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Vol. 021 Issue 009 (September 1 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •July was baked to a cinder and discarded as the summer sun transformed America into the largest sauna chamber in the world. The concomitant drought made farmers even more...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Takeover Talk In his article "The Selling of America" (TAS, May 1988), Irwin M. Stelzer expresses delight at the takeover mania. He rejoices at the profits that investment banks and...
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Editorials/Veep Stakes/John Lehman's Enemies
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS VEEP STAKES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W hat decision could more hilariously demonstrate the hypothesis that in recent years American political leadership has suffered a massive loss of...
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Capitol Ideas/Gays on Parade
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS GAYS ON PARADE by Tom Bethell 4 CM his year's theme—Rightfully 1. Proud—is a very fitting one," the Bay Area Reporter claimed in an editorial heralding this year's San Francisco...
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You Can Have Him
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Terzian, Philip
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1988 Philip Terzian YOU CAN HAVE HIM New England can't stand Dukakis; now it's our turn to suffer. Providence, Rhode Island W e have a...
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The Peachtree Party
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Ferguson, Andrew
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Andrew Ferguson THE PEACHTREE PARTY Our man in Atlanta reports on Democrats playing make-believe. Atlanta is a warm city—that is, after you have proved your right to share its warmth. Her people...
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Takeovers and Acquisitions: Who's Responsible?
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Benjamin J. Stein TAKEOVERS AND ACQUISITIONS: WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? You first must ask: Who stands to profit? Could it be the middlemen? F ederated, Koppers, Cal-Mat, Roper, Firestone, Resorts...
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Losing the Drug War: Drugs, Banks, and Florida Politics
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams LOSING THE DRUG WAR: DRUGS, BANKS, AND FLORIDA POLITICS Narcotics trading flourishes in the Sunshine State not only because of demand, but also because it is a major source of...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Scabrous Spy
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Barry, Philip
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS SCABROUS SPY by Philip Barry F or many years one of the advantages of life in the United States over life in Britain was the absence of an American equivalent to...
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Spectator's Journal/IA 655 KAL 007
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Oberg, James
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL IA 655 KAL 007 by James Oberg T n human terms, the equivalence of I the Iranian Airlines Flight 655 and Korean Airlines Flight 007 is clearcut. In both cases, almost three...
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The Business of America/The Election Dollar
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA THE ELECTION DOLLAR by Irwin M. Stelzer olitics and economics are des-1 tined to meet, and clash, in world money markets for the next several months. This conflict arises...
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Presswatch/Silly Seasonings
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH SILLY SEASONINGS by Michael Ledeen I t's the silly season, and not just because of the nominating conventions of what are misguidedly called our political parties. For two days in the...
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Eminentoes/King of the Juice
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McFadden, Edward
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EMINENTOES KING OF THE JUICE "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, and then vote against their bills, you have no business being up here." —Former California Speaker...
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The Nation's Pulse/Circumschism
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Allen, Charlotte Low
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THE NATION'S PULSE CIRCUMSCHISM by Charlotte Low Allen A t the local Lefebvrite parish in Northern Virginia, the congregation was reacting to the split with Rome with a textbook demonstration of...
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The Talkies/Rabbit, Run
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES RABBIT, RUN by Bruce Bawer Y ou've probably already seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but if you haven't, whip off those reading glasses and hop like a bunny over to your nearest theater....
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Children of the Arbat
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Rybakov, Anatoli
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BOOK REVIEWS In five years it may be as dangerous to praise Stalin as it was to attack him two years aga But I should not regard this as an advance. Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new...
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Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays
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Fussell, Paul
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THANK GOD FOR THE ATOM BOMB AND OTHER ESSAYS Paul Fussell/Summit Books/$17.95 Thomas Mallon aul Fussell's growing readership 1 looks to him for news of three territories he has made very much...
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The Poet Auden
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Rowse, A. L.
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THE POET AUDEN: A PERSONAL MEMOIR A. L. Rowse/Weidenfeld & Nicolson/$14.95 James W. Tuttleton A. L. Rowse's memoir of his long and complicated friendship with the poet Wystan Hugh Auden is one of...
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The Mask of Command
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Keegan, John
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Does the West have a problem making war, and if so, what is it? Are we too fierce, spoiling for the clatter of advancing armored columns, or do we love peace excessively? In the last dozen years the...
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The Electric Windmill
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Bethell, Tom
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THE ELECTRIC WINDMILL: AN INADVERTENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tom Bethell/Regnery Gateway/$17.95 William McGurn It was in Rome that I first met Tom Bethell the reporter, the spring of 1983 to be exact. As...
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The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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In Isaac Bashevis Singer's world, things are seldom what they seem. His stories are full of people who are constantly being deceived: men by women, women by men, men by promises of wealth or of a...
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The Campaign Spectator/Dirty Harry and the Whistle-Stop Caper
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Gold, Victor
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR DIRTY HARRY AND THE WHISTLE-STOP CAPER "I will not get down into the gutter with that fellow" —Famous last campaign words: Thomas E. Dewey to Republican National Committee...
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Current Wisdom/Jesse Jabber
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Jackson, Jesse
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SPECIAL CURRENT WISDOM JESSE JABBER As a public service for those American sophisticates who so plangently have proclaimed the Rev. Jackson foremost of all the Republic's orators, we hereby...
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