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Vol. 025 Issue 007 (July 1 1992)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• Like a live grenade at a PLO reunion, blame for the Rodney King riots was tossed about every which way in May, and when the dust settled for Memorial Day, the liberals declared themselves cleaner...
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EditoriallUnheavenly Cities
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL Unheavenly Cities by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T he indignation of our friends the liberal Democrats at White House charges that their policies were responsible for the Los Angeles rampage...
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Correspondence/An Appeal from P J. O'Rourke
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CORRESPONDENCE Erratum I am very interested in reading the remainder of Joe Queenan's "Reality Check" (TAS, June 1992)—or is this a ploy to find out how many people read TAS cover-to-cover? —Bob...
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Capitol Ideas/Sonny California
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Bethell, Tom
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Sonny California by Tom Bethell T he California Republicans held a convention at the Burlingame Hyatt this winter, and I'm afraid I have been a little slow in getting around to telling you about...
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Fidel's World
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Symmes, Patrick
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Fidel's World Two weeks on an abandoned island. by Patrick Symmes Havana T he first time Fidel Castro died was in the 1950s. "We have the head of Castro," announced the dictator Fulgencio...
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There's No Accounting for Congress
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McFadden, Edward
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Edward McFadden There's No Accounting for Congress Especially if the GAO is cooking the numbers. On Capitol Hill, the General Accounting Office has become the legislative-branch franchise of...
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Fetal Attraction
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Fumento, Michael
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Michael Fumento Fetal Attraction If fetal cells are as medically useful as some doctors think, we could soon have a bull market in abortion-for-profit. And that's only one of the ethical...
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The International Pulse/Why Spy?
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Haselkorn, Avigdor
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Why Spy? by Avigdor Haselkorn T oward the end of his reign in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev presented the West with this dilemma: Should it actively push for Soviet reform, or adopt a hands-off...
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The Nation's Pulse/A Hero of the Cold War
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Puddington, Arch
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A Hero of the Cold War by Arch Puddington T om Kahn began his political life in the 1950s as a member of the youth wing of a small radical group whose ancestry can be traced to Leon Trotsky. He...
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Ben Stein's Diary/The Road to Surfdom
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Tuesday 1 t's a beautiful day. The sun is dazzling. The sky is a perfect light blue. The waves are crashing on the beach below my house in Trancas, so it's time to go out to get some yoghurt. Or...
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Presswatch/Hil/'s Rats
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Eastland, Terry
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On May 5 the Senate released the 171-page report of Peter E. Fleming, Jr., the New York lawyer asked to find out who leaked Anita Hill's confidential allegations of sexu al harassment against...
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The Talkies/Fashion Plays
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Bowman, James
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Fashion Plays by James Bowman 4 4 om vies are art, now more than ever," says Tim Robbins as a studio executive addressing a crowd of beautiful people at a charity benefit in Robert Altman's The...
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Jefferson Davis
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Davis, William C.
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BOOK REVIEWS / t is now over 130 years since the Civil War began, and with the political and economic transformation of the South during the last generation, ghosts have been laid and passions...
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The Vital South
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Black, Earl Black and Merle
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B ad as the blows were, the worst thing that happened to Bill Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries was not being hit with allegations of cheating on Hillary and dodging the draft. Nope,...
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The Chairman
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Bird, Kai
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Among the men endlessly credited with shaping this American Century, John J. McCloy is a muted figure. During nearly five decades in and out of public life, he never attained cabinet rank. He lacked...
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Black Water
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Oates, Joyce Carol
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The book plays like one of those reallife-but-with-actors scenes on "A Current Affair" or "Hard Copy." A woman in her twenties meets a U.S. senator at a party and goes for a drive with him. He...
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The Soviet Mafia
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Vaksberg, Arkady
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Last July, a month prior to the abortive hard-line coup that would prove Soviet Communism's undoing, I was in Moscow researching an article on crime. One of my first stops was the Ministry of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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The Great Books Series An exigent "author's note" appended by Dan Wakefield to his New York in the Fifties, lest he stir up the neurotics, which is to say his clientele: In the 1950s, "Negro" was...
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