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IssueVol. 022 Issue 006 (June 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April was a very quiet month, and the Republic's commentators are in a dreadful state over the possibility that this stillness is but a presentiment of the full Bushian era....
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Fred Barnes on Drugs It must somehow be very comforting to have the self-righteousness to support a war to force others to live according to the dictates of your conscience. And so...
Paid articleEditorials / Drug Dealings / Looking for Loons
Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
LOOKING FOR LOONS W here are all the nuts of yesteryear? The other day I happened by Lafayette Park across from the White House. To my astonishment the motley of shabby prophets and loons was...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Third World Hydraulics
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS THIRD WORLD HYDRAULICS by Tom Bethell A feature of recent reporting about Third World debt has been a kind of willful self-deception. We are told that the issue is above all one of...
Paid articleA Danny Quayle Reader
No, Danny, not Centralia. That's „1/46 tibe tI* k°° A Danny Quayle Reader ar Danny Pen-Pal Holy cow! Why didn't you tell us sooner? Like, you know, it's not as if we would do this for just...
Paid articleShould We Celebrate the French Revolution?
Cranston, Maurice
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 6 / JUNE 1989 Maurice Cranston SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? Two hundred years after its outbreak, there's no escaping the sad truth that it was...
Paid articleThe Beauty of Municipal Bonds
Mysak, Joe
Joe Mysak THE BEAUTY OF MUNICIPAL BONDS In fact, they're so attractive that Congress is now thinking about doing them in through whopping new taxation. So much for federal concern with crumbling...
Paid articleThe Cup That Ran Amok
Seitz, Russell
Russell Seitz THE CUP THAT RAN AMOK New York State Supreme Court Justice Ciparek's recent ruling that awarded the America's Cup to the loser from New Zealand not only violated the spirit of the...
Paid articleThe World of Narcoterrorism
Brock, David
David Brock THE WORLD OF NARCOTERRORISM The growing violence of the drug wars makes it clear that it's time for the Bush Administration to name names, identifying the insidious political forces...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal / Fighting for Jalalabad
Strmecki, Marin
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL FIGHTING FOR JALALABAD Jalalabad, Afghanistan A pall of dust and smoke kicked up by the day's artillery and rocket rounds—both incoming and outgoing—hung over the former...
Paid articleThe Public Policy / The Capital Gains Mandate
Bush, Jeb
THE PUBLIC POLICY THE CAPITAL GAINS MANDATE N o, it wasn't Willie Horton or the Pledge of Allegiance—the issue that took the prize for sheer demagoguery in last year's presidential campaign was,...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances / Chicken Koop
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES CHICKEN KOOP by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Any fair-minded deliberations on the life and labors of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, whose attempt to introduce into American fashion...
Paid articleThe Business of America / Losing on Both Fronts
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA LOSING ON BOTH FRONTS A merica's businesses are fighting a two-front war. And losing.. Or so they think. On one front they face the Japanese, mighty exporters and now...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series / The Mohonk Mountain
Brookhiser, Richard
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES THE MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE S outheast of the Catskills lie the Shawangunks, a clump of mountains—small and round as plump women—distinct enough to carry its own...
Paid articlePresswatch / Teflon John and Jim
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH TEFLON JOHN AND JIM by Terry Eastland R ep. John Dingell suffered two set- .1.N. backs on consecutive days in March, but only the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal noticed what...
Paid articleThe Talkies / Veronica and Vera
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES VERONICA AND VERA T magine a John Hughes cast hijacked 1 by David Lynch, and you've got a pretty good idea of the territory covered by Heathers, a weird, provocative, and gruesomely...
Paid articleWrong Number, by Alan Stone
Ulmer, Melville J.
BOOK REVIEWS T his could have been a stunning 1 book. Written by Alan Stone, a noted scholar at the University of Houston, it deals with a question that has puzzled households across the country:...
Paid articleAt Home and Abroad, V. S. Pritchett
Howard, Jennifer
AT HOME AND ABROAD V. S. Pritchett/North Point Press/352 pp. $19.95 Jennifer Howard V. S. Pritchett's status as a literary Methuselah has now lasted as long as the careers of some writers, and...
Paid articleHarold Macmillan: Volume One, by Alistair Horne
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
T oward the end of his six-and-a- l half-year tenure as prime minister, Harold Macmillan did something very out of character: he lost his head. It happened at Madame Tiissaud's. The strains of...
Paid articleCommand of the Seas, by John F Lehman, Jr.
Szamuely, George
T n the successful 1987 movie No 1 Way Out the villain is the defense secretary and the good guy is the director of central intelligence. This reflects current attitudes. Hollywood producers know...
Paid articleSelf-Consciousness, by John Updike
Barnes, Fred
John Updike is different from other writers. I got a glimpse of how different one winter afternoon in 1978 when he came to Cambridge to chat for a couple of hours with Nieman Fellows at Harvard. I...
Paid articleLife Sketches, John Hersey
Rocca, Francis X.
lthough he is primarily a novelist, the versatile and inconsistent John Hersey is most famous for his nonfiction Hiroshima (1946), in which he reconstructs the lives of six survivors in the days...
Paid articleThe Poverty of Communism, by Nick Eberstadt
Young, Cathy
D uring the Reagan-Gorbachev summit of December 1987, a gentleman with a Manhattan address straight out of Tom Wolfe took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for better mutual...
Paid articleRed Tears, by Dawit Wolde Giorgis
Puddington, Arch
RED TEARS: WAR FAMINE AND REVOLUTION IN ETHIOPIA Dawit Wolde Giorgis/Red Sea Press (Trenton, NJ)/375 pp. $29.95 Arch Puddington In a book that deserves a much wider hearing than it so far has...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator / Choice Cuts
Ferguson, Andrew
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR CHOICE CUTS It has become virtually impossible these days to make a Hollywood starlet shut up. Sincere, honorable persons of good faith, who believe with every fiber of...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Radio Interview The Steve Kane Show WIOD-AM/Miami, Florida Miss Susan Rich of the celebrated humanitarian coven addresses questions metaphysical and absurd with uncommon...
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