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Vol. 024 Issue 006 (June 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 • April is gone but not Saddam Hussein, the high-tech Idi Amin of the 1990s, whose vast programs for population control have markedly thinned out Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'ite...
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Correspondence
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penile implant, under certain circumstances, could explode. The trial continues. President George Bush unveiled a get-tough plan for improving American education, but it fell far below the standards...
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Editorials/Operation Hamill-Lewis/Kitty Times
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS OPERATION HAMILL-LEWIS H ow is it that those commentators and politicians who so recently opposed the use of American force against Saddam Hussein now insist on its use to protect...
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Capitol Ideas/Original Sin in the Promised Land
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Bethell, Tom
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she is a greater reporter than any of the dozens who covered Washington for the Times during the Reagan era. Doubtless the Times will soon be offering Miss Kelley a position, and why not an...
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Operation Desert Shame
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Ledeen, Michael
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 6 / JUNE 1991 Michael Ledeen OPERATION DESERT SHAME As President Bush has learned to his chagrin, Realpolitik can justify short-term tactics, but not...
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Chronicler Without a Clue
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Tucker, William
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William Tucker CHRONICLER WITHOUT A CLUE Nicholas Lemann reports brilliantly on the great black migration from South to North in this century, only to stumble when trying to account for the...
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Freddy St Germain's Long Ride
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Loughran, Joe
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Joe Loughran FREDDY ST GERMAIN'S LONG RIDE Congress and the S&L scandals have a long history, going back at least to the reign of former Democratic Rep. Fernand St Germain, who, while overseeing...
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Presswatch/A Profession in Decline
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH A PROFESSION IN DECLINE Boston rr he American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) gathered here for its annual meeting in order to celebrate, as signs everywhere put it, "the...
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The Nation's Pulse/Viper's Nests
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE VIPER'S NESTS by Benjamin J. Stein Wednesday A trip up to the Port Hueneme Na- val Air Station to Do My Bit. I had read that there was a support group there for the children of...
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Soviet Presswatch/Mr. Personality
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH MR. PERSONALITY by Cathy Young H ere is, courtesy of perestroika, a revolutionary way to measure political weight: in pounds and ounces (or kilos and grams). The March 8, 1991,...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Pop Tarts
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Rabey, Steve
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS POP TARTS San Antonio Irode up the escalator with someone who looked like he might be going my way. He had long, frizzy hair, wore jeans and sneakers, and carried a...
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American Document/Scoundrel Times
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Radosh, Ronald
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AMERICAN DOCUMENT SCOUNDREL TIMES O n Sunday, March 31, the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times ran a discussion of the new film, Guilty by Suspicion, by Victor Navasky, editor of the...
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Eminentoes/Master Shawn
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Marin, Rick
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EMINENTOES MASTER SHAWN by Rick Marin W ally Shawn is working the room. The Fever, a monologue by the well-known actor, playwright, and short-bald-guy-about-town, is about to begin at the tiny...
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The Talkies/Looking for a Good Time?
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Bowman, James
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Some might say the Shawn-examined life is not worth listening to. He tells of visiting a "revolutionary country," probably Nicaragua. There are many soldiers but they look like "shepherds in...
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Guerrilla Prince/Fidel/Cuba
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Geyer, Georgie Anne; Escalona, Roberto Luque; Timerman, Jacobo
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BOOK REVIEWS W ith the 1989 overthrow of totali- tartan states in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, even those Stalinist regimes that survived have undergone substantial changes: Albania has just held...
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Reagan and Thatcher
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Smith, Geoffrey
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man baron." Why look to literature rather than to politics to explain him? Because the shrinking of Cuba's power base to Fidel's immediate family gives him a dynastic role that is...
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The Riddle of Power
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Shogan, Robert
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America's putative no-deals-with-terrorists policy. She was obviously genuinely shocked when she caught the man she trusted negotiating with hostage-takers and behaving in a way one has come to...
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One of Us
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Wicker, Tom
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His goal was to create a middle-class constituency for his policies, and he figured that "the enmity of the war protesters would help solidify the support of the middle class." He was right, and the...
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Profiles
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Tynan, Kenneth
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profoundly in the interest of the country and the president-elect." Wicker writes: "There's no doubt that he almost won; it may even be that he did win." He had won the prize, "only to see it...
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Nancy Reagan
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Kelley, Kitty
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French phrase Oh! quel cul Ors. TAinan's expertise did not extend to showbiz law, and thus he made less money from Oh! Calcutta! than did any of his subordinates. A sequel, Carte Blanche—"tat for...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Once again, the eternal schoolmarm yells out from the vacuity that is Anthony Lewis: Something is missing in George Bush. An empathy gene, if there were such a...
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