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Vol. 024 Issue 002 (February 1 1991)
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The Continuing Crisis
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)...
Correspondence
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...
Editorials/A Memo to George Bush
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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...
Capitol Ideas/The Fantasy of a United Europe
Bethell, Tom
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."...
Who Owns Central Europe?
Applebaum, Anne
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...
A Poorhouse Divided
Frum, David
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...
The Empire Strikes Out
Karatnycky, Adrian
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...
Gloom Boxes: Dead Beets
Newman, Sally
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...
Gloom Boxes: Rukh Riders
Karatnycky, Adrian
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...
Gloom boxes: Gorby's Pugo Stick
Kaza, Juris
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...
American Document/The Indispensable Entrepreneur
Forstmann, Theodore J.
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...
Spectator's Journal/PLO, Inc
Pipes, Daniel
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...
The Nation's Pulse/Riegle Beagles
Jeffrey, Terence P.
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...
Soviet Presswatch/Solidarity With Saddam
Young, Cathy
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"...
Presswatch/ Scientific American on Trial
Eastland, Terry
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...
The Talkies/Homes Rearranged
Bowman, James
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...
Morley Callaghan, 1903-1990
Marin, Rick
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...
Pledging Allegiance, by Sidney Blumenthal
Gold, Victor
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,...
The Ivory Trade, by Joseph Horowitz
Stove, R J
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...
The Excluded Americans, by William Tucker
Starr, Roger
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...
The Miami Spectator/Desperado
Valiunas, Algis
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...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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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