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"I went to school with him," continues Ginsberg, "and I used to edit his poetry for Columbia Review and print it when I was the editor and he was a student. He wanted to be a poet, but he didn't think he could make it as a poet. So he's got this sort of thing that he didn't make it because he was an intelligent fellow but un- willing to experiment and be frank and candid and com- pletely clear. He was floating on abstractions. He never learned that lesson, so he went into generalized journalistic prose." Was Podhoretz a conserva- tive even then? "No, he was a radical then. Probably a Stalinist for all I know. He's just a mirror image of that now, a sort of right-wing Stalinist instead of left-wing. He's changed his terminology from that of communism to • capitalism and from Stalinism to Judaism. "He is backed by all that money for Israel in America. In the old days, no self- respecting Jew would have done as he has and gone along with the anti-Seinitic racist dictatorship's in South America and South Africa. "Now the Israeli karma is so mixed up with repression in Central' America and South Africa that they have a very shaky political position. They may have some righteous fear of communization and authoritarianism, but on the other hand, their very policy is going to' bring that about by repressing native radicalism and sustaining old elitist dic- tatorships that bring about the very conditions for revolu- tion and violence that they abhor. "Podhoretz explains his ra- cism by saying he got beat up cism he as a kid by blacks and still bears a trauma from it. But people know this method of spontaneous in- sight, which is a neo-classical discipline. His thinking is linear, limited conceptual thinking, and he's a little leery and scared of non-conceptual things, thinking that if it doesn't exist it must be incohe- rent because it doesn't depend on words like he depends on words. "Podhoretz and (Rev. Jerry) Falwell being in bed together on certain political issues is nearly the final straw. Falwell would be the archetype of what formerly was an anti- Semite. He is the inheritor of that old anti-Semitic Southern Baptist authoritarian cruelty toward race." But the conversation ends on a note of hope. "I don't think the majority of American Jews go along with it," says Ginsberg. "They did, after all, vote for Mondale rather than Reagan. "The whole comedy is that in attacking the so-called beatniks, the know-nothing Bohemians, Podhoretz at- tacked Kerouac who had more sensible ideas in that same area than Podhoretz does. Kerouac was more anti- Communist than the neo- conservatives who denounced him. "Kerouac even got along with William F. Buckley. He liked his prose and Buckley's anti-Communism." ❑ NEWS MDA Supplies Reach Kenya Tel Aviv (JTA) — Some 55 tons of food, medication, tents and mobile field kitchens donated by the 1Viagen David Adorn (MDA) First Aid Society, Israel's equiv- alent of the Red Cross, have ar- rived in Kenya to aid famine vic- tims in that country. The relief supplies, shipped from Eilat to the Kenyan port of Mombasa last week, included 20 tons of flour, 20 tons. of sugar, 15 tons of edible oil, five tons of baby food, half of a ton of antibiotics, about 600 family tents and ten mobile field kitchens — all Israeli-made. The goods were purchased and shipped with funds raised follow- ing an MDA appeal to the Israeli public in line with a request from the International Red Cross in Geneva to Red Cross and associ- ated societies throughout the world for emergency aid for the afflicted populations of several African countries suffering from drought and famine.