The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - and M. Jean - Paul Sartre, prophet of the absurd, has passed on; yet the old quack departed too soon. On April 24 the Hon. John Anderson of the...
...Foreign dignitaries visiting the White House made nervous jokes, narrowed their eyes, and listened for hysterical laughter from the Presid e n t ' s quarters...
...Lawrence E. Day received his first good news in months when Judge Doug Moreau ruled t h a t Mr...
...And all over Mongolia scholars are rejoicing...
...When Intelligence Passes the Test . . . . . . . William R. Havender 12 The bias in mental tests isall in the criticizing of them...
...A misquote, says Walter...
...The American Spectator is now published monthly at 102 West Sixth Street, Bloomington, Indiana...
...Still the idiot bird strutted beyond the outstretched arms of the gendarmes while our President monitored the situation...
...Cheryl Taylor, 20, who joined the Army to "avoid men," has become the first woman to be convicted of sexual harassment in our newly integrated U.S...
...Army, a development that must have brought fleeting joy even to the bonecrushers at the National Organization for Women...
...Denver dog lovers are attempting to bring legal action against Mr...
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...John Anderson of the Land of Lincoln declared his presidential candidacy and within days it was revealed that our n a t i o n ' s self-proclaimed spokesman for the intelligentsia might select Mr...
...Grubbs, J r . , Neil Howe, Roger Kaplan, William Kristol, Leslie Lenkowski, A. James McAdams Ill, Robert McTiernan, Judy Mathews, William H. Nolte, Terry O'Rourke, Marc F. Platmer, John Podhoretz, Peter Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein Legal Counsel Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
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...9 Patrons of the arts in Denver are sounding alarums and preparing for yet another battle on behalf of cosmopolitan taste...
...Had the b i r d beena hippopotamus the Rose Garden might now be a ruin, and our President would be solemnly condemning rose f e v e r ; S e c r e - t a r y o f S t a t e Vance would be u r g i n g n e g o t i - ations...
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...Taylor has served with B Battery, Third Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artillery, all was going well for the comely trooper until she encountered 19-yearold Pvt...
...C O N T E N T S How to Fail at Being Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Horner 7 In a world of nuclear weapons, our strategists say, preparedness is aggression and strategic superiority is a threat to peace...
...Late in April it was revealed t h a t the now defunct Supreme Court J u s t i c e William O. Douglas willed that his Canadian retreat be turned into a creative study center for visiting scholars from Iran, Vietnam, Russia, China, and Mongolia...
...Those of us on the other side celebrated the day by watching film clips of Elizabeth, New J e r s e y , bursting into flame as a giant chemical dump gloriously ignited...
...The result could be America's first self-proclaimed bum in Congress...
...Manor 19 I f terrorism is war by other means, we aren't even holding our position...
...The attempt came 172 days after the Americans were taken hostage, yet there Mr...
...but by November 1977 the word "alternative" had acquired such an esoteric fragrance that in order to discourage unsolicited manuscripts from florists, beauticians, and other creative types the Club reverted to the magazine's original name...
...The brat, now 15, had sought $15,000 in damages...
...This Anderson is a 24-carat zany...
...Arthur Briscoe's attempt to lay amorous hands upon a somewhat Victorianminded female soldier ended in an unseemly row and two dead GIs, the first being a soldier who attempted to rescue Set...
...Publisher Ronald E. Burr of the Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor Erich Eichman Business Manager William B. Head Executive Secretary Deborah S. Grubb Circulation Manager Susan F. Leiby Research Director Paul H. Vivian Production Manager Jan Hoffman Sharkey Senior Editors A. Lawrence Chickering, Adam Meyerson, Karl O'Lessker Art Advisor Sheila Wolfe New York Editor Whit Stillman Americana Editor Joseph P. Duggan Chief Saloon Correspondent Douglas Bartholomew Associates Robert Asahina, Jameson G. Campaigne, J r . , John R. Coyne, J r . , Stephen Miller, Alan Reynolds Contributors Aram Bakshian, J r . , Linda Calkins, Christopher C. DeMuth, Terry Eastland, Jerry Gerde, K.E...
...Rich Man, Poor Man, Chinaman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miriam London & Ma Yuan In the New China, the mendicant arts survive-necessarily...
...Perhaps the boy governor had his mind on other matters, for early in the month Judge L. Eugene Rasmussen ordered the seizing of the Governor's celebrated 1974 Plymouth to settle a California hospital's $808 non-payment claim against the state...
...Yet, as they say over at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is it not b e t t e r to have an army that amuses than one that causes bodily injury and makes loud noises...
...Robert L. Hill, the Disneyland employee under indictment, made a stunning courtroom peroration...
...RET 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1980 Editor-in-Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...He even contemplated negotiations with the Soviets over their invasion of Afghanistan...
...Imagine the treatises that will pour forth...
...Briscoe, who self-destructed...
...The New Red Army . . . . . . . . . Stuart L. Koehl & Stephen P. Glick 16 What's fast, deadly, and all over...
...9 Finally, in Frederick, Maryland, Mr...
...without, the turkey flapped and gobbled inviolable for all the world to see...
...Mr+ Vance's replacement will be Senator Edmund Muskie...
...Melvin Perkins, the skid-row politico to whose career The American Spectator has long been committ e d , h a s h i t upon a n o t h e r i n g e n i o u s p l a n to make democracy work...
...Day cannot be tried on burglary and firearms charges simultaneously...
...Day, though originally arrested as a mere Peeping Tom, now stands accused of b e i n g t h e Baton Rouge " G o r i l l a Man," that unique nocturnal intruder who was given to surprising women in their boudoirs and forcing them to model underwear at inconvenient times...
