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Vol. 018 Issue 007 (July 1 1985)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r ,7'...
Correspondence
years of banning the songs of Mr. Frank Sinatra Communist Cuba capitulated, airing "Come Fly With Me" on June 18, and God knows how many other glorious arias since. Miss Karen Quinlan shook...
Editorials/Take the Money and Run/Our Man Leaves Paris
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS HOLY SHIITE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Editor's note: This column was written two weeks before the hijacking of TWA flight 847.) In the course of this column I shall perhaps make...
Capitol Ideas/British Views and Prospects
Bethell, Tom
practiced in backwater America when a local reactionary tries to ban from the school house the books of, say, Kurt Vonnegut. The Endowment had made a $50,000 grant and asked that the Freedom to...
First Strike and You're Out
Graham, Daniel O.; Fossedal, Gregory A .
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ . . . VOL. 18, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1985 -- / )-, 9 ~ . . . ==.,,m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Barnes REAGAN'S...
Open Secrets of the Deficit
Ulmer, Melville J.
response to his package, which has such populist elements as a $2,000 personal exemption and a top rate on individual income of 35 percent. But, in truth, the Reagan plan represents a serious...
Brian's Song
Gladwell, Malcolm
' " i i L i i -- ~ : ~ . . . . . -1 ! . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . " - ii i i J iii it i t ., _, 9 ~ - ., .. . , . . , _ . , . , , John Train STAR WARS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Perspectives on...
A Small Circle of Friends
D'Souza, Dinesh
done by Professor Jastrow. The UCS has privately admitted many of its defects, but does not, of course, abandon its conclusions, since the conclusions are what they begin from. A similar canard...
Trouble and Travel
Sisk, John P.
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Presswatch/Czarists and Pink Leather Boots
O'Sullivan, John
PRESSWATCH RAPE IN THE NEW AGE by John O'Sullivan When Governor James Thompson of Illinois pronounced Gary Dotson guilty but popular in the Dotson-Webb rape case and released him from prison,...
The Hoosier Pulse/Stealing It Fair and Square
Owen, Kent
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS 9 - J PILGRIMS FROM THE HEARTLAND The wind whips up the dust on the road and tousles Sister Mary Hartman's iron-gray hair as she describes the unique qualities of...
The Nation's Pulse/Snow Jobs
Harkness, James
not accompanied us to Leon. Without their careful guidance, the testimony on economic pluralism begins to unravel. While the businessman makes his case, his young U.S.-educated son stands...
Among the Intellectualoids/Pennsylvania Prophets
Carlson, Allan C.
he has visited as evidence and proceeds with him to the point where he is to be picked up by helicopter, the bureaucrat tells the helicopter pilots not to land. It is a powerful scene:...
Spectator's Journal/In Love in Washington
Stein, Benjamin J.
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Liberalism and Its Challengers
Hamby, Alonzo L.
on hard-currency visits to the West. "The dividing line between them," says Scammell, "was still the barbed-wire fence and the ploughed strip, a ghostly barrier that continued to separate...
The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age
Pells, Richard H.
Ambrose records Eisenhower's "own judgment, which he expressed on innumerable occasions," that his greatest failure as President "was the failure to achieve peace. When he left office,...
The Pentagon and the Art of War
Luttwak, Edward N.
RISE AND FALL Milovan Djilas/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/S24.95 Stephen Miller Yugoslavia has always been regarded as the one Communist country it is okay to like. After all, even...
Backfire
Baritz, Loren
Djilas himself says, "The ruling Communist bureaucracy cannot even conceive of such far-reaching reforms." It is much easier for a military dictator than a Marxist-Leninist to relinquish power....
Disabling America
Morgan, Richard E.
HILAIRE BELLOC: A BIOGRAPHY A.N. Wilson/At heneum/$17.95 Franz M. Oppenheimer A book about Hilaire Belloc published in 1916 described him as "the greatest writer of English prose...
Exodus and Revolution
Walzer, Michael
him almost in spite of, rather than because of, what he said." He was loyal: "in taking up with new friends [he] never dropped the old . . . . He lost almost no friends in the course of...
Helmut Schmidt
Carr, Jonathan
ROADSIDE EMPIRES: HOW THE CHAINS FRANCHISED AMERICA Stan Luxenberg/Viking/$17.95 Richard Starr Who could know that, when given a land which flows with milk and honey, people would buy...
Lenin and the Twentieth Century
Wolfe, Bertram D.
firms this point. Maslow placed subjects in beautiful, average, and ugly rooms. They were then shown pictures of people, and "subjects in the average and beautiful rooms on the whole took a...
The Great American Saloon Series/Taking Georgetown
Mysak, Joe
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL SON SANN BLUE 6~ilZ don't want to talk about the past," is how Son Sann put it. Testy, curt, and final. Didn't he say the same thing on the MacNeil-Lehrer show a week...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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