NUMBER 122 25 CENTS .:~~~ X-523 NOVEMBER 1984 Goldberg/Sygma I anos ,, -1t;>"; "* .. :<"~»... :'.,,,-.: } Reagan/Mondale Want War! November 1984: the issue is war. their defense. For the Central American and with empty stomachs-are going to ing 32 days of "high intensity warfare" Those with the fortitude to make it masses, the very real threat of Yankee fight to the end, until we achieve peace. and three months to complete occupa­ by either defeating the invaders or' through the "great debates" between invasion means a fight to the finish. immolating ourselves if imperialist tion of the country, the authors come up Reagan, the anti-Soviet nut, and Mon­ According to the authoritative Latin aggressiveness leaves us no other with a total of "between 2,392 and 4,783 dale, the Cold War hawk, witnessed a American WeekZr Report (10 August), choice.... We are certain that our dead with 9,300 to 18,600 wounded." contest for warmaker of the year award. quoting an unnamed "US military sacrifice would not be in vain and that "Casualties among the Nicaraguan During the October 21 foreign policy analyst and former army officer": "The all three million Nicaraguans could be annihilated. but olJr example would population are likely to be very much debate, Reagan said on Central Ameri­ [U.S.] body count would be terrible­ triumph and multiply among the higher," the study notes (quoted in ca: "I thought for a moment that instead two to three hundred a week. Probably, peoples of the world and among the Theodore Moran, "The Cost of Alterna­ of a debate I was going to find Mr. within six weeks, the US would have to people of the United States as well. This tive U.S. Policies Toward EI Salvador, Mondale in complete agreement with institute a draft, total casualties would is our contribution to peace." 1984-1989," in Robert Leiken. ed., what we're doing because the plan that be from 8,000 to 10,000. The Reagan Following Grenada, the Sandinistas Central America: Anatoml' o/,Conflif't he has outlined is the one we've been administration would have to be out of began distributing guns to the popula­ New York: Pergamon Press,'1984):, following for quite some time." In­ their bloody gourds to do it." But, with tion so that today Nicaragua has well While the contenders for imperialist deed, Mondale has embraced every key "jokes" about outlawing Russia and over a hundred thousand people under top cop genuflect in the direction of plank of the G.O.P.'s aggressive plat­ beginning the bombing in five minutes, arms. Approximately 75 percent of the "diplomatic avenues" and differ slightly form for death squad "democracy" and we have reason to believe that the country's construction resources have on tactics and limine;, they mean to counterrevolution in Central America. American rulers are not all there. So been diverted to military defense. Given make war. Despite constant attempts at Both candidates support the butcher instead of kissing the ground, lIke the the extreme economic pressures on a negotiated sellout by the Salvadoran' Duarte in EI Salvador, and in Nicaragua "rescued" medical students in Grenada, Nicaragua from U.S. imperialism, such FORI FM LN guerrilla leadership, de­ Reagan's CIA directs the contra invad­ some American youth may be kissing measures are hardly undertaken with­ spite endless overtures by the Sandinis­ ers in the "arts" of assassination, their asses good-bye. out very good reason. tas-including their unconditional ac­ blackmail, kidnapping and sabotage Underscoring the fact that a U.S. In fact, U.S. invasion plans against ceptance of the Contadora group's draft while Mondale threatens a "quaran­ invasion of Nicaragua would be no Nicaragua have been worked out in treaty-the U.S. invasion buildup con­ tine." Too, Mondale has endorsed Grenada-style walkover, Nicaraguan detail. One scenario prepared by three tinues. The Contadora treaty would Reagan's rape of black Grenada. head of state and Sandinista leader Pentagon experts calls for a Marine require Nicaragua to: grant amnesty to While the U.S. prepares for a fuH­ Daniel Ortega vowed at the United division, an Army air mobile division, the contras, hold elections under inter­ scale military invasion-targeting Ni­ Nations: Army light infantry brigade and Ranger national supervision, cut off any aid to caragua and Cuba-the regimes in ..... we want the world to know that the battalion, backed up with Air Force and Salvadoran rebels, send home Cuban Managua and Havana are preparing for Nicaraguan people-barefoot. ragged. Navy air support and logistics. Assum- ('olllinued on page 5 Defense of Cuba/USSR Begins in Central America! ~ ~ If -1.' 