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Vol. 021 Issue 003 (March 1 1988)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •Nineteen-eighty-eight arrived one second late, for the Earth's rotation has slowed, a fact that our Liberal friends have been lamenting since the election of 1980. A day now...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Bed Check David Brock's article on the press and Nicaragua in the January 1988 TAS ("Danny Ortega's American Janissaries") falsely accuses Newsweek's Rod Nordland of "keeping house...
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Editorials / The Worst Books of the Year / Idiots on a Seesaw
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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IDIOTS ON A SEESAW W atching the political contest between Republicans and Democrats over whether to continue aid to the anti-Communists in Nicaragua known as the contras is like watching grownups...
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Capitol Ideas / Trading for Dollars
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS TRADING FOR DOLLARS In a more perfect world one would hardly have to think about economics at all; and certainly not about that mysterious entity called The Economy, envisioned by...
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The Scandal of Sanctions
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Villiers, Fleur de
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 3 / MARCH 1988 Fleur de Villiers THE SCANDAL OF SANCTIONS Progressive America brings new misery to the black workers of South Africa. In the fall of 1986,...
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The INF Hard-Sell
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Lord, Carnes
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Carnes Lord THE INF HARD-SELL Here we go again. After nearly a decade of abstinence, the American political system has once again dined on the red meat of arms control. The treaty on...
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Moscow Manipulates the Millennium
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Nahaylo, Bohdan
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Bohdan Nahaylo MOSCOW MANIPULATES THE MILLENNIUM But the Pope has many divisions. rr his year millions of Christians in the Soviet Union are celebrating a jubilee that makes the recent...
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Lawrence Walsh's Holy Wat
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Low, Charlotte
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Charlotte Low LAWRENCE WALSH'S HOLY WAR The man who would be Leon Jaworski. mong lawyers it is almost a cliche nowadays to remark how the practice of law has changed from a lofty profession to...
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Spectator's Journal / The View from Baluchistan
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Kaplan, Robert D.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE VIEW FROM BALUCHISTAN Quetta, Pakistan Looking down from 30,000 feet, Baluchistan is a series of boils and lesions on a scratched, sandpaper surface; the product of...
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Presswatch / Double Standards
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH DOUBLE STANDARDS rr he old, street-wise reporter in the 1 films I grew up with always used to tell the young cub out of school, "Just tell the story, and let the chips fall where they...
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The Public Policy / Recession Prevention
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Rahn, Richard W.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY RECESSION PREVENTION "It was a lousy $8 million." —Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis) of the House Appropriations Committee, justifying his support of a provision to build private...
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The Nation's Pulse / The American Musical's Last Hope
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Podhoretz, John
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE AMERICAN MUSICAL'S LAST HOPE T he Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim occupies a unique position in American cultural life, for by common agreement the future of a great...
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Talk to the Animals / Mass Lunacy
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Bawer, Bruce
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TALK TO THE ANIMALS MASS LUNACY by Bruce Bawer I 'd never seen a church so crowded. The right aisle—which was separated from the cavernous nave by a long row of massive stone columns—was as packed...
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Among the Intellectualoids / MLA Malaise
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Myers, D. G.
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS MLA MALAISE by D. G. Myers Toward the end of a particularly grueling session of papers at the recent convention of the Modern Language Association in San Francisco,...
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The Princely Pulse / Titles
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Schonburg, Alexandra
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THE PRINCELY PULSE TITLES by Alexandra Schtinburg D uring my early twenties, I thought little of being serious. I really did not know what the word meant. But I did know that being outrageous was...
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Man of the House, by Tip O'Neill with William Novak
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Russell, Francis
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BOOK REVIEWS T hey gush from the presses, these 1 autobiographies of the noted and the notorious, details gabbled into a tape-recorder, then written up by an able hack. Formerly such books were...
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Spycatcher, by Peter Wright
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Szamuely, George
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T he story of the British govern- 1 ment's unsuccessful attempt in the Australian courts to prevent the publication of Spycatcher has been told and retold in tedious detail. Little attention,...
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Jackson Pollock, by Deborah Solomon
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Gibson, Eric
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Because they can indulge a desire to look for the meaning of the artist's work outside the work itself rather than within it, artist's biographies present problems those of other prominent...
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Veil, by Bob Woodward
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Jolis, Albert
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You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there's no occasion to. —Humbert Wolfe D ob Woodward's book, already extensively...
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Piety and Politics, edited Richard John Neuhaus and Michael Cromartie
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Dunlap, John R.
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In May 1983, at the invitation of the liberal theologian Harvey Cox, the Reverend Jerry Falwell came to speak at the Harvard Divinity School. On the podium Falwell was greeted by an audience of...
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George C, Marshall: Statesman, by Forrest C. Pogue
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O'Lessker, Karl
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W hen President Truman in 1950 nominated General George C. Marshall to be Secretary of Defense, the most virulent attack on the 69-yearold former Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State was...
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Past Tense, by Jean Cocteau
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Stove, R. J.
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octeau, like the Sitwells, can so easily be slotted into a particular historical niche that generation after generation has been provided with the best possible excuse for never actually bothering...
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The Madwoman's Underclothes, by Germaine Greer
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Tuttleton, James W.
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T o find oneself in The Madwoman's Underclothes is to get a whiff of the more fetid odors that still emanate from the sleazy international counterculture of the sixties and seventies. Germaine...
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The Campaign Spectator / Game Show Politics
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Gold, Victor
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR GAME SHOW POLITICS IOWA, OR THE SMOKE-FILLED ROOM? The Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary—they're part of a much better way . . . —Headline and excerpt, New York...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Denver Post Look at this! David McQuay's proposal (May 31) to offer Managua and Havana major-league baseball franchises is wonderful—and makes a heck of a lot more sense than what...
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