The Continuing Crisis
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...Jack Kemp of New York and a-few more like him, next year he gets a B-plus...
...Jogging claimed the life of Mr...
...In Nashville, Tennessee, Mr...
...The Rev...
...but he slogs ahead, rebuilding our defenses, trying to keep taxes down while not actually cutting them, trying to deregulate an economy that looks ever' more like that of Italy...
...There is no one plausible around to tell them what to say, and their hoary platitudes no longer satisfy even them...
...Memorial services were held at the Chinese Chance restaurant, reflecting Mr...
...Finally, disorder broke out in the Overtown section of Miami after police shot Mr...
...David Blue, 41, the renowned Greenwich Village folk singer who keeled over in New York City...
...If Ron embraces the Hon...
...Papandreou enunciated his suppoIt during a one-hour gabble adumbrating the kind of nuclear-free zones that were so popular in Sweden before Soviet subs began slamming into the Swedish shoreline...
...who know what he knows...
...Prices for women were not available...
...The crime is almost wholly associated with the proletariat, and the editors of this pre-Marxist journal would be remiss if we did not point out that in pre-Marxist China "female infanticide" was practically never committed by the rich landlords-though, of course, back then Shirley MacLaine had yet to 'visit China...
...He lives in a city filled with dreamers and charlatans who have been turning increasingly vicious in their attempts to ambush him...
...The Liberals, however, write under the most ghastly strain of all: they have no Messiah, no chiliastic vision, and so they have no "analysis," no raison d'etre, no spirit...
...Comedian Marty Feldman died and was buried in the Hollywood Hills' Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where, amid Dixieland tunes played by a five-man jazz band, Mr...
...Henry Pollock glorified him: "Marty Feldman never liked funerals, so I guess he wouldn't have liked this one...
...A clandestine group calling itself the Animal Liber ation Front raided Washington, D.C.'s Howard University Medical School laboratory and cabbaged two or three dozen cats, some of which were being used to study the effects of drugs on nerve transmission...
...and through all that time the pundits have been composing their mid-term report cards on our Ron...
...He is low on assistant .presidents...
...Some pretended to whip guns from their belts (laughter on the outside, etc...
...Hence Ron at mid-term comes off as unsatisfactory but not impeachable...
...A spokeswoman for the group, who insisted that she had not been a party to the heist, declared in a telephone interview that Howard University had been singled out because Washington contains "a number of radical groups willing to risk jail for their fellow creatures...
...Guangming reports that a two-year-old will fetch $100...
...T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S...
...In Peking, Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang has denounced a disturbing outbreak of "female infanticide...
...I give him a B-minus, knowing that without him we would have double-digit inflation, almost double-digit unemployment, colossal interest rates, Bulgarians advancing on New York, and an army of New Age reformers hard at work on their guinea pigs, to wit: us...
...In church news, Islamic fundamentaiists being tried for sedition in Cairo suffered doubts when a sudden darkening of the courtroom, which they exultantly had attributed to Allah, turned out to be the result of a blown fuse...
...The Left sees only famine in the streets and debauchery in the suburbs...
...Lech Walesa's attempt to speak to a group at the Gdansk shipyard was brought to foozle when he was dragged into a car by government agents and driven around the city for hours, and Gdansk is no Paris...
...But he showed up anyway, didn't he...
...And in Los Angeles, Mr...
...The wondrous power of the television art was again demonstrated when a Hamilton, Alabama man, after watching "The Executioner's Song," laid his own claim to fame by picking up a gun and blasting the daylights out of his grandparents...
...On December 10 Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou became the first West European leader officially to back the antinuclear movement...
...December has slipped away and 1982 and the first week of January too...
...Jakarta, Indonesia, and from this booming metropolis comes word that three hundred dogs will be done in to solemnize the arrival of the new year in the West Java capital of Bandung...
...In New York City it now appears that Miss Cibella Borges, who has been suspended from the police department's, Public Morals Division for posing naked in Beaver magazine, mistook the magazine for a publication of the American Medical Association...
...The Right sees Ron metamorphosing into a non-golfing Eisenhower...
...Nevell (the Snake) Johnson while trying to disarm him...
...Throughout December the Polish government promised to end martial law, and possibly it did, yet on December 16 Mr...
...Blue's long interest in food and cats...
...Then they will find themselves instinctively writing encomiums to the White House Coolidge, calling their brokers, and affecting the manners and practices of the bourgeoisie...
...RET THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1983 7...
...Life will get even worse for them in 1983, if, as the evidence suggests, the economy coughs and sputters to life...
...It has been a painful task for all involved...
...Jakarta, Indonesia, and from this booming metropolis comes word that a youthful Islamic defendant on trial for subversion has begged leave from being tried by a female judge...
...Howard L. Meyer of Schenectady, New York's First Assembly of God was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges that he defrauded church members of $104,000 in November 1981 when he told them he' was going to invest their money in ties for a railroad...
...The Chinese newspaper Gu,angming reports a revival in the kidnapping and sale of women and children...
...Jack Lutz, an unemployed handyman who writes poetry and novels under the pen name David Stillman, canceled plans to auction himself off when state Attorney General William Leech notified him that his plan might run athwart certain ancient Tennessee statutes governing involuntary servitude, human bondage, raffling, and gambling...
...Miss Elizabeth Taylor's tenday trip to the Middle East "to bring peace between Israel and Lebanon" was badly disrupted when her limousine crashed into an Israeli security car, damaging one of her priceless ligaments...
...Actually our Ron hass done O.K...
...For the Liberals life has lost its meaning...
...A mob of concerned citizens gathered...
...Thomas Reilly, a motorcycle policeman in the television series "CHiPs," was arrested by the real thing and charged with driving while drugged...
...And in Hartford, Connecticut, a legal-aid lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 300 to 500 disabled Medicaid recipients demanding that the state provide them with special $3,000 wheelchairs, convertibles in DeLorean stainless steel...
...Such infamies had apparently been on the wane in the People's Republic, but since the Cultural Revolution business has been brisk...
...Kompas, the Jakarta newspaper, reports the inflamed youth as having testified that "the sight of her excites me sexually," which ought to doom any thoughts the _comely justice ever had of exiting Indonesia, no matter how many husbands go with her...
...An obvious point that, yet Miss Holly Jensen went on to explain, "I have a passion and conviction about the rights of my fellow creatures," leading some officials to the hypothesis that Miss Jensen's group is actually in the business of supplying the staples for local Chinese restaurants-"passion and conviction," come off it, Holly...
...Jakarta, Indonesia, and from this booming metropolis comes word that the Ministry of Labor will once again allow members of Indonesia's fair sex to work abroad, with but two caveats: a) they be accompanied by their husbands, and b) they be neither "attractive nor sexy...
...Ultimately they want to be with the winners, but they will have left their church, and they will not be happy...
...and hundreds of poor people struggled desperately to loot a nearby liquor store...
...According to her testimony, when the lewd photographs were taken in April 1980 she was under the misapprehension that she was suffering from cancer of the ovaries...
Vol. 16 • February 1983 • No. 2
