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Gays and 
The IRA

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he night (if: :{Ian?ary ?sail:
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gain?lz? ?girange and Niolerjit?' 1121?: 131113 Jones?: UmVers1ty in? Greenv?ie, Sic?:
things happened .Ait'tthe city. ,Of operations in .the .
States. (Bob Jones Un1vers1ty?, where thegd 

teach the Bible .has ?'stabiisliett "rasial 1?
puzzle. When ?you begin ts connect the barriers is the same one that Ronaldx

here are hits of the pisture yeti g?'tz: Reagan iri?d to grease theiskids for with the

0? The Rev. Ia? Paisley, the theological 
politician from: Belfast barfed 'frgr?n the i 

sends aril emisSary named Peter Robinson to 
San Ftancisco. Robinson hasheen a leader of i
a lost cause called ?Save Ulster Emmi -

SedomyLL 1 According to IRA spokesmen in?
Belfast there isms Sa?n Francisco chapte of: 
man: $3223? the ProvisionaL IRA, and no sugh animal in
.alleging that the mortal enemy. of Baisley 3 any political ?20; as the ?Provisxonal IRA of A
and; the ?Belfast IRA, "goes around} America . 

?'kneecapping Irish faggots tend: to believe that somebody?s uSing'

tits IRA mama "'said Inspect?r Lott Ligeuri'. of
San ErahCis?o pohceqntelligence 

 

   

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irebombiilg' .at the JesuIES?UmverSItY 9f n? -, "'Phis ?oienceis wholly out ofcharacter
A: rahciseo' and the gay newspaper Diff [0515 5 Wave never had any trouble with the Irish
aisted ?with KILLS graf?ti community Sat; Eiancis;g before. During 1
11 the pastest?s the past, few years, e1; 11]

0 AnOnym'ous threatening ?phone ?scans i a .

are made the next? day. taking credit for the 1 during the hunger strikes there was 39?

 
 
  

A violence. It's hard to believe some Irish gu 
autsOCit?R 0? b?ha? 5? The 53? Est-aficiseq ?1 would boinb' ?Ust', especially since Lise 
canceled this- particular speaker day?s
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i 0A Robinson, under heavy police
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1 assuring San Fitanoiseo that the u}7 .
?Protestants are fair afid reasonable meme {1
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Catholic Free Presbyterian Church, the
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5 Robinson?s sponsors were The Irish
?Foi'um, agidup oi Ifishiieotralistshere who
believe errormust begiven its voice

The Forum. then booked him into USE.

According to at USF source, the university-

was not originaliy given RohinSoh?s name

to be a: lecture on Irish culture: and history.

Sviatislav Yasinitsky, better 11110111 as
Yosh the exSF cop who is director of
cur-ity at USE, had his doubts about the
ish origin of the 11111; Molotov cocktails
Seed at the Neti?e Dame of san EranciSco.

I "The funny thing? he said ?is that the
5 guy who called the switchboard and said. he
was from the EIRA had an English accent?

  

in the 15th Stheet Mission District office 

10f the Bay Area Reporter, the gay newspaper.
which received the threatening IRA phene
call; the staff- was tucking warily oat newly

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5 an! Lorch, the editor; said that Since
the? slogans on the windows and the
phone call the paper had been ?dei-



from the 111-511 community. here

John Maher, the veteran San Francisco.
Irish actitist thought it was a dirty trick.
?Imagine a guy calling up with a heavy
1hrogue to threaten a gay paper There? s1 111th
ii with a hrogue who? understands what a
1 mosexualisz?

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Maher 1.1 as incensed at what he cail?ed an
attempt to brand the NRA as anti- gay
i1?North'ern Ireland with its Protestant majori~
1 ty is the only place 111 the {5111th
is illegal Matter said.

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Party through shrill appeals to extremism

,j 'and was under the 1mpression that there was 

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had in his' hometown: ?Why, the 

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Cleaned: windows and wondefing What was'.
earning next. They said the caller had 113115
sh 1110ng as thick as ?soda bread. i

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ugect? with expressions of support?.

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M10 the horses month in?; m'd'
infermation 011111111 gays in Northern Irel'an .1
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That was the Honoratile Mr. Robinson, Mi
who brought along his sidekick- one Jii'
Allister, for iast month?s appearance .

Both are hunches in Paisley?s Democrat:
ic Unionist Party, which has estabhshedits
gains against the dominant 9111121111 Unionist

that have fallen as the. Lerd?s Prayer on the
. ears of the Ulster Protestant majority;

Robih?on had a1 dimple in his chin? and
gold-1111111111511? Jg'iasses ands a face which
suggested prayer. Allister was cherub faced
and prematurely balding and flaxen-?haired

Their Skin was pale iike pastry cooks;, 011

on their pants Their smiles were thin i he
2the winter S1111. 1'

a?ked- IRohinSOn What problems gays

persecutes the gays, he said understand
?there?s {letters in them homosexual 1115111551513"i

Undei' questioning, Robinson admitted.1
that he was not exactly a :f'ence sitter on the
issue. He ran Paisley? 5 victoriOus "Save UISte'r
Afror'n Sodomy? cathpaig'n of aIew years hack
which defeated a proposal backed by so.
moderate Official Unionists to liberal:
Northern Ireland 5 anti-homosexuality la'
1ieft over from the age of crinolihes. 1 .

The Paisleyites? Gracker Jack prize for
this. was that the European Court oE Human
Rights Iou'ntl: Northern Iseland gouty oii5
violating gay civil rights.

asked AlliSter; the?; lawyer 7:11}: the two,
what. the ice shag a homer
g; 523112113111 Paisl?:

    
       

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so? Someone 

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believes in.
error; ?Homosexuality Is a sin." he said;

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speech here that the IRA is Wthe

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of an Wpolitics avana ?3 beautiful peopl??v??nte?;
?By Warren Hinckle 1 . know what made Berkeley tick Alas, to some

questions there are no answers.
Hahana

There was delicious gossip. Guhans love to gossip
111;: giggimttl?iwgg alnt?st as much. as they love their tiny cups of sweetblack coffee?, whichis half sugar, and 11:15 ai?WOnder
5:5 mere swea er overa pm?p ?111,132: 0 on this island has any teeth at all The gossip
had wild, frazzled Whitahair like Einsten}l Ii. . 1:3; ghout Barbara 'WaaWaw
Pablo Armando Fernandez. had just come 11111111111 4.
at hen she cameto interview Fidel Castro she
:11? 6:11:23: :31? if? 3; 1.13112139255223253?93133mini 1 11111131111111: Queen 0211111. of Oz with an entourage of 1
1" ing: squads. 111.1131 makeup men and TV technicians and producers and go- 1
. {1 fete. The intenview with Fidel laSted more than four
We were in Miramar, the Pacific Heights 01? 11.1" M11 hours. The one-haul: pregra'm with time out for 
Havana, a neighborhood 0f wide, tree-lined 1 Was Shown on American television
thatis 38% Off inomithe cummercial 11's :11? dispiagyedi Ma. Walters asithe? equal. of the bearded one, .
. center 0f the 011.}! by a SID-W flowing river. 3 H1 535.11g giving hiniathemdsocko questions, hitting him up

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Most of the people who were rich enough 1011111111151 4 233:; hi: 1112:: 1111:3133 $3333 
Mirarnai? ieft Cuba when Castrp came to power. Thai!? ll. 

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mansions are now embassies or state office buildings or i Aha; the show scfeened 1n Atherican prime time
have been rehabed into workers apartments. . Luban tele1 is1on pevversely showed thefefntireliour .
.s -1 .. interview 111119. a an W:
Pablo Was one- of the exceptions. Hecax?nefrom a . *L?Wf?~m mm 1 

11: althy family, but hethnught therevolutidn 111as:a i
1 diidea. He still lures =1111the same house he did beion .
1 1 resolution: and there are still Picassos on the walls 

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wassathpicai?Havanaesociety evening. Dinner b3
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.her husband,.Ronaldo, a journalist for aCuban 2511191150 111311111 3? b7];
unilitasy magazine. Ailina sat down at theipiano and ?gmmg?j?mwh 
ninderedthe giusic-of Bo?lasd'e Nieve, a-Cuhan?Cole 
59 emerge thinv lack man 1vith.a..shiny, .haldhead who
rote incurably romantic verses and 1 MAR 2 5 198.2
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One memorable answer=left on .the?cutting poem
or waswhen? Mz. Walters asked-Castroabouthis

si ter. who defectedto the U.S.rearly in the .retaolutio
ary game. Castro did not answer in;the circumspect" 
manner" of your-usualzhead of state. Castroleaped up.
thescreenjlike Dwight Clarkxcatchingthe touchdow
passagainstDallas-and.gavean impassionedoration,
saying what sister? I have no sister, what does the 53 
womb have to do withikinship, Iahavea million sister 
women who stayed heretand-stnuggled to makethe . 
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tie Tojovof'Cuba, trimmer-army sergeant ?111?

cked'phimsel? outin Whitesuits?andihithhegsand
ent Ihisreuenings watching AmeniCanihornor' 'vie 2?
and=gained?iimself a reputatidnsas a'bit of a ,t?rf rat. 


Pablo told mea-stosyabout-,thevdaughter {if his is
fainily?scook. vHe-toldiit?With?tears of joy in his?Ee'yes.
hadrkitown'this .giral?as 
black. she'woulci haveib?eeira
cook, likehe?noth?x?, he said. Today,.she wasifi?? 2'
principabo? a2high school; ?Anyone-Whovknows 2
a lyth?ingiahont: Guba, knowsthat?this woufd?havefhee 
in possible without?the said. 

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an totallyidismantiedzby.the Castro-segime?an

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ofwomen- were'inv-the laboridsce and that $331169 
therrostitutes. .2

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church and take I
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iforceralthough women are exempt from the ?hum: 
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during dinnerThis Wasformer President.?FulgenciozBati?? the' ..
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Mosks?i?iafactory had'with ?heptypical, machismopiggy
husband: comingzto-grips with rheraindepend?ehce; she

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he priest took a I'big black Cubancigar out. ot
a warn leather case and sniffed itIreverenIt-II?
131.1113; offered me onenlt was 9 30-111 the 111111;
7' morning. We were in the- bishop? 5 11011111171} 'B'i
said whatthe hell and 11111.1! IA Ii

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worea :beige tuntleneck sweater 111111 a clerical
collar underneath His ey es were brown and wide 7
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He came from a family of Cuban fighters. 
great: great-grandfather had been aznational 131 
the fight long ago against the Spanish. Afte? .- .1
came to prunes:if most of: the priests of Cuba to 1 
hike. He stayed to 1ght in his own 213;.

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1961 abortive Bay of: Pigs 1111' 1151011 was widely. .
although erroneously. viewed 111 Cuba as a Catholic:

invasion. He pointed out that most of the people i
tie-tending against the invasion ereIaIso Catholic. 
God." 15 so d?ten on both- sides. 

as a Cuban and I was. a prIiest and my place -.
Was Where said Father (to Cespedes. He spoke
perfect English. He blev. cigar smoke in the air

disapprovingly of priests and nuns Iw ho ifledthe revolution.

1

Father de Caspedes? IS secretarv of the Cuban 
ishups Conference and the lcadine spokesman for
ti Catholic Church 111 Cuba. I had hadsome trouble

ttihg the Cuban Foreign Ministry to arrange an

i with him. This 11' as not what sou might
think of? as censorship:7 the Cuban. government

1 prides itself on allowing writers to talk to. anyone

1 they 1311 and on let a reporter for the Prasda of

ca apitalism, the all Street Journal roam the?

cashew-3.1.1.1111 The resisma seemed to ?Demure


.b?m?r?w .

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.., I would not bring up my daughter as catholic. It IS

The Rev Carlos Manuel- 7de Cespedes said.?e* 

 

 

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big stick of Christoh?Ithis?island and 
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111; hireidti ministry that there was no- way I was

7 spep?fpnr weeks 111 a Communist country
r?eai priest 1n his lair.



