The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - The hair curls. The palms begin to sweat. Premonitory messages of a return to years of sleepless nights are felt. I am a member of the...
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...Still, the news greatly vexed Miss,joan Claybrook of the Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who apparently speaks for the nation's drunk drivers and homicidal maniacs...
...Cate's human right is protected and not discriminated against under Japanese law...
...What a fury Mr...
...He was fined...
...and I am left monitoring news reports from National Public Radio, while unanswered fund appeals from Barry Commoner's Citizens' Party pile up...
...Clearly, Mr...
...some marry them...
...Fifty-three American nationals remain the prisoners of the dirty-necked mullahs of Iran...
...Yet there is also cause to rejoice...
...He grows even more austere...
...Inflation has hit an annual rate of 18.2 percent...
...The American Ambassador to Colombia has been taken hostage...
...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...
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...Naderism: Commerce on the Babylonian Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred D. Baldwin 17 For Ralph Nader, the business of business is politics, but with his "Case for a Corporate Democracy Act" he goes too far...
...In Cuba, the infamous Soviet brigade has resumed maneuvers, according to the State Department...
...In .johannesburg, South Africa, a 35-year-old woman was beaten and robbed while trying to commit suicide...
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...Psychologists are familiar with a condition they call the Stockholm Syndrome, wherein ex-hostages come to the defense of their captors...
...C O N T E N T S The Dogmas of the Modern-Day Mugwumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Miller 7 After ten years of devotion to the "public interest, " Common Cause marches ever onward to the Land of Perfeet Reform...
...Leo Wollman is practically singing the news that one of his patients, a 40-year-old man, has successfully breast-fed his daughter, aided solely by sex hormones...
...9 Maryland's House of Delegates passed a bill exempting manure from state property tax...
...Brezhnev does not want war...
...9 And meanwhile in Teheran the singularity of the Iranian revolution grows ever more manifest...
...After all, as the Prime Minister allowed, "Everybody has a past...
...Eade 29 Looking for Work, by Susan Cheever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Gilder 31 Constitutional Interrelationships Between the President and Congress of the USA in the Sphere o f Foreign Policy, by Yuri I. Nyporko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert L. Weeks 32 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1980 3...
...This revelation he granted only to the Rev...
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...Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
...And in Mineola, New York, Mrs...
...DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial / The Marion Stonehead Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . 4 Capitol Ideas / The Soviet Sphere of Influenza...
...They spoke of a global "domino theory" of Soviet conquest...
...Moss's dog was propelled by Mr...
...Khomeini's galoots to invade a few more embassies, Iran might become a superpower...
...Yet the fishermen responded only with inscrutable oriental gesticulations and lawsuits--a chilling response, that, and so Mr...
...And in far-off Tokyo , American idealism and honor are being defended by two remarkable Yanks, Mr...
...9 In early March Western journalists were summoned to a mystery spot in northern Cambodia where Prime Minister Khieu Samphan and Deputy Prime Minister Ieng Sary of the deposed Pol Pot regime, both dressed in business suits, suavely confessed that Pol Pot had made some policy mistakes...
...and from Beverly Hills to Georgetown the fires of idealism cooled...
...Jimmy Carter has deceived me...
...Tom and Jane took the news especially hard...
...There is rage in the powder rooms of America...
...When he got on that airplane he knew what he was doing...
...They sought aid...
...9 Meanwhile in Washington, the Wonderboy, now a bit wan and wrinkled, pitches himself into the world's problems...
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...Russia's trade union daily, Trud, has just announced the opening of two Moscow pizza parlors...
...The cities are going to explode...
...In Afghanistan the Russians are taking fearful punishment, according to Western journalists covering the slaughter from the cafes of Pakistan...
...That is the question now reposing in the minds of my fellows, and, as it reposes, sometimes it wets the brain...
...Were the Rev...
...The fellows sought understanding...
...Peter Bennett, who held it by the back right leg as he repeatedly bashed it against a garden wall...
...Moreover, Dr...
...Well, perhaps if we were finally to go to war with Chile...
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...The prime rate is at its highest since the Civil War...
...Our main duty is not to make the socialist revolution or build socialism," the fellows asserted...
...I shall vote for Anderson of Illinois ! He is the candidate of seemly sentiment...
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...It is no less than the precursor of a new era in international relations, an era in which power and prominence correlate not with the size of one's army or national treasury but rather with the number of hostages a nation can sock away in its national hoosegow...
...Ursula Beckley has filed suit against the Dairy Barn Stores, contending that a six-inch, grayish-black snake crawled out of an egg she had purchased from one of the chain's stores...
...Radical Sheiks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DouglasJ...
...I am a progressive, a reader of newsletters, a member of adlsoc committees, a contributor to causes, and I know that it is no accident that Richard Milhous Nixon moved to New York in February...
...9 When the American hostages are viewed from this perspective it becomes clear that in demanding their release we go too far...
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...He is easily the most concerned President of all time...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 February 9 to March 6. The hair curls...
...English purchasers of dachshunds received similar news regarding the crashworthiness of their pets when it was divulged in a Knutsford, Cheshire, court that Mrs...
