The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS q, With clouds of pollen and swarms of A obnoxious insects adding to the oL wonder and mystery of the environ- is ment, August swoons into September; p~ and the season is...
...Finally, a New York State appeals court rejected a nightclub operator's claim that "recreational dancing is a form of expression" protected by the First Amendment--a benighted finding when one recalls that years ago the Warren Court held that dancing buck naked is a sacred First Amendment right...
...The article is indicative of the type of sick mentality which continues to hold the victims of oppression responsible for their unfortunate condition of poverty . . . . --Denton L. Watson Director, Public Relations NAACP Brooklyn, New York cc: Benjamin L. Hooks NAACP Executive Director Althea T.L...
...Ramsey insists that e actually was wearing a men's icing-style bathing suit, although he ;mains suspiciously reticent about lat lace trim...
...to say nothing of Ler profound loss of self-esteem...
...likita Khrushchev, died in Moscow ometime during August...
...cl That became official in the middle of ci the month when the Republicans in iV Dallas renominated Ronald Reagan fc who thanked them by delivering a very mediocre speech...
...erhaps tt~ redress the slight, Mr...
...Krebs did not nention that for all we know she died uhile sleeping on a park bench or pickng through garbage in a Moscow ~treet...
...To set the Summit in its correct perspective, it is first necessary to know what it was all about...
...is the best analysis of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill that I have seen...
...Unfortunately Sacramento's ' imalists heard of her feat and q tmored f o r her prosecution, thus 1 asing many anxious days at local , ondale headquarters...
...The role of the AFLCIO would figt/re large in that judgment...
...klvin Krebs in composing the New ~'ork Times's obit sang of her 'kindliness and unflagging smile," of low "she delighted in pulling out picures of her grandchildren," and of hat romantic journey in 1959 to Mnerica during which she and her ~h/s/ca husband "exchanged lingering ;lances while Frank Sinatra was singng a love song...
...Fossedal thinks it works...
...Tucker comment that they "spent a lot of time playing at being oppressed...
...DThere was another Kennedy automobile accident--the Senator again--and this time responsibility did not repose with a Kennedy but with the other fellow, a turn of events so unusual that London's Sunday THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 Telegraph put a picture of the battered Kennedy vehicle on page one...
...Paul, Minnesota, U.S...
...Fossedal appeared to be answering is "What is the proper price of the paper we want to issue...
...Why then would Mr...
...Agnew is redeemed...
...oMr...
...Protesting lat he is the subject of "cultural a s h , " the Hon...
...Finally, changes in the price of gold don't cause inflation or deflation, nor do such changes cause recessions-unless, of course, you believe that thermometers cause fever . . . . --Lannon Stafford Phoenix, Arizona From the Summit Is this 1984 or 18847 This is the question that one must ask upon reading William Tucker's "Black Family Agonistes" in the July issue of The American Spectator...
...Jackson's osts during his late presidential camaign was indicted for welfare fraud lhile the Rev was visiting--get this-40nte Carlo...
...A true gold standard does not require the "right price" for gold...
...al oAt any rate, this poor sap will be run- ax ning against the Great Communicator...
...It was an unrtunate row that never would have ten place had Mrs...
...Geraldine Ferraro, a three-term congresswoman who until mid-month had displayed the mind of a first-rate airline stewardess from one o f the finer airlines, say, TWA...
...RET C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Gold Watch "The Price of Gold" by Gregory A. Fossedal (TAS, July 1984) was a rather astonishing recital of how the gold standard works--or how Mr...
...Soviet of'icials were vague on the details...
...Bowers llegedly effected sexual congress with larva's Rainbow, a horse...
...Yet there may be more to this gung ho gal, for it is now revealed that she is actually a millionairess, a landlady with some unsavory tenants, and no goodytwo-shoes reformer at all but a New e Tammanyite quick to circumvent ~, idiotic campaign laws...
...As I write from Silicon Valley, the local head of the INS is about to be sent to some far assignment (as he should be) for telling employers "that approximately 20 percent of the people employed t, in the world's most productive and technologically advanced spot are illegally employed and should be sent back home immediately...
...Do they not remember C what they did to the country when they at saddled us with their last anile M Messiah...
...The question Mr...
...This was a meeting of representatives of national black membership organizations who answered a call from the National , Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League to devise strategies and programs which the black community itself could implement to address the problems facing a large number of black families...
