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 Vol. 020 Issue 003 (March 1 1987)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •A. very mild winter underwent stupendous change late in January when two pitiless snowstorms hit the East Coast and the Midwest, causing many Americans to rethink their...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Acid Rain Perspectives I surely hope that Dixy Lee Ray's "The Great Acid Rain Debate" (TAS, January 1987) has finally put man's participation in the picture in...
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Editorials/Conservative Cooglers/The Diver
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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THE DIVER Your introduction to Sam Hall probably came on Monday, December 15, when it was reported that the Dayton, Ohio furniture salesman had been arrested in Nicaragua on spy charges. My...
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Capitol Ideas/Shepherds in the Locality
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS SHEPHERDS IN THE LOCALITY I went to Midnight Mass at St. 1 Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco —Archbishop John Quinn celebrating. It's one of those ultra-modern structures, as...
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Kemp on the Defensive
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Jackson, Gordon
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 3 / MARCH 1987 Gordon Jackson KEMP ON THE DEFENSIVE Why is Jack having trouble locating his receivers? W by haven't conservatives united behind the candidacy...
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Eurofears after Reykjavik
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Lord, Carnes
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Carnes Lord EUROFEARS AFTER REYKJAVIK They should lead NATO to rethink SDI. T he present condition of Western security policy is well described by the old Chinese saw: "There is great confusion...
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Deer Hunting in America
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Shiflett, Dave
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Dave Shiflett DEER HUNTING IN AMERICA The buck stops here—or was that a doe? „ T urn down the volume, Floyd. I think one's coming.” That's how you hunt deer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In...
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Ted Turner's Cable Scam
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Gladwell, Malcolm
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Malcolm Gladwell TED TURNER'S CABLE SCAM While Ted carouses, television's wasteland expands. T ed Turner first came to Washington to peddle his vision of how cable television would change America...
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The Nation's Pulse/Howard Beach Bums
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Tucker, William
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THE NATION'S PULSE HOWARD BEACH BUMS I n 1982 three black subway workers 1 returning home from their afternoon shift on Coney Island stopped at a bagel shop in Gravesend, a tough Italian...
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Eminentoes/Hunthausen Humbled
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Stempf, Tory
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EMINENTOES HUNTHAUSEN HUMBLED T he Almighty ordained 1986 a year of tribulation for Seattle's "peace bishop," Raymond G. Hunthausen. First the prelate was publicly censured by the Vatican for...
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Presswatch/Crashing Boars
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH CRASHING BOARS by Michael Ledeen W e are all indebted to the Philadelphia Inquirer for publishing, on January 3, the story of the month. Its significance is such that I quote it in its...
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Among the Educationaloids/Robin Hood on Campus
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Finn, Chester E. Jr.
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AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS ROBIN HOOD ON CAMPUS I f you are a parent chilled by ac- 1 counts of the soaring costs of higher education, particularly at the nation's private colleges and...
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The Talkies/Poltroon
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES POLTROON by Bruce Bawer T he parking lot outside the Wadsworth Theater was filled with Jaguars, Mercedes-Benzes, and BMWs. "Gee," 1 said, "Beverly Hills must be empty tonight." "A lot...
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Spectator's Journal/Agents of Deception
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Isaac, Rael Jean
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL AGENTS OF DECEPTION T he story has a happy ending. Soon South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV), the fourth largest producer of programs in the public television system,...
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The Hoosier Pulse/Hooping It Up
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Owen, Kent
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THE HOOSIER PULSE HOOPING IT UP by Kent Owen T ime was when Indiana's favored pastimes ran to harness racing, horseshoe-pitching, squirrel-hunting, and fishing for bluegill and bass. But ever...
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First Things, by Hadley Arkes
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Eastland, Terry
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BOOK REVIEWS F irst Things is many things: an at- tack on moral skepticism and moral relativism; an articulation and defense of the idea of morality; an argument in behalf of the relationship...
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Evangelicalism, by James Davison Hunter
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Schlossberg, Herbert
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F or a number of years now, and with increased intensity since the 1980 election, we have been flooded by the mass media with an unremitting stream of commentary, both friendly and hostile, on the...
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Running Critical, by Patrick Tyler
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McConnell, Mary C. N.
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p atrick Tyler is a Washington Post reporter and a Bob Woodward protege. It shows. He has adopted the pseudo-novelistic style of the Poses investigative reporting: "The noontime air was crisp on a...
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Secrecy and Power, by . Richard Gid Powers
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Klehr, Harvey
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T t is an article of faith on the I American left that J. Edgar Hoover was, at minimum, an ogre. The more ideological types regard him as the avatar of an American police state. During the last two...
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Arab and Jew, by David K. Shipler
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Morrison, Micah
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rn Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in .1 a Promised Land, David Shipler, the former Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times and author of a bestseller on Russia, explores "the attitudes, images...
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The Story of English, by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil
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Miller, Stephen
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S urvey mankind from China to Peru, as Samuel Johnson put it, and nowadays we often find it learning English. Such is the main point of The Story of English, a nine-part series aired on public...
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Falling Towards England, by Clive James
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Crocker, H. W. III
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C live James is to British television what Dick Cavett is to American television—an intellectual who wants to be an entertainer, a combination bound to disappoint. The jokes of the entertainer sound...
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His Way, by Kitty Kelley
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Teachout, Terry
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"T do not believe," W. Somerset 1 Maugham wrote in 1935, "that there is any man, who if the whole truth were known of him, would not seem a monster of depravity." Maugham was talking about...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Belly Art
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Brookhiser, Richard
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES BELLY ART by Richard Brookhiser y ou will want to take a cab to Fa7il's International, especially at the time of night when you will be wanting to go. It's not...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Minneapolis Star and Tribune Sunday Magazine Ornate droppings from Dr. Peter G. Bourne, chief quack of the late Jimmy Carter's White House: Fidel Castro has been in power longer...
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