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3 active black woman of early

niiddl neatly dressed a career

I Commilnist She looked atme through rimless
assesa??'sgt 111113 a Catholic she said used to

gloves to go to ?viass. I was even
church although I am now divorced. i

 

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said of theCatholicChurch-in Boston. or 

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Yamaha
'sehooisitveijeahot; 
:zizishedii Amway
amused them-nude 
remaining?wonkja
rpublie'hDSPitaIs. 

's ayedr 1191388178!

said. There are no
.longer? any=CathoIi
chariti'esior?the 1
nuns-atoastaffibe-
causesthegovern- 
mentis doing-for 
gueryonemrthis
arriheanisland.
3 ?what?onald?ea
anlexpectSL?the
rich-.to-do for-the
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The-priest had 

.4 

were sitting- in an of-fic??in?the bishoa

count-yardWesidencein Old Town'-

. Havana. The ?highcooi wailswe'rerso?
white you could-see a?flyiand. The

. sine] from the priest?sicigar?curled up around the a

bare feet of Christ on alarge chucifixihan ing f? 

a Father de'CespedeS?saidithat the CubamQhui?ch Lam a?ericamstW-mtheiie-remaihed
:has always been a poor?boyvof Catholicism?. ?Wheiih 
. the revolutioninstituted agrarian reform, agd? . .
Cushingof Boston preached a sermon and 
can thevchurch survive if they 591'?? 33}, 
When?he-heard that. the bishop of Havana Ia? had 3; 
and said. ?What land? We have newland?for

tag 'i 7? 
. athoiies: - 
tortake,? hesaid. 'Fhis could not measureagl?e 1 

Thepriest seemed to'think that his'chu .

.b entaiittle chicken about .therevoiution, 

heads of the orders in Spain who?paniok 7 .
brought most of the priests/and nuns onto .E 
country in theveariy 19605. They'iearedar 

Cuba of what happenedih Spain in the ?305 ?witl?gtgi i 
1 Republicans versusthe church. It turned out?t?? 3

"Nowmahy Of them" ??i?ediggorpg?ack?" Uni rd? Etes'for 
- 2- I r: ?r ?lth 
but it ?5 was 3 "as m?f? id 533%,;

Before the?revoiution there tiniests and a; f} a 
E2 :hunsin .t 
a emit-everyone got baptizedebuthardiy anyoxje . .. 
youngmanm charge of

 

 

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:hileatheravenage 
5 ?atholic was, ?it: 
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thanhefore?wthe

awn? revolution?Cuba


 

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aske how Castrodi?crihhnated?against

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.g aid-play with athePolish pope Catholicsanathe- 3
51' in: igmhistsPar?t?i 
132,1 "Ellie ?beef ?between theehurch ahdthe regolu- 
Began in, 1960'wheh? the?aeuban a
9E pastoral-letteritdbe read to the=faith?uluattackmg 
- the ?nk:glow of 
a. ?$1533 The is spast'oral'letter tor 1981 attackedsthe

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gate-agave" and?threatSof ?armed 
lockade."i 

. we . 
?Thefpriestxsaidthatin Spaimand?italy,??athdlic .
cohid?ti?fc?himuhists. ?Whensl was studying



?3 that 011*: ?1 a! 's gave atoMassevei'y

membens
a
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estatedidinot?mterfere with. .
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religion here" 
wai; creationism Wasoncetaughtm lime1:353:51;t A
ma}, the?: .
:eff?ectaonlthe she 
c'her there-aano?gd. an.

tij enwgo heme With-their paregts, he said.



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he tiest picked up'hiS'haif-srhoked cigar: 
Vfrogt the largehrowa ash tray on his glass- .
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virtuaiiy non??existeht?ih?Cuba. This seems peculiar 
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asome bones to pick 
g; . with a former stu-
dent of the Jesuits
1 aimed Fidel Cas-
agile;

  

at? timewhen liberation theoiogy is the ragein



was a stapleuof ??os-intellectualdife inJEurope, is strii- A




1: - 
2 tm America. Liberation theologhtaiiogsiy 
ed, comes downto the fact that the radicai social 

spel'of the Emma. Catholic?Cathoiic'Churich IS

  
 



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'rchbishops are assassinated by 11 hearing
death Squads-in- El SaWadorraHd priests are;

pistols in Nicaragua butin Cuba the chu?rchis"

- me weep: the revolution: same and trium?l

tefore the church- got on the bandw agon. an: mew":

1 ere is little for Homes shepherds to do how
1 11111121111 and seek a piece of the rev. 011111011313 13112

  
 

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Father de Cespe?des

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1 Rather de Cespedes said that the state shares
1 one problem With the church ?-?rrest-less youth. .. 
i, ?There are many youths who are: not Christian who 1
- are not Marxist Who are: not anything He told me

abouta class at the University of" Havana where the 1
3 studentsi'polled themseives and came up with six -.
-, Christiansysix Marxists and28 Ldon? wt 11-13% -

1

"11111111 beginning: of the revolutionithere was, ?2 I

gr atoptimism on the part of youth? buthow. 
I ?Many of these-youth listen to radio from the 

.13.

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Europe and they create a raise-11111111111. 
. the consumer'society They live-here bet.

1.1.4 .and see films from the S. or from Eastern 1
1 .
heads and hearts there.

?This creates all kinds of disorientations to
yduth who: do not accept. all the sacrifices; @131?
offer-ts demanded by a revolutionary socie 1:19;. 133
live 1n search of the smali item that will satisfya
little the desire to consume having jean

ate on the latest song of the Bee Gees." He

  

111"? 1.
?These distractions." the priest said 1
ore frequently than one would.? hOpe 

.
MW w- q?r awn-anvvu'mw?

I 1 gnih
uba.? is todat a strange amalgamathg?
religious ritual and atheistie practice in
.41 many homes. itdinnuLn11?=11al tenet-a
2 picture of the Seared Heart of Jesus i1} inHavana them-11911111111911 :13: down 13y - 

 

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sgfa? 
certain brand and a tape recorder and "if; ttii- gig-5.1111 he got idolpeopleevemt-nior?mg foi' daxlst?vlass}

no good for the

(Lg?
3? 1.379333%. or the church,? 'he. sai

 

W10 11 picture oft?E?G?tr?vara. 

worship but not religir?ms proselytizing. There are. 
1100111123 selling flowers on the Sidewalk or True . ,3 
elievers hawking the Watchtower or sandwich 
hoard reverends selling the end of the world and to
aggressive sidewalk preacher' 15 more lik?iy t6 end
3-1111 sitting in jail than at the right 1111111 of; Grid? :11 

?Fine if people Want :t?o go to ch?utch ?9 a Cohan 1:
gdvernmeiit official told the. "1313?? 111651 peepIe-her? 1
are getting out of the habit Chiral didn? 1 feed 211111;- . 1;
clothe and educate the poor 111219111111 revel?tition did:
The churches wereii 111111111111 when they needed 
amen-12111111 how the question; 15', why do they need 
them at all? People have learned they have only :3 
themselves to rely 011.93 the [hitter] AStates invades 1?2
again, people are going t9 asiggEidel for help heter? '9
they 1151?; God. 1.1.331 . - ti 

"tutti? v?

1.1. vii a. 
Cuha? aftltude towards religim?l appears to 11113:.?
de?ating the markehA-Cllhan 11311-111111 me that
HaVana? '3 ewishieommUmty, once 20,009", is 31191112 . 1;
12111111111111 He said thereivrereshli seven synagoguesi.

  

 

 

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and seal- togeihe shitgeiling heat 1931111151111 1111101211 .5

front a standseeupan-frent oi the 
housed thesynagoeue "Niotlnside the budding, 311$: 5?

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Father do. Cesiiedessrelit my cigar 11'1111?11 yellot . -
117111115 thaii the-flame. He

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'onounoed it 3394322115 Hev 11a. ?The Christiari faith- ha?a role to pinyin 21

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- Mparishoners are ?very generous.? 

said ?We? re living we re not starving. . .

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yogi; imCubapoets 

 

 

By Warren Hiriokte -Wwere~guingfm?isit theH?mingway shrines.

r- - . Cubansrevete the American nove?st who, unlikeshis 4

~5HaVana g} in; their. rgvolutionsln nth'ishe-was
aturday ff; but not alone. Wehtup to the

   

  


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.- aHotei? theahou?seathathieyef Lansky . were?daSh?ig?i?Wthose days.

 
 
   
 
   
      
    
  
  
 

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was gomg?n?slearch?ofHemingway: 

the-k 

hapednsw?immingpoohandacross the Malecqn: 
thagracefglac?o - 
separates ?this risian'd'r?ity from the i'j?'izii? 

avanafsused to?pmvoke Hemmgway toga 1 -A - 
gaming.- ocean i (If ismgn1.: insuffezabieopimon from hisreadings abouttlgegreat
3 132m thatHemingway did-not have hangoversE'He' I .
Law?s jacket . ?g supposedly drank double bouerhs and'daiqniyis and
frayed blueng?b'egwhampagne and woke up'thenextmg?fng Coolrasa; 3

f? . Chais?manm - "me derq (H.146 anew: lv?chat? emi?wwa '0 Ce 

- (Sh'mmcfe columnist Warren 91:,3 
recenfly spenf four Blacks?holar-x?gzga. A

jhe'Hemingivayshfinesrare like-stations of-th?e
LT 
:jy??bfr therfamedrft?loridita?, whene??emingway 
regulalgly openedzhismouth-rowaterfalls of

  
 

   

 

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weeks in Hgvand. This is fhe gine..Heshad;pee :2
desc?nb?ons of how 1?"ng at'xthe RM ra?

e; found Casfro/s ?Cb-130. fox-imamonthg; EA b'7C
'15; . 13.119 researchm: a "w b7E
:1 hooken-thecult' .e RMUZED 'i

of the revolution. 

 

 

 

Togay was relaxatio?of asort. Hemingway had-
made'bng footprints anthe?sands?? Cuba.?ChriSman

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bear in Montana 1' 11" red dlnneaa?mith 512.1(3th IS

 
  
 

. ibear and the next day the be?ap hada hangover hilt a. bla?lttie- 011 a stifl?thite shirt. HIsbldE-lt. glass?f .
Heming?ray didnf These are not: stories asick mar] 81 6113 shiny balding {1515 bands. 91" 
4?Wd

reciates. .
I tithe Iona l; 
'ar?t'endefsi the 31111111111252 

 
   
 

{315% 16' 
I I We wane riding in a wheezingred Lad?a with back
Est ats suEfering from curvature of the spine. As the car 215111 5. i t! 1,
1 Eggai?d over the fsitieets 0f Hanging i3531-11.? - alitv 0E tast?oni?teitfadt .111. i giitifcf 1 
1 assna ingi ea atte a inthewi d.I ?W?s

pp ?Be?one/thetewere only rich E'Eeupefl fige

Iiiemin we .10 ened 211118: (1 . 
pry fCuban beer with ieoplehanging around 

Indian 011 the label and tookaz swi 1t0~ 1x the-11019,
head {2:33 .: kethent Now it IS much batten. We havenbg??bii?esat

1 Pa a woui a ove"
The beer is Havana?s most potent. and most - ebat: . 
popular. It? nanfed Hatuey after a 16th? century Indi .
.wliozfirst gave foreign invadersdhe' Einger. The .
Spaniards were getting ready to burn the-Indian
stake and asked him iE he wanted: the priest to bapt

     
    
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
  
 
   
 
    

 


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. . Zeniingway lived in a tvhitehodse on a farm on

  
   
  
  
  

11 so he (touId go to heaven Hattie asked if '13 hili Oi iniies outside Ha? ana, 
aniards wentatd heaven hen fivith? his wife; ?his serv (Hits, 52 cats.16 dogs.
~11; st (1 . - three cows and a flock of pigeonssu?ficient? 1n
. oi yes he declined the favor. If that waswnere 
?Sf the Indian said, he preferred to 0 to 1 flight taibiock out the sun TheCuban gqvernr?nent has
1.1 - .g . inade it a museumgoutsidje these is the sweetsr?neli of



