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He Has Only Two Motives—Profit and Headlines by Steven Brill Volume 91 No.3 Contents February 13, 1979 5 46 Backstage with Esquire 23 Billy Carter: Psychohistory Couched Neoconservatism: An Idea Cracker . or Crack-up? Commenting on the work of by Edwin Diamond contributor Edwin Diamond. Whose Time Is Now Introducing a special section. The President's brother plays the role of national court Jester. 5 Dismaying, but not surprising. The Sound and the Fury Letters from readers - 24 48 The Reasonable Right The Case Against 6 _ by Peter Steinfels Mark Lane 80 Politics A critique of the neocons, the small by Steven Brill If You Are Highly Sexed, The Inevitability of Teddy group of men and women whose A dossier on the lawyer who, from JFK's assassination to Guyana, has Achievement Oriented, - by Richard Reeves. ideas are profoundly reshaping political power in this country. It is been making waves by rubbing and a Wine Connoisseur, Taking the pulse of the country, the the first really effective challenge to the nation's nerves the wrong way. author finds a yearning for This May Be Your Disease liberalism In many decades. Still, The conclusion: The nerve rubbing optimism and strong leadership. by Rafael Steinberg the movement doesn't have all the is flit' the purpose of Lane's headlines and Lane's profit. It's called gout. If you get it, answers, especially about its you'll know. The good news is that 11 own future. Full Disclosure it can now be treated effectively. The Battling McGraw by Dan Dorfman 31 82 Passions seethe as American The Essential Guide The Right Stuff Express attempts to take over to Neoconservatism by Nancy Klein and McGraw-Hill's publishing empire. Anita Leclerc Plus: Interest rates topping? At a glance, the heroes, enemies, and house organs of the new Esquire's guide to gear and gadgets. movement. 54 * A Sporting Guide 85 to Mexico 32 A Day in the Life 15 by Stephen Birnbaum Cyra McFadden The Neoconservative Swimming, surfing, sailing, Interview by Harry Stein High Life Establishment Chart climbing, camping, fishing, and How other folks live—moment by Snobs at Ski Who's who in the new movement. playing south of the border. A moment. by Taki In the Red Hot Center: Six names. complete sporting guide with Now that the Arabs and other pictures of what to wear for the 87 nouveaux own as many chalets, Mexican active life. Fashions by jewels, and paintings as anyone else Cora Marcus. Esquire Classified at Gstaad or St. Moritz, what does 34 one do for status? Great Moments 88 • in Neocon History Premonitions 17 How the movement grew from by Bruce McCall Books Stalin's nasty purges to AT&T's new Beginning a series of paintings on Broken Writers, Chippendale headquarters. ideas whose time has Just about—but not quite—come. Die-hard Soldiers, * Desperate Poker Players 66- . Cover: Photograph Geoffrey Wolff reviews Bernard 36 Cars by Francesco Scavullo Malamud's Dubin's Lives. Ward Fiction by Ken Kuhlken Ncoconservative sage Just reviews Michael Charlton and The Godfather of A young American. Cars. Irving ICristoL Anthony Moncrieff's Many Neoconservatism Richard Gilman The open road. No escape. Esquire is published fortnightly (except for the Reasons Why. (Anti His Family) last issue of the year, which Is combined with reviews A. Alvarez's Hunt. the first issue of the next year) by Esquire Maga- by Geoffrey Norman zine Inc., 488 Madison Ave.. New York, N.Y. 74 10022. Second-dam postage paid at New York, Irving Kristol is the power broker N.Y., and at additional mailing offices. Autho- 20 and central data bank for the Brandon Stoddard Made heed as second-class mail by the Peat Office Department, Ottawa, Canada, and for payment Personal Finance ncocon movement. His ideas fairly a Monster Called Roots of postage in cash. The Esquire publication zing off the page and his number Is 178860. Subscription rates In the In Your Best Interests by Jean Va I lely DS. and its possessions, $16 a year; Canada, 122 by William Flanagan connections extend all the way to This ABC producer made television a year; elsewhere, 128 a year. Foreign subscrip Washington. lions payable In advance. Pmitraaner: Send form The many advantages of investing history by breaking the rules. Now 3579 to 9,0m, 1255 Portland Place, Boulder, right now In government he wonders if he can do it again. Colo. 80302. a 1979 b1 E.t.d.'. M.0.1. Inc. FEBRUARY 13. 1979/ESQUIRE 3 Scavenger of death: Mark Lane has built a career exploiting the public's paranoia about political assassination. 48 FEBRUARY 13. 