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Vol. 023 Issue 010 (October 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • On August 2 the Iraqi tyrant Mr. Sad-dam Hussein sent 170,000 of his troops to requisition Kuwait and choice real estate in Saudi Arabia, thus creating on the Kuwaiti-Saudi...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Micah Milhous Morrison Micah Morrison's article "Environmental Gore" (TAS, August 1990) took me back to the late '60s and the Nixonian paranoia that pervaded the right. Like Nixon,...
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Editorials/The Bush Resolve/Nature Fakers
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS THE BUSH RESOLVE George Bush has just completed an V act of presidential leadership surpassing any similar effort by an American President in recent times—though only with modern...
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Capitol Ideas/Civil Rights and Wrongs
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS F ollowing Saddam Hussein's seizure of Kuwait, Washington is in the grip of something close to war fever. With Congress away on vacation, most of the Cabinet...
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The Big Sleep: Politics 1990
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1990 Fred Barnes THE BIG SLEEP: POLITICS 1990 Not even taxes, Iraq, the S&L bailout, or abortion are exciting voters this year. Bill Bradley,...
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The Wizardry of David Duke
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Ferguson, Andrew
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Andrew Ferguson THE WIZARDRY OF DAVID DUKE The making of a "conservative Republican." Metairie, Louisiana David Duke does not hesitate to talk about what he invariably calls "my controversial...
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The Second Democratic Revolution
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Ledeen, Michael
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Michael Ledeen THE SECOND DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION Cold War or no Cold War, the worldwide movement toward democracy will be reversed if the United States does not continue to lead it. W e have...
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Go to Hegel
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Lewis, Saul
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GO TO HEGEL At the end of World War II, when our ambassador to the Soviet Union, Averell Harriman, advised Secretary of State Cordell Hull to try to influence the Soviets on the Polish issue, Hull...
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Tides From Two Cities: Petersburg
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Cranston, Maurice
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TALES FROM TWO CITIES (I) PETERSBURG by Maurice Cranston T eningrad claims, with some justice, 1-/ to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, displaying, like Venice and Amsterdam, its...
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Tales From Two Cities: Moscow
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Pinkerton, James P.
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TALES FROM TWO CITIES (II) MOSCOW by James P. Pinkerton an f you can't afford a plane ticket to IMoscow ($1,100 round trip), rent the movie Batman. You'll save about $1,097 and still see a gray...
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The Nation's Pulse/Cuomo's "A" Rating
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Mysak, Joe
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THE NATION'S PULSE CUOMO'S "A" RATING Get to know the name Stan Lun- V dine. Mr. Lundine is the lieutenant governor of New York right now, and he will be the lieutenant governor when Gov. Mario...
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Spectator's Journal/Good Soldiers
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Young, Cathy
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL GOOD SOLDIERS by Cathy Young Prague Nearly a year after the "Velvet Revolution," Prague offers a remarkable mix of lingering Soviet-style socialism and nascent Western-style...
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Presswatch/Taking Liberties
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH TAKING LIBERTIES In late July, Associate Justice William Brennan surprised everyone by retiring after thirty-four years on the Court. How did the media respond? Let's go to the...
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The Talkies/Ms. Polhemus, She Dead
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES MS. POLHEMUS, SHE DEAD After nearly a century of it, do we still thrill to that Heart of Darkness stuff—how thin the veneer of civilization over the savage substance of our hearts,...
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Charles Reich's Con Job: The Greening of America Turns Twenty
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Mallon, Thomas
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BOOK REVIEWS T t was twenty years ago today, Professor Reich taught the kids to say: Consciousness III is coming. My college sociology prof, who took it all quite seriously, called it "Con III."...
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Tribes With Flags
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Glass, Charles
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an f you had written account of a Ijourney through the Middle East, mainly concerned with the region's politics and tragedies, what would you put on the cover? A photo of one of its many gory...
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The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
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Hayes, Harold T. P.
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THE DARK ROMANCE OF DIAN FOSSEY Harold T. P. Hayes/Simon and Schuster/351 pp. $21.95 Florence King The six-foot-one, gun-toting virago whose sobriquet was "the gorilla lady" was not a woman to...
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Child Prodigies
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Radford, John
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CHILD PRODIGIES AND EXCEPTIONAL EARLY ACHIEVERS John Radford/Free Press/255 pp. $22.95 John R. Dunlap At the age of three, under the tutelage of his father, John Stuart Mill learned to read...
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Stalin's Apologist Walter Duranty
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Taylor, S. J.
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STALIN'S APOLOGIST, WALTER DURANTY: THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MAN IN MOSCOW S. J. Taylor/Oxford University Press/404 pp. $24.95 Ronald Radosh On the day it reviewed this book last June, the New York...
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The Broken Apple
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London, Herbert
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THE BROKEN APPLE: NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1980s Herbert London/Transaction Books/212 pp. $24.95 Roger Starr H erbert London played basketball on the only Jamaica (Queens) High School team ever to...
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The Folks That Live on the Hill
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Amis, Kingsley
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THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL Kingsley Amis/Summit Books/246 pp. $18.95 James Bowman The title of this book makes ironic I reference to a lovely if not very well-remembered Jerome Kern song...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Our nation's leading series of travel guides explains why Gunter Grass is always greener on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall: Its reputation as the...
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