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IssueVol. 020 Issue 006 (June 1 1987)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •April passed, and only 560 demonstrators were arrested in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Doubtless there would have been 562, but Miss Amy Carter and her...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Hook, Russell, and Atomic War In reporting his conversation with me in his "A Stroll with Sidney Hook" (TAS, May 1987), Tom Bethell gives an incomplete account of some references I...
Paid articleEditorials/The Solitary Hart/Safe Sex in Moscow
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS SAFE SEX IN MOSCOW T he moral and intellectual disman- 1 tlement of America, always proctored so zealously by Americans of a progressive cast of mind, has now advanced sufficiently that...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Old Debates, New Twists
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS OLD DEBATES, NEW TWISTS rr here is something rather delicious 1 about the potential arms control agreement on intermediate range missiles. For many years, as Irving Kristol pointed...
Paid articleThe Truth About Takeovers
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE VOL. 20, NO. 6 / JUNE 1987 AMERICAN SPECTATOR Irwin M. Stelzer THE TRUTH ABOUT TAKEOVERS . . . and the beauty of junk bonds. I t has now been a full year since Den- niss Levine decided to...
Paid articlePeople for the Televised Way
Coulson, Crocker
Crocker Coulson PEOPLE FOR THE TELEVISED WAY Norman Lear is proud to be an American. Because the television commercial is the single most voluminous form of public communication today, it was...
Paid articlePollard and Demjanjuk in the Jewish Mind
Morrison, Micah
Micah Morrison POLLARD AND DEMJANJUK IN THE JEWISH MIND The day the sky fell on U.S.-Israeli relations. Milan Kundera called Israel "the true heart of Europe, a heart strangely located outside...
Paid articleThe Future of Foreign Policy
Ledeen, Michael
Michael Ledeen THE FUTURE OF FOREIGN POLICY It will depend on whether we support democratic revolution. W ith the explosion of the Iran/ contra aid debacle, we are once again involved in an...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/What Oil Crisis?
Myers, Richard J.
THE NATION'S PULSE WHAT OIL CRISIS? by Richard J. Myers T o hear the experts tell it, the United States is lurching toward a reprise of the 1970s energy crisis. With the collapse in world oil...
Paid articleEminentoes/Sam Missile
Barnes, Fred
EMINENTOES SAM MISSILE by Fred Barnes O nce upon a time I thought I had Sam Donaldson nailed. I've known him for years, going back to the time he covered Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign in...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Raising Coen
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES RAISING COEN by Bruce Bawer ][4... "Hi" McDunnough (Nicolas Cage), the goofball protagonist of the hilarious offbeat comedy Raising Arizona, is not only a crook: he's a hapless,...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Competitive Urges
Barnes, John A.
THE PUBLIC POLICY COMPETITIVE URGES by John A. Barnes T he TV ad shows a middle-aged 1 man—presumably a laid-off blue-collar worker—huddled under a blanket. "Something could have been done back...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/Harry's on Hanover Square
Mysak, Joe
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES HARRY'S ON HANOVER SQUARE by Joe Mysak W e eat and drink light, or "lite," now, "grazing" on dishes resembling nothing so much as what used to be called hors...
Paid articleOut of Step
Hook, Sidney
BOOK REVIEWS Early this spring the New York ..LaTimes published an op-ed piece by Sidney Hook on the ethical dilemmas in treating the critically ill. The subject holds more than theoretical...
Paid articleThe Third Generation
Hart, Benjamin
THE THIRD GENERATION: YOUNG CONSERVATIVES LOOK TO THE FUTURE Edited by Benjamin Hart/Regnery Gateway/$17.95 Richard E. Burr A peril of the publishing business is that current events can...
Paid articleFrom This Moment On
Hart, Jeffrey
FROM THIS MOMENT ON: AMERICA IN 1940 Jeffrey Hart/Crown/$19.95 Terry Teachout nce upon a time, history and biography aspired frankly to the condition of literature. Even economists could be...
Paid articleFidel
Szulc, Tad
ETtdet A Critical Portrait, by journal/ ist Tad Szulc, has been widely and on the whole favorably reviewed. News-week's Jim Miller found it "fascinating and comprehensive." Writing in the Washington...
Paid articleBest Intentions
Anson, Robert Sam
T n June 1985, Edmund Perry was the 1 academic star of 114th Street in Harlem. He had just graduated from Exeter Academy and was due to attend Stanford, on a full scholarship, in the fall. On the...
Paid articleThe Red President
Gross, Martin
I n November 1943, when an 18-year- 1 old Martin Gross was in training to become a flight officer in the Army Air Corps, Winston Churchill was at the Teheran Conference with Roosevelt and Stalin....
Paid articleThe Hoosier Spectator/A State on the Brink
Owen, Kent
THE HOOSIER SPECTATOR A STATE ON THE BRINK W hen my mother was a child, she used to complain to her brother that the family reunion at Basses' Ford had become as tiresome as all get-out, and she...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Shocking findings from Margaret Engel and Molly Peter, two stalwart feminist agents just back from Middle America: What is it about the female form that strikes...
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