Democrats. The theory surfaced when executives Its practitioners call themselves "pro- from Palmer Broadcasting, which owns gressives." They stress the need for econ- the coast-to-coast clear channel AM omic planning rather than free market radio station WHO in Bes Moines, Iowa, initiatives. They are skeptical of rising noticed that Radio Marti was slotted for military budgets. They think America's WHO's frequency, 1040. Marti's pip- foreign policy should be based on the squeak. signal wouldn't be a problem for promulgations of its own democratic WHO, which operates at 5Q kilowatts, ideals. They find their support among the maximum power the FCC allows in left-leaning unions like the Machinists the continental U.S. But if Cuba proceed- and among envrionmental, feminist and ed to build— as it claims it will— a 500 minority organizations. They tend to be kilowatt station that would jam the from the industrial East, the Midwest or signal, WHO would shrink down to a the Pacific coast. And they probably sup- pipsqueak station itself. ported Senator Edward Kennedy rather Robert Harter, the station owner, was than President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 understandably upset. presidential primaries. So the Palmer Broadcasting people de- In the Democratic class of 1980, the scended on Washington, where they met most prominent of this new breed was with their legislators, State and Defense Boston's Barney Frank, who because of department officials and some represen- redistricting faces an uphill battle this tatives from the Presidential Commis- year against fellow incumbent Margaret sion on Broadcasting tc Cuba. Early on, Heckler, a OOP moderate. (In spite of Harter talked with Kenneth Geddings, her differences with Reaganism, the an unofficial consultant to fee Commis- Republican National Committee has ac- sion. Marter says that Gecdirtgs, a major corded Heckler's race its second highest media owner in Mobile, Ak,,, and an ex- priority among House contests.) director of the Vcics cf America, told Among the newcomers in 1982, sev- him that the jsannicg cf ladio Marti eral candidates stand out. Lane Evans, a young lawyer who won the Democratic '';f'.~y.- ?s!:r_er vice-prssident Robert primary in the Rock Island, 111., House 3';.'3s'!;..?,rdt and the station's attorney district, will face State Sen. Ken McMii- 7.r:. 2£.:.cr.s:j mst with DOD official len in the fall. McMillen upset incum- .,^-,-a .7-1, '^"^z^ £* ths Pentagon, they bent Republican Tom Railsback in the Nacerits and aids to Rep. Toby Moffett, Bruce Morrison hopes to win the right In Mors, they claim, April primary with the help of the Nat- v/iii try to fill Mcffett's Hartford House the September Connecticut Democratic "~:r:
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JUNE 30-JULY 13.J982, doctoral program at the University of Il- ing the problems of inflation," Morri- policy resembles that of left-wing New linois, but was sidetracked by student spn said. "I don't think we can be satis- Dealers and his foreign policy is that of politics. "I found out I liked working fied any longer with the usual fiscal and the Carter State Department. Once in of- with people better than with molecules," monetary policy or with bribing the pri- fice, the new Democrats like Morrison Radio Morrison said. He eventually transferred vate sector." could accede to the Business Roundtable's Continued from page 7 to Yale Law School. In his campaign, Morrison talks about free market "realism" (in the form of a Morrison was urged to go into patent the need for an incomes poJicjrJjMr .goy^ threatened investment strike). They could gress would agree." law—the natural outlet for lawyers with The Defense Department argues that ernment direction of where .investment also have their foreign policy views shak- training in chemistry—but in his first goes ahd for "fundamental ihcom| j^c en by the victory of non-democratic and the- towers are being built for separate year at Yale, he began working at the military purposes. What are those pur- reform." anti-American liberation movements, as New Haven Legal Assistance Associa- Morrison is quick to point out that his were the views of some Carter admini- poses? "Classified," is the succinct tion, the local branch of the Legal Ser- answer of spokesman Duncan. But on proposals are not "radical." "If you stration members. vices Corporation.;"All I ever wanted to look at the other advanced dhd^istriat ;: JJut Morrison, Curry and Evans could June 16 Navy official Mark Neuhart em- do was work on people's problems," he barrassed the DOD by admitting to the democracies, they haye;incomes £plicies; . as easily be the beginning of a new debate said. " and they direct where credit goes,"*' he as the erjd o"f an Old one. Miami Herald that the towers were in* After graduating in 1973, Morrison tended for Radio Marti. said. moved quickly up the ladder from staff Morrison also doesn't consider him- The Italian vote. Duncan continued to deny that this attorney to managing attorney to execu- violated procedure. "The' charge that self a "socialist." "I am pretty skeptical Morrison's first step is already assured. tive director of the 30-lawyer New Hav- about large bureaucratic organizations," As a result of his