The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Mid-April to mid-May, and no longer will His Excellency Field Marshal Al Hadji Idi Amin Dada, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., be watching "I Love Lucy" shows and "Tom and Jerry"...
...Finally, lights went on in the dark cranial cavities of thousands of loyal Naderites when the New York Daily News reported that a young woman was strangled by her car's electric win dow...
...They have sold the land to a paleface developer, much to the horror of the Los Angeles Sierra Club...
...A large amount that, but not quite so large as the settlement reached on May 3 when the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded a 42-year-old Poughkeep-sie, New York, woman an $854,000 judgment against a plastic surgeon accused of moving- perhaps by accident, perhaps not-her belly button off-center during a stomach-tightening operation...
...Microfilm editions of The American Spectator are available from Xerox University Microfilms, 200 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106...
...Strange as it may sound, the 6'4", 300-pound progressive has slipped from sight...
...Yet the spenders are apparently a powerful and occult force...
...Florence Maski, will receive $5,000, presumably to rent fuliginous citizens willing to endure her com pany...
...Lost too during April was that Proposition 13 fever that swept the nation last fall and had our congressmen spouting oaths and bawling that they would cut spending or perish in the pur suit...
...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it The Alternative: An American Spectator, but by November 1977 the word "alternative" had acquired such an esoteric fragrance that in order to discourage unsolicited manuscripts from florists, beauticians, and other creative types the Club reverted to the magazine's original name...
...and the great man has not been seen since...
...Surely he would make an admirable minis ter for that government's Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Joseph Heller, and notwithstanding thousands of gratis prayers from Lillian Hellman, neo-conservatism spreads...
...In other notable legal decisions, New York's State Supreme Court Justice John Doerr ad judged "topless" dancing an "art form," thus causing glorious consternation at the National Endowment for the Arts...
...Ralph Nader has been accused of ad hering to discriminatory practices at the Health Research Group, where it is also alleged that "workers...
...These are questions now under ardent discus sion in all the newsrooms of the world, in foreign ministries, and at his old haunt, the United Nations...
...How many more long-necked beauties will be sacrificed before automobile windows are finally banned...
...Perhaps he will show up in the illustrious Ayatollah's Islamic Repub lic...
...And sadder still, the Equal Employment Opportunity Com mission has been found guilty of violating the laws it was created to enforce...
...So fevered were our heroic representatives by visions of wanton government spenders that late last year they passed the Nunn Amend ment, an unusual legislative document calling for spending limitations and tax reductions...
...Furthermore, the Procrustean contrivance has the support of his eloquent colleague, Mr...
...Published remarkably without regard to sex, life-style, race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin...
...New York office, (212) 724-3799...
...And a jury in Utica, Michigan, granted Mrs...
...Nor will the corpulent evangelist for Third World verities be bathing in the ap plause of smirking eminentoes at the United Nations...
...Despite the selfless heroism of Mr...
...Re peated attempts by the New York Times to reach Mr...
...Oklahoma state representative Frank Shurden (D-Henryetta) has introduced a bill requiring the castration of convicted rapists...
...Possibly he will become head football coach at Ohio State...
...Barbara Osantowski $20,000 for a broken toe...
...Fortunately, the Army's mind is on grass too, and at Arlington National Cemetery action is finally being taken to defend the grass against the crazed hooves of hundreds of joggers who have been disturbing the subterranean sepul-chers with their quotidian debaucheries...
...Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
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...How could such a thing happen in populist chambers pa trolled by the likes of the Rt...
...And on April 25, in New York City, Councilman Antonio Olivieri, a violent advocate of jogging, collapsed at his desk and remained unconscious for some time-a mishap that doubtless saved New Yorkers thousands of dollars but one that should serve as an omen to all those who would don malodorous apparel and join in this madness...
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...John Monks (D-Muskogee), who is indifferent to "what the liberal bleeding heart do-gooders back East say about Oklahoma If we've got an old bull that's real raunchy" it is the custom to castrate him and "turn him to pasture [where] his mind's on grass all the time...
...In April, glad tidings were brought to that Pittsburgh man whose penis was inadver tently amputated during routine surgery back in May of 1974-short weeks before his proposed marriage...
