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Vol. 020 Issue 011 (November 1 1987)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •For anyone with a high I.Q. September was a disaster. In the South and Southwest temperatures soared, in the West and Northwest forest fires raged out of control, and in the...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Moon Talk Andrew Ferguson hits a bull's-eye ("Can Buy Me Love: The Mooning of Conservative Washington," TAS, September 1987). I covered a Unification Church rally the first summer I...
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Editorials/Bork, Now More Than Ever/Marxist Hashish Handlers
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS BORK, NOW MORE THAN EVER Washington Judge Robert H. Bork, President J Reagan's nominee to replace Justice Lewis F Powell, Jr. on the Supreme Court, is going to be making heavy weather...
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Capitol Ideas/Humanists and Heretics
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS HUMANISTS AND HERETICS At the time of the Pope's visit the secular humanists met in conference at the American University, barely a mile from where I live. There was to be "dialogue"...
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Sadat's Gift
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Morrison, Micah
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1987 Micah Morrison SADAT'S GIFT A decade later, measuring the change. n a November evening a decade ago, Anwar Sadat boarded a plane in Egypt...
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Cory's Land Grab
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Rosett, Claudia
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Claudia Rosett CORY'S LAND GRAB Land reform will not save Philippine democracy. Manila T he ex-dictator is shacked up in 1 Hawaii. There's a new constitution, a newly elected congress, and the...
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The Stinger Finds a Home
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Strmecki, Mann
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Marin Strmecki THE STINGER FINDS A HOME Bill Casey's bequest to Afghanistan. W hen I traveled with the resistance into Afghanistan in the spring of 1985,' the mujahedeen reiterated at virtually...
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Glasnost Comes to America
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Nahaylo, Bohdan
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Bohdan Nahaylo GLASNOST COMES TO AMERICA A tempting new export from the Soviet Union. Iconfess to some disorientation that first morning in late August when I pulled open the curtains and found a...
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Spectator's Journal/Remembering Bayard Rustin
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Decter, Midge
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL REMEMBERING BAYARD RUSTIN C ince Bayard Rustin's death last Auk.) gust, many people—some who knew him, some who did not—have attempted publicly to sum up his life and career....
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The Public Policy/Secrets of the Airline Crisis
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Applebaum, Anne
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THE PUBLIC POLICY SECRETS OF THE AIRLINE CRISIS A irports had reached the saturation point. Air control technology was on its way to obsolescence. An unexpected air controller shortage created...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Iowa Hustings Now
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Mueller, William
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE IOWA HUSTINGS NOW F or the record, I have never voted in an Iowa caucus. In that respect I am representative of 85 percent of eligible voters in my state—a remarkable...
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Presswatch/Distortions, Omissions, Lies
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH DISTORTIONS, OMISSIONS, LIES Is there such a thing as a life cycle of a newspaper? Can one measure its vital signs and diagnose symptoms of a possibly fatal disease? There are...
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Eminentoes/The Du Pont Revolution
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Jackson, Gordon
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EMINENTOES THE DU PONT REVOLUTION I f ideas are the stuff of political revo- lutions,, then which of the Republican presidential candidates is best equipped to rekindle the Reagan Revolution? Pete...
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The Great American Saloon Series/A Redneck Inn
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Shiflett, Dave
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES ~Illlln 14: 1111 11111111 . $11 2limaJ jaikar-m11 .4.0.1244m54 `,4 a c _ 111111 A REDNECK INN by Dave Shiflett W hen America bombed Libya, no one in the...
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The Talkies/Thrillers
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES THRILLERS by Bruce Bawer A s the Cookin' Cajun on PBS would say, Jim McBride's new film The Big Easy is big on at-mosephere. The picture opens with a series of helicopter's-eye views...
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Sartre: A Life
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Cohen-Solal, Annie
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BOOK REVIEWS Every biography is inevitably a Li funeral, the intention being to place the subject in his proper place in history, which is to say, securely underground. In the case of the literary...
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Curse of the Giant Muffins and Other Washington Maladies
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Kin, Michael
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In this inaugural collection of Mi- chael Kinsley's writings the concerned reader finally has a chance to take the measure of the New Republic's sometimes awkward, sometimes agile editor...
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Looking Forward
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Bush, George; Gold, Victor
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T he Presidential Candidate's Book I first surfaced as a political art form when Nathaniel Hawthorne published his monumental biography of James Buchanan, circa 1856. Quite possibly you've forgotten...
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The Jesuits
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Martin, Malachi
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Malachi Martin's fourteenth book since he left the Jesuit Order in 1964 is just about as gamy as hinted by the subtitle, a condition that makes it much less careful than its readers have the right...
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The Songlines
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Chatwin, Bruce
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THE SONGLINES Bruce Chatwin/Viking/$18.95 Jennifer Howard s long as there has been an England there have been Englishmen who felt compelled to leave it, abandoning the busy streets and turning...
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Thinking Like a Communist / My Dear Alex
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Smith, Tony; D'Souza, Dinesh; Fossedal, Gregory
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inking Like a Communist, by Tony Smith, is an intelligent attempt to sketch the permutations of Communist theory since Marx. Every Marxist regime faces the basic problem of justifying itself. Lenin...
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Domestic Affairs
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Maynard, Joyce
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Joyce Maynard is not popular with the journalism set. All the reviews I've read of her book were unfavorable, and that's not the half of it. Reporters, columnists, editors—practically everyone who...
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The Washington Spectator
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR I'm writing under the assumption that you haven't heard the song "Judge Bork, Judge Bork" and that, regardless of the judge's fate (which as we go to press hangs in the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Dr. Paul Ehrlich at the height of his powers: In fact, one can argue that the most "human" behavior of Homo sapiens—the thing that most clearly separates our...
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