...hat the Mondale coalition continues 1 be afflicted by fissures separating e group of moral colossi from I 3ther was illustrated in Sacramento, i lifornia, where feminists and imal-rights activists had at it over t _9 s. Dorothy Bedford's treatment of ' : oafish husband...
...Signs of political reaction continue to proliferate...
...The promising political career F East Spencer, North Carolina's Layor, Mr...
...The National Centers for Disease Control announced that at least 95 people were electrocuted in U.S...
...It was a distorted, biased, and racist view of the Black Family Summit that was further inflamed by the odious and demeaning illustrations accompanying it...
...dford afire...
...Apparently, the residents of Queens, qew York are going to have to start rearing shoes, for on August 11 a )ueens pedestrian received a ghastly rite on the toe from a neighbor's pet :himpanzee, Congo...
...A similar intercoalition uabble divides the Mondalians of ederick, Maryland, where gay acists went on the alert when police arited Mr...
...Having once again thoroughly ol dominated their party's national con- to vention, the New Age Democrats are or now after the White House...
...Victims ranged in age from 5 months to 52 years among males and 1 to 76 years among females, suggesting that men learn to use these advanced instruments earlier in life--a finding that will not go down well amongst feminists desirous of seeing more women employed in heavy industry...
...James D. Williams Director, Communications National Urban League, Inc...
...Nina Petrovna ~hrushchev, widow of the late Mr...
...Do they not realize that their h~ present prodigy is even farther gone on 2] the New Age bunkum...
...Obviously, this is the type of article that your publication wanted to receive and fairness is of no concern to you...
...Why, is ar the question...
...Magistrate Brian Short rebuffed yet another idealistic thrust at the infamous McDonald's hamburger chain when he dismissed as "clearly frivolous" a $5 million suit...
...Miss Vanessa Williams's ontract with NBC grew in value when : was announced that still more picares of her photographed from a iynecologiSt's perspective will be appearing in Penthouse magazine, and he Soviet Union's most distinguished pag lady is dead...
...George Bush...
...And tow it appears that the children's ights movement may get into the act, Or Harva, age 9, is arguably still a ninor...
...I apologize to the author and to any readers who were misled...
...Leonard P. Liggio President, Institute for Humane Studies Menlo Park, California Correction I have discovered an unfortunate error in my review of Edward Banfield's book, The Democratic Muse (TAS, September 1984...
...Simmons NAACP Washington Bureau Director NAACP National Board of Directors John Jacob National Urban League President Mildred Love National Urban League Vice President James Williams National Director of Public Relations While the damage has been done and nothing will ever set matters right, I must raise serious objections to the lack of accuracy in the article, "Black Family Agonistes," that appeared in the July issue of your magazine...
...Reagan's running mate is again Mr...
...In the Socialist Motherland nice ;als finish last...
...In St...
...Most certainly they did stress the need for blacks to keep their own identity while becoming part of the mainstream, and no apology needs to be made...
...That a magazine would publish in this day and age such a blatantly racist diatribe against a segment of American citizenry--replete with similarly disgusting illustrations--is a good reminder that racism is not only alive and flourishing in America, but it is also on the rise and showing its ugly self as boldly as it once did in earlier periods of our history...
...The free market historically did a far better job--let the free market do it again...
...Since I was the director of the press room for the Black Family Summit, I am in a position to report that William Tucker came to the Summit as a stranger to the black experience in America, and left the same way...
...Charles Ramsey, Jr., suf',red catastrophe when a lady constitmt of delicate upbringing charged im with wearing light blue women's ~e-through panties trimmed with lace the Shell Quality Mart in historic alisbury, North Carolina...
...Tucker seems to regard this as being un-American and somehow very wrong...
...However, Mr...
...Bedford, a l _9 year-old cum laude graduate of ] ertiveness training, had endured ] ite enough of her husband's macho t .Felicities, and so she s t u f f e d J vvspapers into the doghouse of his , eping pet and set the smelly thing ] re...
...I only wish that Bethell could have explained in more detail why Speaker O'Neill did not follow his own political judgment to kill the bill on first reading but allowed the dominant judgment of the congressional Democratic leadership to prevail...
...At Northern Ireland's Maze Prison ~0 prisoners disguised as refuse and ;ft-overs were badly damaged when le garbage truck in which they hoped ) escape compressed them into a neat ttle lump...
