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IssueVol. 020 Issue 011 (November 1 1987)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
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...
Paid articleCorrespondence
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...
Paid articleEditorials/Bork, Now More Than Ever/Marxist Hashish Handlers
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Humanists and Heretics
Bethell, Tom
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"...
Paid articleSadat's Gift
Morrison, Micah
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...
Paid articleCory's Land Grab
Rosett, Claudia
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...
Paid articleThe Stinger Finds a Home
Strmecki, Mann
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...
Paid articleGlasnost Comes to America
Nahaylo, Bohdan
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...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Remembering Bayard Rustin
Decter, Midge
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....
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Secrets of the Airline Crisis
Applebaum, Anne
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...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/The Iowa Hustings Now
Mueller, William
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...
Paid articlePresswatch/Distortions, Omissions, Lies
Ledeen, Michael
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...
Paid articleEminentoes/The Du Pont Revolution
Jackson, Gordon
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...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/A Redneck Inn
Shiflett, Dave
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...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Thrillers
Bawer, Bruce
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...
Paid articleSartre: A Life
Cohen-Solal, Annie
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...
Paid articleCurse of the Giant Muffins and Other Washington Maladies
Kin, Michael
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...
Paid articleLooking Forward
Bush, George; Gold, Victor
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...
Paid articleThe Jesuits
Martin, Malachi
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...
Paid articleThe Songlines
Chatwin, Bruce
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...
Paid articleThinking Like a Communist / My Dear Alex
Smith, Tony; D'Souza, Dinesh; Fossedal, Gregory
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...
Paid articleDomestic Affairs
Maynard, Joyce
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...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Ferguson, Andrew
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...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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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