F311.
1 honeysuckle and inside the stale scent of unused booksThe keepers of. the Hemingway Elaine are. a_ couple
. - . {i - dedicated?C?uban ladieslwho, wiih- thle stern -
. i 1 e'meanor of .iilidweStem ibfar?ians, te I '1 isitors 1101.10
Every thing is-ke?pt just as Hemingway Ie'Itsi't
. i'af?fer dark I'Iiad' been 11 until? 1n tries in idimfi ta unopened packages. bound bool't. galley-11.. .
min. publishets eager for blunbs 0n Hemingway 

. (manning drinking Bloody Marys at: a dive 
calledi El Gato Tuerco, which means theOne?EyetiCatt?t?b? :35 a; e110w1ng COPY OE Newsweek With: the" perfeet? .5011

  


,?111111 1111111111," 111111.111 111111. (31111511111111 driven: 

Mai-13's aremade withignm (1:11 [(2113, it cover 1153;? ?Atomic Fallout How Bad?? . 
a and makethe 31$ 1; The house wristsomething an- -ant-i- (tivisec?tiomst
night; had been; ?3193 by an}. insane: (ave vatsatibn a. i; ould torch. The walls nene full. .of deer headsend

f? *Wif?" 1 moose heads and the beaks of dead bastaCudas. A

tii editaiian?CIt?an and an End: Gesmaniengid'ep inn i
. 1 t.

iiudnieirevergnne spake diffs 1? 1111111111 gna gee, jam in the bathi-ooni held what locked: like a frog,


. . g1 etns and a. zebra?skin coilered. 116111110011 lay. on
emingwayis langetcurlved desk to
fesemble Enhance leaves. Animal: skulls sharedbdok

ajo'IIy blackCuMn?met?hlte ahnil'd'dzer stshafd 
among whichthere were .

tougltt at 11151113213; of? Pigs in 1961 against theGI'A?s

inv?sio?ateam and: has a; gimpy foot everaI .by Baudelaire, from WhOm Hemmg
55?


for? by the US taxpayers Mater 11101115511111 A'ayonce said he {earned 

idi?z'i?r ?01- a hangtwet?. 11111111115 to Rill'tiie sat: 
the rat by means of a?cink tlie next: day; if saint-1115,,E

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a little thing over you kiliiainouse Hangovets are

1 .. something 'and.then- preserve 1111111 thg?thl??pEOCESS,
universals that transsend; politicai? philosophiesttiiem?'? 1:110:11 ritual of seIE- -presei?vatlon ,1 Chrisinantwas .
?The man \1 satobviously a totemist said (111111.
111311, surveying the stuffed 200 inside. ?You kill.

  

sympathetic? Communist driver' made the red Badman if
eanIn thro?u 1?1 an 81 en window ~1to I?ok Inecause
ambulanceand faced to the Floridita to get mesemem 'xtistiorgtwerengt all 01121 (1 inside an of th lady 
rat 11013011 . kers nameup and tapped hint on the shbuldet. 7
In a fat (some: of the long bai? wh?ere Hemingway-.3 l?g Erlenmsmia'r insidetne window," she said;

 
 
  

i s?d to stand and?drink and read the?newspapers,a $3911; .3351; . 1 i
bust of the old man who toned21161111111111: island tests protected by a; frayed red .- E11111 - 
velvet rope from the sticky paw oi to: urists. L: 
"Papa aiw ays: stood. ?He 11. ould read and writeand 5 
sip his daiquiri. "Never sat -- aiwaiys standing," Antonio: .1. said sipping a- beer We were sitting on the
theibastent?leii, said proudly. Most everybody' in aha We park beside the mad he ck to Havana

Antonio is one Of the 59"" h? fins: niti man. with a pipe clamped-.111 his mouth 1111111naming a ?1 all straw hat as high as an elephant? seve

I Antonio has 11 orlted at the Floridita 1?01? 131-1111,. 3 WINE 13831? 0?11 0? a tcough The 11951" 

 

 

1 He served Hemingway for 20 of them. "He {21113153 1111.1: under the at? like stones in a clear i

1- (I {ink his daiquiris Wsithout sugar-Anti." mania stream, hunks Of 106 \Eve re {lasting on 

ismidn' like the sweet.? ((111.11ng MOE 0f takers A Cuban soldiers in
-- grei 11 Iatigges were Spranied around us 0 

 

 

 

 

 

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1- It has long been fashionable among the higher 1

:q itics to charge the bearish Hemingway with the coil 
1; inachoisni and a lack of faith in the gradual libero 
aprog?essof mankind. "Eveby body longets about Hem-
ongoing progressive polities He was (inane-fascist 111 1?



i 1 the Spanish Civil War and supported theCuban
.: rev olution. Imean. the man .was no apologissfor
slavery" said ChrismanThe last Hemingway shrine was the Bod?gd?ita 
shiedio 111 Has am, @1055 between the old Shanty 
?gfalohe? and Tadioh Grill on a Fmday 111 Lent. The
lace was cmwded as a reingeecamp and thewalls
werevdeeorated ingraf?tiand-catved loving
initials ot?dinetsiThisis whose theeliteloLHavana-?s 
where Hemingway
drank his mojitios. a sum doinkf with a sandbab of sugar
at the bottom and; a bush of fresh mintleaves on top.

At thettable were some of the height stars in Coba?s
literary constellations Nicolas Guillen?, one of the
world s'gl'e?t poets, now n?aoing 80 had long white
hair; like combed ivory,and a melodic voice like 11 fl .
A political poet, a member of theCentral Committee 7.
the Cuban P., Guillem was radian? 111 a dark blue 
blazer bede'cke?d with awasdribbons. andilook?edifor ai?
the worldlikea black Brezhnev.-Guillen was drinking
withhisibuddy Angel,Augier,.a more 70,1also' afamed

'DOet'andithe tfice1president1 of the1Cuhan 
'3Vrifers' Union, which is headquartered -.in a. mansion
bigger?than Gatsby? s, Augier? 5 wife Mary (311112 {had just
oblished a- host seller in Cuba on the object of our 
at factions Ernest Hemingway . 1

    
    

   
 

 

 

?Hemingway machisino was a mask. He was a
ett?eit than than he seemed. He was soft inside yes
he was," she said. 

 
  

I asked? 111 what Way Hemmgwayoas 5011. ?He wa
truly concerned about the dignityof than. He found 
thelhumbleapeopleof Cuba the and enduoance
and love fo?f their work thatzhe had That was Why Cuba.
meant so much to him He hated the smallness in man
that won?t let other mainline up to their dignity. That .
was why he supported the revolution," Marye Cruz said

The Hemingway expert felt that; the Cuban
revolution! Moo was softinside and workingif?or the
dignitir 0f man in a way that Hemingh?ay would

understand but that; Ronald Reagan aypar anti} does
1"0t 

Shethought thataf people understood :Hemingw ay
etten they drbe better able toundezstand: what the .

levolution 1s all about and then Americans and Cubans 

could live 1n peace 1 

As Hemingway said atvthe and of "The 51111 Also 
Rises": ?Isn tit pretty to think so?" 
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gaixaiettring?a white rain 11?: had been Sitting?mggat :3 hat Castro regime was collapsing The view you go 
%3 the counter When he paid hischeclt. he siiepglmig.g ere? andJ; heard: this not 
ifhaiid?tf me the 20 cents the than 111 the prii'atesgtn'o 3 fore1gmresrdents who are keen Castro Watchers 
9 ha 55511131933 In: Cuba, 310313?:er therevol?ttli?on 0 533111111: Fidei snookereti Jimmy'Carte'r into taking aloa of

  

3" ag 1115111. . 3 .333 3 . 333,333 ,313 3333i fixeelfare cases and hustlers into the goodQ'ver a million Cubans marched doWn the Malecoh
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his prison populationito the care and feeding of the U18.
Dolls Disneyland 'Of gambling, prostitution taxpayer and .the migration allowed a way out for the
trafficking, abortion rings and other?immensebb- 1 most disgruntled. segment of Cuban society: an
profitable 5193.23! activities. Alar'gepart 05L 1 131950 e333 estimated 30 000 oE?thosewho left were gays. aggood

Having!? made the??nmme? one way or ?he othetoi?i number 0iwhoti1 came .to San Erancisco. Although in
this neck. 3_ 13, .

333 Cuban official?do'mshas recently relaxed its attitude
The: Other Cuba was the miss loiig isms 3 fr 33 toward same-sex: sexnthis remains 
island .as- large as thestate otTennes'see. Where 5'

3? -1 mo; society where gays s?e? greener grass on Castro
m?i ion people lived inihsisThe illiterat'y ra?t?k?i tel; Stgeet than in Castro: cubs. Most of the: straights who
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lettgweite less trad1tionai?pol1t1eal r?fugeesthan they

3 1 on' werec'ohsiimer refugees ??seelters after thedesigtier

1 ?33 ?g?i?i?gogimeny grew up With 3para511i3?3 111$ 1123i jeans and :other flotsam; of theGoottLif'e: advertisedorr

American television. Aster midnight Havana television

.1 Therevolutlon confiscated the large. messiah 5: setszt?an piei't up the Florida channels3 Pebple stay tip 11 
American-owned landholdings anti: give 333811133 3:31: $313333 late 

ts dfbuilt housin rand schoo an as 

as: $121113?; Tsd?ss the higexpectancy cubhg?et?rei The 1101131 01" the greatmigrationusthatCastroLhti
riVaiing thatoE advanced? industrial rititions; there is 1'it?1? repeatedly saith that anyone who doesnt?suppom the
unemployment; everyqne'shas at? least? as Bightii grahe? revolution is: free-to hike a hike. The wrinkle; is: that e,
39111191111911. 33333? is 3 maximum of 10' percent: of. Y9 3.33 3331 American: government: controls the spigot of?imr'ni?g
tincome1mL0vie's and' concerts are the? equivale?tfo 0%3 Qi- tion. It? was 'when Carter decided 16- open thg4_ flood gates

 



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. doilair; 3 mm events are .free ubiic?traiis [Tammy andilei: gveryhne who Eduldt?swirn come that:
ta nickelpa?ntia? vacatggn 3131i gee Haas? 110' emptied the. hedgerow, Cuban litany 
theigovernnient' picks up.- pat-.1 of-thtiir tab at hot? or? 3" ?Natives Who came by boat tOLMiami You 11011151 1161
ibea?h- regal-ts. Thismays be communism but 59m? 6.53m? ?@31le t0 invite to your TuppeI?W?r?
2:139 pie Like it part?? According to Cuban-.ptilice statistics,.after the

fl itLoE itefugees- left far the United States; street
Herbert Matthewsof the .New York- Titn?s once

hberits in Havana droppediby 50 percent?.
?sh {that the Cuban revolution Was one of the most 3. .

rpoorly covered stonesm- the historyoftheAmerican 3 3? . 3 3.-
191633 Maybommr the great; refugmot 31930 3row many Cubans are E01 the revelation? L.
That?s the question everybody asits; Even
i after 20yearsi here :1 still can: say exactly?:
3: . but theres no question that the 
1L ihajority of: the Cuban people shppott it. .Otherwise the 

governmentcoulti neversurvive. 3

i ?Letfs face it fog" most. of the workers this

1? country wot-its.? Lionel Martin said.

Martin is the dean of Havana? 5L foreign tampon-?1;

adents He went to college atBerkeley and got into

i journalism and went: to CubaainL1961 and wand?et?d: into.
?3the Bay of Figs waving his press card and has 3

f? '1 on here since. ?i absolutelynever thought i?d be her!
1 is long," he said 'island of surprises. What you expect to
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[people openly mouthingtoff: against thegovernment on
?this Communist island. But that?swhat you hear.

1 ?Criticizing the government is a nationahpaStirne
in Cuba,? Martin said. Martinis Reuters? man in
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office, on theitop liner of aseaside apartment building .

with an it?y elevator. A teletype was chattering inithe
next room.

?What they? re really paranoid about here is
becoming: another Poland," Martinsaid. Cuba?s leaders
are quick to criticize the Polish Communist Party,

i Which they say Screwedmp royally, became at and
1 bourgeois and? out of touch with?attic people. The Cuban



5? government 15 going to: ektraordinaryu to make 

its brand of mam democracy work. The columns of the

   
  

reEare popularly elected municipal assemblies to

rig grass. mots opinions into party decision making,

. a all facturies have regular ?production confer-
cuces-?t where workers criticize themanag?ers. 

