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 Vol. 023 Issue 001 (January 1 1990)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • November began with unanticipated rowdiness in East Germany disturbing the sleep of all non Teutonic Western Europeans and ended with rowdiness in Czechoslovakia disturbing...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Strawberry Fields Forever In his article "The Year They Legalized Drugs" (TAS, November 1989), Victor Gold attempts to dismiss the arguments for drug legalization by raising the...
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Editorials/Let Us Give Thanks/Hill-Jack Bugaboos
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS LET US GIVE THANKS I n my library I have almost an entire 1 wall of books absorbed with one aspect or another of that parlous feud that has divided the West and the Soviet bloc for four...
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Capitol Ideas/Communists Shoot People, Don't They'?
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS COMMUNISTS SHOOT PEOPLE, DON'T THEY? A t the request of a reader in Maryland, a special Strange New Respect citation will be given this year to Paul H.Nitze, once the leading...
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Republicans Miscarry Abortion
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 1 / JANUARY 1990 Fred Barnes REPUBLICANS MISCARRY ABORTION However inept pro-life Republicans have shown themselves to be in running on their beliefs, there...
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Noriega Into the Nineties
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Christopher Caldwell NORIEGA INTO THE NINETIES If, after the failed October coup, General Noriega is here to stay, the hapless people of Panama and the prestige of the United States will suffer...
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Mozart Goes American
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Valiunas, Algis
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Algis Valiunas MOZART GOES AMERICAN Introducing Figaro the eggthrower, Don Alfonso the Vietnam vet, and Don Giovanni the black drug dealer. Yet strangely enough, Peter Sellars's recent offerings...
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South Africa Between Apartheid and Democracy
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Cranston, Maurice
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Maurice Cranston SOUTH AFRICA BETWEEN APARTHEID AND DEMOCRACY Under the republic's new president everyone knows there's no going back. Although it's unclear what increased liberty will bring,...
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European Document/No More Hungarian Comrades
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Lilla, Mark
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT NO MORE HUNGARIAN COMRADES Budapest T he "refolution"' began festively 1 enough. The subways were dangerously packed, and it took several long, rather frightening minutes to...
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Eminentoes/Baby Doc
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Queenan, Joe
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EMINENTOES BABY DOC by Joe Queenan 7 discovered Dr. Benjamin Spock too late in my childhood for him to be much use against my parents. Spock's books, setting forth cogent scientific reasons why...
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Presswatch/Sealed With a Kiss
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH SEALED WITH A KISS kay, so I spoke too soon. Two months ago I wrote that George Bush's presidency had not been plagued by leaks to the same degree as Ronald Reagan's—especially leaks...
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The Public Policy/The Massachusetts Debacle
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Mysak, Joe
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THE PUBLIC POLICY THE MASSACHUSETTS DEBACLE S alesmen at one brokerage house last year were exhorted over the company's public address system, "This may be your last chance to sell Massachusetts...
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The Talkies/Dopes on Dope
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES DOPES ON DOPE by Bruce Bawer finally, a movie whose characters I we can all identify with. Twentysix-year-old Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon), the eponymous hero of Drugstore Cowboy, is a...
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Modern Chile 19704989
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Falcoff, Mark
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BOOK REVIEWS tri hile was once a country where nothing ever happened. It was known for its democratic tradition and the civility of its political culture, rather like Costa Rica today. But in 1970...
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Voices of Glasnost
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Cohen, Stephen E; Heuvel, Katrina vanden
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VOICES OF GLASNOST: INTERVIEWS WITH GORBACHEV'S REFORMERS Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel/W. W. Norton 339 pp. $19.95 Arch Puddington To understand the position held by Stephen F....
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The Lone Star
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Reston, James Jr.
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THE LONE STAR: THE LIFE OF JOHN CONNALLY James Reston, Jr./Harper & Row/691 pp. $18.95 Victor Gold Nothing reflects the political acumen of the American corporate board room better than its...
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Letters From a War Zone
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Dworkin, Andrea
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LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE: WRITINGS 1976-1989 Andrea Dworkin/E. P. Dutton/337 pp. $18.95 Florence King Mothers of book reviewers' are famed for advising their young, "If you can't say something...
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Crashing the Gates/Summer Light/Our Kind of People
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Christopher, Robert C.; Yardley, Jonathan; Robinson, Roxana
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CRASHING THE GATES: THE DE-WASPING OF AMERICA'S POWER ELITE Robert C. Christopher/Simon and Schuster/304 pp. $19.95 OUR KIND OF PEOPLE: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY Jonathan...
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Mazes
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Kenner, Hugh
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rr he great literary critics are them-1 selves great prose writers, a fact that upon reflection should come as no surprise. One thinks of Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Arnold, T. S. Eliot, F....
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The Namibia Spectator/SWAPO Meet
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Boyles, Denis
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THE NAMIBIA SPECTATOR SWAPO MEET by Denis Boyles Went to a dance the other night. Everybody there was there .. . I said over and over and over again, This dance is gonna be a drag. —Dave Clark...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In a magisterial autobiography, Mrs. Ann Richards, treasurer of the great state of Texas, brings us right to the maternity bed at the historic moment of her...
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