campus and labo'r sup- government is getting ahead of Congress en Legal Services Association (NHLAA). he said. "I am not a believer in any kind port—Morrison was endorsed la'st month on Radio Marti is hot true," he said. "It Under Morrison, the NHLAA became a of extreme socialist solution. But I have by the Connecticut AFL-CIO—he will happens that the recent installation will model of how a public agency could no illusions about the interests of the pri- get 20 percent of the delegates to the July be compatible with Radio Marti, but work. "Productivity at NHLAA would vate sector. I am a mixed economy per- 1.6-rl7 Democratic Party nominating con- there is "no question of its use until Con- dazzle lawyers at the most efficient large son—I believe it is necessary to impose vention he heeds to qualify for a spot in gress authorizes it." firms," Steven Brill proclaimed in an Oc- social restraints on markets to have the the September 7 primary ballot. In a low Tauke summarized 'the sentiments of tober 1981 article on Morrison in The kind of distributive effects you want," turnout 'primary, > Morrison's support many when he said it took "a lot of American Lawyer. Working out of four But,in the context of Reagan's econ- among blacks as well as labor and stu- faith" to believe in 'ah independent mil- city offices, the NHLAA serviced about omic philosophy—which he defined 3n dents can be expected to'carry, the day itary purpose for the highly specialized 180 clients a month. his Inaugural Address as the belief: that against -his more conservative opponent, towers. But with Reagan's election in 1980, government is not the solution but the New Haven alderman Steve Wareck. But In recent hearings Sen. Lowell Weicker Morrison, who was also a member of the problem^-Morrison's plea for govern- Morrison will have his hands.: full trying (R-Conn.) protested that Radio Marti board of the national Legal Services ment intervention challenges the premises to-defeat OeNardis in November. was "a '50s response to an "80s Corporation, found himself fighting rather than simply the conclusions of Connecticut's Third Congressional problem." Enders~ replied sharply, rear guard battles against the Reagan Reaganism. District, which includes New Haven and "What we have in Cuba is a '50s situa- budget cuts while trying to provide the He opposes the Reagan administra- its populous suburbs, has not been solidly tion." Or maybe what we will have is a same services with less money to New tion's foreign policy—-in particular, its Democratic or liberal. Prior to DeNardis, '50s situation, if the new Cold Warriors Haven's poor. In August 1981, he decid- intervention in El Salvador and its mili- it was represented by Robert Giamo, a have their way. • ed that he would run for Congress. tary buildup—and thinks that American centrist Democrat with a record similar to: "I had always been skeptical of elec- support for military dictatorships has that of Chicago's Dan Rostenkowski. toral politics because of the comprom- made it more difficult for democratic al- Both Giamo and DeNardis were Italian ises it involved," he said. "But Rea- ternatives like those in Costa Rica to —an important factor in New Haven. gan cleared the air by polarizing the flourish. Regarding El Salvador, Morri- Morrison is not. Election country. It became important and more son remarked, "There is no way we come DeNardis' main liability in November possible to run a progressive campaign out the winner by being on the side of will be Reaganomics. While DeNardis Continued from page 7 than before." governments and the military when they has been a prominent "gypsy moth," he Bruce Morrison, a New Haven Legal Ser- are seeking to deny the reality of revolu- may be unable to prevent being identified vices lawyer, will try to win the right in Government intervention. tionary forces." .'.''.-' with the widespread unemployment that the September Democratic primary to Morrison thinks that Connecticut voters His criticisms of military spending echo the Reagan policies have caused in New face incumbent Republican Larry DeNar- got "so badly burned" by both Carter those of James Fallows (National De- Haven arid the surrounding areas. "--' dis in November. and Reagan that "they are willing to lis- fense). "There is a fundamental misman- To win in November, Morrison will* Morrison typifies the outlook and the ten now to new things." The main new agement of the resources we spend on have to override DeNardis' popularity political base of the new Democrats. He thing that Morrison has in mind is the defense," Moprisojj sai<|. "And there is,, among Italian Democrats and overcome"' •is a member in good standing of what need for government intervention in the no coherent statement 6f what our de-> fears of his own radicalism anrbhg"! tKeJ Irving Kristol calls the "new class." In private sector. fense strategy is." district's suburbanites. But Morrison, 1965, he graduated from MIT with a "I think government has to play a role Neither Morrison's economic nor his who is an energetic campaigner, is off to chemistry degree. He then enrolled in a in managing the economy and in fight- military policy are new—his economic a good start. ••'••'
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