The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - The hair curls. The palms begin to sweat. Premonitory messages of a return to years of sleepless nights are felt. I am a member of the...
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...They spoke of a global "domino theory" of Soviet conquest...
...The fellows sought understanding...
...A 375-pound inmate continues to terrorize correctional officials in New York, breaking many noses and spilling much blood, despite the fact that he has been examined by shrinks, transferred to Bellevue Hospital, and f~ted with a small birthday party by armed guards wearing chest protectors...
...Allah never notified the Shah of the power that accrues to the international kidnapper...
...Yet there is also cause to rejoice...
...I do not expect him to forsake Rosalynn for an Iranian militant, but it is apparent that he is not apt to do harm to his Iranian tormentors...
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...Mary Bates of Marshall, Michigan, has filed a $1 million damage suit against a casket firm and a funeral parlor, charging that shoddy workmanship caused her husband's mortal remains to fall through the casket's bottom and be trampled upon as it was being borne to its grave site...
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...Inflation has hit an annual rate of 18.2 percent...
...Hastings is setting things straight: "We are obligated to see Mr...
...Eade 29 Looking for Work, by Susan Cheever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Gilder 31 Constitutional Interrelationships Between the President and Congress of the USA in the Sphere o f Foreign Policy, by Yuri I. Nyporko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert L. Weeks 32 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1980 3...
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...Has the world ever seen the likes...
...He now sends the Iranians hints of affection and promises of eventual U.S...
...The government of Iran has been handed over to a gang of low-grade graduate students drawn from the universities of Europe and America, where they once slept through classes and terrorized coeds, yet Iran remains inviolable, thanks to its arsenal of hostages...
...When he got on that airplane he knew what he was doing...
...All correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...9 In early March Western journalists were summoned to a mystery spot in northern Cambodia where Prime Minister Khieu Samphan and Deputy Prime Minister Ieng Sary of the deposed Pol Pot regime, both dressed in business suits, suavely confessed that Pol Pot had made some policy mistakes...
...9 Maryland's House of Delegates passed a bill exempting manure from state property tax...
...And in far-off Tokyo , American idealism and honor are being defended by two remarkable Yanks, Mr...
...and from Beverly Hills to Georgetown the fires of idealism cooled...
...Gold is selling for over $625, and the dollar is sent getwell cards from international bankers...
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...In Cuba, the infamous Soviet brigade has resumed maneuvers, according to the State Department...
...William Lucas 26 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Current Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted Jackasses 37 BOOK REVIEWS Small Futures: Children, Inequality, and the Limits o f Liberal Reform, by Richard H. deLone for the-Carnegie Council on Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steven Lagerfeld 28 Rousseau's State of Nature: An Interpretation o f the Discourse on Inequality, by Marc F. Platmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AlanJ...
...And Jimmy grows even more concerned...
...Radical Sheiks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DouglasJ...
...This revelation he granted only to the Rev...
...Hastings would be in Teheran...
...9 And meanwhile in Teheran the singularity of the Iranian revolution grows ever more manifest...
...How can he keep missing the signals from Moscow...
...What gives...
...Consular officer with a conscience...
...Moreover, Dr...
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...Some develop deep feelings for their tormentors...
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...Tom Bethell 5 The Talkies / Cruising...
...Psychologists are familiar with a condition they call the Stockholm Syndrome, wherein ex-hostages come to the defense of their captors...
...Naderism: Commerce on the Babylonian Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred D. Baldwin 17 For Ralph Nader, the business of business is politics, but with his "Case for a Corporate Democracy Act" he goes too far...
...And in Mineola, New York, Mrs...
...Yet let us remember that not even the Iranians so cruelly abuse the dolphins as these greedy Japanese...
...9 American purchasers of 1979 domestic and foreign automobiles seemed to take the news calmly when the Department of Transportation announced that most of its 1979 test cars had failed head-on tests at 35 miles-per-hour...
...It is no less than the precursor of a new era in international relations, an era in which power and prominence correlate not with the size of one's army or national treasury but rather with the number of hostages a nation can sock away in its national hoosegow...
...In New York City, Dr...
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...Wollman reports that he has personally tasted the milk, and, though slightly different from female milk, it is clinically safe and nutritious...
...the Department of Transportation got off scot-free...
...Moss's dog was propelled by Mr...
...Still, the news greatly vexed Miss,joan Claybrook of the Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who apparently speaks for the nation's drunk drivers and homicidal maniacs...
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...I shall vote for Anderson of Illinois ! He is the candidate of seemly sentiment...
