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Vol. 023 Issue 008 (August 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • The holy month of June saw the second coming of Mikhail Gorbachev to America, an event of spiritual dimensions exceeded only by the traveling revival show of the sainted...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE A Sober View One might get the impression from Elizabeth Kristol's "Declarations of Codependence" (TAS, June 1990) that Alcoholics Anonymous is as flaky as any program using Twelve...
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The Sound and the Fury/The Angry 150
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Jr.", "R. Emmett Tyrrell
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THE ANGRY 150 And so President Mikhail Gorbachev has returned to his home base, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, without defecting. Frankly, given conditions back home, I thought that...
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The Courage of His Convictions
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Bethell, Tom
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not even that flower of Soviet womanhood, Dr. Gorbachev, shared their peculiar vision of careers before all else and ego above everything? The Angry 150, who, let us note, have wide support...
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Environmental Gore
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Morrison, Micah
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR ~ VOL. 23, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1990 0Og0OIQQOm~00Q00a00D00QDIgQ000QQ0Q0gDDQ60Q00Q00QQgQ00moO00IDg000eQI0o0QDO00Q0O0gB0i0000D00Qm00006D Micah Morrison ENVIRONMENTAL GORE...
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Two More if by Sea
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Horner, Charles
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Charles Horner TWO MORE IF BY SEA Ten years ago the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea was poised to undermine our vital maritime interests. Today the problem seems almost quaint—and it has...
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The Politics of Cancer Testing
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Fumento, Michael
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Michael Fumento THE POLITICS OF CANCER TESTING In orchestrating the Great Alar Scare of 1989, outfits like the Natural Resources Defense Council demonstrated a greater interest in terrorizing the...
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East Side Story
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Pinkerton, James P.
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THE NATION'S PULSE EAST SIDE STORY by James P. Pinkerton T here are half a million people 1 jammed into the eleven square miles of the Los Angeles Police Department's East Side Division. The...
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Romania Watch
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Gold, Victor
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL ROMANIA WATCH by Victor Gold O n the eve of Romania's May 20 election, the student "hooligans" who had started it all last December were still talking it up in the square at...
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Moynihan and the Conservatives
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Jr.", "Robert W. Kasten
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THE PUBLIC POLICY MOYNIHAN AND THE CONSERVATIVES Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) has unwittingly proposed one of the most pro-family legislative initiatives in recent years—a cut in the Social...
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Confessions of a Network Newsman
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH CONFESSIONS OF A NETWORK NEWSMAN IT doubt there are better ways to chart trends in American journalism than to observe the career of Fred Graham, best known for his work as CBS law...
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Exciting Times
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH EXCITING TIMES by Cathy Young W hen growing up in the Soviet Union, I hardly ever read the papers. With their front-page photos of beaming workers and headlines like "Building a...
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Penta Hostilities: Deconstructing the NAS
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K., Joe
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALS PENTA HOSTILITIES: DECONSTRUCTING THE NAS What follows is a report on the June 1990 convention of the National Association of Scholars, written by Joe K, an undergraduate...
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Abortion
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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BOOK REVIEWS T aurence Tribe, Tyler Professor of 1-r Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, used to shape public policy with appellate briefs for Supreme Court justices and with articles and...
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Friends or Strangers
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McGurn, William
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Tucked away on the second floor of T the National Press Building in Washington is PJ's, a sandwich shop with standard fare, average prices, and spartan decor. Yet there is invariably a big crowd...
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Samurai Widow
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Queenan, Joe
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rr his is not a book about John1 although he is an integral part of it—but a book about healing, my healing." So begins Samurai Widow, the story of Judith Jacklin Belushi's eight-year struggle to...
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Richard Aldington
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Stove, R. J.
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In an age that worships specializa- tion as abjectly as does ours—when the ability to write a sentence on each of two different topics is generally thought to be evidence of disgusting...
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Abroad in America
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Rocca, Francis X.
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rri he inevitable question," Jessica Mitford and her newlywed husband discover, is: "Do you like America?" This always stumped us a bit at first. "It would never occur to us to ask a foreigner if...
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Francois Truffaut
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Bowman, James
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I n a tactful letter of advice to a screenwriter, written when he was only twenty-eight, Francois Truffaut wrote that "films resemble the people who make them." Those who know Truffaut as the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Professors Pfau and Kenski team up to discover the roots of the Willie Horton campaign, in plain English fit for a graduate student: The 1986...
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