The Continuing Crisis

...In a salute to President Reagan the stock market went deliriously upward, and to complete the euphoria the Palestine Liberation Organization departed Beirut on a victory tour of choice Middle East locations...

...9 In Washington, Leroy Williams, congressional page sans pareil, recanted the sensational charges that had held the nation on edge through the summer, and in Bloomington, Indiana, Larime Wilson told a Monroe County Superior Court that she cannot r e p a y the $1,154 she owes Indiana Univbrsity because money is no l o n g e r a p a r t of her " l i f e philosophy...

...Permit me to cite from a poem in the anthology by karen marie christa mean in which the poetess reflects on a childhood encounter with a precocious young cleric: " I want to tell you how heavy/a fifteen year old man's hands are/on your shoulders/when you are seven/How they have the weight of the Church/in t h e m . . . " In fairness, however, I should note-that not all women are as e a g e r to be published...

...Because he was a family man, he wanted to be close to his wife, and t h a t was his d o w n f a l l , " a Boston police sergeant gloated after sheriffs recaptured McKenney outside "the W i f e ' s " room...

...Sheriff Orville Price said the imprints were made by Willard while Gatzmeyer held the boys' legs down "so when (the metal) touched them they w o u l d n ' t j e r k . " Any b e t s Leroy Williams takes up scouting...

...By contrast, John W. Hinckley, J r . has been f e e l i n g good about himself, so good in fact t h a t he composed an ode to his favorite movie star for publication in the estimable National Enquirer: " I have come to shoot you down with my bloody gun . . . Look h e r e at my bloody knife, I think I ' l l stab you f i r s t . . . It should quench my t h i r s t . " _9 In o t h e r p u b l i s h i n g news, Cleis Press of Minneapolis has issued " a book only women could p u b l i s h , " i . e . , Voices in the Night: Women Speaking About Incest...

...And police in San Jose arrested fugitive parolee Benjamin Sargis, 49, and his t h r e e female housemates, the remnants of a n e a r l y f o r g o t t e n radical group which had p a s s e d the l a s t s e v e r a l years robbing banks, collecting welfare payments and food stamps, and reading the revolutionary works of Che Guevara...

...San Francisco Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver has written to Queen Elizabeth of England urging her to r e i n s t a t e her d i s g r a c e d personal bodyguard who had been philandering with a male prostitute...

...Still more nonviolent rhetoric was heard from protestors who chanted ."Gonna Burn J a n e Byrne" on her honor's arrival at the third annual Chicago F e s t on Lake Michigan, and in Moberly, Missouri, scoutmaster J.D...

...9 I n d e e d , life in the United States would not desist from its repressive course...

...Last year she bent a " l e t t e r of condolence" to former Mississippi congressman Jon C, Hinson after his arrest on a morals charge in a Capitol Hill men's room...

...By the end of the month many of the n a t i o n ' s schoolchildren were r e u n i t e d with their schoolmistresses, while at our leading state universities the coed class resumed its hectic social schedule...

...The USSR, a l a s , is boycotting the event...

...Near Boston, William McKenney escaped from the Plymouth County Jail to join his wife who was giving b i r t h at a nearby hospital...

...In San Diego, a 21-year-old college student and son of a bearded college p r o f e s s o r became the first draft-registration resister convicted for refusing to lend his name to a good cause--one down, and 699,999 to go...

...Participants were expected from at least 12 countries, organizers said, confirming their wish that the games would provide " a positive ray of hope beyond the industrialized world...

...9 Other notable wags were no less loquacious...

...Writing in McCall's, imprisoned schoolmarm Jean Harris called on Americans to "take a long hard look into our own prison system," as if all of us could be in her position...

...But no sooner was he out in the streets than a prosecutor caught J o - J o abusing his health again--smoking cigars...

...Mind you, this is not the first time Supervisor Silver has written to a public figure on the question of homosexuality...

...As late as 1978, Sargis had seemed on the verge of making it in the real world, according to Walter China, his parole officer: "He told me he wanted to get a job as an instructor in sexual therapy because he had experience in t h a t . " _9 In animal news, Flapping Francine flew 54 feet, 4 inches to capture the grand championship race sponsored by the J u n i a t a Squadron of the Pennsylvania Wing of the International Chicken Flying Association, and Tom McBee lost 60,000 bees to r u s t l e r s at his Greeneville, Texas farm...

...Heading the lesbian field was Sarah Lewinstein, the professional bowler...

...But as one might s u s p e c t , the Soviet Union did not hesitate to direct its progressive energies into other fields, capped by the eight-day Soyuz f l i g h t of Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, whose sojourn in space Tass proclaimed a triumph of the emancipation of women under Soviet rule...

...Gatzmeyer, 37, and his assistant Kenneth Willard, 19, have been charged with branding the rumps of six Boy Scouts with a hot clothes hanger d u r i n g a campout...

...In Trenton, New J e r s e y , Joseph"Jo-Jo" Giorgianni, an asthmatic, 500-pound convicted rapist, s e r v e d only one week of a 1S-year sentence before a judge ordered his release on the grounds that a lack of air-conditioning in his cell posed a threat to his life...

...At any rate, she has come to resent the posh Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County because it "manufactures frustration, severe mental illness, despair, resentment, fear, and s e l f - h a t r e d " - - all very unhealthy conditions for the criminally prone...

...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 August, and though the Sun Belt continued to wilt under an incand e s c e n t sun and g h a s t l y sky, the North was soothed by wholesome, acid-free Canadian air...

...For instance, there is the 23-year-old Kalamazoo, Michigan r e s i d e n t who took 30 nude photog r a p h s of h e r s e l f as a Christmas present for her boyfriend and is now suing K-Mart Corporation, claiming a photo department employee made extra prints of her film and distributed them to friends...

...The best response Washington could come up with was to announce a change in Navy policy on p r e g n a n t sailors and to allow the execution of a murderer in Virginia-whereupon the Soviets promptly condemned a Central Asian bookk e e p e r to death on b r i b e r y and e x t o r t i o n c h a r g e s . Would t h a t the Cold War were merely a m a t t e r of rhetoric...

...I t is no s e c r e t t h a t women are more accurate and painstaking, particularly in c a r r y i n g out experiments which call for delicate and punctual work...

...She is a young, slim, and p e t i t e woman," her two male escorts were instructed on the eve of the flight...

...WP THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1982 7...

...And we can assume the good woman was in attendance late in the month at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium for the historic homosexual "olympic-style athletic and human r i g h t s d e m o n s t r a t i o n , " a g a t h e r i n g of some 1,300 of the world's finest deviant sportsmen for nine days of competition in 17 events...

...9 For all our n a t i o n ' s and p l a n e t ' s miseries, there were a few hopeful signs...

...I want nothing more to do with this Israel," reiterated Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria, and the happy irenic PLO shot 100 or so of their own yokels while exiting the city...