...Khomeini's galoots to invade a few more embassies, Iran might become a superpower...
...Donald Finkel, whose entry was a solar doghouse...
...Russia's trade union daily, Trud, has just announced the opening of two Moscow pizza parlors...
...Yet the fishermen responded only with inscrutable oriental gesticulations and lawsuits--a chilling response, that, and so Mr...
...Khomeini, D.D., B.P.O.E...
...Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
...But do we know what he is doing...
...It would play right into the hands of the Fortune 500...
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...That is the question now reposing in the minds of my fellows, and, as it reposes, sometimes it wets the brain...
...RET 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1980 Editor-in- Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...In Afghanistan the Russians are taking fearful punishment, according to Western journalists covering the slaughter from the cafes of Pakistan...
...Only if it is committed to good works ! But what if women yearn for combat...
...A pretender to the Afghan throne has been found selling shirts at Bergdorf Goodman...
...To demand their release is to demand of Iran something on the order of unilateral disarmament...
...English purchasers of dachshunds received similar news regarding the crashworthiness of their pets when it was divulged in a Knutsford, Cheshire, court that Mrs...
...He grows even more austere...
...When he wore work shirts and Levis in 1976 he was not sincere...
...Cate's human right is protected and not discriminated against under Japanese law...
...Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein Legal Counsel Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short Q The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...Ursula Beckley has filed suit against the Dairy Barn Stores, contending that a six-inch, grayish-black snake crawled out of an egg she had purchased from one of the chain's stores...
...He had tried to enter into dialogue with the fishermen, who refer to dolphins as "gangsters of the sea," and to elucidate his position that "dolphins should have rights similar to human rights...
...John Podhoretz 23 Presswatch / Where News Is Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Ledeen 24 Eminentoes / The Best Congressmen Money Can Buy...
...and I am left monitoring news reports from National Public Radio, while unanswered fund appeals from Barry Commoner's Citizens' Party pile up...
...9 Jimmy is the first man ever to suffer the Stockholm Syndrome without actually having been taken hostage...
...The New Brinksmanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Nollson 21 Campaign Fundaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theo Lippman, J r . 22 Pieced together from piles of evidence...
...9 When the American hostages are viewed from this perspective it becomes clear that in demanding their release we go too far...
...And now back to my therapy group...
...He has put aside his threats and sanctions...
...Our main duty is not to make the socialist revolution or build socialism," the fellows asserted...
...9 Meanwhile in Washington, the Wonderboy, now a bit wan and wrinkled, pitches himself into the world's problems...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 February 9 to March 6. The hair curls...
...He was fined...
...The cities are going to explode...
...Dexter Care of the Hawaii-based Fund for Animals and Mr...
...Feith 11 What stake have we in wooing "moderate" oil regimes that exploit us economically and politically ? After Eastern Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Crutcher 14 Soviet dissidents in the capitalists' paradise...
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...9 Ronald Reagan stalks the land...
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...After all, as the Prime Minister allowed, "Everybody has a past...
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...Peter Bennett, who held it by the back right leg as he repeatedly bashed it against a garden wall...
...Brezhnev does not want war...
...9 Meanwhile the Wonderboy remains in voluntary confinement in the White House...
...9 A prize for passive solar house design has been conferred by the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Mr...
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...Clearly, Mr...
...His is a sad case...
...I am a member of the constituency of conscience...
...He is easily the most concerned President of all time...
...Cate was arrested in late February for cutting the nets of.Japanese fishermen and freeing some 200 dolphins...
...The prime rate is at its highest since the Civil War...
...Jimmy Carter has deceived me...
...The oil companies are my enemy...
...Teddy campaigns in an existential void, dated spring 1970...
...The American Ambassador to Colombia has been taken hostage...
...Look at it from the Iranian point of view...
...DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial / The Marion Stonehead Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . 4 Capitol Ideas / The Soviet Sphere of Influenza...
...C O N T E N T S The Dogmas of the Modern-Day Mugwumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Miller 7 After ten years of devotion to the "public interest, " Common Cause marches ever onward to the Land of Perfeet Reform...
...In .johannesburg, South Africa, a 35-year-old woman was beaten and robbed while trying to commit suicide...
...What a fury Mr...
...These hostages are fundamental components of Iranian security...
...And what is the position on .jimmy...
...There is rage in the powder rooms of America...
...Fifty-three American nationals remain the prisoners of the dirty-necked mullahs of Iran...
...Leo Wollman is practically singing the news that one of his patients, a 40-year-old man, has successfully breast-fed his daughter, aided solely by sex hormones...
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