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Vol. 023 Issue 006 (June 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April, as the poet has it, is the cruelest month of all—though in 1990 it is but one of four consecutive cruel months, at least for those ideological heirlooms who still...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE An Open Letter to P. J. O'Rourke Normally I don't let myself get worked up by such trash, but there is the danger that someone might believe some of the lies you've printed about...
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Editorials / An Anti-American Poseur / Twisted and Hallucinatory
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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TWISTED AND HALLUCINATORY W hat follows is what the venerable Liberal columnist Anthony Lewis wrote the other day. For that matter, it is also what he was writing several weeks ago, several months...
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Capitol Ideas / Moon Over Moscow
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS MOON OVER MOSCOW We passed through customs at Moscow with scarcely an official glance at our luggage. It seems the Soviet authorities have given up trying to control what people...
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Mr. Gorbachev's Bizarreries
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Ledden, Michael
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 6 / JUNE 1990 Michael Ledeen MR. GORBACHEV'S BIZARRERIES As he flails away at Lithuanians and others who desire freedom, the visionless and weak-willed Mikhail...
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Death Rally Days
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Mallon, Thomas
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Thomas Mallon DEATH RALLY DAYS Live from San Quentin, the execution of murderer Robert Alton Harris is put on hold—while the debate over the death penalty moves to Main Street. M y diary from...
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Teddy Kennedy on Death Row
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Fowler, Jack
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TEDDY KENNEDY ON DEATH ROW Washington W hile in California politicians are making support for capital punishment the campaign issue of 1990, in our nation's capital Ted Kennedy and his allies are...
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Declarations of Codependence
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Kristol, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Kristol DECLARATIONS OF CODEPENDENCE People who need people are the sickliest people in the world—and that's just for starters. "Cures of patients who suppose themselves to be glass may...
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Spectator's Journal / Toward a New Cambodia Policy
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Horowitz, Michael J.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL TOWARD A NEW CAMBODIA POLICY "China has not changed and will not change its approach. The stance of China and the stance of the Khmer Rouge—they are the same." —Norodom...
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The Nation's Pulse / Look Back in Anger
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE LOOK BACK IN ANGER A normal Sunday. I was sitting in a chair reading the financial statements of a very large insurance company, trying to see if the management had taken a...
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Presswatch / The Leak That Fizzled
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH THE LEAK THAT FIZZLED T he headless and hopefully named 1 Office of Thrift Supervision finally received a head and maybe some hope when in early April Washington lawyer Tim Ryan was...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Another Oliver Stone Opening
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Lane, Bill
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ANOTHER OLIVER STONE OPENING • Within 30 minutes of watching the opening of Born on the Fourth of July all the Vietnam veterans who had been invited to see it were in...
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The Talkies / Commonplace Comedy
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES COMMONPLACE COMEDY T he first thing you should know 1 about Pretty Woman is that it was directed by Garry ("Laverne and Shirley") Marshall, a man who became famous back in the...
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The Liberal Conspiracy, by Peter Coleman
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Muggeridge, John
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BOOK REVIEWS IT n May 1967, Thomas Wardell Bra- den revealed to Saturday Evening Post readers that as part of the Cold War effort CIA funds laundered through American foundations had been used to...
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The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, by Michael Fumento
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Munson, Steven C.
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A few years ago AIDS produced an outburst of national hysteria quite unlike anything in recent memory. Today it has been relegated to the status of a national piety. It remains, of course, of acute...
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A Tenured Professor, by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Bownam, James
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nce upon a time there was a poor governess whose life had been largely spent amid romantic daydreams of her own invention. Having recently recovered from an unhappy and unreciprocated passion for a...
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Life on the Rim, by David Levine
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Queenan, Joe
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M idway through the 1989-90 National Basketball Association season, I watched a televised broadcast of a game between the Philadelphia 76ers, a very good basketball team, and the New Jersey Nets, a...
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The Socialist Spectator / Peep Show
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Brock, David
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THE SOCIALIST SPECTATOR PEEP SHOW by David Brock y ou can tell a lot about a group by its enemies, and if this year's annual "Socialist Scholars" conference gave an award, it would have gone to...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Hugh Prather, the Marcel Proust of yuppiedom, in a new introduction to the twentieth-anniversary edition of his Notes to Myself, gibbers in the first person...
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