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IssueVol. 017 Issue 007 (July 1 1984)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS oMay passes. It has been one year since the Roman Catholic bishops of America hurled their pastoral letter across the Republic like brat kids floating a paper airplane...
Paid articleCorrespondence
novel to Mr. Steve Garman, whose entry was: "The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at her...
Paid articleEditorials/The Formidable Miss Tutwiler/The Hart Bull
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
E D I T O R I A L S THE FORMIDABLE MISS TUTWILER L i k e millions of other Americans I do not know Margaret Tutwiler, but from last month's news reports I get the impression that she is a...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Citizen Hags
Bethell, Tom
was insistent that we end military assistance to El Salvador "immediately." He was vague about where beyond our borders we might ever use force. He was poetic about how all disagreements...
Paid articleThe P~ice of Gold
Fossedal, Gregory A.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ VOL. 17, NO. 7 / JULY 1984 Gregory A. Fossedal THE PRICE OF GOLD It's not unlikely that we'll soon return to the gold standard. But there's still one matter that will...
Paid articleBlack Family Agonistes
Tucker, William
returns. Even so, it isn't foolproof, and thus during that adjustment period Lehrman would have the Treasury Secretary keep close track of the activity of marginal North American gold mines,...
Paid articleI.F. Stone, Self-Crafted Icon
Asahina, Robert
black people--screaming that women have a "constitutional right" to have babies without latching on to a husband, and that teenage girls have a "constitutional right" to get pregnant any time...
Paid articleTwo-Faced Germany
Lukacs, John
Of course, his Jefferson has about as much to do with the real Founding Father as his Marx does with the actual father of Communism. "Jeffersonianism" means simply freedom of thought to...
Paid articlePresswatch/The Metzenbaum Difference
Barnes, Fred
PRESSWATCH THE METZENBAUM DIFFERENCE A few months ago, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina was getting ready to speak to several hundred folks at a fund-raising breakfast when he learned...
Paid articleEminentoes/One Hundred Years of Harry Truman
Hamby, Alonzo L.
ponent's abysmal lack of them, that he got gentler, less negative coverage. Reporters thought him kooky and illinformed on some issues, but he wasn't as unpleasant as his opponent, who had...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Olympic Art
Stein, Benjamin J.
environment where social-economic distinctions actually were felt in practice, if not in theory, a failure in business, an associate of crooked politicians, he developed a touchiness about...
Paid articlePolitique Internationale/Olympic Bosh
Taki
ual students, artists who are not pitching scripts at Universal, schoolteachers genuinely inspired by The Magic Flute who never even go near a tax-sheltered offering. Those people are...
Paid articleCaveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy
Jr, Alexander M. Haig
BOOK R E V I E W S _9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Paid articleCivil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
Sowell, Thomas
have been quickly forgotten had not Haig chosen to raise them into issues of principle. What is more, some of the most damaging leaks--because they were plainly unmalicious--came from Haig's...
Paid articlePresidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
Stein, Herbert
represented" in every endeavor. With the battle for civil rights "won," Sowell believes it is counterproductive to make every issue affecting minorities into a civil rights matter, where...
Paid articleThe Apocalyptics: Politics, Science, and the Big Cancer Lie
Efron, Edith
based not on Lafferite fantasies but on spending cuts that, it turned out, couldn't be won from Congress. Stein also downplays the importance of the drastic decline in inflation as a source of...
Paid articleIn the Path of God: Islam and Political Power
Pipes, Daniel
vative in its approach to cancer prevention, but that there had never been a government cancer policy which had actually functioned . . . . The essential problem . . . was the 'hodgepodge...
Paid articleA Country Such As This, by James Webb
Dunlap, John R.
strengthened, not weakened, by the tribulations of war. The revolution has crushed or dispersed its opponents from within, and has repulsed the Iraqi invader from without. A Persian...
Paid articleThe Death of Che Guevara, by Jay Cantor, and Family Portrait With Fidel
Franqui, Carlos
temperament and the flaky insistence of her New Age politics; Red and Sophia Lesczynski both have, above all, each other, their children, and a close-knit Polish-American community in...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Warming Up for Ramadan
Anant, Victor
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL WARMING UP FOR RAMADAN by Victor Anant KARACHI, Pakistan--Apart from Islam and its regional sword-bearer, President General Zia uI-Haq, the news is always about a few areas...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Nation Esoteric rumblings from the galley slaves who sweat below deck for Victor Navasky and the New Dawn: New York City As workers at The Nation, we protest...
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