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OCAL COLOR
FACTS & RUMORS
Lyndon LaRouche rides again, Sissy's back in town and mushrooms are a fickle fungus
BY MORRIS EDELSON
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID CROSSLEY ■
POLITICS
BehindFusion, currently being distributed
at the Houston International Airjam,
there lies a long, bizarre tale. First of all,
the "Fusion Energy Foundation" publishing the slick mag is using the kiosk space
free, as can anyone on a first-come, first
served basis, except the flowered shaved
heads or leechy nuts. Secondly, the FEF
is the latest incarnation of the Truth as
seen byLyndon LaRouche aka Lynn Marcus, aka II Duce of the Brown Shirts of
the Left, exposed long ago by Counterspy
magazine as being in the pay of the US
security agencies.
The LaRouche group, besides running this crazy old man for president,
also was formed to attack every existing
left of center organization in the US.
LaRouche's group first appeared as a dissident Students for Democratic Society
faction, supporting white-dominated teachers' unions in New York City. This
group, the Labor Committee, was tossed
out of the SDS, which didn't usually bother with such hassles. Then LaRouche's
label became the National Council of Labor Committees. Nick Lick, as it was
known, staged violent attacks on populist
and leftist groups in the north and east,
mopping up the last radicals trying to
make a transition from anti-Vietnam War
protests to general domestic movements.
In Madison, Wisconsin, NCLC attempted
to burn down the headquarters of the
Wisconsin Alliance, an ACORN-like group,
and tried to isolate and persecute its
leaders by distributing red-baiting and
merely insulting literature about them.
"Neo-Nazi slime-suckers" was his epithet for some schoolteachers who tried
to organize for better wages in Wisconsin.
As the left in America began to evaporate, LaRouche, who would run for
president and get an inordinate sum of
money and television attention every
time, turned his attention to the anti-
nuclear groups. Suddenly, fusion energy
became the only hope of the West; no-
growth, environmental and anti-nuke
groups were agents of Communism on
some days, reactionary hippies on others.
Now, titled Fusion Energy Foundation, LaRouche's group is adopting their
insulting and holier-than-thou rhetoric to
today's needs (as perceived by the right
wing money that funds FEF): the production of bumper stickers and posters
which read "Don't Let Jane Fonda Pull
Down Your Plants", "Warning: I Don't
Brake for Liberals", and "More People
Have Died in Ted Kennedy's Car than in
Nuclear Power Plants". Fusion magazine
is only the latest, slickest, in a long line
of LaRouche-toned publications, all of
them combining snob appeal and sic-the-
dogs-on-'em political views. There was
Executive Intelligence, openly advertised for "top management", and even a
little weekly called Interview, which
used to have classical music-and-wine
benefits for itself in the Midwest. The
FEF people so far in Houston have restricted themselves to a little preliminary contact-making at the airport, a
few semi-private political receptions at a
modest suite of rooms in the Warwick,
and some intelligence-gathering on the
Mockingbird Alliance and the PIRG
groups here. LaRouche hopes to play a
role in the acceptance of the South Texas
Nuclear Project,
More innocuous is the series of films
supposedly being sponsored by the downtown library .Actually, a group called Free
Enterprise is using the facilities^ free, to
show Uncle Miltie Freedman do his Adam
Smith vaudeville routines. In addition to
the eight-week series of films, a discussion
leader will be on hand to lead any doubters to the prayer tent. Miltie's thesis is
that the law of the jungle is actually most
humane, since Darwinian social scientists
have told us that poor people are a doomed, draggy bunch. No one would have
even bothered with a Free Enterprise
Foundation if more and more people
weren't beginning to doubt that 19th
century industrial capitalism may not,
after all, save the planet.
Frances T.C'Sissy") Farenthold is back
on Main Street, practising law. Ms. ran a
September article on her tenure at Wells
College, "The College President as Rebel."
Breakthrough's Gabrielle Cosgriff was
originally asked by Ms. to interview
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the horse at Stelzigs Western shcp rears over the remain
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