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IssueVol. 017 Issue 008 (August 1 1984)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS o June 1984 is history, but rather than retire from this column for the summer I may just stick around. Jesse Jackson schmoozes with Fidel Castro. Walter Mondale buys a...
Paid articleCorrespondence
flight entirely. Many of the Republic's psychiatric clinics were emptied at the end of the month as thousands of 1960s flower children journeyed to Likely, California for the thirteenth annual...
Paid articleEditorials/French Opposition/D-Day Bosh
Tyrrellr, R. Emmett Jr.
E D I T O R I A L S FRENCH OPPOSITION by R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . Paris--Jacques Chirac works in a building that is monumental: gilded ceilings, marbled interiors, doors tall enough to dwarf an...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/What Immigration Crisis?
Bethell, Tom
memorations last month, reiterating their wartime charge that we should have invaded Europe two years earlier. They were lucky that we were there at all. Many Americans who opposed FDR's...
Paid articleA Second Term Game Plan
Wanniski, Jude
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ VOL. 17, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1984 Jude Wanniski A SECOND TERM GAME PLAN There's no reason for Mr. Reagan to be vague about his plans. P r e s i d e n t Reagan's landslide...
Paid articleGay Times and Diseases
Buchanan, Patrick J.; Muir, J. Gordon
Patrick J. Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir GAY TIMES AND DISEASES Whom the Democrats would embrace, they may be infected by. Gay Rights is no longer a debatable issue within the Democratic...
Paid articleDressed to Kill: The Conservative Exterior
Jamieson, T. John
Back in 1977, a fourfold to tenfold increase in GBS-type diseases was noted in the San Francisco area. Since then the situation has deteriorated. The incidence of shigellosis and hepatitis A in...
Paid articleOur Century of Gangsters
Calinescu, Matei
affectations in dress in his 1980 Rolling Stone interview. In college he wore black gangster shirts and a hat and always carried an umbrella. In the newspapers, his pretentious pr#ciositt was...
Paid articlePresswatch/Premises, Premises
Barnes, Fred
PRESSWATCH PREMISES, PREMISES A squad of so-called Soviet religious leaders appeared in the United States last May at the invitation of the National Council of Churches. A month later, the...
Paid articleEminentoes/Syria's Howling Jackals
Morrison, Micah
EMINENTOES SYRIA'S HOWLING JACKALS Consider the dictator of Damascus. At the moment of his greatest success--central Lebanon a puppet state under his control, superpower America and its...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Quota Quashing
Belz, Herman
THE PUBLIC POLICY QUOTA QUASHING The Supreme Court's recent decision in Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts is the most significant affirmative action ruling since the Weber...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/The Sikhness of India
Anant, Victor
action. The reason is that most quota programs are in a technical legal sense the result not of Title VII litigation, but of voluntary agreements entered into in order to avert Title...
Paid articlePrinces, Playboys, & High-Class Tarts
Taki
BOOK R E V I E W S I t was 1978 when Taki Theodoracopulos moved to, or began to spend a substantial amount of time in, New York. He was forty-one, and already a columnist for the...
Paid articleWe, the British/The Kingdom by the Sea
Richard, Ivor; Theroux, Paul
ly to cross. Which is to say that reading him is rather like watching somebody paint himself into corner after corner, then scaling the wall with that one, proverbial bound. But Taki has...
Paid articleParis
Russell, John
periences: For the English, World War II was endured on their own territory--midnight bomb attacks, the destruction of historic cities, the expectation at one point of a German invasion at...
Paid articleThe Supply-Side Revolution
Roberts, Paul Craig
sitive soul, like Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge, could be so overwhelmed by the suffering of the poor and sick that the splendors of Paris almost passed him by. Still the same was true of...
Paid articleThe Coercive Utopians
Isaac, Rael Jean; Isaac, Erich
rampaging inflation, and economic stagnation, only to see the President's inner circle uninterested in his plan. But why would David Stockman, who drank from the very same cooler as Roberts, be...
Paid articleDemocracy
Didion, Joan
what's the difference? It's a matter the authors don't address. To offer pragmatism to the American people as an intellectual antidote to the seductions of socialist "idealism," is to concede...
Paid articleMy Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein
Stutman, Suzanne
the sentence fragments that used to be so arresting but now sometimes seem just a nervous refusal to finish a sentence: See it this way. See the sun rise that Wednesday morning in 1975 the...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Let Them Come
Kaplan, Roger
THE TALKIES LET THEM COME Why do so many people, from so many different distant lands, come to the United States of America? They come legally and illegally, by hook and by crook, they come...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT W I S D O M Polish Studies Center Newsletter (Indiana University) Prof. Elizabeth Steiner reveals the flumdiddle that can be created when feminism is combined with a leading school o f...
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