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A premiun'ris put'ompanty leadershanging out 1
?with: the people In: this as in. most all things in Cuba.
1FidelCastro setsthe example. Heairequently flies

i around the country in a: helicopter, dropping? 1n

unannounced on farnis: and facmries where he: slaps?:-
theiboys on the shoulders and asks. if erei-iything? ageing
all right. This is a caudillo With anear to thegr?ound o'f

. public opinion.

A couple of years ago, castro read theiriot? act to
a the central committee, accusing party of?cials of
1 i such as r?hdvating: their
1 . mes orbringingluxuryitemsback with thorn from -
1 i r?ignatravei'. As: the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez .
cesaid Cuba is one big famiiythat snares the same 
secretsand within days the entire. island was talking
1? about: Castro punching his own windpags? in the
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This revolution has a sort of? New Deal willingness 1

?1 to' experiment and screw up and admit the mistake on 
i try Somethingelse. When they make a. mistake it can 
1 a: dillyuAbout to years ago I was asked to Visit Guba but .

I declined. to gobecause the government in a. fit of
hpur?itanism had shut: down: the bars on. the theory that
5? bars were bad influences on workers.- and; dens of spies
to4boot. sent thein a letter saying that there wasno
way I was going toa country where the workers

ldn?t: drink; it wasn? ?ttiny idea or democracy. The 1
in so proved as popularas Prohibition 1n: the U. S. and
thi government. eventually surrendered to the thirst of
i th people and seepened the saloons ?We goofed on
5' that one," a Cuban diplomat told Inc, Over a drink


Although moSt of the Cubans seem to feel free to
criticize the governments means, criticism is not
i indulged about the goals of party policy. I heard no one.
matinee criticize Cuba' 3 presence in Angola
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mostany Cuban hy they have troops in
AngoiETa??i?d when i waited a schoot and. aWin?f
and you will. hear, with 3 Quiet pride, that Chiba will not:
live with imihack to the struggles of. other countries? 

Cubans feel, Aspeciai kinship .rto Angola because at
Cuba? African heritage. They say they were asked to
come there to helpfight the CIA and protect Angola 
from invasion by South Africa. The. kids and workers
talked toaitsaid witmgenuine enthusiasm that they
wanted to go over and. help- outif they could They 
sounded like Yanks anxious to get Over There and heat
the 111111Amcrican woman came out of the de art:
mentstore shaking her head This was a ig

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The American visitor. was accustomed to the 
cornucopia choiceso?f consumerism. had towaitiin i :11
line outside and then they let us in. six at a time 
matron: tookus one by chain locket the goods- imwas 
more likeigoing. to a museum: than a departmentstore . .
The things: therhad in the Window' were the only . .
had. and there wereionlyjour things i. .
slacks; 111:6 types of?5weater's, endla all
sort of dull Ea?t Enropean polyesters They haddhese 1. .
same items heal! the rocks on the main floor 1111
different. colors-.- but ali the same: clothes. The women
went around- looking at different colored slacks. and
saying, ?Do .yomthink this wouid look nice on met? just
the: way Anion-loan wdmen talk when they to 
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Cuba-' as an There are no
throwaway containers the maids many hotel carried
cleaning fluid in empty '"Harana Club ruin bottles-? and,?
no competing brands ot? toothpaste oraspiri'n. 311611ng to
the store and buy one of it, and that?szit. There is ot
course no: advertising; Havana bilihoardsselt political
ideas instead of new improved tormuias .

Packagertconsumer goods are unknown
{the hotel i stayed atserved canned Romanian tomato

milk remain rationed. Toilet paper 1sdoled out: like gt to
leaf woman toldme that. the bathroomattendantii

a fancy restaurant?s ladies room handed each cuStoiIi I
one piece: or toilet paper.

The Guhans [Spoke with?who bitched: about: life's
inconveniences under -:the rigorsaoi? the American 
economic blockade seemed to accept the situation as a
burnt offering for the next generation. ?fiiknow my
children are going to grow up educated and healthy
and that?s worth a few sacrifices, a Cuban friend said.

?What the hell -- we ?vc learned to live without
corn flakes," he said. 


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skit me _-fr0m a fatelike San Francisco 5- -5 thanks was as white as talcum The waiters Iooklike 36-year Veterans of the
Wt? .611 George Raft woke With a ?@9195? mier He took a thicl-Ltoe 0111.02 51115 sandal iiflie?sot? Jadk's oi' Luchowls in New Yank asf
in; he Capti?Hotel On New Year. 5 my of poked at: the AStpoturi. on thedecklike a bartenders who served?emingwaysstill 
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of- highrise casino hotels that wouldhavecu - mm, a - a Elsi 
Havana off' from the sea. ?fawggigle 5-9911 Astroturg? 50; with 

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ahdapantmeht houses 111 whitesanti f. - 59??l??d hussianmgarets Wsr?tsg?t? silver spoohset once- excluswely timed,
htuesand greys with red-tiled root?s. an 911113;,- smelly 1? 

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The only garish American hoteiit71%? 5a.. ?13,333}: 

E1 Havana WIS The huge .biue [180? signs if {134Eelbth nest?auranfghefng: senvediby .. .

atop the: former Havan?aiHiltoriawnow. . hair?? Etediwaiters? ., 7
ie iamed the Hasaha Libre ~5wh1ch5spellsm? 1? -, . "sam? 19?; 

. . 5111:. the inth Of this E?woijker paradis} 
-. 5 are Chutes? .Et tight]? spiedi a couple at capitalists: They
tear 'down the at a tahte'hy the ivallcaht'l: 

monumeijts 0E ?titliejhey had held: it: ?6r5deca?cles Qiie had
5w. 5 said- EE Cuban hea 5cii?f liE'nk?s andsaishiny suit: the other .. 
7 :romethe hoof of; the Gapfi.? Hotel, you a, ?ngegg ivhi death an elegant, treeahiiediti?i} .Il pensive blue 9010 511111. and sunglasses.
could hear thematic from: Show-<1 Pafis dimensions apashashowa Thehlooked. for at} the worldihkeothe type of
5; speakers ofithe gov?eg?ameht huil?di??g 3E stopperimonument thatniadeithe Li?halnq?t migree Cubans you: seem, Miami. Beach
011 the streetrbelow it; was a1medleyo?3hlehiohial leek? like a Cracker worker's familiesmnee
t; e?BeatleS? ?Hey tide? anda?ai'iiy 1312125352,,
11:11:11: ?I?sl?nd? the 8111} When it. comes 5, lag? greeted' 1'11 0311:? f. a111, ,?ga?lg?i and chattirig, but those mo. seemea.
. _mer.ican. musie, Cuba isras; ecleCtio as eslhegts 0 3"3 56 0 ii 
1 embez?ersw by (11112 of the grander'thgeizesJ ,5 2 . yes, 1'1. the Cuban diplomat SmilEed
The sky was overcast and puffy'likesa the formen'premdenttal palaceT? see- weestithavesome bourgeois who

59,1335! bruise. The pool atop. the Capri wast?m Ther Eistayed??we aren. Ehasbad as Reagan says. We
anoivtted withsunbathers hoping for aihiz?'akti?? Sheik because whemhe s?tole he splash ed a: againstipeople having property 5
thetCanhbeamloud5. A honeymoonm?gsi? 35 httiearound go others'uhaii couple huddled .togetheriioi?. wraith?;ESE at M, Thg?ew?thamasim fibf the??1?{magj? 5.. :51

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I Day mov1es.N'ext EOE eat Were a} the story of thetheft of atnagwgi? Tkno . . we ii?ori? thoidiit aga1nst.thern We let them
foup of Spanishstewardesseson bikini Bang}, no.country?am0ngth059 comm1tt?1?t05t . ee? thei'c homes if they had Sev?faL- houses,
nexe?to them a h-aEEBd bus mesa, 5i Westeraethic where the diversion eg?ave e1 e: it"ras to. poor people butpaiti:
mangin tropuialshonts who was making, Tier {teasiireto pr1vatepmf1t r?a?heii? the proper} {Ef?efmfhe mitt: lief. price; If we natmnahzed
as thatit?attam?d in: the Cuba? itheit": b?usih?ss; we pay themfor it for life. .-
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He fsaid$his company so?Ith the Guba?sE ?3 EEho ?331:: Cuba, 
p? 'p?ranci chemioals and salt. atone the MW

if Vehurrican?s they run out; of salt; 1112*qu "?llgf'?Va that along Havana 
E?s id, sipping the rum 01 his Cuba Libre ?1113 egllic?y. through narrow 03?: 
p. 221ng over the sacred mysteries .of 35$? 95' ?335 ER .53? E50 the FElondita, where .
ingtoaioreign policy. ??r'isit Epofgillar' resend Hemingway helped-The b?
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?Eveeybody does businesswith Cuba but. ,6 EBQuige. article. framed 0115 the
the Americans he said. ?The Americans 5.13ng wali? thesh?IOridita? 15 one of the great bars: (if
Cuba. Is Russia? 5 puppet but look; at 3111111163: 11?1?, {,m??ein theacompany of the 21? 111 Ne 
business America does with the Russians. yorkhhei?helhourne 111 Dublin and this IS .
you dchbusihoss witht?he master. why not gm, mews the Pied Piper in San Francisco. 

with the puppet? 
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION



San Francisco, California

5713 No.

June 15. 1982

AMERICAN VOLUNTEER BRIGADE FOR IRELAND
FOREIGN 
IRISH REPUBLICAN 
NEUTRALITY ACT

   
   

Investigation in this case was initiated bated on infor-

mation which appeared in the December 1981 edition of "Frisco"
magazine. A full-page, color ad marked, "Paid Political Announce?
ment" was entitled, "Wanted for Terrorism," and it announced the
establishment of the American Volunteer Brigade for Ireland (AVB).
A copy of the advertisement is attached as a part of this letter-
head memorandum. Also attached is an article entitled, "Diary,"
signed by Warren Hinckle which outlines information pertaining to
the subject group.

On January 6, 1982, an article appeared in the Oakland
Tribune Newspaper, Oakland, California, which outlined information
about the investigation into the activities of the group and also
detailed remarks allegedly made by State Senator John F. Kelly,
Detroit, Michigan, who was identified as the originator of the
idea of the AVB. A copy of the article is attached as part of
this letterhead memorandum. 

On January 6, 1982, an individual who identified himself
as State Senator John Kelly contacted the San Francisco Office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and spoke to a Super-
visory Special Agent regarding the newspaper article which had
appeared. Kelly denied being the principal organizer of the AVB,
however, he did not deny being involved with groups supporting
Irish nationalist causes. Kelly stated that his vision of the
AVB was as a "peace-keeping force,? and he did affirm that units
had been established throughout the United States.


nd Extended by 4758
Reason for ExtenSion -
Date of Declassification:



 
     
      

 

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AMERICAN VOLUNTEER BRIGADE FOR IRELAND
FOREIGN 
IRISH REPUBLICAN 
NEUTRALITY ACT

Kelly stated that he had been in California last year for

a speech and had Spoken at the local Irish Cultural Center. While
there, he met Warren Hinckle and about_four or five other persons

who are associates of Hinckle. Kelly said he was unable to identi-
fy any of the other participants in the discussion other than Hinckle.
He said at that time, they discussed the concept of the AVB for Ire-

land, and he did not believe that anything concrete would have come

out of the conversation, but that it was a proposal simply that was
in the formative stages of development.

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Kelly denied having authorized the ad to be run, and he
emphatically stated he did not pay for the ad. Kelly said he did

not know precisely who
cruiting or organizing

On February
"The Summer Soldiers,"

the people are who are responsible for 
any groups founded under the AVB banner. 

3, 1982, a column by Charles McCabe entitled,
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle News-

paper. The article details McCabe's opinion regarding the AVB. A
copy of the article is attached as a part of this letterhead memo-

randum. (5.2) Ca it?)

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reliable information in the past, advisedl I b6
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WANTED .

