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Vol. 019 Issue 009 (September 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 G C R I S I...
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Correspondence
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who were incarcerated in a local dog pound. In Charleston, South Carolina, the Rev. Henry Scott announced in mid-sermon that he was immediately quitting the pulpit because a Vassar College "witch"...
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Editorials/The Good Book/Why Will?
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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/King David's Royal Family
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Bethell, Tom
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de lettres, and the lovable paterfamilias. Only in the America of the 1970s could such a thing grow so eminent. Now the mood has changed, and Will is under fire. He has long been the occasional...
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Conservatives and the Democratic 10
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 19, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1986 : Fred Barnes CONSERVATIVES AND THE DEMOCRATIC 10 Is there a Democratic President in your future? In the 1984 presidential race, the...
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The Coming of Aids II
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Grutsch, James E. Jr.; Robertson, A.D.J.
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Joe Biden. Give him credit for sup-porting the Grenada invasion when all his party's presidential candidates weren't. But that's where the credit ends. Biden presents himself as a centrist. He gives...
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Foreign Aid Prescriptions
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Bandow, Doug
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Doug Bandow FOREIGN AID PRESCRIPTIONS Reagan's America should only help those who help themselves. In June the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for a five-year...
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Rose Bird on Trial
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Sowell, Thomas
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pear overnight. Surplus U.S. grains could help ease the transition. In a perfect world there would be no government-to-government foreign aid, at least not for development purposes. But large-scale...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Liberals' Lost Weekend
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Novak, Robert D.
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THE NATION'S PULSE ............................................................................................................................................................................ THE...
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Presswatch/Bums
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Ledeen, Michael
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ican's pride and the media elite's disdain may betray an endemic sourness of spirit among those who try to set the nation's tastes but do not succeed. Not far below the surface, however, can be...
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The Public Policy/What Reagan Buildup?
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Trachtenberg, David
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_ THE PUBLIC...
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Eminentoes/The Big Apple's Nomenklatura
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Tucker, William
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newer, more sophisticated systems is continuing. By most assessments, the conventional war-fighting capability of the U.S. armed forces is better today than five years ago. In any conflict, however,...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Newport Landings
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Mysak, Joe
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average, and two-thirds of the new jobs have been with the city or state governments. Governor Mario Cuomo may soon have a $350 million tax surplus, and the Municipal Assistance Corporation (Big...
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The Talkies/Luv Stories
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Bawer, Bruce
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Jackie and JFK spent time. If you do insist on getting out before nightfall, say, after lunch, trudge up to the New-port Book Store on Bellevue Avenue, where a recent tour turned up a September 1963...
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The Rise of the Counter-Establishment
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Blumenthal, Sidney
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BOOK REVIEWS .......................................................................................................................................................................... . THE RISE...
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America's Health Care Revolution
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Califano, Joseph A. Jr.
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AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE REVOLUTION: WHO LIVES? WHO DIES? WHO PAYS? Joseph A. Califano, Jr./Random House/$17.95 Stephen Chapman assistant for domestic affairs and as Jimmy Carter's Secretary of...
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A Lesser Life
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Hewlett, Sylvia Ann
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ethical questions to be faced, he provides few answers. The best he can do is to insist that "we have the re-sources, if we apply them effectively, to keep government in its place, to make fewer...
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Oral Roberts
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Harrell, David Edwin Jr.
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women's issues full circle to the debates of an earlier, and saner, period in American history. Much of what she has to say about the shortcomings of the American women's liberation movement is not...
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The Garden of Eden
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Hemingway, Ernest
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Oral Roberts and the growing appeal of pentecostalism are likely to be ignored by those who fancy themselves enlightened. According to Admiral Stansfield 'Ihrner's admission, the CIA analyzed...
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Rain or Shine
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McFadden, Cyra
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RAIN OR SHINE: A FAMILY MEMOIR Cyra McFadden/Alfred A. Knopf/$16.95 Thomas Mallon novels is that the world can be grasped by action, not by contemplation. "I did not care what it was all about,"...
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A Perfect Spy
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Carré, John le
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A PERFECT SPY John le Cane/Alfred A. Knopf/$18.95 Claudia Rosett If you're in the market for some bleak and tedious reading, then John le Carr has a book for you. A Perfect Spy is the story of...
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Churches on the Wrong Road
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Atkins, Stanley; McConnell, Theodore
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CHURCHES ON THE WRONG ROAD Edited by Stanley Atkins and Theodore McConnell Regnery Gateway/$7.95 paper T. John Jamieson looking for our holed-up hero. And it's just a matter of time until...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM ............................................................................................................................................................................ Great...
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