...In days of as yore, any attempt to elect to the q~ presidency a man of Walter Mondale's in proven smallness would have been nc viewed quite properly as treasonous, sl but perhaps I go too far...
...Thomas Main New York, New York THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 7...
...New York, New York cc: Denton Watson NAACP, Director, Public Relations Mildred Love Vice President, League National Urban Simpson-Mazzoli Tom Bethell's August "Capitol Ideas" column entitled "What Immigration Crisis...
...A given measure of gold (ounce, gram, or whatever) is the reality of the monetary standard, and any paper receipts issued for it must be related clearly to the corresponding amount of gold...
...p~ and the season is made even more un- al comfortable by presidential politick- (3, ing...
...There were o witnesses to the purported tryst, nd Harva's owner, Miss Colby D. tubble of Ijamsville, has said " I don't cant to say anything about i t . " 4onetheless the authorities are standag by their case...
...But you might want to consider that out of the many articles written by the more than 50 journalists who attended the Summit, the Tucker piece was the only one that took this destructive approach...
...ti Rather artlessly they fretted that a r~ documentary using camera and sound n might do more violence to the truth than a lone orator_9 They confessed, in other words, that the public could more easily be deceived by the tools of their trade than by a honeyfogling politico crooning from the podium...
...Moreover, remember that all the Founding Fathers were avid dancers, particularly Daniel of St...
...This was an example of successful and highly motivated black people coming together at their own expense to mobilize their own communities for the common good of all...
...Police Chief Richard _9 Ashton testifies that Harva "susained minor injuries," specifically a 'swollen vagina...
...His attitude toward my staff and the participants was condescending and patronizing...
...One of the Rev...
...Banfield's book deals with the policies of the National Endowment for the Arts, not with the National Endowment for the Humanities as I mistakenly said...
...Bethell has made a clear and decisive contribution to understanding the political climate dominated by the "right-thinking" section of the public when he explains why they want to "gain control~" So long as the immigrants are "Out of control" (illegal) they are hardworking, tax-paying, well-behaved people--avoiding all entanglements with the law, positive or negative...
...Congo, who had ;scaped from his owner's home after ~ecoming drunk on vodka and beer, ;tumbled for hours through the streets ~f this New York borough, unnoticed md uncared for by a citizenry that has 9ecome accustomed to such "neighaorhood characters" ever since Ne~ York's fabulous progressives emptied Ihe state's asylums and sent many ol Congo's intellectual equals to live a .esco...
...Lousy question, since we shouldn't be issuing government paper that looks like money, anyway...
...bathtubs between 1979 and 1982, more than half of whom died while using electric hair dryers...
...It will be his task as a former World War II bomber pilot, a self-made businessman, a former congressman, a former ambassador to the United Nations, a former emissary to China, a former head of the CIA, an unsuccessful presidential candidate, and a Vice President to outshine somehow Ms...
...The idea that "the gold standard is simply a rule that tells the Fed when to lower the interest rates and when to raise them" is truly astounding, since the actual effects of actual gold standards historically have been to limit the amount of currency and spending through the outflow of gold from the public reserves...
...The absurd suit charged McDonald's with false advertising for claiming to have sold approximately 40 billion scrumptious patties of protein...
...Canadian elections heated p, portending disaster for Canadian ,iberals...
...His every action seemed to bespeak a feeling that because we were black, we were his inferiors . . . . But let's move past these personal observations and reach the point of real concern--the odious manner in which the meaning and intent of the Summit were distorted...
...Warren A. Bowers, 31 (of fixed residence), and charged him dth "perverted sex practices and ruelty to animals...
...They avoid union organizers, social and welfare workers, and all "the meddlers whose activities are guaranteed (and intended) to make the individual more dependent on the state...
...No one seemed to ri notice_9 Instead the mullahs of network B news harrumphed over the Republi- st cans' insistence on introducing Mr...
...Thomas Jenifer who brought the rumba to the United States in a small earthen jar...
...In fine, she c another of our modern moral ~agons, held up before the eyes o f , I New Age boobs as tomorrow's r orge Washington...
...F Reagan with a documentary film...
...There are so many other things that are off-key in the article, that there really is no point in examining it any further...
...Bedford done the ',ht thing at the outset by setting Mr...
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