The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 March 20 to April 15, and on goes the American Renaissance. At the 49th Academy Awards presentation there was not a dry eye in the house when Miss Jane Fonda...
...Vance's junior aides were denied buttered popcorn...
...Alex Haley's Roots, Mr...
...Brezhnev retorted negatively with a picturesque Russian expression that translates roughly as "so long sucker" and stomped from the room, leaving Mr...
...Suggestive of how far we have fallen from the enlightened era of the Warren Court is the conviction of Mr...
...Indira Gandhi, was cast into question when she was bounced from office in one of the most thorough political trouncings in history...
...Amin's Third World Utopia...
...Lenin, Mr...
...Yet not once didJane Fonda or any of the Hollywood intellects speak out, an omission that might well be atoned for at the 50th Academy Awards presentation if only Miss Fonda will read this book...
...What happened to those who failed to dance was not reported...
...Italy's most wanted criminal, Mr...
...RET 2 The Alternative: An American Spectator May I977...
...If the vigilant citizen believes that the Rt...
...Americans have no sense of the past, she has opined, and how she and Miss Fonda are trying to make the most of it...
...As of this writing no reply has been forthcoming, but then His Excellency has been preoccupied with an extensive law and order campaign...
...9 All this became apparent to every observer except Mr...
...I think what I'll do is just get the recipe and make it at home...
...And one of the sourest men in Randolph, New Jersey, Mr...
...Filbert Moorer, the Colorado burglar whose daring raid on a packing house netted him 1,200 worthless cattle rectums...
...9 Despite claims that he was "feeding the people," police jugged a naked 23-year-old Janesville, Wisconsin youth when unbeknownst to the driver he was spotted heaving sides of beef from the back of a speeding truck...
...Moorer "preposterous and without humor...
...Waldie presented a threat merely to Homo sapiens during these years then he is urged to read this book, for it chillingly exposes the maniacal designs this powerful solon ever so cunningly advanced to harass and destroy an entire species of amphibian, Rana catesbeiaua...
...n The next day was a disaster...
...Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang has rid the country of yet another public servant...
...Ursula Schweitzer...
...Brezhnev's greeting...
...A male go-go dancer, transported by his art, was arrested when he sank his teeth into the gluteus maximus of a female patron, causing bloodshed in a San Francisco pleasure palace...
...Carter's fussy insistence that the Soviets honor previous treaty obligations, namely obligations incurred when they signed the Helsinki accord on human rights...
...Laramie, Wyoming mixologist...
...Young stumbled into a BBC studio on April 6 and suavely jibbered that Britain "invented racism," was "a little chicken" on racial matters, and as responsible as Idi Amin "for the death and bloodshed that we have in Uganda...
...A Torrington, Wyoming truck driver, Mr...
...Leo Froeiich, was fined $250 for throwing a thirtypound dog at a Ft...
...9 On April 8, Good Friday, the Maryland legislature passed its revised death penalty bill...
...Ivor Richard, and by a fatuous apology they both settled on...
...The political future of one of the world's most bilious women, Mrs...
...9 UN Ambassador Andrew Young has been quick to take advantage of another opportunity to make a fool of himself, much to the relish of a swelling audience of admirers in saloons all around the country...
...9 The nation's pederasts were miffed by that Illinois supreme court ruling that allows prison escapees to cite "homosexual attacks" as a defense for flight...
...A botulism outbreak at a Mexican restaurant in Pontiac, Michigan, described as one of the worst in American history, provided vast amusement for millions of Americans, exposed for the first time to Mrs...
...9 The post-Watergate morality has spread to Israel and brought about the retirement of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...Cyrus Vance on March 29 when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev failed to attend the Bolshoi Ballet with him...
...9 After five and one-half years of ingratiating mellowness the Soviets are again scowling...
...How grave a slight this was dawned on Mr...
...All the international sweetness that the Nixon-Ford Administration cultivated lies imperiled, owing to Mr...