...Nader were unavailing...
...The American Spectator is now published monthly at 102 West Sixth Street, Bloomington, Indiana...
...Over the past six years the toe apparently has hindered her dancing, and so her husband was soothed with a court-ordered sweetener of $180,000 "for loss of consortium...
...RET Editor-in - Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...A jubilant sough spread through all the male flophouses of America when it was revealed that Mr...
...Publisher Baron Von Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club General Manager Ronald E. Burr Managing Editor Steven C. Munson Assistant Managing Editor Erich Eichman Business Manager William B. Head Production Manager K.J...
...A Superior Court in West Hartford, Connecticut, has made a cash award to a West Hartford woman who claimed that her landlord's rental policies had deprived her of the benefits of having black and Hispanic neighbors...
...Box 877, Bloomington, Indiana 47402, (812) 334-2715...
...Foreign air mail rates sent on request...
...A Common Pleas Court awarded the man $825,000...
...Second class postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana, and additional mailing offices...
...Marlon Brando will be suffering no more...
...Is he in Iraq...
...The American judicial system continues as a source of intense interest to citizens of anthropoidea...
...are paid as little as possible, have no job security, have no formal agreements re garding conditions, have no bargaining...
...What is more, taxes will rise by $68 billion over the Nunn Amendment's ceilings...
...A one-year subscription (twelve issues) costs $12, outside the United States $13...
...And the revolution is turning on its fa thers...
...A motley Tanzanian army, languorously trav eling through Uganda since November, collect ing butterflies, rare botanical specimens, and what loot remained on the land, "toppled" Mr...
...The woman, Mrs...
...In Indiana, state representative Bob Jones keeled over, Adidas and all...
...For despite the heroics of our elected representatives and despite the Nunn Amendment, it had become manifest by midMay that spending will rise $42 billion over the Nunn Amendment's ceilings from 1980 to 1982...
...Grubbs,Jr., Neil Howe, Roger Kaplan, William Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky, A. James McAdams III, Robert McTiernan, Judy Mathews, William H. Nolte, Terry O'.Rourke, Marc F. Planner, Peter J. Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein Legal Counsel Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short • • • • The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...Have the Zionist rascals done him in...
...Is he in Libya...
...Henry Durand Irwin, the estranged husband of Mrs...
...Irwin, will be entitled to monthly alimony checks of $1,600 from his wife...
...The Army has banned jogging from the cemetery, yet it is the only agency of our government to take action against jogging, and so the grisly toll continues to mount...
...In a Solomonic deci sion, admirably respectful of our pluralistic tradition, the renowned justice declared that whether "topless dancing rises to the plateau of artistic endeavor in the minds of all, to some it is an art form and type of expression protected by the First Amendment...
...Amin's Presidency-for-Life...
...But for now all that is known is that the man who be came the conscience of the Third World is lost, and in Uganda the incidence of death by natural causes is bound to go up...
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...The thing is a mystery...
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...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Mid-April to mid-May, and no longer will His Excellency Field Marshal Al Hadji Idi Amin Dada, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., be watching "I Love Lucy" shows and "Tom and Jerry" cartoons from his presidential viewing room in mysteri ous Kampala...
...Those suffering Indians who received 40 acres of virgin California land from the humane Mr...
...Volume 12, Number 6, June 1979...
...According to Judge Thomas A. Flannery of Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., Miss Aida L. Berio, a Hispanic, suffered discrimination because of her national origin when the EEOC denied her a promotion in 1973...
...Why has His Excellency not appeared there, hollering about Tanzanian in humanity and demanding a few comforting vaporings from our Andy...
...Grubb Circulation Manager Janet M.Novey Senior Editors A. Lawrence Chickering, Adam Meyerson, Karl O'Lessker, Kent Owen Art Advisor Elliott Banfield New York Editor Whit Stillman Americana Editor Joseph P. Duggan Associates Robert Asahina, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr., John R. Coyne, Jr., Stephen Miller, Alan Reynolds Contributors Aram Bakshian, Jr., Christopher C. DeMuth, Terry Eastland, Jerry Gerde, K.E...
...It is a thing to ponder...
Vol. 12 • June 1979 • No. 6
