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 Vol. 024 Issue 002 (February 1 1991)
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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 • The first year of the 1990s ended eerily, but not the five great stories that ran through it: (1) gathering storm clouds in the Persian Gulf, (2) gathering recession, (3)...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Shooting Common Pool that he is not in the same league as they add, rare—instance, Mr. Simon is but their higher efficiencies, the experimenTom Bethell sets forth a theory of are. It...
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Editorials/A Memo to George Bush
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS A MEMO TO GEORGE BUSH To: President Bush From: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Re: The State of the Union 1991 I t has been my honor to be your friend. Early in the presidential sweepstakes I...
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Capitol Ideas/The Fantasy of a United Europe
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS THE FANTASY OF A UNITED EUROPE A s I realized on a recent visit to England, no subject has been more misleadingly reported than the putative emergence of a "United States of Europe."...
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Who Owns Central Europe?
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Applebaum, Anne
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1991 Anne Applebaum WHO OWNS CENTRAL EUROPE? Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians say they are eager to privatize industry. But half-measures in...
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A Poorhouse Divided
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Frum, David
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David Frum A POORHOUSE DIVIDED Conservatives can be the champions of the poor, but they're of two minds on how to go about it: offer economic incentives, or impose the mores of middle-class...
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The Empire Strikes Out
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Karatnycky, Adrian
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Adrian Karatnycky THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT The Kremlin vs. Russia, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, et al. All around the Soviet Union are the signs...
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Gloom Boxes: Dead Beets
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Newman, Sally
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DEAD BEETS olkhovsky Sovkhoz, a Soviet state 1 farm about fifty flat miles south of Moscow, has been officially designated a "sovkhoz-millionaire," meaning that it is among the most prosperous...
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Gloom Boxes: Rukh Riders
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Karatnycky, Adrian
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RUKH RIDERS T oday, in the Ukraine, the Soviet 1 Union's second most populous republic (one in six Soviet citizens lives here), forces for independence and democracy command majority support. While...
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Gloom boxes: Gorby's Pugo Stick
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Kaza, Juris
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GORBY'S PUGO STICK he appointment of Boris Pugo, chief of the KGB in Latvia in the early 1980s, as the Soviet Union's minister of interior is, as Latvians say, a majiens ar mietu—a gesture with a...
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American Document/The Indispensable Entrepreneur
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Forstmann, Theodore J.
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AMERICAN DOCUMENT THE INDISPENSABLE ENTREPRENEUR Lease a man a garden and in time he will leave you a patch of sand. Make a man full owner of a patch of sand and in time he will grow there a...
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Spectator's Journal/PLO, Inc
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Pipes, Daniel
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL PLO, INC. by Daniel Pipes W hen Kuwait disappeared into the Iraqi maw last August 2, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) found itself bereft of its second largest...
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The Nation's Pulse/Riegle Beagles
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Jeffrey, Terence P.
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THE NATION'S PULSE RIEGLE BEAGLES by Terence P. Jeffrey I don't think there's any question that his testimony to date will cause his indictment. —Senator Howell Heflin of the Iran-contra...
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Soviet Presswatch/Solidarity With Saddam
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH SOLIDARITY WITH SADDAM T ast September, when the middleaged man outside the office of Moscow News who tried to sell yours truly a photocopied manual of "365 sexual positions"...
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Presswatch/ Scientific American on Trial
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ON TRIAL Ireached free-lance writer Forrest M. Mims III after he'd been a guest on another radio talk show. He did this one, like most of the three dozen others...
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The Talkies/Homes Rearranged
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES HOMES REARRANGED America's rediscovery of her Romantic roots in each new generation is a spectacle of endless fascination. Just now the Noble Savage is having one of his periodic...
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Morley Callaghan, 1903-1990
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Marin, Rick
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BOOK REVIEWS F amous for knocking down Ernest Hemingway in a boxing match in Paris, Morley Callaghan was one of the hottest young literary properties of the 1920s and became one of the handful of...
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Pledging Allegiance, by Sidney Blumenthal
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Gold, Victor
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Mr. Blumenthal can barely suppress his fury as he describes how Mr. Dukakis squandered his lead and turned a likely Democratic victory into a decisive defeat. —Alan Brinkley, New York Times,...
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The Ivory Trade, by Joseph Horowitz
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Stove, R J
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Joseph Horowitz first achieved (ill) fame in this journal four years ago as the perpetrator of Understanding Toscanini, a simultaneously petulant and supercilious attack on the twentieth century's...
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The Excluded Americans, by William Tucker
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Starr, Roger
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T his shaggy book has a well-placed 1 heart and a mass of information on American homes and the home-building industry. Its subtitle suggests that misguided government intervention, including rent...
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The Miami Spectator/Desperado
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Valiunas, Algis
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THE MIAMI SPECTATOR DESPERADO O n December 16, 1988, Mr. Leonardo Mercado of Miami got into a strenuous tussle with six local police officers, an ill-advised course of action for even the most...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Black humor: If Nancy Cruzan truly lived only the first 25 years of her life, the remaining 8 were remarkably productive. She is responsible for a Supreme Court...
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