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Vol. 021 Issue 008 (August 1 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •A very dry June simply evaporated, leaving many of the Republic's farmers looking like Ethiopian horticulturists. President Ronald Reagan returned from his triumphal Moscow...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Atlanta Burns Whew! Geoffrey Norman really doesn't like Atlanta at all, does he? ("The Hustle and Hypocrisy of Andrew Young's Atlanta," TAS, June 1988.) Maybe we should have thought...
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Editorials/Jesse's Place/Legal Brawley
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS JESSE'S PLACE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. even million Democrats voted for 1.3 Jesse Jackson to be the presidential nominee of his party. He will arrive at the Democratic national...
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Capitol Ideas/Reagan, Armand, Gorby & Cockburn
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS REAGAN, ARMAND, GORBY & COCKBURN D eaders of this column should beware of predictions about U.S.-Soviet affairs. At one point I reassuringly promised that President Reagan would...
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Fighting Mike's Fight: How Bush Can Lose
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Gold, Victor
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1988 Victor Gold FIGHTING MIKE'S FIGHT: HOW BUSH CAN LOSE An old campaigner explains there is an alternative to slugging on Dukakis's...
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The Silent Boom
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Brookes, Warren T.
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Warren T. Brookes THE SILENT BOOM George Bush has a boom economy to brag about. What more could he possibly need? A s the primary campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination wound down...
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The Stuff on Wright
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Jeffrey, Terence P.
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Terence P. Jeffrey THE STUFF ON WRIGHT Old Dirty Paws reaches into oil, shaky banks, belles-lettres, and much, much more. O n the evening of July 7, 1948, on a country road in Parker County,...
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The Contras Could Have Won
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Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard THE CONTRAS COULD HAVE WON How U.S. policy snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. A t the beginning of this year there were signs of insurrectionary conditions in...
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Kris Kristofferson in Sapoa
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Kelly, Sheldon
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1988 27 You are entering Sapoa, Nicaragua. Dust devils whip across the rutted road; ragged, listless campesinos stare from unpainted shacks, spotted incongruously with...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Other Duke
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Fossedal, Gregory A.
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE OTHER DUKE by Gregory A. Fossedal Palo Alto, California T hey say this state is a trend-setter, 1 and with its relatively issueless campaigns of 1986 and early 1988,...
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Eminentoes/Downey's Syndrome
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Marin, Richard
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EMINENTOES DOWNEY'S SYNDROME n antichrist of the airwaves is upon us! A broadcast Beelzebub, a syndicated Satan! His name: Morton Downey, Jr. And, yes, he is a conservative. But first the...
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The Business of America/Gorby's Cash Grab
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA GORBY'S CASH GRAB ikhail Gorbachev is willing to let Ronald Reagan take the credit for such progress as there was at the Moscow summit; all he wants in return is...
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European Document/Prague Springs Back
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Chenoweth, Eric
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT PRAGUE SPRINGS BACK by Eric Chenoweth In the Old World splendor of Prague, the Czechoslovak regime makes sure to remind its citizens that they live in the New Order. In...
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The Public Policy/Line-Item Imaginings
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Moe, Ronald; Fisher, Louis
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THE PUBLIC POLICY LINE-ITEM IMAGININGS by Ronald Moe and Louis Fisher O ne of the dramatic highlights of President Reagan's final State of the Union Address last January was yet another plea to...
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Presswatch/Mysteries and Oversights
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH MYSTERIES AND OVERSIGHTS T he campaign for some kind of I oversight for the media, resulting in the establishment of some standard of accountability, is gathering momentum. It...
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The Talkies/Summer Flicks
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES SUMMER FLICKS by Bruce Bawer W hen it comes to your typical summer movie, the question is not whether the filmmakers have come up with a new idea, but whether they've managed to do...
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Capote: A Biography
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Clarke, Gerald
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BOOK REVIEWS rr ruman Capote lived most of the I last decade of his life as an item on Page Six of the New York Post. His terrible misadventures excited much scorn and satisfaction, but to his...
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Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up
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Damore, Leo
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^ww hat? Another book aboutChappaquiddick and Teddy Kennedy? Who wants to hear any more about that?" I was asked that question repeatedly when seen with this book, 40,000 copies of which were...
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Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl
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Gale, Robert Peter; Hauser, Thomas
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FINAL WARNING: THE LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser/Warner Books/$18.95 Jonathan Cohen In the spring of 1986, Dr. Robert Peter Gale, a specialist in bone marrow...
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Right From the Beginning
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Buchanan, Patrick J.
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RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING Patrick J. Buchanan/Little, Brown/$18.95 David Brooks s a toddler Patrick J. Buchanan took to correcting his elder brothers as they struggled through their bedtime...
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How to Make Money in Stocks
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O'Neil, William J.
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Are you kidding? This is not the book to read on the train home from a day on Wall Street in the company of the shell-shocked, cynical, and sometimes besotted, who, having weathered the October...
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The Southern California Spectator/Anomalies
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR ANOMALIES by Benjamin J. Stein Anomalies that could be ironed out. Inconsistencies that could be made consistent. Because my own life is a wild jack-in-the-box of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series The youthful pleasures that shaped the character of the weirdest rogue to live in the White House since Prof. Woodrow Wilson: For more serious offenses...
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