The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Mid-April to mid-May, and no longer will His Excellency Field Marshal Al Hadji Idi Amin Dada, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., be watching "I Love Lucy" shows and "Tom and Jerry"...
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...Joseph Heller, and notwithstanding thousands of gratis prayers from Lillian Hellman, neo-conservatism spreads...
...According to Judge Thomas A. Flannery of Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., Miss Aida L. Berio, a Hispanic, suffered discrimination because of her national origin when the EEOC denied her a promotion in 1973...
...Have the Zionist rascals done him in...
...So fevered were our heroic representatives by visions of wanton government spenders that late last year they passed the Nunn Amend ment, an unusual legislative document calling for spending limitations and tax reductions...
...Why has His Excellency not appeared there, hollering about Tanzanian in humanity and demanding a few comforting vaporings from our Andy...
...A large amount that, but not quite so large as the settlement reached on May 3 when the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded a 42-year-old Poughkeep-sie, New York, woman an $854,000 judgment against a plastic surgeon accused of moving- perhaps by accident, perhaps not-her belly button off-center during a stomach-tightening operation...
...Yet the spenders are apparently a powerful and occult force...
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...In April, glad tidings were brought to that Pittsburgh man whose penis was inadver tently amputated during routine surgery back in May of 1974-short weeks before his proposed marriage...
...These are questions now under ardent discus sion in all the newsrooms of the world, in foreign ministries, and at his old haunt, the United Nations...
...And on April 25, in New York City, Councilman Antonio Olivieri, a violent advocate of jogging, collapsed at his desk and remained unconscious for some time-a mishap that doubtless saved New Yorkers thousands of dollars but one that should serve as an omen to all those who would don malodorous apparel and join in this madness...
...But for now all that is known is that the man who be came the conscience of the Third World is lost, and in Uganda the incidence of death by natural causes is bound to go up...
...In other notable legal decisions, New York's State Supreme Court Justice John Doerr ad judged "topless" dancing an "art form," thus causing glorious consternation at the National Endowment for the Arts...
...Perhaps he will show up in the illustrious Ayatollah's Islamic Repub lic...
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...Finally, lights went on in the dark cranial cavities of thousands of loyal Naderites when the New York Daily News reported that a young woman was strangled by her car's electric win dow...
...Lost too during April was that Proposition 13 fever that swept the nation last fall and had our congressmen spouting oaths and bawling that they would cut spending or perish in the pur suit...
...Fortunately, the Army's mind is on grass too, and at Arlington National Cemetery action is finally being taken to defend the grass against the crazed hooves of hundreds of joggers who have been disturbing the subterranean sepul-chers with their quotidian debaucheries...
...Possibly he will become head football coach at Ohio State...
...How many more long-necked beauties will be sacrificed before automobile windows are finally banned...
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...For despite the heroics of our elected representatives and despite the Nunn Amendment, it had become manifest by midMay that spending will rise $42 billion over the Nunn Amendment's ceilings from 1980 to 1982...
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...Nor will the corpulent evangelist for Third World verities be bathing in the ap plause of smirking eminentoes at the United Nations...
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...What is more, taxes will rise by $68 billion over the Nunn Amendment's ceilings...
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...A Superior Court in West Hartford, Connecticut, has made a cash award to a West Hartford woman who claimed that her landlord's rental policies had deprived her of the benefits of having black and Hispanic neighbors...
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...In Indiana, state representative Bob Jones keeled over, Adidas and all...
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...In a Solomonic deci sion, admirably respectful of our pluralistic tradition, the renowned justice declared that whether "topless dancing rises to the plateau of artistic endeavor in the minds of all, to some it is an art form and type of expression protected by the First Amendment...
...Is he in Iraq...
...The Army has banned jogging from the cemetery, yet it is the only agency of our government to take action against jogging, and so the grisly toll continues to mount...
...And sadder still, the Equal Employment Opportunity Com mission has been found guilty of violating the laws it was created to enforce...
...Over the past six years the toe apparently has hindered her dancing, and so her husband was soothed with a court-ordered sweetener of $180,000 "for loss of consortium...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Mid-April to mid-May, and no longer will His Excellency Field Marshal Al Hadji Idi Amin Dada, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., be watching "I Love Lucy" shows and "Tom and Jerry" cartoons from his presidential viewing room in mysteri ous Kampala...
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...Re peated attempts by the New York Times to reach Mr...
...And the revolution is turning on its fa thers...
...Furthermore, the Procrustean contrivance has the support of his eloquent colleague, Mr...
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...A jubilant sough spread through all the male flophouses of America when it was revealed that Mr...
...A motley Tanzanian army, languorously trav eling through Uganda since November, collect ing butterflies, rare botanical specimens, and what loot remained on the land, "toppled" Mr...
...Surely he would make an admirable minis ter for that government's Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...It is a thing to ponder...
...John Monks (D-Muskogee), who is indifferent to "what the liberal bleeding heart do-gooders back East say about Oklahoma If we've got an old bull that's real raunchy" it is the custom to castrate him and "turn him to pasture [where] his mind's on grass all the time...
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...They have sold the land to a paleface developer, much to the horror of the Los Angeles Sierra Club...
...The thing is a mystery...
...Barbara Osantowski $20,000 for a broken toe...
...Those suffering Indians who received 40 acres of virgin California land from the humane Mr...
...Irwin, will be entitled to monthly alimony checks of $1,600 from his wife...
...How could such a thing happen in populist chambers pa trolled by the likes of the Rt...
...Marlon Brando will be suffering no more...
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