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Vol. 018 Issue 010 (October 1 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS August marked the 40th anniversary of our dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima-an event which has caused untold suffering. September, however, marks the 40th anniversary of our...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Humanist Resentment We at the Humanist resent being called a "gray magazine" ("Theocracy in America: Campaign '84 Revisited," by Richard Brookhiser, TAS, August 1985). We always...
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Editorials/Budgetary Chaos/Clint Eastwood, Auteur
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS BUDGETARY CHAOS It was in 1974 that Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, vouchsafing the instrumentalities for finally getting a grip on the budget....
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Capitol Ideas/Mitch Snyder in Hell
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS MITCH SNYDER IN HELL It was a hot summer afternoon on Euclid Street and Mitch Snyder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence was working on a legal brief. Three or four cats were...
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The Art of Additive Compromise
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Fossedal, Gregory A.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 18, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1985 Gregory A. Fossedal THE ART OF ADDITIVE COMPROMISE Cannot conservatives and liberals work together to build a better...
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A Tory Critique of Neoconservatives
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Worsthorne, Peregrine
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A TORY CRITIQUE OF NEOCONSERVATIVES The godfather of British conservatism takes on cisatlantic godfathers. London—Left-wing Europeans have always been anti-American and it would seem that...
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Sun City for Social Security
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Bandow, Doug
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SUN CITY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY Bipartisan quick fixes won't keep the checks coming. A wo years ago House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Rules Committee Chairman Claude Pepper, along with Senate Majority...
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Bernard Nathanson's High Tech Heresies
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Becker, Brenda L.
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BERNARD NATHANSON'S HIGH TECH HERESIES Playing at an Ethical Culture Society near you, in ultrasound. Until recently, the two armed camps in the abortion debate had, for me at least, one thing...
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Presswatch/Nosing Around
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O'Sullivan, John
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PRESSWATCH NOSING AROUND by John O'Sullivan fora week in August, all Washington was glued to the President's nose. One was reminded of the remark that the entire history of the world might have...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Rock Around the Dock
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ROCK AROUND THE DOCK When the "We Are the World" video first slithered into public view, I was sitting around with a friend who himself happens to be in...
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The President's Pulse/No Way to Treat a President
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Schwartz, Harry
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reminding them to be socially concerned. Nonsense. The circus atmosphere of the Live Aid concerts makes the world's problems seem easy and fun to solve and implies that the solutions are...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Bishops' Mysteries
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Mainland, Mary
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE BISHOPS' MYSTERIES by Mary Mainland A redictably, news coverage of the Catholic bishops' June meeting in Col-legeville, Minnesota, to discuss revisions in their letter on...
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Among the Educationaloids/Back to School
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Brooks, Thomas R.
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AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS BACK TO SCHOOL My granddaughter and a friend were up from Reston, Virginia, to audition for the Joffrey Ballet School's summer session. At lunch, we chatted about family,...
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Constitutional Opinions/The Vacant Majority
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS THE VACANT MAJORITY by Jeremy Rabkin A few years ago, many cars in my part of the country carried a taunting bumper sticker: "the moral majority IS NEITHER." You don't see...
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Sense and Nonsense: A Reader's Guide to the KE007 Massacre
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Oberg, James E.
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BOOK REVIEWS When 269 people die horribly and world tension is noticeably heightened, it is of course prudent to determine how the tragedy occurred and how we can prevent its like from happening...
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Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays, 1982-1984
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Kissinger, Henry
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he points out. El he adds: "An argument that a thing cannot happen .... collapses when there is evidence that it has already happened, somewhere else." Due to an outage o f...
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The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende
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Davis, Nathaniel
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does not invalidate the utility of his observations today. What began as an instrument of foreign policy, he writes, took on a life of its own, and today more and more Western governments "act...
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The Dangerous Summer
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Hemingway, Ernest
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THE DANGEROUS SUMMER Ernest Hemingway/Charles Scribner's Sons/$ 17.95 Reid Buckley In the summer of 1959 a doomed Ernest Hemingway came back to the Spain he had celebrated in The Sun Also Rises...
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The Matter of Wales
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Morris, Jan
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carry death in them; they carry the death in them. When the toughguyness isn't plain awful, it is awful and embarrassingly punk, as when he boasts of getting into a cage with a wolf, which we...
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Telling Right from Wrong
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Cooney, Timothy J.
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TELLING RIGHT FROM WRONG: WHAT IS MORAL, WHAT IS'-IMMORAL, AND WHAT IS NEITHER ONE NOR THE OTHER Timothy J. Cooney/Prometheus Books/$17.95 Ernest van den Haag A his book has an interesting...
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Justice: The Memoirs of an Attorney General
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Kleindienst, Richard
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JUSTICE: THE MEMOIRS OF AN ATTORNEY GENERAL Richard Kleindienst/Jameson Books/$16.95 Tim W. Ferguson Richard Kleindienst has written the latest and perhaps last Watergate memoir, and his Justice:...
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Politique Internationale/The Comedians
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Taki
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POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE THE COMEDIANS Oh, dear. Rodney Dangerfield is no longer my favorite comedian. Since last June he's been replaced by one of my countrymen, a man who gets even less respect...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Moral Equivalence, prettily put by the learned Jonathan Porritt-and remember if you will all those astonished Neoliberals who deny that such knavish arguments...
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