2 YOUNG SPARTACUS EDITORIAL NOTES , The Moral Majority Takes Over the Science Times Sex: Is There Ever Enough? \0 The last few years-under both Dem­ and eclectic psychologizing, should be ocrat "born-again" Carter and Moral published as a piece of "science" only The Addictive System Majority Republican Reagan-have underlines its potentially sinister Pattern of exc-essive sex is said witnessed increased government med­ consequences. to resemble alcoholism and IEUEFsmEM Sex is the most important IIIIiIIIIr.. dling in the totally private matter of One "expert," Dr. John Money, di­ compUlsive gambling. Ihlng in. person', life. " consensual sexual activity. Homosexu­ rector of the psychohormonal research ality is ruled unprotected by constitu­ unit at Johns Hopkins Medical School, r IMPAIRED THlllKIIIQ tional rights; Reagan tries to' outlaw UItMAIIAOUIIJTY is quoted, "some male fetishists [sic] AlttIough Ufeilin COII8IquencN of of excessive II8XIIIl activity have all teen sex with his "squeal rule"; report having orgasms up to 10 times a dlurray, the behavior excessive .... are .arks of an addictlaa IDCI caD be treated IIIUII go on. d/aregIrr1Id. campaigns against pornography bur­ day. We don't know why they have that Ion almllar to other addictlolll, aucb u geon in city after city. The former Miss capacity, but one day I'm certain we'll America, the delicious Miss Vanessa find out the underlying neurochemistry t.. ADOICTI~ ~ Williams, the first black woman ever to is unique." And it is equally "certain" SdenceTimes ~ CYCLE"'" win the rhinestone tiara, was pressured that then the (jealous?) Dr. Money will It}eNew Uotic IluttS I into resigning her title because she had diligently apply himself to "curing" the PREOCCUPATION posed for nude photographs (in sexually "affliction" that is the desire of most 'er once more. That cycle, maDy e:iPerta (SeXis all there is , Is Identical to that seen In other to thln~ about. explicit scenes with a white woman)­ healthy men and women. This Dr. ne sex theraplata esti· , while the new Miss Ame~.ica is a bible­ Money is the same ghastly white-coated many as 1 In 12 people I problem, while other (SHAME) RITUALIZATlOH thumping Mormon from Utah who doctor wielding hypodermic needles Is relatively rare. The The preoccupaNon IS sa)" Is not one's _DESPAIR l8Idstolffxed.rouNne, collects soap for a hobby! "Cleanliness that the Spartacist League wrote about N&l preference. Nor ,suchas crUIsing the is next to godliness," sums up the sexual in "Anti-Sex Drugs Deform Male .pIata equattna 1tl'Clll, GUILT '- same streets or bars. program of the Moral Majority, which Prisoners" (Women and Revolution Ire desire focualna with on addiction. the _ COMPU LSIVITY 'JeCOmes the a1l-conaumln& focus of Given the strength 0' the wants to make itself the dictator of every No. 18, Spring 1979) for his "cure" for 'rld1n& passion that Is PIIf8\ICICIat the COlt of obsession. the act ilSa" American's conscience. "sex offenders." Dr. Money tested his ,al Ufe, at the expense of career, family or is virtually inevitable. J But now the government and its lack­ new drug, a hormone called anti­ -..... ., 2 44.. d 51 .. • ~ eys in science and medicine are ruling androgen, not only on "sex offenders," that not only are many kinds of sexual but on men showing patterns of "violent Want to screw ten times a day? Men in white coats want to take you away. acts wrong/sick/illegal/evil, but so is behavior"-manifested not only in "too much" of any kind! The lead article attacks on people, but also on objects! in the 16 October issue of the Science He claimed "you can revert their sex 22 October 1984 gies but somebody's attempt to put them Times, the New York Times' weekly drive back to the prepuberty level." That New York Times all under one roof is a reductio ad section on science news, was "Some the New York Times quotes this sinister 229 West 43rd Street absurdum. No longer are only qualita­ Sexual Behavior Viewed as an Addic­ experimenter in chemical castration as a New York, NY 10036 tive departures from the sexual norm (whose?) to be condemned, but now also tion," which outlined sex therapists' legitimate "scientist" says a lot about Attention: Editor, Science Times "discovery" of "sexual addicts." While Reagan's America. even the simple quantitative ones. this term is not yet a formal diagnostic We defend any consensual sexual act Dear sirs: Perhaps the man who wanted to category in medicine or psychology, as.a private matter;.lhe days when sex Your article, "Some Sexual Behavior screw fiv~J9J.enJini~s"F(fay~ foJils.w\fe s' _ .. many researchers are working up a therapists occupied themselves with Viewed as an Addiction" (16 October frigid dismay, needs not to be cured but definition. Leading "sex addict" propo­ helping people have a better time in bed 1984) is an eclectic broth of totally either better technique or a new wife. A nent Dr.