The Continuing Crisis

THE CONTINUING CRISIS Heat, record heat, ravaged our nation's lawns, corn fields, and pig farms this July, yet the tenor of public debate remained serene, even dreamlike. Alan Cranston went to his...

...At least, that was the feeling of a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury which found Yarrington guilty of faking a motorcycle accident in an insurance fraud scheme...
...Meanwhile, former Republican flamethrower Robert Bauman of Maryland, who lost his 1980 re-election bid after his arrest on Studds-like charges, is all set to begin a new life as a homosexual and political activist, according to friends...
...marched through the native village of Benito Mussolini on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth...
...Does he mean Communists...
...It's time the White House picked up a copy of Structure of Soviet Psychiatry...
...Why has the University of the District of Columbia just suspended 797 students for poor academic performance and placed an additional 2,668 on probation...
...You might want to pass a word of thanks along to the New Republic which, recalling old times, perhaps, sold advertising space to Sphinx Press...
...On July 19 the Berkeley city council voted 7-2 to establish a sister-city program with ' San Antonio Los Ranchos, a rebel-controlled town of 400 in El Salvador, and President Castro of Cuba has expressed interest in visiting Britain soon at the invitation of the Milk Marketing Board...
...And from Washington John W. Hinckley Jr...
...Noting how philandering with pretty boys has made him a "more complete human being," he also warned that "all members of Congress are in need of humbling experiences from time to time...
...If I were Roone, I'd look into Chume Edozie, who, while doing the seven o'clock news on Nigerian state television on July 28, suddenly announced: "I am sorry I cannot with my conscience continue to read this news full of falsehood...
...In publishing news, the editors of Swank magazine say they will publish photos of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in "love-making poses," and Sphinx Press of New York has just released a series of "outstanding USSR books published in English for the first time...
...Back in 1979 the Krishna movement's publishing arm, the Bhatkivendanta Book Trust of Los Angeles, was permitted an exhibit at the International Book Fair in Moscow...
...July 29 was a hot, sunny day in Predappio, Italy, where a police helicopter hovered overhead and nearly 100 uniformed policemen watched as thousands of black-shirted men and women chanting "Duce...
...I hereby resign my appointment with immediate effect...
...Watch for him on Red Square this November 7. On July 20, the U.S...
...Why should he worry...
...Mudd was accusing his employers of "a general anti-Washington bias" and insisting "I did nothing shameful or unconscionable...
...Meanwhile Polish deputy justice minister Tadeusz Skora voiced concern about "the image of our country abroad...
...Or are we Sandinistas...
...I hate for this to become a cliche", but we are falling behind the Russians...
...If you ask Ansel Adams, he might say Ronald Reagan is acting like a Soviet Krishna...
...Yes, there were some who tried to heighten tensions...
...Skora, he may be pleased to learn that Anne Pawelek of Cicero, Illinois* has filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of all Polish-Americans against Paramount Studios for Polack jokes repeated in the hit movie Flashdance...
...But back to basics...
...government plans to declare martial law after a nuclear attack...
...sent word that "I would like to tell everyone concerned that I'm not the least bit dangerous.'' Finally, on July 20 ABC news saw its Washington presence diminished when anchorman Frank Reynolds died, and a week later NBC retaliated by dropping Roger Mudd as a co-anchor of the "NBC Nightly News...
...He is considering moving to San Francisco...
...But in San Jose, Robert Paul Yarrington knew what he was about when he asked his girlfriend, Connie Martinez, to chop off his foot with an ax...
...Then what about our anti-illiteracy campaign...
...In Madrid, Rafael Escobedo was found guilty of murdering his father-in-law, Manuel de la Sierra, the Marquis of Urquijo, and his wife, the Marquise Marca Lourdes Urquijo...
...Just the other day, Komsomolskaya Pravda described the adventures of Amur, a German shepherd recruit from Gorky recently discharged after serving 18 months as an auxiliary sapper with Soviet forces in Afghanistan...
...Why should it seek new ones...
...And Princeton international affairs expert Richard Ullman, who just one year ago landed his glider atop a , 72,000 volt power line, drew on his expertise again to assure New York Times readers that the Soviets have no reason to establish' bases in Central America for the simple reason that "Moscow already has bases in Cuba at its disposal...
...Hodding Carter, for example, calling Henry Kissinger "morally boneless," reviving Cold War rhetoric by labeling the countries of Central America "captive nations" of the U.S., joining with Newsweek, Red China, and Cuba to denounce the Reagan Administration's "gunboat diplomacy" in the region, and concluding: "We have become what we profess to oppose...
...Meanwhile, ABC's Roone Arledge denied he was hoping to hire Mudd...
...Studds, well, he just added a whole new category to the list of those who never have to say they're sorry...
...As a conservative, Rep...
...Alan Cranston went to his barber to have his surviving hair made brown, and a chivalrous Gary Hart told the National Women's Political Caucus: "You have become the moral leadership of the country...
...for economic losses suffered by Poland under martial law...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS Heat, record heat, ravaged our nation's lawns, corn fields, and pig farms this July, yet the tenor of public debate remained serene, even dreamlike...
...Television, here's your man for all seasons...
...Jimmy Carter spent a day in Way-, cross, Georgia, visiting with brother Billy, who's a director of housing there for a mobile home company...
...When his handler, private Gennady Motily-kov, was gravely injured, Amur stayed on for another six months and earned several military decorations, including a "gold service medal...
...As for Rep...
...Careful bending over in the showerroom, men...
...On July 28, thermometers hit 101 degrees in Prague, the highest reading there since the reign of Joseph II, and in Greece the Papan-dreou government attempted to promote tourism with the creation of nudist centers at hotels and campsites, whereupon a Swede vacationing on the Greek island of Kos promptly came down with typhoid fever...
...After meeting with Reagan last month, Adams emerged to reveal that "there is that stone wall when someone has a totally different concept of the world and it's very hard to break through...
...At last report Mr...
...In Hollywood, model Vicki Morgan, a pal of the late Alfred Bloom-ingdale, was batted to death by her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, for no special reason...
...In Poland, it was announced that more than 800,000 Poles have quit the Communist Party in the past three years, and a government spokesman said that his country expects "appropriate compensation'' of " several billion dollars" from the U.S...
...It's getting lonely on the Right...
...On July 26, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in response to protests from Congress and animal lovers, directed that "no dogs will be shot for medical experimentation or training by the Department of Defense," which, I must say, is a hell of a way to run an army...
...House of Representatives took time to censure Representatives Daniel Crane and Gerry Studds for illicit relations with teenage pages some years ago...
...Crane knew he'd done wrong and he took his punishment like a man...
...Actually, there's no need to get carried away, since the effects of publishing were being felt in the Soviet Union as well...
...Among the titles are Boris Ponomarev's Communism in a Changing World ("why do Communists condemn terrorism"), Structure of Soviet Psychiatry by Edward A. Babayan ("why is drug addiction not a problem in the USSR"), and the latest official biography of the late Leonid Brezhnev ("an unusual book...
...On July 5", Moscow bestowed its highest award, the Order of Lenin, on Wojciech Jaru-zelski, while in San Francisco admirers of the General's style filed suit in federal court to find out "whether the U.S...
...I'm afraid to ask about polio...
...Duce...
...Today the editors of Izvestia are lamenting the many Soviet lives ruined by the Swami cult, and the main problem seems to be that ' 'the Krishnaists cannot return to their former normal life without psychiatric . treatment...
...If that's not enough for Mr...

Vol. 16 • September 1983 • No. 9


 
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