MER - Washington - 22 February, 1998:

    A major traditional "teach-in" (not the CNN type) took place in Cambridge at MIT over the weekend.

    Regardless of what takes place in the coming few days, as the "international community" attempts to outmanuver the U.S. war machine at least for a time, the words of Professor Howard Zinn should be heard and understood by all Americans:
 
        "Yes, Saddam Hussein has treated with great cruelty the people, but in that the United States has far exceeded him. The United States, in the devastation of the Gulf War, in the embargo, in the killing of a million people in the aftermath of the war, has visited a devastation on women, children, average Iraqi citizens, that goes far beyond what Saddam Hussein has done."

                 Professor Howard Zinn,

                 Emeritus, Boston University, Dept of History Cambridge, MA, 2/21/98