FOR TERRORISM

1770. THE CONTINENTAL ARMY

guerrillas were considered an

illegal organization waging war
against the British government. Our
?rst president was considered a rebel.
a criminal. and he had a price upon
his head.
TODAY IN IRELAND. THE REPUBLICAN
movement is considered in the same
light. The Thatcher regime has brand-
ed the IRA ?criminals" much like King
George viewed our patriots in the Min-
utemen 200 years ago. But the IRA

aren?t criminals because they are not)


motivated by self-gain. in their plat
form they seek an end to nonrepre~
sentative government based on privi-
lege and the repression of civil liberties.
Why. the IRA ?ght for freedom is as
American as the Boston Tea Party!
LIKE THEIR AMERICAN COUNTERPARTS.
however. the IRA could use a little
help. During our war for indepen-
dence Irish volunteers and sympathet-
ic French Republicans were critical to
our success. Without international sup-
port the American rebels would surely
have lost. But times have changed
and what our relationship to our com-
patriots should be. must beplaced in
perspective.

IN ULSTER. THE BRITISH SANCTION
the growth and arming of Loyalist
paramilitaries. These localized thugs
are threatening reprisals. population
transfers. annihilation and genocide

 

 

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should the British army be withdrawn
as the ?rst step towards peaceful re-
uni?cation of the island.

AMERICAN VOLUNTEER BRIGADE
is being mobilized to assist IRA free-
dom ?ghters should Ireland call out to
us. We realize the IRA must continue
to wage their war for independence
as they have for over a century?
themselves alone. But if British policy
produces a situation in which Republi-
can civilians are left unprotected and

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threatened with extinction. we won?t

stand idly by.

THE BRIGADE NEEDS TRAINED PRIOR-
service. reserve. or soon to be released
US. military personnel to volunteer for
service in Ireland. We will issue a call to
service only if atrocities are threatened
and then only to help create an atmos-
phere of equality and accommodation
so that a pluralistic solution within a
United Ireland can be worked out.
THE PRECEDENT FOR AVOLUNTEER BRI-
gade is a time-honored American tradi-
tion. Throughout history American vol-
unteers have sacri?ced their lives
to keep the torch of liberty burning


IF IRELAND CALLS.WE WILL BE READY
to help hold the torch once again.

Candidates wishing to enlist in the bri-
gade will please send name and particu-
lars to 354] 18?? Street. SF. CA. You will
be contacted.

AMERICAN VOLIQCISTEER BRIGADE

 

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IDDEN AWAY UNDER .4 EN-

tury-old frame building on the
frontier between North Beach and
Fisherman?s Wharf. the basement is
like the secret chambers most kids
dream about. Washed in a gloomy half?
light. crammed with old lamps. mis-
shapen easy chairs. dolls. minors and
other bric-a-brac cast aside by residents
of stately Victorian mansions on Paci?c
Heights. it could be a stage set for Mrs.
Havisham?s parlor in Great Expecta-
tions. A crazy-quilt of musty Oriental
carpeting covers an irregular dirt ?oor
that was once the mud of the old Bar-

bary Coast. and now seems to pitch and_

roll beneath your feel like demented
ocean waves that have congealed into
solids. The dank. subterranean hide-
away exudes the sinister aura of an
opium den. and the occult atmosphere
of an alchemist's workshop.

It? a sense. the basement has been
both thesc things. The inner sanctum of
San Francisco artist Wilfried S?tty. it
was once the scene of extravagant par-
ties where socialites and hippies min-
gled. clambering up and down a rickety
ladder that affords its only access.
smoking and snorting illicit substances
of various kinds while rock bands
played and exotic dancers performed.
At the same time. it is also the ante-
room to an even more secluded place-
a dusty. windowless library occupying a
kind of mezzanine. likewise reached
only by a makeshift ladder that is usu-
ally concealed. Here. surrounded by
antique books. watched over by a
human skull. and in an adjoining street-
?oor studio where snippets of pictures
gathered from thousands of sources
have been assembled into a vast ?image
bank.? transmutes reality into his
magical collages.

sany. as the accompanying reproduc-

tions may suggest. is not your ordinary
artist?contrary to romantic legend.
usually quite sane and even profes-
sional. Seque'stered like a medieval
copyist in his cell. working with the
meticulous perfectionism of a Dutch
diamond cutter and the obsessiveness
of a paranoiae possessed by an t?d?efixe.
Sitty is prone to stay at his task for days
and nights at a timen-and then to burn
out for long periods in a womb-like
crow?s nest tucked under the caves of
the building?s attic. Over the past ?ve
years. this relentless single-mindedness
has been repaid with an astonishing
series of some 400 collages inspired by
the early history of San Francisco. the
raw material for a monumental book
that Sitty is still in the process of com- 
pleting. He has collected another series
of fantastic images into a Dream Book. 
not yet published. and found time to do
an occasional assignment for the edi-
torial pages of the New York Times and
Washington Post.

He has also paid a heavy cost. Some-
thing of a celebrity during the peak of
the ?ower power era. Sally has gradu-
ally slipped into the shadowy forgetful-
ness that engulfs the reputations of con-
temporary personalities who fail to
keep their names continually before the
public. Minus the sources of income

most artists have? teaching jobs. af?lir .- .

ation with commercial galleries?he
has been ?ghting off the creditors. A
year ago. his wife left. He broke his
{out in an auto accident. and his pelvis
in a fall from a ladder. In recent
months. there have been no more big
parties in the basement.

Sitty was born into Surrealist fantasy
the way some people are born into titles
or money. Growing up in the shambles
of war-tom Bremen he carved a ?club-
house? out of the shell of an abandoned

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Gothic church tower that overlooked
the dream-like spectacle of the ruined
city. ?'I'he whole city was my play-
ground." he recalls. went on to re-
ceive a formal education in architec-
ture. engineering and design. But he re-
mained steeped in the undercurrent of
German Romanticism.

Settling in San Francisco in the mid-
?605. on the threshold of the 
delic era. Sitty soon began to make
posters. developing a collage technique
and style that brought together both the
contemporary and technological. and
the fantastic and visionary. facets of his
background. In the course of working
on four published books? Cosmic Bi-
cycle. Time Zone. The Annotated Drac-
ula. The Illustrated Poe?he perfected
what he calls his ?Visual Language.?
Based in the tradition and methods of
collage. it extends these in unprece-
dented ways. The images in any single
Sitty picture often come from scores of
different original sources. as widely
separated in time as they are in place.

'And they are so intricately fragmented

and fastidiously reconstituted that their
origins are totally obscured. The indi-
vidual components of his collages fuse.
much as multitudes of seemingly unre-
lated sensations are woven together in
the brain. to create coherent images of
a compelling visual ?realism." it is a
realism. however. essentially of the
imagination. in contrast to the photo-
graphic image?and, especially. to the
television image-- S?tty?s visions create
a world in which both the fantasy and
the senses are set free to explore. much
as in the old engraved book illustrations
some of us may remember daydreaming
over for endless hours when we were
children. in this partly imagined. partly
real world. the viewer reeaptures some
o?the innocence of pure seeing.

urn"


Wilfrled Sa'tty Is guest artist for this Issue.

 

Excavating tn the sands of San Fran-
cisco '5 old North shore as he fashioned
the environment in his basement. S?tty
also began to dig into the history of the
city itself. The panorama he has created
of San Francisco's gaudy. bawdy and
frequently explosive past mingles fact
and fantasy as intricately and freely as
they are interwoven in the fabric of the

~city?s past. where historic reality shades

constantly into legend and myth. His
images use the pictorial language of the
era they depict?by and large. the en-
graved illustration that was. to the l9th
century. what the photograph has be-
come to the 20th. But the scenes they
seem to reconstruct never happened.
either in actuality or in the book illus-
trations of the period. At least they did
not happen in quite the way they do in
Satty's visions. in which a more or less
authentic view of a Chinatown alley or
a saloon housed in an abandoned sail-
ing vessel. taken intact from an illustra-
tion of the time. may be peopled by
dozens of ?gures derived from other
sources sometimes with heads
from other sources still. Although the
feel is of another time. the perspective
is clearly from our own?like peering
through the?wrong?end of a telescope
on scenes that have the deceptive clar-
ity of illusions projected on the walls of
an old-fashioned camera obscura. but
periodically burst open to the dream

world of Through the Looking Glass.
What we call ?history? is always a
compound of data and interpretation.
authentic documentation and sheer fab-
rication. Satty?s vielvs of early San
Francisco add up to a kind of reminis-
cence that the City itself might relate. if
a city could have a subconscious mind.
these are the memories. the dreams and

a few of the nightmares it might have.
ALBRIGHT

 





Now mar me set: none at the CIA

have been let off the leash by the Great
Communicator in the White House it will
doubtless be mere time before the agency?s
national security whorehouse on Telegraph
Hill comes out of mothballs. Historians of
sleaze may recall the whoopee apartment
lorded over by the repulsively fat and bald
Colonel George White. the genial narc who
busted Billie Holiday. White spent eve-
nings in the service of his country sitting on
the potty sipping stem martinis while watch-
ing through a two-way mirror as whores on
the CIA dole plied unsuspecting johns with
LSD mickeys and the end products of con?
cupiscence. "If we were seared enough of a
drug not to try it on ourselves. we sent it to
San Francisco." read a declassi?ed CIA
incinoranduin (thiry ll be no more of these
if Reagan has his way in up the
wicked FOIA). The goal of the good Colo-
he] Telegraph Hill experiments With un-
controlled substances was to ?nd the know-
how to turn the average American Joe into
a kamikaze pilot at a moment?s notice. The
sex maniacs at the CIA code-named the
Frisco freak show Operation Midnight Cli-
max. Reagan?s truth squad is attempting to
makesure that nomorenewsofsuch feder-
ally funded gynecolog?cal dysfunction leaks
out. In the future. maybe what we don't
know about the past will be good for usKaeuunotootsrs who study such
things as the small type of the cover will
have noticed that this magazine is published
on all three coasts. This is the phrase of art
of Eve Babitz. the LA novelist; the third
coast is. of course. Los Angeles. Frisco is
primarily circulated in NYC. SF and LA
butwill not wholly iglore the great sandbox
in between and will soon be available in
even the wilds ofSanta Fe. lfyou wonder
whatweare doing. some twentyof us heart-
ies in the print business recently chipped in
to buy a former herbal shampoo magazine
called Boulevards. Alas Poor Yoriclt. Bou-
levards is no more and has become 

publications and such or else we could nev-
er afford such an expensive toy. and if you

work on weekends. For those of the
marl-tome mentality who persist in stub-
born and irrational objections to the word
Frisco. it should be noted that the famous
etymologist Peter Tamony proves in this
editicm that Frisco predates the common-

Church predates Billy Graham The mast-
head with the lovely cocktail glass was de-

ni?cently deteriorating front of a real be!
Frisco (the bar)isonSixth Street. SanFran-


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from the barber college. it is frequented by
gay cowboys and black pimps and others
from the sinks of the city and we ?nd it a
congenial place. As for the cocktail glass.
Tom Jefferson wrote the ?rst draft of the
Declaration of Independence in a tavern .

HE smouuta aovcartsattem on page
ill-9 for the American Volunteer Brigade
is a story in itself. It was the brainchild of
Michigan State Senator John F. Kelly of
Detroit and is achieving formidable but yet
unpublicized success in that part of the
country. There is already a full platoon of
military volunteers training in Michigan.
Tbeconcept isas Americanasapple pie: as
us. volunteers went to Spain the ?305 to
?ght the fascists. they will do ditto in the
35%. if invited. in Northern Ireland to face
down the imperial English and the Protes-
tant goons they support in tyrannizing over
a wronged Catholic minority: the Spain
analogy is not without substance as Great
Britain has been using Northern Ireland as
a counterinsurgency testing ground for a
decade: a look at the riots in the streets of
that racialist society will tell you why they
felt the need to prepare for trouble. The
advertisement willbeeome aposterthat will
be placed in every military and reserve base
in the country to sign up recruits. Patroniz
our advertisers. --WAII.EN 

 

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even in a town famed for its ?ne
restaurants. Reservations 775-471?

