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 Vol. 019 Issue 003 (March 1 1986)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I...
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Correspondence
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trumped-up charge of "interfering with a flight crew." The Right Reverend Edmond Lee Browning was installed as the 24th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in ceremonies which clinched that...
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Editorials/Neolib Vapors/Slob Sisters
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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E D I T O R I A L...
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Capitol Ideas/Justice Day
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DEPARTMENTS
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sonalities are insufferably gloomy, and where they ought to manifest sophistication and joie de vivre they reveal merely a dolt satisfaction in being slobs. Moreover, I am unconvinced that many of...
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The Coming of Aids
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Grutsch, James F. Jr.; Robertson, A.D.J.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 19, NO 3 / MARCH...
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Containment's Comeback
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Hamby, Alonzo L.
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Alonzo L. Hamby CONTAINMENT'S COMEBACK A policy that has stood the test of time. In February 1946, the American foreign policy establishment, baffled and disturbed by a series of difficulties...
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East Bloc Ecology
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Puddington, Arch
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d etre. Its imminent death seems as unlikely as the renunciation of Immaculate Conception by the Vatican. George Kennan had once hoped that containment would lead to the break-up of the Soviet...
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Sailing from Byzantium
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Brookhiser, Richard
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............................................................................................................................................................................. Richard...
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Presswatch/Ultimately Unfortunate
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O'Sullivan, John
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PRESSWATCH r ULTIMATELY UNFORTUNATE by John O'Sullivan When ABC decided to postpone—and even to consider canceling—a projected miniseries on a hypothetical Soviet occupation of the United...
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Spectator's Journal/Lost in Lebanon
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McGurn, William
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL .......................................................................................................................................................................... ship....
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European Document/Hi, I'm Johannes Rau
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Shlaes, Amity
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Of course, even in the midst of a civil war normal life adapts. Aside from the war (or perhaps because of it), Lebanon is in most respects a libertarian paradise. There are no exchange controls, for...
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The Nation's Pulse/Making It
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Bawer, Bruce
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being debated. that would make it harder to strike. "Rau believes a little bit of everything, but not all of it," writes commentator Herbert Kremp in the conservative national paper, Die Welt. On...
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Polit-ique Internationale/A Touch of Crass
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Taki
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nauseating stereotype of a New Yorker who has become something of a one-man ad campaign for the Big Apple. Wherever it began, the upshot is that hordes of young Americans, convinced that New York...
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Breaking Faith
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Belli, Humberto
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BOOK REVIEWS : BREAKING FAITH: THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON FREEDOM AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN NICARAGUA Humberto Belli/Crossway Books/$8.95 Joan Frawley During the early 1960s,...
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Right Reason
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Buckley, William E Jr.
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supported the fast of Father Miguel D'Escoto, the Nicaraguan foreign minister, who was protesting U.S. aid to the contras. Their endorsements prompted the Nicaraguan bishops to ask the Brazilian...
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The Federal Courts
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Posner, Richard A.
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changed political conunentary by expanding its frame of reference, the available range of experience in which be finds political relevance. Rare words, jokes, abrupt colloquialisms, anecdotes,...
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The Victim's Song
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Kaminsky, Alice R.
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I am less confident than Posner that a judge, no matter how learned or wise, can ever engage in an objective task of "imaginative reconstruction," as he understands it. Suppose, as is probable, that...
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FDR: A Biography
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Morgan, Ted
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proclaims. Nothing, she says, will ever make up for the loss of her son. She is particularly scornful of the Pope's forgiveness of Ali Agca. "If I had said to my son's murderers what Pope John Paul...
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The Heavens and the Earth
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McDougall, Walter A.
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THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE SPACE AGE Walter A. McDougall/Basic Books/$25.95 Hans Mark Walter McDougall of the University of California has written an extremely...
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Preparing for Power
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Cookson, Peter W. Jr.; Persell, Caroline Hodges
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satellite is that it simply had other, higher defense priorities. McDougall does point out, correctly, that a worldwide reconnaissance system has been a high priority of every administration since...
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But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?
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Burgess, Anthony
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BUT DO BLONDES PREFER GENTLEMEN? HOMAGE TO QWERTYUIOP AND OTHER WRITINGS Anthony Burgess/McGraw-Hill/$24.95 Terry Teachout Anthony Burgess has written approximately fifty-four books. (The adverb...
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The Washington Spectator
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Nathan, George Jean
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR Peter, Paul and Mary added their names this January to the rolls of the more than 3,000 "messengers" who have been arrested at the South African embassy on Massachusetts...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM - Great Books Series Psychohistorian and phrenologist Lloyd deMause "enters" the public debate with a "penetrating" analysis and "shows how hard it is" . for "laymen" to...
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