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Vol. 023 Issue 012 (December 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • livo years ago, many conservatives were wondering what kind of president George Bush would make. One favored scenario had him playing Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan's FDR: a...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Shell Saddam Tom Bethell's advocacy of non-intervention in the Persian Gulf is the epitome of shortsightedness ("A New World Struggling to be Born," TAS, November 1990). While his...
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Editorials/Newt the Whaler/Chairman of the Board
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS NEWT THE WHALER by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. George Herbert Walker Bush has obviously never read the memoirs of Harry S. Truman or Hubert Humphrey, and Congressman Newt Gingrich has. Had...
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Capitol Ideas/Smoke, Mirrors, and the Adversary Press
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Bethell, Tom
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SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND THE ADVERSARY PRESS by Tom Bethell resident Bush's performance in the 1 budget talks perhaps even surpasses conservatives' worst suspicions about his lack of political...
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Poor Peru
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Rosenau, William
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1990 William Rosenau POOR PERU Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley is the coca-growing capital of the world. It is also home to a uniquely violent...
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A House of Ghosts
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Morrison, Micah
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Micah Morrison A HOUSE OF GHOSTS Even if Saddam Hussein fails to get his way, Kuwait as it existed before August 2 is lost forever. Widespread torture and executions have sent as much as...
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Violinistas
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Weiner, Lauren
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Lauren Weiner VIOLINISTAS What happens when Violeteros play politics with Sandinistas. rr he newspapers in Managua are doing what they can to calm tensions: "Sandinista soldier rapes retarded...
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Keeping the Faith
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Scully, Matthew
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KEEPING THE FAITH Harlem During his tenure as Riverside Cathedral's "minister for peace and justice," the Rev. Erik Kolbell had seen itinerant peacemakers come and go, but none so distinguished as...
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Books for Christmas
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TAS's annual Holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. WICK ALLISON The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way, by Bill Bryson (Morrow). A quirky history of the...
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Spectator's Journal/Paz in Our Time
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Schwartz, Stephen A.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL PAZ IN OUR TIME by Stephen A. Schwartz ctavio Paz seems to have taken to heart the words of the Russian dissident pioneer, Yevgeny Zamyatin: "True literature can only exist...
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The Public Policy/Our Kingdom for a Deal
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Armey, Dick
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THE PUBLIC POLICY OUR KINGDOM FOR A DEAL It wasn't supposed to work this way, but as a sequester of federal spending loomed over White House and congressional budget negotiators, Republicans...
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Presswatch/An American Originalist
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Eastland, Terry
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AN AMERICAN ORIGINALIST Now that David Souter has taken his seat on the Supreme Court, the journalism on his confirmation is ripe for review by your faithful guide to all things media. We begin...
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Eminentoes/The Saga of Crazy Earl
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Gold, Victor
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EMINENTOES THE SAGA OF CRAZY EARL Little Davey Duke, oh yeah. . . . You know that sapsucker went and bought hisself a new nose? Oh yeah . . . Flew all the way to California to pay one o' them...
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Soviet Presswatch/Surrender the Pink
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH SURRENDER THE PINK by Cathy Young It is one thing to watch the Soviet shevik ideology and incitement of class press from a comfortable American hatred . . . we must free the...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Bad Time for Gonzo
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Marin, Rick
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS BAD TIME FOR GONZO Washington, D.C. When it's announced that there'll be a "slight delay" in Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's arrival time, the packed George Washington...
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The Talkies/Reeling in the Years
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES REELING IN THE YEARS by James Bowman T ime was when we looked back 1 with wistful nostalgia upon the world of our fathers and grandfathers. Now it is our own lives of only a few years...
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The Mother Tongue
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Bryson, Bill
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BOOK REVIEWS rr here are various reasons for 1 writing a book about a language. One may trace its history; codify its grammar; evolve new theories about it and, perhaps, relate it to other...
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Agents of Influence
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Choate, Pat
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AGENTS OF INFLUENCE Pat Choate/Alfred A. Knopf/295 pp. $22.95 David Brock It is difficult to recall a recent book that has so shaken the Washington hive—former officials of the Reagan and Carter...
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Now You Know
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Scovell, Kitty Dukakis with Jane
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NOW YOU KNOW Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell/Simon and Schuster/315 pp. $19.95 Joe Queenan I have a disease. It is a disease I have never before discussed in public, a disease I am mortified to...
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What Are People For?
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Berry, Wendell
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S ome years ago Wendell Berry quit his teaching job at the University of Kentucky to take up farming in Port Royal, about midway between Louisville and Cincinnati. There he has written...
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The Search for Modern China
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Spence, Jonathan
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THE SEARCH FOR MODERN CHINA Jonathan Spence/W. W. Norton & Co./876 pp. $29.95 Susan Ruel J onathan Spence's new book brings to mind those Chinese calligraphers who use mouse whiskers to paint, on...
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Rudeness and Civility
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Kasson, John E
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RUDENESS AND CIVILITY: MANNERS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY URBAN AMERICA John F. Kasson/Hill & Wang/305 pp. $22.95 Francis X. Rocca WTI here are upper-class manners, I and there are middle-class...
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The California Spectator/Land of the Smiling Sun
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Brookhiser, Richard
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THE CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR LAND OF THE SMILING SUN T he last time I was in California, 1 apart from a few political trips, I was a five-year-old taken there by my parents on a cross-country drive in...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Another example of the ghastly prose and fractious thought that one has to endure to be a faithful leftist: And there was salvation there, in the New World,...
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