...At the 49th Academy Awards presentation there was not a dry eye in the house when Miss Jane Fonda heaped encomiums and hogwash on Miss Lillian Hellman, the unscotchable spirit who once stood alone against the horror of the 1950s and for virtue, art, Joe Stalin, and her $140,000-a-year Hollywood salary...
...9 Why the Carter Administration is demanding that the sophisticated Soviets live by their treaty obligations perplexes seasoned Washington pundits, many of whom ascribe it to his ignorance of recent diplomatic custom...
...According to the redoubtable Albanian News Service, millions of Albanians went to the polls "singing and dancing...
...Vance delineated the American arms limitation proposal Mr...
...Yet others point out that any man fresh from a twoyear campaign for the Presidency should be eminently qualified to deal with the Soviets, adept as a Presidential candidate must be in dissimulation, blatant contradiction, and the art of welching on almost any agreement...
...Claiming that the arresting officers made cruel sport of him when they caught him midst all those bovine anuses, Mr...
...On April 3 his soldiers captured a gang of coffee smugglers, covered them with precious gasoline, and burnt them alive in a promising experiment to lower the recidivism rate in Mr...
...Vance only hallway through the performance, when he noticed that the Foreign Minister was continually elbowing him off their armrest and squeezing his knee every time an unusually bulbous ballerina was launched onto the stage...
...When Mr...
...And the editors of The Alternative magazine did their part to revive the cultural splendors of the 1960s when they invited Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada to review the autobiography of Lester Maddox...
...Not only that but detente, that policy that has recently brought the greatest good to the greatest number of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese, and Angolans, has now been brought low...
...It is a publishing event of the first water...
...It was a capital performance, made all the more entertaining by a dreadful flaying he subsequently received at the hand of Britain's Ambassador to the glass zoo on the East River, Mr...
...Moorer tried to demonstrate how their uproarious laughter clashed with the spirit of the Miranda decision, only to be greeted by a round of chortles and a thumping denunciation from the judge who found the poor Mr...
...From Marquette Prison in Michigan comes word that 52 prisoners, all zealots of the Universal Life Church, have filed a $110,000 suit against the state for being denied the right to hold religious pizza parties in the church chapel...
...Gromyko to explain that Mr...
...Finally, Mr...
...From this point on, the spirits of the American delegation declined rapidly, and it helped not at all when at intermission some of Mr...
...Instead Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko showed up...
...Nestle J. Frobish, chairman of the Worldwide Fair Play for Frogs Committee...
...Schweitzer is the nauseous housewife who from her sickbed exclaimed, "The food was delicious...
...Vance almost caught frostbite from Mr...
...He died in New York City of a urinary tract infection...
...Meeting in the Kremlin conference room that once served as a "study" for the late Mr...
...Renato Vallanzasca, a reputed murderer who claimed to be irresistible to women and who pledged never to be taken alive, was befuddled by a tear gas cannister and turned over to the Carabinieri...
...Mrs...
...Carter's human rights activities had damaged "the political atmosphere for discussion of other issues"--for instance fresh new ways of further weakening our defense posture vis-a-vis the Russians or ways in which our obsolete economy might rescue the socialist state from rigor morris...
...9 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich has published that fifteen-year correspondence between Congressman Jerome Waldie and the indefatigable Mr...
...Antonino Rocca, the well-loved barefoot wrestler, who insisted that having found the "secret to life" he would live to be 150, apparently lost it...
...And from Lansing, Michigan come reports that the Little Red Barn Theatre, a very toney source of adult entertainment, has been denied a license to have live entertainment by Michigan's Barrier Free Design Board, on grounds that the theatre's stage lacks the duly required ramps and special toilet facilities for handicapped performers...
...Applause, applause, and onto the stage lumbers old Lillian, wheezing, coughing, and flashing her famous leer...
...Herbert H. Rosen, is suing American Airlines for the mental distress he suffered when an airline pilot barged in on him as he was "sitting on the toilet in the privacy of the locked lavatory, trousers and undergarments lowered" during a flight from Newark to Puerto Rico...
...Fresh from marinating himself in the dubious wisdom of Mr...
Vol. 10 • May 1977 • No. 8
