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 Vol. 022 Issue 007 (July 1 1989)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • May passed and so did the Hon. Tony Coelho (D-California) and House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas)—both of whom were vigorously examined long ago in the pages of this...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Planned Free Enterprise "A little noticed but profound change in the relationship between government and business is taking shape," writes Irwin M. Stelzer in his article...
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Editorials/The Death of Radicalism/Mayor Jesse
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS THE DEATH OF RADICALISM by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. olossal ironies are upon us. On the faculties of American universities and in the newsrooms of American media, middle-aged nostalgiacs...
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Capitol Ideas/The Mexican Kleptocracy
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS THE MEXICAN KLEPTOCRACY by Tom Bethell T hose who worry about the integrity 1 of our southern border rarely pay attention to the economic conditions in Mexico. They ought to. The...
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A Call for a New McCarthyism
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 7 / JULY 1989 P. J. O'Rourke A CALL FOR A NEW McCARTHYISM Why should the likes of Alexander Cockburn be allowed to remain in America? O ur era is supposed to...
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How to Keep Pressure on the Sandinistas
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Bush, Jeb
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Jeb Bush HOW TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE SANDINISTAS The Nicaraguan elections scheduled for February 1990 had better be free—or else. Not even Congress wants a replay of the 1984 fiasco. n March 24...
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Whittaker Chambers, Journalist
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Teachout, Terry
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Terry Teachout WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, JOURNALIST 9 The forgotten decade in the life and career of a legendary conservative. The public life of Whittaker Cham- later assigned, together with James...
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Fiji: A Second Grenada?
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Stevenson, Matthew
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Matthew Stevenson FIJI: A SECOND GRENADA? There's no hiding that the antinuke, neutralist government overthrown in 1987 was playing directly into the hands of the Soviets and their plans for the...
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Ron on the Rock
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Shanahan, David
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Ron on the Rock A report on the activities of our Committee for Monumental Progress by David Shanahan EADERS OF The American Spectator need R not be reminded that the press was less than fair in...
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European Document/The New Hungarian Revolution
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Keresztes, Peter
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT THE NEW HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION Sopron, Hungary rom the top of the Karoly observation tower you can trace the jigsaw Austro-Hungarian boundary, which encircles this border town....
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The Business of America/Unions Fly High
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA UNIONS FLY HIGH by Irwin M. Stelzer C o New York realtor-Atlantic City casino operator Donald Trump has won the battle for Eastern's shuttle. Or has he? In fact, the...
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Presswatch/Evil Running Wild
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Eastland, Terry
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EVIL RUNNING WILD O n the first day it could be reported as "news"—Friday, April 21—the New York Times ran an apparently local story on the front of its Metropolitan News section. "Youths Rape...
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The Nation's Pulse/Extremists in the Mainstream
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Gold, Victor
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THE NATION'S PULSE EXTREMISTS IN THE MAINSTREAM by Victor Gold Chicago D arry Goldwater was in mid-campaign form. Asked by a twerp reporter for his reaction to the verdict in the Oliver North...
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The Great Chinese Saloon Series/Jam's
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McGurn, William
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THE GREAT CHINESE SALOON SERIES JAM'S by William McGurn Shanghai C o notorious was cosmopolitan 1.3 Shanghai in the wicked old days before the Chairman and his band liberated this city,...
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The Talkies/More Dangerous Liaisons
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THE TALKIES MORE DANGEROUS LIAISONS by Bruce Bawer N ear the beginning of Scandal, the riveting new British film about the Profumo affair of a quarter-century ago, a man and woman stroll the...
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Just the Facts, Ma'am
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Kristol, Elizabeth
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BOOK REVIEWS FT hirteen billion years ago, things 1 were really great. There was a lot of oneness back then. Things were still harmonious when earth was formed 5 billion years ago, since there was...
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Goldwyn
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Berg, A. Scott
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H e was the greatest indyprod of them all—an indyprod being not a goad for Hoosiers but Hollywood shorthand for independent producer. Samuel Goldwyn spent the bulk of his career having absolutely...
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The Grand Failure
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew
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THE GRAND FAILURE: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Zbigniew Brzezinski/Charles Scribner's Sons/277 pp. $19.95 Arch Puddington H aving earned a reputation through his...
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The Democratic Imperative
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THE DEMOCRATIC IMPERATIVE: EXPORTING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Gregory A. Fossedal/A New Republic Book-Basic Books 304 pp. $19.95 Peter L. Berger T n recent years many people, pretty I much...
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A Turn in the South
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Naipaul, V. S.
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A TURN IN THE SOUTH V. S. Naipaul/Alfred A. Knopf/307 pp. $18.95 Dave Shiflett S. Naipaul is a man without . roots, a wanderer on a spinning planet, not the kind of guy you'd find sitting on a...
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Borderland
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Stilgoe, John R.
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W hen universities try to purge frivolous courses, Suburban Architecture can find its way onto the hit list, between the History of Sports and the Poetry of Rock and Roll. In telling us that...
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A Theft
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Bellow, Saul
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A THEFT Saul Bellow/Penguin/109 pp. $6.95 paper Rick Marin nveiling his fourteenth book only in paperback edition seems a move either of sublime crankiness or craftiness on Saul Bellow's part....
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The Chappaquiddick Spectator/All Washed Up
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Terzian, Philip
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THE CHAPPAQUIDDICK SPECTATOR ALL WASHED UP Bosola: . . . Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe On the Arts page of the suave Globe Dr. Kelly Wise, the Alexander Woo11cott of Beantown, heaves up evidence of the enlightenment that is spreading from the...
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