1979/ESQUIRE Illustration by Milton Glaser The conclusion: He has only two motives—profit and headlines by Steven Brill t is pounding rain on 101 going north of San Francis- intelligence agencies and how the confrontation with Jones [and co, and Mark Lane's Hertz Toyota is not taking it Congressman Leo Ryan] was arranged by them." well. The wind, the splash, the tin grind of the motor, In the months following Guyana, we will be hearing from him nearly drown out his voice—a voice that is at the again. Not in his early Toyota monotone. But with the practiced beginning of our 120-mile, three-and-a-half-hour drive hysteria that I'll see later in our ride--the kind that's wowed surprisingly subdued. We are on our way from the them on campuses before, when the subject was death and the San Francisco airport to Santa Rosa, 60 miles north, dead were John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. And where Lane, he says, needs to interview a potential always the adjective lawyer will come in front of his name. witness in the Guyana suicide case. As we go, I keep an eye out Lawyer Mark Lane today charged that ... Lawyer Mark Lane for a rent-a-car billboard. Should he explode when I start asking revealed ... Lawyer Mark Lane attacked.:. questions, I'll need a way back. Don't believe him. On major issues, Mark Lane is as utterly I expect a raving conspiracy addict, a foamer at the mouth. truthless as any who has ever moved across our headlines. And What I get the first 30 miles or so is a monotone paranoid, a • his motives are always the same: profit and headlines. voice and face bored with this umpteenth run through the story He will tell us how he became Jim Jones's lawyer because he of how the CIA, State Department, Justice Department, Federal wanted to help Jones avoid harassment from the CIA—harass- Communications Commission, even the Post Office, conspired to ment Lane now says he feared would drive Jones mad. And of murder the People's Temple residents of Jonestown, Guyana, by course he'll tell us that his mission for Jones was pro bono. He driving them and leader Jim Jones to mass suicide. (The Post told me, for example, that his total fee from the People's Temple Office did its part by failing to send Social Security checks to was set at $300 a month. retired cultists.) Lane is medium large, not the peppery little 11111111111111111111111901111411111 tough conspiracy exposer I 'anticipated. And with a wide, wide MONEY FROM PEOPLE'S TEMPLE nose, semifluffy black-gray beard and saggy eyes dominating his face, he looks even teddy bearish—like a whimsical cousin or In fact, according to documents provided to me by a San uncle who teaches English lit somewhere. His pedal foot matches Francisco survivor at the People's Temple, Lane's original Sep- his mood. In the beginning, as he softly lays out the plot, we are tember retainer arrangement with Jones called for an up front going 35-4.5 in a 55-mile-per-hour zone. $10,000 payment and a fee of $6,000 a month plus telephone and When we get to Santa Rosa I will find that the witness doesn't travel expenses. Among the documents I obtained is a photocopy exist: Lane will stop at a gas station, make a phone call, then say of a S10,000 cashier's check sent to Lane by the People's Temple. he's made a mistake and we might as well turn back. As for the In a tie-in clause that sets new frontiers for lawyer compensation, Guyana case, well, Lane doesn't have one of those either. What Lane also suggested in a memo to Jones that the entirety of a he has is a twenty-six-year-old friend named Terri Buford who three-story building Lane owns across from the Supreme Court, now lives with him at his Memphis house. She was in charge of in Washington, should he rented by the temple. financial records in Jonestown until just before the suicide, when Lane says that in return for the $6,000 his sole legal service she defected. Lane has her, and he also has a public relations would be to file a Freedom of Information Act request "that problem—because since September he's been a lawyer for Jim would prove that the CIA had conspired to get Jones and the Jones, a lawyer who said in October that Jonestown was "an temple." No Freedom of Information Act request was ever filed. incredible experiment with such vast potential for the human All it takes is a simple form letter. spirit and the soul of this country." "Mark was also going to do public relations work for the But with Buford at his side, Lane has turned his PR problem temple," says Lane assistant and girl friend April Ferguson, into a new profit maker.
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