November 1989, Page 57

American Educational Trust

From the Publishers

Now's the Time to Help

Every year about this time we look into the magic ledger and suddenly see the future clearly. This year it looks like an $85,000 shortfall by Dec. 31.

We need your help. All of our officers, including the publisher and editor, serve without pay or fees. Some of our regular columnists donate their work. But printers, engravers, typesetters and mailers don't. We want to continue publishing next year, and there are ways every reader, regardless of means, can help us get from here to there.

Choir of Angels

The most direct route is to join AET's "Choir of Angels." Your name goes into the next issue, and on our brochure for mailing next year, as a conductor ($5,000 or more), basso profundo or contralto ($2,500), baritone or mezzo-soprano ($1,000), tenor or soprano ($500), accompanist ($250), or hummer ($100). If you plan to deduct your contribution from your 1989 income tax, make it to the tax-exempt "AET Library Endowment."

Give Books for Christmas

If you're a subscriber whose heart is fuller than your pocketbook, do some of your holiday shopping with us. You get two or more copies of any book in the AET Book Club catalog at the list price of one. There certainly are titles suitable for almost anyone on your list.

Gift Subscriptions

Subscriptions to the Washington Report make another wonderful holiday gift. The recipient thinks of you 12 times instead of only once a year. You can purchase them at $15 each, and the recipient will receive a card naming you as the donor. Or, if you prefer, we'll send the first issue to you for personal presentation, and the remaining 11 issues directly to the recipient. If you want the gift to be a little grander, give $25 subscriptions. The recipient receives a $12.50 book certificate to be used for anything in the AET catalog, along with 12 issues of theWashington Report.

Paul Findley's Book

We also have a special donation offer for Paul Findley's They Dare to Speak Out. We'll mail it to anyone in the United States, naming you as the donor if you wish, for $5 including postage. It's a $9.95 book so that's not a bad way to touch a lot of people on your gift list profoundly, and your pocket book lightly.

Library Donation Packages

If your mind turns to institutional donations at this time of the year, please check out our library donation package. We'll mail 12 books and two subscriptions with a list value of $173.90 directly to libraries of your choice for a $47.50 donation from you to the tax-exempt AET Library Endowment.

Those are a lot of ways for readers to do their holiday gift shopping, round out their charitable giving for 1989, and help AET and the Washington Report make it from here to Dec. 31.

Make a Difference This Month

How about a letter or telephone call to some of the 32 senators who didn't sign a letter calling upon the Secretary of State to make a laughing stock of the United States again this year by again refusing a visa to Yasser Arafat? You'll find some surprising names on the list on page 20. Whether they didn't participate in the AIPAC-orchestrated exercise as a matter of conscience or because they were out to lunch doesn't matter. If you thank them now, perhaps they'll still be out to lunch when AIPAC calls again.

For your own representative in Congress, and perhaps your two senators as well, we suggest mailing photocopies of page 58 (the back of this page). Since the text and photos say it all, you can make a difference, this month.