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 Vol. 020 Issue 002 (February 1 1987)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •Just as the 1986 hurricane season was going down in the record books as one of the quietest ever, Washington was hit by gusts of hot air the likes of which have not been seen...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Latin Lover Pushed to his limit, Nixon confronted Among the ten tenets of cultural con- The extent to which equality is to shape Saluto R. Emmett, Eisenhower and said, "General, . ....
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Editorials/Enter Old Blunderbuss/Contra Balls
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Tyrrell, R. Elmer Jr.
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EDITORIALS CONTRA BALLS New York Republican Washington's present in the White House capable of the re-gloom has driven me to Mayor Koch's quisite stroke. In his second term a apple, a city long...
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Capitol Ideas/Bonn Mots
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS ;mss----.., .-i,__ 7„ , -=42=-4:6 ip,r,i;;Il,..,... L.—. -,-',(,1$ - -1_ -- - rhi/rt,;:-,--------------- BONN MOTS by Tom Bethell R ounding out a peripatetic year, I...
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Free to Libel
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1987 Benjamin J. Stein FREE TO LIBEL Reckless Disregard has a long history. O n March 29, 1960, an advertisement entitled "Heed Their Rising...
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Homeless People, Peopleless Homes
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Tucker, William
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William Tucker HOMELESS PEOPLE, PEOPLELESS HOMES No vacancy in New York City. T n 1937, Fitzroy Maclean, a British New York City today practices its buildings containing about 50,000 vacancy...
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The Anticapitalist Conspiracy
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Morris, Edmund
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Edmund Morris THE ANTICAPITALIST CONSPIRACY A warning. T here's a plot abroad, folks, to radicalize the language of Milton and Macaulay. I first became aware of it in 1982, when I got a letter...
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America's Neo-Whigs
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Cranston, Maurice
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Maurice Cranston AMERICA'S NEO-WHIGS A new generation of writers has brought liberalism back. A distinctive form of liberalism has begun to emerge in American political thought. It is new, but it...
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The Nation's Pulse/Mettle Fatigue
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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THE NATION'S PULSE METTLE FATIGUE by Aram Bakshian, Jr. L ong after we've all dozed off and forgotten—if we ever cared—who knew what when about Iran and the contras; long after the last...
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Presswatch/Getting It Straight
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH GETTING IT STRAIGHT A 11 media watchers are grateful for the Iranian/contra business, since it will give us years of raw data. And those who are concerned about the influence of media...
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The Public Policy/Go Navy
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Donatelli, Thomas
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THE PUBLIC POLICY fril'', I h I!IU-1.. 11.),44,111141 1,4 I IbI! „., w _ GO NAVY by Thomas Donatelli T here is a knee-jerk reaction inside resources, especially in a world with an ners, and...
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The Talkies/Life With Father
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES v, 001H - 4 "1- • 1- - orti , LIFE WITH FATHER by Bruce Bawer T he new film The Mosquito Coast, tinually lectures everyone around grotesque parody of the traditional and absolutely...
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Politique Internationale/Travails With Arnaud
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Taki
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POLITIQ UE INTERNATIONALE TRAVAILS WITH ARNAUD T he summer of 1967 was a bad time for me. My first wife had suddenly arrived from Paris and had more or less caught me in flagrante with what was...
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The Cycles of American History
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
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BOOK REVIEWS T he author of these sparkling es- says (republished, but rewritten) is much more partisan than most other historians think proper. Whereas they see partisanship as a danger to be...
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Why We Lost the ERA/Why ERA Failed
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Mansbridge, Jane J.; Berry, Mary Frances
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an associate professor of political might expect from Berry—its history of science and sociology at Northwestern the ratification process is useful—but University, writes that polls largely...
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Cities on a Hill
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FitzGerald, Frances
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CITIES ON A HILL: A JOURNEY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE Frances FitzGerald/Simon and Schuster/$19.95 William Schambra rances FitzGerald's Cities on a Hill American society, she argues,...
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Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms
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Furgurson, Ernest B.
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Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms is another fusillade fired in the ongoing battle between North Carolina's senior senator and the liberal press, two camps that practically define themselves in...
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How NATO Weakens the West
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Krauss, Melvyn
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Krauss, the Europeans have been pursuing a "detente-as-defense" strategy, seeking to appease the Soviet Union in order to stave off an invasion. They have been enriching the common enemy with trade,...
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The Oxford Book of British Political Anecdotes
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Johnson, Paul
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THE OXFORD BOOK OF BRITISH POLITICAL ANECDOTES Edited by Paul Johnson/Oxford University Press/$17.95 Herb Greer T here is bound to be a certain vari- would make his children fear him); ation of...
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The Undying Flame
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Garwood, Ellen
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THE UNDYING FLAME Ellen Garwood/The American Studies Center/$14.95 Reid Buckley A ny book written by a pen of the pered, yet there is no mention of the female persuasion bearing such a man under...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Funeral services performed once again on a favorite corpse by Pastor Lou Cannon of Washington's Church of Good Scriveners: When President Reagan rededicated the...
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