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gridlated unless a person actuary left the country
had took up ?armsINCKLE SAID TO a !reporter: ?Theae guys
if don't carry weapons. They train them wi
?nrley (sic) sticks (heavy wooden stoves whi
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Data of transcription

Paddy Nolan, owner, Dovre Club, 354l?18th Street, San
Francisco, California, was contacted at his place of business by
the interviewing Agents who displayed their credentials. Nolan
was advised that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is con-
ducting a Neutrality Act investigation into the alleged activities
of the American Volunteer Brigade (AVB) for Ireland, whose ad
first appeared in ?Frisco? magazine in December 1981.

Nolan said that there was nothing particular meant by the
ad and described it as a ?publicity stunt to tweak the Limeys,"
(British). Nolan said that the AVB has no members, has held no
meetings, and no training or any other organization has taken place.
He advised that he did receive a few letters at the Dovre Club,
however, he feels these were in response to the ad and subsequent
newspaper stories about it. Nolan claimed that he has destroyed
the letters, and he advised that most of them appeared to be mainly
from "crazy kids.?

Nolan admitted the idea of the AVB did receive wide publi~
city, and many newspapers called him about it. Nolan recalled that
he told one paper that this supposed group trained with Hurleys
(Irish walking sticks), and he recalled he told another reporter
that they trained with golf clubs.

Nolan was advised of the details of the Neutrality Act,
and he replied that he meant no harm and certainly did not expect
the FBI to get involved in this case. Nolan explained that he is
well known to be sympathetic to Irish Republic causes, and he is
always looking for some avenue to embarass the British Government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3/30/82: L__Jextended under FBIHQ authority to 4/30/82. 3i9<31ua

Re -San Francisco teletype to FBIHQ dated 11/27/81:

Enclosed for dissemination by FBIHQ to the Internal
Security Section, Department of Justice. are the original and
five (5) copies of a letterhead memorandum (LHM) summarizing

investigation conducted in this matter. (U)



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responsible for the art direction and layout of the 

Warren Hinckle

I IHinckle is well known in this area for being outspoken

i in his opinions about the FBI and as an Irish Republican sympathizer,

i and it does not appear to be prudent to allow him extra opportunities

to proclaim his views. The investigation conducted indicates that

the entire aim of the AVB ad was to gain publicity for the Irish

- Republican cause and the resulting media interest, which was in turn
heightened by the fact this investigation appears to have amply
succeeded in fulfilling their original goal. ESQ

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TO: SAC:

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has been further identified as Denise Hinckle, date of birth 
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issue of "Focus", a San Francisco-based magazine. This article
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BY LIZ LUFKIN
PHOTOGRAPH BY MAREK MAJEWSKI

Warren inckle
contributes commentary on rExpress,?
a weekly newsmagazine
airing Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m.

 

The Rip?Roaring
Career ofSan Francisco ?3
Most Outrageous
Journalist

TICKED OFF. MAYOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN QUICKLY
becoming ticked off. The scene is January?s debut broadcast
of Express, at weekly newsmagazine. Until now, the
show has gone smoothly for Felnsteln, who is there to present
a proposal for building a new sports stadium in the city.
Armed with facts, ?gures, charts and her own cool com-
posure, the mayor has easily de?ected complaints from the
few critics in the small studio audience. She is clearly in
control.

That is, until Warren Hinckle gets his say. Nowadays,

Hinckle is best known for writing ?Hinckle?s Journal,? a San
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of the aforementioned cuisine. Irish
recipes are rare: 3. search in the all!
inclusive New York Times Cookbook,
for example, under the letter yields
nothing at all between Indonesia and
Israel.

Colcannoh

Ingredients:

 

2 lbs. potatoes, peeled and cut up
1 lb. cabbage or kale, chopped

1/2 cup chopped leeks or scallions
1 cup cream or milk

salt, ground pepper, mace
6 Tbs. butter, melted

Procedure:

 

(1) Boil or steam cabbage until tender.
(2) Simmer leeks in enough milk to cov?
er them, just until tender. (3) Cook
potatoes in boiling water for 20 min;
utes, or until done; drain and mash well
with salt, pepper, mace and enough re?
maining milk to keep them creamy. (4)
Fold in cooked cabbage and beat until
?uffy. (5) Divide into 4 to 6 servings;
make a well in the center of each and
pour in melted butter.

Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients:

 

2 cups whole wheat ?our

2 cups unbleached white ?our

1 tsp. baking soda

3 tsps. baking powder

2 Tbs. sugar

4 Tbs. butter or margarine, cut in small
pieces

1 egg, beaten

1% cups sour milk or buttermilk

Procedure:

 

(1) In processor or large bowl, mix all
dry ingredients together. (2) Add but!

ter or margarine and mix until texture.

resembles coarse meal. (3) Add egg and
enough milk to make a soft dough. (4)
Knead or process until smooth. (5) Di!

vide into two loaves, place each in
MARCH 1984

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is a style
that
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for
dried or
powdered
spices
and
even less
for

fresh.

 

greased 9 5 inch loaf pan, and bake at
375? for 35 '45 minutes, or until golden.

Turbot in Chive Sauce

Ingredients:

11b. turbot or any white ?sh ?let

2 cups sour milk or buttermilk
Z'Tbs. each butter and flour

3 Tbs. heavy cream

salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 Tbs. chapped chives and parsley

 

Procedure:
(1) P-oach ?sh in buttermilk about 10

minutes, turning once; remove and
keep warm. (2) Melt butter, add flour
and stir until smooth; add milk and heat
until almost boiling, stirring con!
tinually to keep sauce smooth. (3) Add
cream, salt and pepper to taste. (4)
Spoon sauce over ?sh, sprinkling gener?
ously with the fresh herbs.

 

Irish Coffee

According to Theodora Fitzgibbon?s
?Irish Kitchen Map,? ?Irish Coffee was
invented by joe Sheridan when he was
chef at Shannon Airport, County
Clare.? But every land has its legends.

Ingredients:

 

2 tsps. sugar

1 cup strong black coffee

1 double measure Irish whiskey
1 Tbs. heavy cream

Procedure:

 

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sugar and enough hot coffee to dissolve
it. (2) Add whiskey. ?Now [and these
are the of?cial instructions] hold a
spoon so that its bowl is convex side up
and just touching the surface of the
liquid, then carefully ?oat the cream
onto the surface by pouring it gently
onto the inverted bowl of the spoon.
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Francisco Chronicle column that has
fueled his reputation as San Francis-
co?s most colorful, most notorious
and, possibly, most powerful journal-
ist. Recently, he also signed on as an
Express commentator, hired, accord-
ing to Executive Producer Ken Ellis,
?because he?s good at those properly
aimed missles.?

Tonight, Hinckle scores a direct hit.
?Dianne won?t like this,? he begins
(as Feinstein, off-camera, silently
mouths, never do?) ?but I think it?s
the most offensively hypocritical
thing I?ve ever heard this charming
mayor say, that we are building this
idiot $200 million stadium to do some-
thing for our senior citizens.? He has
blasted her perfect presentation to
pieces in the two short minutes he
was alloted at the end of the program.
Feinstein looks furious.

The studio erupts the minute the
taping stops. Hinckle is quickly sur-
rounded by an annoyed group of busi-
nessmen and stadium boosters, a cir-
cle that eventually includes the mayor
herself. ?This is the most biased manI
know,? she says, buttonholinghim.

Less than an hour later, Hinckle
shrugs off the entire incident as he
bellies up to the counter of a cop bar
located in a tiny alley across from the
Hall of Justice. 0 big deal,? he says.
?Why should I be afraid of the may-
or??

Why, indeed. In his more than twen-
ty years as a hard-drinking, hell-rais-
ing muckraker, Hinckle has gone up
against plenty of tough opponents:
the CIA, the mob, the pope, even the
president of the United States. Not
only does Hinckle not mind contro-
versy, he thrives on it, seeks it out. ?So
there I was, surrounded by all these
pissed?off politicians,? he will tell a
friend a few days later, gleefully re-
counting the entire scene. ?It was
riotous."

Riotous. Hinckle uses this word a
lot. It suits him as perfectly as the big
bow ties he usually sports. In the
course of his job at the Chronicle,
Hinckle has been kicked off a Rolling
Stones tour, threatened to sue his
own newspaper for libel and written a
gut-wrenching series about the plight
of elderly hotel tenants. The stories
turned on the heat, political and oth-
erwise, virtually overnight.

42

Small wonder that Hinckle says
riotous all the time. It certainly sums
up his outrageous dual career as edi-
tor of four now-defunct magazines:
Ramparts, Scanlan?s, City of San
Francisco and Risco. (Some suggest
a strong connection between the
magazines? demise and Hinckle?s han-
dling of them.) At Ramparts, back in
the sixties, Hinckle unveiled unsavo-
ry activities by the Catholic Church in
Vietnam. Scanlan?s existed for less
than a year in the early seventies, but
in that short time Hinckle incurred
the wrath of Richard Nixon and un-
leashed Hunter S. Thompson?s
wacked-out gonzo journalism on an
unsuspecting world for the ?rst time.

Later, in the mid?seventies, Hinckle
raised a furor when City magazine
published a racy article called ?Why
Women Can?t Get Laid in By the
time he ran a phony Irish Republican
Army recruitment ad in Frisco a cou?
ple of years ago, everyone ?gured it
was business as usual. Riotous.

TAKES A LOT TO FAZE
Hinckle. Consider the
scene unfolding in his com-
fortable Castro District
apartment one morning in
late January. Five people
are milling about, all of them clutch-
ing drinks even though it is not yet
noon. It?s noisy, too. The door to the
porch is wide open, letting in loud
shrieks from kids playing in a nearby
schoolyard, as well as a couple of
?ies. And Hinckle himself tends to
roar when he?s not muttering in that
gruff growl of his. Meantime, Wendell
the basset hound, feeling neglected,
has begun to bark.

Big deal. Hinckle calmly surveys
this chaos with his one good eye, re?
?lls the ice bucket, then turns his at?
tention to more important matters.
Like digging around in a closet stuffed
with his clippings, back issues and
other mementos. One day, Boston
University Will come and cart it all
away, along with all the stuff that also
?lls his basement.

It?s a great deal, Hinckle explains.
The university contacted him and 0f?
fered to catalog everything. The only
problem is that he never has time to
sort it all out for them.

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at the Chronicle, Hinckle runs Silver
Dollar Books, which will publish his
Dan White book, Gay Slayer, early
this year, followed by a book about
Dashiell Hammett later on. He?s also
working on a treatment about Alan
Funt, of Candid Camera fame, and
he?s busy with the Virginia City Resto-

 

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as a student at the
University of San Fran-
cisco, where even
[then he created astir.
As editor of 
Daily Foghorn,
Hinckle ?rst created
a sensation by ex-
Posing popular
Chronicle columnist
Count Marco as gay
hairdresser Henry
Spinelli. ?It was an
old-fashioned news-
paper crusade,?
liinkle says. ?We beat
him up day after day.?
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Michigan State Uni-
versity. ?At first, even
I couldn?tbelieve the
CIA did this kind of
stuff,? he says. Be-
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Hinckle wrote for the
Chronicle, where he
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ration Corporation, now renovating a
hotel in the mining town and gearing
up to publish a newspaper, The Daily
Trespass. By contrast, business has
been a little slow at Hinckle?s Red Star
Detective Agency lately, possibly be-
cause it doesn?t have a phone number
or address.

MARCH 1984

 

?Jesus!? shouts Hinckle from the
closet, Where he is rummaging
around for an article about how the
National ews Council censured him
for his remarkable hotel heat articles,
in which Hinckle accused the Patel
clan (Indian nationals and owners of
numerous San Francisco hotels) of

housing violations, including failure
to provide heat. Some people felt the
series deserved a Pulitzer Prize, but
the NNC said it ?unfairly attacked a
large group of people for the actions
of a few.?

?Those stories!? he says. ?It was
one of those things where you say
?Bang,? and they say, ?I?m dead.? It
hardly ever happens in journalism.
I was outraged by the censure.
Furious! They had some nerve calling
me a racist.?

