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0 Comments | Insight on the News, June 12, 2000

Who Is Stifling the News About Israeli Espionage?

How in the name of heaven can your article by J. Michael Waller and Managing Editor Paul M. Rodriguez be the only real in-depth article about Israel, the United States' closest ally, stealing our highly classified information ["FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House," May 29]?

I am absolutely shocked that the gutless news media can't be more forthright and honest with this information. Does this foreign country have so much power that their agents in this country can control and stifle this blockbuster news? The TV news only came out with some weak dribble about some foreigners posing as newsmen having access to upper floors in the State Department. What? Newsmen from what country and how many? Thanks for your truthful article. I'm subscribing to Insight.

K.R. Leibhart via the Internet

The Hungarian People Prevail Over Communism at Last

"The Curtain Rises on a New Hungary" [May 29] and the interview with retired Hungarian Col. Gen. Bela K. Kirfily [Picture Profile, May 29] reflect a double-barreled score concerning Hungary's role in restoring its proud historical heritage and in administering a telling impact prior to the eventual death blow to Soviet communism.

Despite the only temporary success of the initial phase of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (due to the surprise resistance experienced by the Soviets during its breath-catching pause, which was occasioned by the reluctance of the free world to intervene because it overestimated the power of Soviet might), the uprising showed that the popular and spontaneous resistance to the armored assault of assumed superior military power backed up by the will of a door-die populace could still prevail.

As a staff member of the U.S. Legation in Budapest prior to and during the course of the uprising and as a partisan eyewitness of the fighting, I can appreciate how the Hungarian people were happy to have succeeded in their goal even after 40 years of enduring the interim of Kadar's brand of communism.

In retrospect, the patient and courageous effort can best be epitomized in the translated words of a well-known mid-19th-century Hungarian poet, Daniel Berzsenyi: "The valiant fears not the moss of time; he breaks forth from the grave and appeals to Heaven, and his merits will be blessed by the worthy, the noble, and the rising centuries!"

G.A. Katona Former President Hungarian Freedom-Fighters Falls Church, Va.

Clintonism Must Go Down to Defeat in the 2000 Elections

The No. 1 mission, and the only mission, must be the defeat of Clintonism in the national elections of November 2000 and in the New York Senate race. The best and the only sure way to accomplish this is to vote Republican.

We cannot depend on the present cowed Congress or some self-promoting politicians to fulfill their statutory obligations to police and correct the federal executive branch. Therefore, the people of the United States must be patient and not get sidetracked and thoroughly defeat Clintonism at the polls this November. When a new and an American administration assumes control in January 2001, Clinton and his cronies no longer will have the full power of the U.S. government to enforce or cover up their past or present illegal actions. Thus, their opponents will be given an equal and fair hearing in the judicial system. Clinton and many of his allies will be subject to private lawsuits, both civil and criminal.

Maj. John Henry Key USMC, Ret. Boerne, Texas