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Vol. 021 Issue 004 (April 1 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •The longest February in four years staggered into history, as a new theme issued from that din of public hysteria known as The Media, to wit: conservatism's "disarray and...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Rictal Robertson considers a "parvenu's attack" on Mr. Rob- where until its "apathetic" citizens decide write of the promise of Australia's future Being a Midwestern Republican who...
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Editorials/Swaggart's Sweat/Carter and Iran-Contra
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS SWAGGART'S SWEAT T hose of us who have turned our 1 televisions to the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart and admired his prodigious capacity to sweat have further grounds for admiration, for we have...
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Capitol Ideas/Lonesome Highways
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS LONESOME HIGHWAYS by Tom Bethell It took four days to drive across the Coast to the West: 1-80, via Omaha, tion Agency; a bureaucrat escaped of the Strange New Respect Award and ...
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Margaret the Magnificent
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Cranston, Maurice
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 4 / APRIL 1988 Maurice Cranston MARGARET THE MAGNIFICENT May she reign forever. M argaret Thatcher has been in office for longer than any other British prime...
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Operation Avalanche and Soviet Capitulation
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Strmecki, Marin
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Marin Strmecki OPERATION AVALANCHE AND SOVIET CAPITULATION Gorbachev wants out of Afghanistan, but if we cut off aid to the resistance he may never leave. W ithin the last six months, the war in...
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Mitterrand's Formidable Opponents: Introducing Chirac and Barre
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Oppenheimer, Franz M.
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Franz Oppenheimer MITTERRAND'S FORMIDABLE OPPONENTS: INTRODUCING CHIRAC AND BARRE The coming French presidential election is one the U.S. cannot possibly lose. "Though by the force of...
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The Center for Defense Misinformation
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Fumento, Michael
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Michael Fumento THE CENTER FOR DEFENSE MISINFORMATION Admiral La Rocque and his crew at CDI have given new meaning to the bashing of U.S. national security policy. Iisnot every lobbying and...
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European Document/Neutrality on the Rocks
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Eberstadt, Mary Tedeschi
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT NEUTRALITY ON THE ROCKS by Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt Stockholm N eutral or not, Sweden in January is no place for the timid. It is hellishly cold, and freakishly dark; the sun...
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The Public Policy/One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest
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Funky, Allen
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THE PUBLIC POLICY ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST A s Senator Alphonse D'Amato walked away from the microphone, Terrence Scanlon knew it was going to be a hell of a day. D'Amato, opening the...
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Eminentoes/Hummon Talmadge of Georgia
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Methvin, Eugene
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EMINENTOES HUMMON TALMADGE OF GEORGIA W hen a man writes his own memoir, he is entitled to remember whatever he pleases and however he pleases. But the rest of us are entitled to remember what he...
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Spectator's Journal/The Kuwaiti Exception
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Pipes, Daniel
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE KUWAITI EXCEPTION Kuwait City It all started with the anguished com- plaints I read in the Kuwaiti press in late 1985. They made no sense at the time: how could it be that...
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Presswatch/Deadly Reminders
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH DEADLY REMINDERS by Michael Ledeen Lest we forget, the media have become part of government in this country (and in most other Western countries as well), but with Michael Ledeen is...
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The Talkies/Sunny and Cher
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES SUNNY AND CHER by Bruce Bawer ffi wo current films, Empire of the 1 Sun and Hope and Glory, invite us to see World War II through the eyes of an English boy. Of the two, Steven...
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Notes from the Soviet Underground/Glastroika at Work
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Beichman, Arnold
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NOTES FROM THE SOVIET UNDERGROUND GLASTROIKA AT WORK T he other day I read a news story 1 headlined "Moscow's Toilet Czar Loses Bonus over Mess." The chief manager of Moscow toilets, V. Prasolov,...
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Paper Medicine Man
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Porter, Joseph C.
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BOOK REVIEWS A young man I used to know claimed descent from an African king who, he said, had once ostentatiously floated a boat on the blood of slaughtered French soldiers. He added that it was a...
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The Doles
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Bob; Dole, Elizabeth; Smith, Richard Norton
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Robert Dole's campaign autobiog- raphy comes with two co-authors. The professional is Richard Norton Smith, a conscientious young historian whose previous books include biographies of Thomas Dewey...
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The Knave of Boston
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Russell, Francis
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Some kind of dialectical irony must be seen in the career of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis—or as my father, an unreconstructed practitioner of Boston's dying art of ethnic calculus,...
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20 Years of Rolling Stone
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Wenner, Jann S.
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E in the noisily immodest maga- 1-2 3 zine trade, Rolling Stone has always stood out as a beacon of narcissism. To commemorate its founding, editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner likes to plaster...
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Rebecca West
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Glendinning, Victoria
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Rebecca West moved through life with a singular and almost religious urgency. Her need for knowledge was limitless, her love for dramatic displays of knowledge abundant. Although she may be accused...
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Red Horizons
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Pacepa, Ion Mihai
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T am not normally a fan of "defector books," but this is an extraordinary volume. For all those interested in the actual functioning of a Communist state, and in particular those who marvel at the...
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The Campaign Spectator/Wincing at Messages
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR WINCING AT MESSAGES Manchester, New Hampshire T f you've read even one-fifth of the 1 5,473,296 words that have been written about the 1988 primary here, then you've come...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM USA Today A congratulatory message from the magazine reviewer of the incomparable USA Today: Many people despise R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s The American Spectator. Its...
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