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Vol. 019 Issue 006 (June 1 1986)
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••Cover Page••
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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...
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Correspondence
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organization. Throughout the month increasingly convincing reports linked former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, now a candidate for Austria's presidency, with Nazi war crimes. All charges...
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Editorials/The French Forget/If You Can Read This
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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E D I T O R I A L S .......................................................................................................................................................................... THE...
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Capitol Ideas/Das Kapital Ideas
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Bethell, Tom
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cidentally, considering the literacy of those rich heirs whom I know, the Census Bureau's 14 percent must include plenty of gilded idlers. My guess is that in terms of longevity, comparative...
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The MBFR Mystery
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Lord, Carnes
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 19, NO. 6 /...
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ASEAN Nights
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Harries, Owen
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ing on national forces. While the Soviets continue to press for such ceilings, it is not clear that a concession in this area would cost them much. Even if the Bundeswehr is not legally restricted...
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The Military-Congressional Complex
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Courter, Jim; Fossedal, Gregory A.
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Jim Courter and Gregory A. Fossedal THE MILITARY-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX Reforming military reform. Congress and the President are rushing to enact what proponents are pleased to describe as a...
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Adolf's Friend at the U.N
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Evanier, David
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............................................................................................................................................................................ David Evanier ADOLF'S...
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Down on the Farm
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Tucker, William
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such dialogues were necessary because "international Jewry is undoubtedly behind the persistence of misunderstanding between Muslim and Christian and has disseminated deviation among Christian...
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Spectator's Journal/Behind Ethiopia's Hunger
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Kaplan, Robert D.
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SPECTATOR'S...
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The Public Policy/Manhattan Swish
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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remained in the guerrillas' hands. Authoritative figures are impossible to obtain, but it is estimated that the fighting in Eritrea in the summer and fall of 1985 resulted in over 10,000 dead and...
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Eminentoes/Carl Sagan in Space
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Royal, Robert
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EMINENTOES ............................................................................................................................................................................ CARL SAGAN...
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The Nation's Pulse/Party Time
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Evanier, David
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dams? Sagan senses the problem; thus to give them a little heft, he hints that the extraterrestrials are involved in a kind of search for the creator. The heavens declare the glory of God, says the...
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American Document/Artistic Decline
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Lipman, Samuel
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historical reasons, or literary ones, or whatever. Even the Nation is aware of such things. They know that." On the way out I spot a woman holding her fur coat and waiting for her limo. "Did you...
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Her Only Sin
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Stein, Ben
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The Siege
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O'Brien, Conor Cruise
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THE SIEGE: THE SAGA OF ISRAEL AND ZIONISM Conor Cruise O'Brien/Simon and Schuster/$24.95 William McGurn In one of the early scenes of Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye finds himself in agreement with a...
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The Uncertain Crusade
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Muravchik, Joshua
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Having realized that the world is not populated primarily by those who share his Western values of democracy, law, and compromise, he abandons all those precepts for a purely Machiavellian...
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Greed and Glory on Wall Street
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Auletta, Ken
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GREED AND GLORY ON WALL STREET: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF LEHMAN Ken Auletta/Random House/$19.95 George Sim Johnston The publication last spring of Ken Auletta's account of the fall of Lehman...
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Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude
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MARRIAGE AND MORALS AMONG THE VICTORIANS Gertrude Himmelfarb/Alfred A. Knopf/$19.95 Joseph Shattan Wall Street firm had merged under. Auletta's account, as I say, reads like a good novel. And he...
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Sexual Desire
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Scruton, Roger
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Where, then, does Professor Himmelfarb look for the defense of civilized values? Perhaps it is not being overly presumptuous to suggest that it is to the memory of a culture that lived "on sheer...
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The White House Mess
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Buckley, Christopher
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THE WHITE HOUSE MESS Christopher Buckley/Alfred A. Knopf/$16.95 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. HOME VIDEO believes, it should be necessary or desirable to impose on it the marriage bond. Nor does his...
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Providence
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Wolff, Geoffrey
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which fog up in time of strenuous exertion and fall off in time of danger; as when Mrs. Thomas N. Tucker assaulted him while wielding a chintz pillow with "surprising force." The violence occurred...
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Gerald's Party
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Coover, Robert
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there's a nice chapter on the Triangle Trade—the slave-and-rum-running that helped build, among other things, Brown University and Adam Dwyer's old-line family guilt complex. But he's also got a...
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The Georgia Spectator/Gori Details
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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THE GEORGIA SPECTATOR Nine years ago in Kiev a Russian friend said to me, with a shrug, "Vezde luchshe gdie nas niet"-verbatim, "Everywhere it's better where we aren't," but which I took as an...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM ............................................................................................................................................................................ Royal...
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