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IssueVol. 024 Issue 004 (April 1 1991)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • February ended, and Washington's wise coves are no longer complaining that George H. W. Bush is a bore. In fact, some observers are concerned that he- is too much the live...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Dorothy Healey Remembers nitrogen, etc., from which biological life Mr. Eastland could have added that lief prompts an individual to ignore My attention has been called to Ronald...
Paid articleEditorials/Our Dynamic Duo/The Malcontents
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
8 THE MALCONTENTS January 30, 1991 It is the onset of night, and having ists, though they would make lousy heard the evening news's latest re- 1930s Republicans. Others yelled at me ports of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Star-Wars Wars
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS STAR-WARS WARS by Tom Bethell efore a small group the other day in the late 1970s, to avoid running afoul thing it wasn't. Government programs Warriors (1985). "The site was named...
Paid articleGod Is on Our Side
Ledeen, Michael
C THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 4 / APRIL 1991 Michael Ledeen GOD IS ON OUR SIDE How else to explain the blunders of Gorby, Saddam & Co. that keep saving us from the consequences of our...
Paid articleThe Six-Week War
Norden, Edward
Edward Norden THE SIX-WEEK WAR A war letter from Jerusalem. D -day, February 24, was the day a longer warning of their approach, and on the whole bearable, this was thanks Israelis in the heart...
Paid articleWho Killed Nick Blake?
Rosenau, William
William Rosenau WHO KILLED NICK BLAKE? Returning to Guatemala in search of a friend's dead brother. Dominated by rugged mountains and studded with volcanoes, blessed with near-perfect weather and...
Paid articleA Ground War for All Time: Churchill's Forgotten Masterpiece
Valiunas, Algis
Algis Valiunas A GROUND WAR FOR ALL TIME: CHURCHILL'S FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE In the despair following World War I, The World Crisis restored the politics of national interest to its rightful...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Day Two
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATION'S PULSE DAY TWO by Benjamin J. Stein January 17, 1991 M orning. I spent last night at my condo in the Shoreham Towers, the tallest apartment building in West Hollywood, by far. It's on...
Paid articleEminentoes/Mr. Occidental
Epstein, Edward Jay
EMINENTOES MR. OCCIDENTAL by Edward Jay Epstein Is there any limit to how much mon- ey an ingenious corporate chairman can divert from the corporate treasury for his personal glorification? Armand...
Paid articlePresswatch/Dispatches
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH DISPATCHES by Terry Eastland fter meeting with news executives tivities, more and more reporters were Bernard Shaw asked his two colleagues tory said to have been bombed by allast...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Saving Face
Young, Cathy
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SAVING FACE by Cathy Young I Buln Nikolai Gogol's classic tale Tams I ba, the fierce Cossack hero exclaims, as he shoots his son who has defected to the enemy: "I have given...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/The Fairfax on Embassy Row
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES THE FAIRFAX ON EMBASSY ROW M ost hotel bars simply do not measure up. Come to think of it, why should they? Like airport restaurants, they subsist off of a...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Someday Her Prints Will Come
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES SOMEDAY HER PRINTS WILL COME by James Bowman H ollywood routinely elevates cliche ment? Ah, yes, because it is inherently lywood ideology without Hollywood tected from the very...
Paid articleCathay / Legacies
Bordewich, Fergus; Lord, Betty Bao
BOOK REVIEWS W hen, two years ago, I first peered upon the remains of Chairman Mao in his mausoleum on Tianamnen Square, I was taken aback. I had seen Lenin and Ho Chi Minh, and was not...
Paid articleThe Russian Revolution
Pipe, Richard
In the early morning of July 17, 1918, in a basement in Ekaterinburg, members of the Bolshevik security police, the Cheka, murdered the ex-czar Nicholas II, his wife, their son and four daughters,...
Paid articleThe Power and the Glitter
Brownstein, Ronald
THE POWER AND THE GLITTER: THE HOLLYWOOD-WASHINGTON CONNECTION Ronald Brownstein/Pantheon/437 pp. $24.95 Fred Barnes BBefore the 1988 presidential cam- wood, particularly the younger actors ...
Paid articleConsequences
Tower, John C.
working—but he also had a reputation as a mean S.O.B. Consequences does nothing to undercut that reputation, as everyone from his second wife to John Warner to Teddy Kennedy to Sam Donaldson takes...
Paid articleThe Moscow Spectator/Gloom City
Novak, Robert D.
THE MOSCOW SPECTATOR GLOOM CITY by Robert D. Novak I n the dreary winter of 1991, talk of the comeback of hard-line Communism abounded. And in the prototypical modern police state there seemed...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Daily Nexus A communique from Tony Pierce, senior literature major in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in the student paper of...
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