The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS March passes, and the high jinks in Chicago continue as the entrenched statists throw their energies and resources against the Hon. Harold Washington, a dusky libertarian of...
...Marie Bridgeman suffered shocking harassment and the stately Oklahoma Capitol filled with unseemly imitations of catcalls and dog barks...
...Leonel Brizola, during his inauguration and kissed his nose...
...Bernardo Eureste," is the joke now in circulation, and it helped him not at all to claim his attackers were local gendarmes...
...Two others who exited this orb in March were Mr...
...Yet the Hon...
...Bridgeman had asked members of the legislature and the Capitol press corps to telephone her answering machine for an inspirational harangue on animal rights...
...The French electorate leaned to the right...
...Anthropologist Edward Bruner, who braved shrieks and snickers to lead a research team into the men's rooms and women's rooms of the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois to do a comparative study of men's and women's graffiti, has found that women's graffiti is "more caring and helping, men are more competitive and aggressive, much less conversational than women...
...Ron Dellums, that he and his staff were under investigation owing to charges of trafficking in marijuana and cocaine...
...he seems to have preferred the women's rooms...
...In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Rep...
...Alas, the Daily Oklahoman reports: "For three weeks her machine was filled with messages of muffled laughter and choruses of human voices imitating yowling cats...
...Barney Clark died...
...Finally, March witnessed the centenary of the death of Dr...
...In Rio de Janeiro the mad kisser struck again...
...RET...
...Balthazar Gerard in 1584...
...There was furor in Jacksonville, Alabama when a local television crew showed up at the scene where an emotionally disturbed man threatened to set him self afire and then proceeded to film the holocaust when he did...
...Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, despite the Stones' adamantine refusal to use soap or to dress up during weekends at their country houses...
...After winning its first seats ever in the Bundestag, the eldest member of the party, Herr Werner Vogel, was exposed as a former Nazi, and not just a Nazi of the run-of-the-mill but an actual stormtrooper and an ex-offical of the Nazi Interior Ministry...
...and on March 6 the West Germans reaffirmed their rightward drift, the grim consequences of which were not long in coming...
...Both had been members of the tallest and most elegant spy network in the history of Great Britain...
...President Reagan aroused indignation from Communists and non-Communists alike when he proffered his view that the Soviet Union is "the focus of evil in the modern world" and urged the clergy to avoid treating the arms race "as a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil...
...He is our dream candidate...
...It is unlikely that the spies' average height was any greater than, say, the average height of the Boston Celtics basketball team, but if the obituaries published in the American press are to be believed they certainly were elegant, and idealistic, and homosexual, and decadent—the stuff of dreams...
...According to Professor Bruner, women who write on bathroom walls are "more interactive and interpersonal...
...Washington scuds on, and all true blue libertarians pray mightily for his electoral triumph...
...On March 15, fifteen nautical miles south of Dueodde, Denmark, a West German "fishing boat" netted a Warsaw Pact submarine of the ill-starred Whiskey class and forced it to surface...
...Jose Moura, who has built a solid reputation" among Brazilians by violently kissing such notables as Mr...
...At the Hague, a 20-year-old conservative of the sort that Professor Arthur Schlesinger always tries to warn us about was arrested while prowling in Queen Beatrix's residential palace...
...In culture notes, a former member of the Hell's Angels testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that his quondam colleagues have an "open contract" on Mr...
...Harold Washington, a dusky libertarian of indubitable convictions and at least one jail sentence...
...No Russian protest was registered, but the assault did give peace advocates a dreadful fright, particularly members of the outdoorsy Green Party, which had some rather bad press in March...
...This time Mr...
...Stanford University announced that it would probably reject a $500 donation to establish a scholarship for avowed pederasts...
...In Moscow, tall and elegant Mr...
...Let us face facts: Lincoln could get away with oleaginous rhetoric like that but Reagan's target was only the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the best example of progressive politics in the world today with the possible exception of Cuba and Vietnam where the infant mortality rate is even lower...
...Such data are setting off tingles of fear in the upper gastrointestinal tracts of many Democrats, inducing them to rush to the House of Representatives and—high on oaths and God knows what else— put the kabosh to the Reagan Recovery...
...On March 5, Australians turned to the left by voting in the Labor Party of Robert Hawke...
...Arthur Koestler, an inelegant ex-Communist, and Dame Rebecca West, presented by our press as the most furious feminist since Eve...
...searching, he claims, for Prince William the Silent, a Dutch nobleman who has not been seen in public since he was shot by Mr...
...Steve Sill withdrew animal-rights legislation after animal-rights lobbyist Mrs...
...A hint of what stimulates our delusory big-spenders came on March 16 when the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct notified one of the House's most assiduous dreamers, the Hon...
...Quite beyond his perfumed oratory about governmental compassion and breast-feeding the citizenry there are these historic facts: here is a candidate who refused to pay taxes for four principled years, who defied still other coercive laws, and who, conscience-bound, actually did time in the calaboose for his beliefs...
...The American Catholic bishops' rumble-bumble against nuclear weaponry was revealed for the theological spoonery that it is when one of Islam's most esteemed religious leaders, Sheik Muhammed Assad, Esq., cited the eighth sura of the Koran as scriptural justification for building nuclear weapons and blasting Islam's enemies back into the stone age—an age that would not be all that uncongenial if you happen to live in one of the Sheik's Islamic paradises or in that perfect earthly realm that our politicized bishops would have us inhabit...
...The economy continues to gather strength, as was seen by the Commerce Department's report of an unusually hearty 3.6 percent rise in its index of leading economic indicators for January...
...The Greater London Council announced plans to spend $750,000 to turn an unused butchery warehouse into a center for male and female homosexuals, thus causing hurt feelings amongst transsexuals who could not help but notice the irony of excluding them from a lunatic center that had once been the place of employment for butchers...
...Frank Sinatra and Pope John Paul II, ambushed Rio's new Socialist governor, Mr...
...Donald Maclean died, and in London three weeks later tall and elegant Anthony Blunt did too...
...In San Antonio, Texas the citizenry is still guffawing at City Councilman Bernardo Eureste, the left-wing activist who leaped from his car when muggers accosted him and left a 23-year-old female secretary to be beaten...
...First there was the threat of a write-in candidacy from La Byrne, then, toward the month's end, there were demonstrations by the paleface...
...Karl Marx, who prob ably now has more adepts in the Audubon Society than in the Soviet Politburo...
...Yankee knowhow was again validated when Dr...
...They raise serious questions, ask advice, and sometimes share experiences...
...They pass jobs bills, still more Social Security increases, and a budget belching with the old moonshine, high taxes, more government expenditures on futile programs and arrant boondoggles...
...How do you say Teddy Kennedy in Spanish...
...All vital organs were in collapse, yet his artificial heart continued to beat...
...What is more, reports circulated in the German press charging that members of the party met with Libyan leader Muommar Qaddafi last march in Vienna, and they did not talk about baby seals or butterflies or smile buttons...
Vol. 16 • May 1983 • No. 5