So intent is Hinckle on ?nding this
article that he decides to take off his
brown velvet suit, made from a cur-
tain that once hung at the now-demol-
ished Little Fox Theater, and put on
some jeans. Also going off are the
patent leather dance pumps. The
brown patch stays on, of course.
When he was nine years old, Hinckle
was in a serious car crash on Christ-
mas Eve, bad enough that he lost his
left and missed school for a year-
and?a?half. He wore a glass until
the mid-sixties, when his muscles
started to deteriorate. After numer-
ous operations, Hinckle switched to
an patch.

?Ah, that glass eye,? he says a few
minutes later, after he has retreated
to the living room for another drink.
?What a pain! I hated it. It was always
falling into my soup.?

 
  

EARS AGO, A WRITER
described Warren
Hinckle as a cross be-
tween a pirate and the
original William Ran-
dolph Hearst, a descrip-
tion that still ?ts. Hinckle?s ?air for
flamboyance and ability to spend
money like a millionaire (which, un-
like Hearst, he is not) goes all the way
back to his days at the University of
San Francisco, where he was editor of
the Daily Foghorn.

One of Hinckle?s ?rst acts upon as?
suming control of the paper was to
turn the weekly into a daily and install
an expensive Associated Press wire,
much to the dismay of the Jesuit
priests who ran the school. Hinckle
covered the 1960 Winter Olympics
from a bar in Squaw Valley, ran stories
like ?American Catholics: Afraid of
Criticism? and exposed Chronicle
columnist Count Marco as a gay hair-
43

 

 

 

 

dresser named Henry Spinelli. The
paper was $13,000 in debt by the time
he graduated.

After college, Hinckle lost his bid to
become a San Francisco supervisor.
He also started a publicity firm with
equally unsuccessful results. disas-
ter of Marx Brothers proportions,? is
how he describes it in his autobiogra-
phy, IfYouHa've aLemon, Make Lem-
onade. But Edward Keating, a Menlo
Park millionaire who was starting a
small Catholic magazine called Ram-
parts, didn?t know about Hinckle?s
failures. In 1962, he hired, then ?red
Hinckle as publicist. Ten months later,
he hired him back again, this time as
editor.

By then, Hinckle had a job at the
Chronicle??somehow he had con-
vinced Editor Scott Newhall to forget
the Count Marco incident?where he
started out on the lowly Oakland
crime beat but within a year made the
front page with stories on Hunter?s
Point and phantoms haunting the Lit-
tle Fox Theater.

Under Hinckie?s guidance, Ram-
parts went from a quiet quarterly to a
magazine that Time de-
scribed as ?a rampaging crusader . . . a
sensation seeking journal of the New
Left.? The magazine?s baptism by ?re
took place in the fall of 1964, when
Ramparts? cover featured a cartoon
of Barry Goldwater looking like a rat-
tlesnake. The fall from grace oc-
curred little over four years later.

In between, the magazine exposed
covert, CIA funding of the National
Students Association and military-
?nanced secret research at Michigan
State University. It published the di-
ary of Ch? Guevara. It came out
against the war in Vietnam long be-
fore it was fashionable to do so, pub-
lishing an article by a former Green
Beret titled, Quit! The Whole Thing
Was a Lie.?

Nor did Ramparts con?ne itself to
attacking the right. It infuriated hip-
pies by running un?attering stories
about Timothy Learyand the Haight?
Ashbury scene and so incensed some
of its investors with a piece about
Israel that it lost two million dollars.

On top of everything else, Ram?
parts revolutionized the magazine
business with its glossy, expensive
?radical slick? design. Unfortunately,
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Seculan?s, inwhloh he
continued to take on
the Powers That Be,
including President
Nixon. ?lie hated the
magazine," says
Hinckle. ?We took a
very combative atti-
tude thathe was a
bum and a crook.?
Four years after
Scanlan?s folded,
llinckle took over

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was his last magazine.
Despite its short ends-
tence, Hinckle still
raised eyebrows with
a biting DanWhite es-
say. ?San Francisco
has never faced up to
the fact that Dan
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murder,? he says. ?No-
body wantedto deal
with it then, and no?
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issue. The New York Times suspected
Ramparts stayed a?oat by taking
money from communists, and it sent
a reporter to investigate. In reality,
Hinckle spent more of his time ?ying
around the country looking for inves-
tors?he once hit up Playboy Pub-

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into the of?ce between trips, he had a
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a minute. it wasn?t over, not quite.
Hinckle returned to the fray a little
over a year later with Scanlan?s,
named after an unpopular Irish pig
farmer. President Nixon hated the
magazine so much he asked his aides
to sick the IRS on it, according to
John Dean?s book Blind Ambition.
3.1.4.ch 1984

But an IRS attack wasn?t necessary.
Eight months after it started,
Scanlan?s was ?nished, its ?nal issue
on guerrilla warfare in the United
States?so controversial it had to be
printed in by
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Before that happened, however,
Hinckle had helped give birth to
gonzo journalism by introducing the
infamous Hunter S. Thompson to il-
lustrator Ralph Steadman.

OUR YEARS PASSED
before Hinckle got his
hands on another maga-
zine. If a coin ?ipped by
?lmmaker Francis Ford
Coppola had come up
tails rather than heads, Hinckle would
have never become a guest editor at
City of San Francisco. Instead, he
was the third editor in as many
months at City, which Newsweek de-
scribed as ?a splashy tabloid cho ck?a?
block with trendy insights into local
culture.?

Such as the fact, according to
Hinckle?s ?rst issue there in August
1975, that women can?t get laid in San
Francisco. Written by Susan Berman,
?Why Women Can?t Get Laid In 
attracted national attention, doubled
City?s circulation and once again es-
tablished Hinckle as a madman
muckraker with a taste for the sensa-
tional. He followed that up with sto-
ries on topics ranging from anal inter-
course to flying saucers, Dashiell
Hammett to mistreated rich ladies.

City might have become successful
if Coppola hadn?t abruptly shut it
down three months later. The big joke
going around then was that Hinckle
was the only person who could spend
money faster than Coppola could
make it. But actually he cut costs dur-
ing his tenure there. Still, City was
losing $20,000 a week, and Coppola
needed all his cash for the movie
Apocalypse Now.

think Warren knew the end was
coming when Francis pushed him
into a pool at a party one night,? re?
calls" Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.
?He just shoved him in. As a joke, of
course. I think the magazine was
going under then. So Warren went un-
der ?rst.?

Hinckle agrees that he and Coppola

 

 

had a stormy relationship.

wasn?t very nice to him,? he says.
?He kept coming around the of?ce,
and I kept telling him to go away. So
what if it was his money! If I?m putting
out the magazine, then that?s it.?

Of them all, Hinckle seems least
fond of Frisco, launched in 1981 after
the defunct Boulevards magazine
was purchased by a group of twenty
well-known writers?including
Chronicle art critic Thomas Albright
and author Maya Angelou?following
?fteen hours of negotiations at one of
Hinckle?s favorite bars, the Dovre
Club.

?It went downhill from there,? says
Jesse Hamlin, Caen?s assistant and a
Chronicle jazz critic. It was Hamlin
who ?rst heard that a magazine called
Boulevards was for sale, and he sug-
gested to Albright that they round up
some people to buy it. personally
had fun,? Hamlin says. ?There was a
lot of yelling and laughing. But it
wasn?t one of journalism?s greater
moments. No one was really editing it.
There were too many egos involved.?

Nevertheless, Hinckle naturally
managed to make an impact, even
though Frisco folded after six issues.
The FBI and the Justice Department
investigated that phony IRA recruit-
ment ad, for one thing. And Hinckle?s
front page essay on Dan White still
ranks as one of his most biting pieces.

?San Francisco has become the big-
gest queer-bashing town in the world.
People here can get away with
murder if they trash a fag,? it began.
?Dan White did, and he?s a hero to
many people in Frisco. Now there are
hundreds of Dan White clones run-
ning around doing his hateful thing.
SF has become a gay Clockwork
Orange.?

At first, the memory of all this
makes Hinckle shake his head and
paraphrase Macbeth: ?All my pretty
ones, gone, gone, gone, all in one
blow.? And then he perks up some-
what, saying, ?Why should magazines
last forever? Most of them go on too
long. I think three to ?ve years is plen-
ty. The ones that go on for twenty
years become careers and get boring.

?Publishing is a crazy business.
People get stuffy and self-important
about it. What you really want to do is
direct feeling, change things. It really

45

 

 

 

doesn?t matter how much it takes to
get that done. Onceit?s over, it?s over.
Done! You go home and have a drink.
But if you give up early in the game,
you?re in trouble.?

He pauses for a moment, leans for-
ward and asks, ?You know what I
think is the real problem with most
publications? It?s this idiotic notion
about coming out on time.? 

INCKLE IS NOT AN
Irish name, it?s Ger-
man. Still, Warren
James Hinckle is
an Irishman through
and through. His
family has lived in San Francisco
since the 18905, when his grandfather
was stationed at the Presidio during
the Spanish-American War. Warren
James Hinckle II married Angela De
Vere in San Francisco back in the late
twenties and together had three chil-
dren: Warren James 111, now forty?
?ve, Bob (a Denver real estate agent)
and Marianne, who works at a San
Francisco printing company.

Hinckle was a shy, thin child who
read a lot, not at all a hell?raiser, ac-
cording to his mother. noticed a
change in him after the injury,?
says Angela Hinckle. don?t know if
he felt he had to prove something, or
what. I never could ?gure it out. But
after he went back to school, he was a
different boy. Always trying to stir up
something.?

Even though no one else in his fam?
ily writes, it is natural that Hinckle
became a journalist and author (he?s
written four books to date: his auto-
biography, Cuertlla War in the USA,
The 10 Second Jailbreak, and The
Fish Is Red). In the all Irish?Catholic
community out in the West Portal
where he grew up, there were certain
acceptable professions for a young
man. He could be a cop, a priest, a
politician? or a journalist.

So of course he accepted when
Chronicle Publisher Richard Thieriot
offered to rehire Hinckle back in 1977.
No one remembers much about the
actual circumstances. Hinckle thinks
he said something rude about the pa-
per to Thieriot at a party, and that
Thieriot shot back, ?Well, why don?t
you do something about it.? That?s as

good an explanation as any, according
46

 

 

to Executive Editor William German.

Since his rehire, Hinckle has estab?
lished his own particular niche at
Northern California?s biggest paper,
usually on page four, sometimes on
page one. He specializes in certain
types of stories, often those about
segments of San Francisco that
would otherwise go neglected.
Hinckle writes about the Irish, the
old-timers of North Beach, the poor,
the nutty and those who buck the sys-
tem. Cops, criminals, his buddy the
bartender, all are suitable subjects to
him, as is anything else that strikes his
fancy.

think he represents many things
indigenous to San Francisco,? says
German. ?Some of it goes back quite a
way. But Warren is often aware of
things which are avant?garde, too.
There is a blustery warmth about him
which crosses a lot of boundaries.?

Indeed. In 1982 alone Hinckle wrote
two pieces about a local ship involved
in the Falklands War and a series on
Cuba. He also did a story on a shop
that sells ladies underwear to men, as
well as one about an apartment that
rents for $75 a month. Other topics
included a man, weird
artist Mark Pauline and a feud within
the gay community over the memory
of slain supervisor Harvey Milk.

His style differs from most of to-
day?s journalism, too. Consider the
1978 story, ?Shooting Craps in Style?:

Monty the Duck was there in Spats,
and Hydro Willy the Cucumber wore
his best hat. Cactus Jack, who drove
all the way from Moss Beach, but-
toned up his cardigan when he saw
the cut of the joint. The word had
gone out in the heat of a dead Memo-
rial Day Sunday. Jimmy the Glove
was ?oating a crap game?a real
crap game.

THINK AN 

tive press is possible; I

think an opinionated press

is a good thing,? says

Hinckle. ?For some reason,

opinions are looked down
on. To say that newspapers don?t
come to a political viewpoint as to
what they want in a newspaper is
crazy. It?s denying the reality of what
they are.