...William Lucas 26 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Current Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted Jackasses 37 BOOK REVIEWS Small Futures: Children, Inequality, and the Limits o f Liberal Reform, by Richard H. deLone for the-Carnegie Council on Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steven Lagerfeld 28 Rousseau's State of Nature: An Interpretation o f the Discourse on Inequality, by Marc F. Platmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AlanJ...
...These hostages are fundamental components of Iranian security...
...In New York City, Dr...
...His is a sad case...
...Some develop deep feelings for their tormentors...
...Am I for a national youth registration...
...Tom Bethell 5 The Talkies / Cruising...
...John Podhoretz 23 Presswatch / Where News Is Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Ledeen 24 Eminentoes / The Best Congressmen Money Can Buy...
...9 Jimmy is the first man ever to suffer the Stockholm Syndrome without actually having been taken hostage...
...Has the world ever seen the likes...
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...It would play right into the hands of the Fortune 500...
...Vera Moss's dachshund failed to survive its test against a stationary barrier...
...RET 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1980 Editor-in- Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Yet let us remember that not even the Iranians so cruelly abuse the dolphins as these greedy Japanese...
...A pretender to the Afghan throne has been found selling shirts at Bergdorf Goodman...
...To demand their release is to demand of Iran something on the order of unilateral disarmament...
...Consular officer with a conscience...
...Hastings is setting things straight: "We are obligated to see Mr...
...He has put aside his threats and sanctions...
...Donald Finkel, whose entry was a solar doghouse...
...He now sends the Iranians hints of affection and promises of eventual U.S...
...Khomeini, D.D., B.P.O.E...
...Gold is selling for over $625, and the dollar is sent getwell cards from international bankers...
...And now back to my therapy group...
...How can he keep missing the signals from Moscow...
...Feith 11 What stake have we in wooing "moderate" oil regimes that exploit us economically and politically ? After Eastern Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Crutcher 14 Soviet dissidents in the capitalists' paradise...
...Only if it is committed to good works ! But what if women yearn for combat...
...Mary Bates of Marshall, Michigan, has filed a $1 million damage suit against a casket firm and a funeral parlor, charging that shoddy workmanship caused her husband's mortal remains to fall through the casket's bottom and be trampled upon as it was being borne to its grave site...
...Allah never notified the Shah of the power that accrues to the international kidnapper...
...9 Meanwhile the Wonderboy remains in voluntary confinement in the White House...
...I am a member of the constituency of conscience...
...Volume 13, Number 4, April 1980...
...Hastings would be in Teheran...
...Teddy campaigns in an existential void, dated spring 1970...
...Wollman reports that he has personally tasted the milk, and, though slightly different from female milk, it is clinically safe and nutritious...
...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it The Alternative: An American Spectator...
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...The government of Iran has been handed over to a gang of low-grade graduate students drawn from the universities of Europe and America, where they once slept through classes and terrorized coeds, yet Iran remains inviolable, thanks to its arsenal of hostages...
...9 American purchasers of 1979 domestic and foreign automobiles seemed to take the news calmly when the Department of Transportation announced that most of its 1979 test cars had failed head-on tests at 35 miles-per-hour...
...Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein Legal Counsel Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short Q The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...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. Platmer, Ann Pullin, PeterJ...
...9 Ronald Reagan stalks the land...
...The New Brinksmanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Nollson 21 Campaign Fundaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theo Lippman, J r . 22 Pieced together from piles of evidence...
...should be sent to The American Spectator, P.O...
...9 A prize for passive solar house design has been conferred by the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Mr...
...A 375-pound inmate continues to terrorize correctional officials in New York, breaking many noses and spilling much blood, despite the fact that he has been examined by shrinks, transferred to Bellevue Hospital, and f~ted with a small birthday party by armed guards wearing chest protectors...
...What gives...
...the Department of Transportation got off scot-free...
...Cate was arrested in late February for cutting the nets of.Japanese fishermen and freeing some 200 dolphins...
...He had tried to enter into dialogue with the fishermen, who refer to dolphins as "gangsters of the sea," and to elucidate his position that "dolphins should have rights similar to human rights...
...And what is the position on .jimmy...
...The oil companies are my enemy...
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...Look at it from the Iranian point of view...
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...And Jimmy grows even more concerned...
...When he wore work shirts and Levis in 1976 he was not sincere...
...aid and commerce...
...I do not expect him to forsake Rosalynn for an Iranian militant, but it is apparent that he is not apt to do harm to his Iranian tormentors...
...But do we know what he is doing...
...Dexter Care of the Hawaii-based Fund for Animals and Mr...
...Gooderham Executive Secretary Deborah S. Grubb Circulation Manager Susan F. Leiby Research Director Paul H. Vivian Senior Editors A. Lawrence Chickering, Adam Meyerson, Karl O'Lessker Art Advisor Sheila Wolfe New Yori Editor Whit Stillman Americana Editor Joseph P. Duggan Chief Saloon Correspondent Douglas Bartholomew 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...
Vol. 13 • April 1980 • No. 4