...I wouldn't turn it down...
...Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
...On April 4 surgeons in Lawton, Oklahoma, reattached the tongue of Booker T. Whitfield, a 37-year-old Fort Sill soldier who lost " a significant portion" of it in an ill-starred carnal assault on a 33-year-old tigress...
...9 America's all-volunteer Army, the only military force in the world conforming to the American judiciary's sexual abstractions, is now attracting the same kind of admiration that the estimable judges themselves fetch, t h a t is to say, nigh unto stupefacient guffaws...
...Briscoe's prey and the second being Set...
...Volume 13, Number 6, June 1980...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 April, and M. J e a n - P a u l Sartre, prophet of the absurd, has passed on...
...Islam and Modernization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Hoffer 11 Muhammad, messenger of plod...
...Walter Cronkite as running mate...
...But the' real irony is this: By making nuclear war "unthinkable," the strategists themselves have made it more likely...
...9 On April 2 Set...
...The thing is not unthinkable: Over 40 percent of our federal judges have now been appointed by the Wonderboy...
...Bill Douglas will be missed and not a thousand fingernails scratching across a hundred blackboards could match the music in his brain+ _9 In C a l i f o r n i a , a seven-man, five-woman Orange County jury has acquitted Winnie the Pooh on charges that the large furry Disneyland character used his plastic paw to belt a nine-year-old girl...
...Vance was, on automatic pilot, calmly prescribing negotiations...
...According to reports from Regensburg, Germany, where Pvt...
...Otterness, and it is a sad footnote to our time that he has had to flee the city...
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...Kevin Knox, " a very moralistic, a very good soldier...
...Produced with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the film, entitled Shot Dog Film, sensitively depicts the shooting of a small dog and then repeats the scene 60 times...
...Bryan was a monomaniac too, but louder...
...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it Tbe Alternative: An American Spectator...
...Unfortunately, trooper Taylor could not keep her hands off him and on J a n u - ary 29 she chased him into her u n i t ' s dispensary while hollering: "give me a light, you s h r i m p . " Once in the dispensary she inexplicably "'grabbed his private parts and squeezed t h e m , " an indiscretion that won her 30 days in the calaboose, a $298 fine, and demotion to the Army's lowest r a n k - - a devastating career setback for this would-be Patton, but a historic moment for the feminist murrain...
...Tom Otterness over his latest film, despite the fact that it is one of the few films since Lassie Come Home to actually cast a dog in a starring role...
...What makes this story all the more curious is that Prince Mongo was never called up to Wisconsin to assist J e r r y Brown during the Wisconsin primary...
...On April 12 an inebriated sailor had his ear sown to his bedding at a Virginia Beach naval clinic, possibly in conformity with some little-heralded judicial decision requiring that drunks be vetted by drunks...
...9 Yet Secretary of State Vance is Secretary of State no more...
...Finally, Pvt...
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...Nonetheless, Denver animal lovers are out to get Mr...
...A lamb is folh>wed by a fish+ On April 22 Americans for a repristinated planet and a smile button on every breast turned out for Earth Day...
...9 In Baton Rouge, Mr...
...Within the White House the Wonderboy fevered earnestly over all the problems cow confronting us: inflation, recession, 'furiners...
...Wearing his famed costume, he proved beyond question that a "wiggly plastic e a r " and not a paw was the assault weapon, and that he was pushed from behind when he struck the little brat...
...but Papa Sartre, wherever you are, you are missing something really swell...
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...Perkins is attempting legally to assume the name of Goodloe E. Byron so that he might hoodwink the voters in Maryland's Sixth Congressional District, where Congressman Byron served until his death in 1078...
...What is more, the New Republic quoted the Crooner of Television News as saying: " I ' d be so honored...
...Poor Mr...
...Vance is the first secretary of state to resign on a point of principle since William J e n n i n g s Bryan--a symmetry full of romantic implications...
...On April 28 he resigned over an aborted military attempt to free the 53 American nationals now being held in thriving Teheran...
...The PowerElite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JohnNollson 22 DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial / The Great White Ph.D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . 4 Capitol Ideas / Citizen N a d e r ' s Loaded Dais . . . . . . . Tom Bethell 5 Presswatch / Imam We Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Ledeen 23 The Public Policy / An Imminent Electric Orgy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F r e d D. Baldwin 24 European Document / Old Europe, New Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raymond Aron 27 The N a t i o n ' s Pulse / Americu"s Stock in Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malcolm S. F o r b e s , J r . 28 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Current Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted J a c k a s s e s 41 BOOK REVIEWS A History of the World, by Hugh Thomas . . . . . . . F r e d Baumann 29 American Government: Institutions and Policies, by James Q. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Piereson 32 Zebra, by Clark Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Parrish 36 Who's on First, by William F. Buckley, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Shattan 37 The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell S. Ross 38 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1980 3...
...9 Late in the month a mysterious turkey appeared on the White House grounds, and it bespeaks volumes about the genius now fermenting within our government that the Carter administration was blotto when confronted by this idiotic guest...
...9 In Memphis, Tennessee, former mayoral candidate, Prince Mongo of the planet Zambodia, also known as Robert Hodges, successfully contested an insurance company's decision to stop his $2000-a-month mental disability benefits when he appeared in court barefoot, with rings on his fingers and toes, and wearing a loincloth, a thigh-length fur coat, and a floppy hat...
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...J o u r n a l i s t s joshed and took pictures...
...The New World Disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F.S...
...Whatever the reason, Governor Brown was piteously walloped in Wisconsin and forced to abscond for the Zen pits of his native land behind clouds of orphic rumble-bumble about " t h e crisis of birth, the crisis of a beginning" and so forth...
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