 

change my mind-about some sto-
ries. Sometimes the facts don?t con-
form to what I thought a story would
be, and I come out on the other side. A
few years ago, there was this tow
truck guy in the Mission who was
yanking all these poor people?s cars
out of lots. They were all calling me,
saying, ?This guy?s a real bastard, go
get him.? So I go out to see him, and it
turns out this guy is poorer, more set
upon, more honest, and had a tougher
life than all those people with towed
cars. I came out on his side,? says
Hinckle, laughing softly. ?Politics.?

Not everyone likes Hinckle?s work.
The Harvey Milk Gay Democratic
Club called one Hinckle story ?dis-
gusting,? accused him of appalling
sexism and said that ?Hinckle has
never been known for accuracy or
fairness in pursuit of a juicy story.?

Writer Robert Sam AHSOII, in his
book Gone Crazy and Back Again,
describes Hinckle as a rascal by tem-
perament, a swashbuckler by disposi-
tion and a genius by personal estima-
tion. ?One could never be sure about 
Warren Hinckle, whether his chief
love was drinking, telling tales, or giv-
ing the United States government ?ts,
since he did all three in such profu-
sion,? writes Anson.

Even Hinckle?s close friends say he
has a habit of leaving bodies behind.
Concert promoter Bill Graham is still
seething over articles Hinckle wrote
during a 1981 Rolling Stones tour, es-
pecially one that hinted the band was
going to play one of Graham?s night-
clubs.

?The coverage of the Rolling Stones
was atrocious,? Graham says. ?He?d
been asking me for an interview with
Mick Jagger, and I was trying to help.
So then he comes out with the rumor
about the club date, and we?ve hun?
dreds of people calling the of?ce, hun?
dreds of people lined up outside the
club.

?Hinckle shows up for a Stones
concert in Seattle, and I asked him,
?Are you aware of What you caused?
Get out of here!? I was trying to do
him a favor and look what he does in
return.? 

Others defend Hinckle?s approach
and say he?s a wonderful writer. Herb

 

Continued on page 111
SF Focus

 

 

Continued from page 46

 

Caen does, for instance. So does Rich-
ard Reinhardt, a former Chronicle re-
porter who teaches newswriting at
the University of California, writes
books and freelances articles to pub~
lications like the Columbia Journal-

?He exempli?es a style of journal-
ism that there is a great place for in
our world,? says Reinhardt, who
places Hinckle in a league with Mark
Twain, Lincoln Steffens and John
Reed. lot of people think the only
good journalism is that which resem-
bles the New York Times, with its self-
irnportance, or the Washington Post,
with its reputation as a gad?y of the
government.

?Hinckle is of a tradition that pre-
cedes all that. He wants to stir up
people?s emotions and interests. No
matter how much he colors things, if
in the process he comes to the real
truth, then that?s serving the higher
process of journalism.?

Working with Hinckle isn?t always
easy, even at the Chronicle, where he
can?t tear editions apart the way he
always did at his own magazines. One
Chronicle staffer describes the proc-
ess as ?bemusement tinged with an-
guish.? Even James Hicks, the paper?s
special projects editor, whose main
job, apparently, is keeping track of
Hinckle, admits that he usually has to
phone three or four bars whenever he
wants Hinckle to turn in a story.

Still, Hicks says, hate to destroy
this image which he has so carefully
cultivated. But Warren is very sharp,
very good and very precise. He?s one
of the most professional people
around. But that?s a secret.

always know when he?s ready to
write. He shows up with a six-pack of
ale. Then he won?t leave the building
until he?s done. When Warren was
working on the hotel heat stories, he
was here around the clock for days.?

The rest of the time, Hinckle
breezes in and out whenever he feels
like it. Apparently management likes
it that way. He gets into trouble if he
spends to much time in the of?ce.
Hinckle once threatened to sue the
pap er for libel over a column Charles
McCabe wrote about him, even

though the offending phrase?some?
MARCH 1984

 

 

thing along the lines of ?a paid agent
of the IR ??was never seen any?
where except on a video display ter-
minal.

?He?s a great character, there?s a
timeless quality about him,? says
Caen. ?When I ?rst met him, he was
young and brash. He still is.?

ARREN HINCKLE
drinks in Irish bars
in the Mission Dis-
trict. He also drinks
in cop bars near the
Civic Center, scav-
enger bars out in the Sunset, Italian
bars in North Beach and black bars
located so deep in Hunter?s Point that
cops won?t go there.

Hinckle has hung around in bars
since he was a teenager. Apparently it
runs in the family. When his father
had a fatal heart attack, he was sitting
on a bar stool. Cookie Picetti likes to
tell ab out Marianne Hinckle?s twenty-
first birthday party at his Kearney
Street bar. couldn?t believe she was
only twenty-one,? he says. ?She?d
been coming here for years.?

Hinckle personally has little use for
of?ces??everyone hassles you with
all this crazy bureaucratic stuff??so
he spends much time in bars, which
are perfect for what he likes to do
best?-read, write, think and talk. Not
just dives, either. For all his ability to
defend the downtrodden, Hinckle al?
ways ?ies ?rst class and feels right at
home in ?ne restaurants. Places like
Jack?s, where he?s having lunch today,
a week after that ?rst KQED taping. It
makes perfect sense to him that yes-
terday he was at Sam ordan?s??out
in Butchertown, on third street to hell
and back??-and that tomorrow, he
could be at any one of a dozen other
spots, elegant or otherwise.

?Fishes swim up and down in the
sea. I move through it all. That?s Amer-
ica,? says Hinckle. ?Most people don?t
deal with it very well; they get stuck in
this idea of strata. The New Left guys I
hung out with in the sixties could nev?
er understand me. I always thought
that, come the revolution, we?ll all sit
in the same boat. Until we tear the
sucker down, we might as well enjoy
things.?

During lunch, Hinckle talks about
many things. Ever the renegade Cath-

olic, he doesn?t go to church more
than one or twice a year, if that. But
religion, at least the cultural aspects
of it, still matter to him.

?Being a Catholic is nice,? he says.
?Protestants have this phony reserve,
which I think comes from being left
out. Unlike Catholics and Jews, they
don?t have this long history of being
persecuted. If you aren?t a Catholic or
aJeW, you?re screwed.?

Oh, c?mon.

?You?re bait for shrinks,? he
gleefully insists.

Hinckle glibly de?ects questions
about his personal life, however, es-
pecially regarding a pending divorce
from Denice, his wife of eighteen
years. (They have two daughters, one
studying at Sarah Lawrence, the other
in high school in San Francisco.)
Those who know him well say that
Warren Hinckle is actually a shy per-
son.

But you?d never guess it from the
way he?s carrying on at Cookie?s,
where he holds court after Jack?s. He
chats up Cookie, discusses some
business with others. When Jesse
Hamlin pops in, Hinckle insists on
buying him a drink.

?There?s a sequel to that Susan Ber-
man story, you know,? says Hinckle,
looking sly. had become, um,
involved with her. And Susan
?God, she?s so crazy, I love her for
this?wrote at the end of her second
article, ?The old editor wouldn?t lay
me, but thank God the new editor
did!?

?The art director reads this, and he
can?t believe it. He calls my wife, who
tells me to take it out. I say, I can?t, it?s
a matter of principle. So he snips off
the ending anyway! But early proofs
of the issue had gone to Coppola?s
press agent, who sent out a release
that said, ?Susan Berman Gets Laid.? 

It?s early evening and Cookie is
closing up now. Hinckle makes a cou-
ple of phone calls, then steps out into
a warm, achingly beautiful San Fran-
cisco night.

Where is Hinckle going now?

?I?m not telling you everything,? he
says, moving off up the street, wear-
ing that brown velvet suit and carry-
ing his battered briefcase. It is many
blocks before he fades into the
crowd. I

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0F MICE AND WOMAN

How Mickeys rodent relatives turned oz con?rmed @?j?ql [over into

om- eager executioner

BY ROBERTA ALEXANDER

 

 

 

had any feeling about
. mice until they turned up
in my house. Although I?ve
never been particularly sen-
timental about animals, I like
to think I?m not insensitive.
Save the whales? Fine. Stop
killing baby seals? Fine. But
then, seals and whales
haven?t moved into my kitch-
en. At this point, it would be
okay with me to nuke the
mice.

As hard as this is to confess
(no native of NEW York ever
wanting to admit that we
don?t have more of every-
thing than anywhere else),
I?ve never had mice before.
Cockroaches, sure. Ants, oc-
casionally. But not mice.

The trouble is that, for ro-
dents, mice have a remark-
ably good press. Who could
possibly appear more benev-
olent than dear old Mickey
?As quiet as a mouse," we 1.
say, to indicate a state of re-
pose. Believe me, there is
nothing particularly resrful
about the peculiarly slurred
scratching sound of a mouse
tearing open a spaghetti
package.

Having become aware?
however unwillingly?of

I KNOW THAT I

 

 

I lived in Wash-

 

 

ington,? Fran recalled, ?we
had mice all over the place.
At night they?d climb through
the stove and poke their
heads through the burners.?

It was on Fran?s advice that
I set glue traps out in the
kitchen. ?You?ll like them
better,? she said, watching
me shudder. ?You don?t have
to touch them; just throw
away the trap.?

A nice sanitary disposal?
just my speed. Unfortunately,
Fran forgot to tell me that
there is a time lag between
when the mouse is caught
and when it dies. When I
noticed that one of my traps
had moved, I should just
have gone away for a few
hours. Instead, I investigated
and found one of my un~
wanted guests struggling to
free its feet. This was not one
of my ?nest hours, and I will
draw a discreet veil over my
ensuing panic.

It?s an interesting point, ac-
tually; how a woman who has
coped with illness, depres-
sion, death, childbirth, di-
vorce, surgery, unemploy?
ment and most of the seven
deadly sins can become hys-
terical at the sight of a trap

 

mice, I found I couldn?t es-
cape them anywhere: my daughter wanted
help with her English homework. ?Is this a
simile or a metaphor?? she asked, ?her
mouse feet peeped under the dress.? I
turned on the TV and Larue said, don?t
know if we can ?nd him, Captain. A man like
that has a lot of mouseholes to hide in.? In
my magazine was a coloring ad for mousy
brown hair, and in my morning crossword
was a clue: ?rodent,? ?ve letters.

I went whimpering to my friends.

Norma told me that her children had
once had mice as pets. ?Maybe it was their
pedigree," she said, ?but every ?eld mouse
in the county found its way into our house,
wanting to make whoopee. The kids used to
wake up at night screaming because there
were mice running all over the room.?

Eventually, over the children?s objec-
tions, the pet mice were removed, and Nor-
ma set out massive amounts of poison for

112

the intruders.

Melinda too has been infested. called in
the exterminator. He said to use D-Con, that
it would make them thirsty and they would
go out of the house looking for water."

She paused and sighed. believed him,"
she said. ?What he didn?t explain was that the
water activates the poison.?

And so one evening that week, when she
went to preheat the broiler before cooking
hamburgers, a terrible stench filled the
kitchen.

?When I?d put the broiler tray back in the
night before, I hadn?t bothered to dry it," she
said. Three poisoned, thirsty mice had died
on that tray, only to be charbroiled the fol-
lowing day.

Fran, a farmer?s daughter, had a more san?
guine attitude. ?In Georgia we had mice, but
we also had these big old rats.?

I wasn?t ready for rat stories.

ILLUSTRATION BY KEVIN POPE

 

ped mouse. Someday?
when all this is behind me?I?m going to
think about this.

I told my tale of woe at the of?ce the next
day, only to discover evidence of an of?ce
mouse. The telltale scratches on my box of
tea, the nibbles taken from a coworker?s
candy bar, told their own story. I got a canis~
ter for my tea, but the more important issue
remains unresolved. Why have I developed
this mouse karma? Is there something in my
aura? Is this plague of rodents an objective
correlative of a hitherto unrecognized in?
ner con?ict?

I suppose I?ll get it sorted out one of
these days. For the moment, I?ve got
enough poison and traps set out to dis
courage a horde?a gaggle? a pack??of
mice. I?m going to put off thinking about
whether I need a therapist rather than an
exterminator; that?s a mouse of a different
color.

SF FOCUS