The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS oThe first month of chill 1984 expires and the goody-goodies' most dire premonitions have come to pass. Big Brother is going to run for a second term. He said so on the...
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...oThe Presidential Commission on Hunger concluded that "hunger does persist" in America but "allegations of rampant hunger simply cannot be documented...
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...Willie Dee Drumgoole survived a police choke hold in 1982 his life would have been worth $1.2 million...
...George Sire Johnston 38 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, by Peter Ackroyd, and Wise Virgin, by A.N...
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...RET 4 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1984 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...oNavy flier Robert O. Goodman, who is dignity itself, was released from a Syrian prison when the Rev...
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...On January 12 Senator Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts announced his retirement, and Neoconservatlsm has reached Santa Cruz, California...
...Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roger Lewis 39 Washington Irving: History, Tales, and Sketches, edited by James W. Tuttleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor Anant 41 Cover Drawing by:E field, ~176176176176176176176176 o . - . o * . . o o * . . . o o o ' ' o ' o ' ~ 1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 5...
...Finally the British paparazzi have agreed to desist from photographing the Royal family at play...
...There three highschool boys assaulted a "longhair" with a homemade bazooka as part of their campaign against "trolls," to wit: "longhairs, transient types, commies, welfare recipients, and people who migrate through town...
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...eEvidence suggesting that our military may still be frighteningly weak came when the Army announced that sex1 ' mlt is one of the risks of ser, ae Army is refusing to pay damages tc female Army reservist who was ~ .~d and beaten by two fellow soldiers while being confined to an unguarded two-story barracks for misbehavior...
...William McGurn 18 Oh, those medieval yearningsf Conservative Homes and Gardens...
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...In Williamsburg, Iowa, teacher Nancy Eggert smeared cow manure on the faces of students who failed to do their homework...
...The Befuddlement of American Catholicism...
...On the same stage exSenator George McGovern hollered, _9 "We aren't going to end the blight of racism until we end the blight of militarism," and of all the candidates he is in most need of the nomination...
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...36 The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth...
...Cockburn had neither come up with a monograph nor even informed his editor of who had helped him to pay for his new puce tie...
...The most alarming message of all, however, is carried by Senator Alan Cranston...
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...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1984 OI~0~Q0gI000Qm00e000oIDQ0~Q00ID0i0I~Qw~000Q0~Q0o0D0O00Q~QmQoDII0e000~Qm0m0m0QB~0000Qm00Q00QIQo00QB0Q~0000I00B0~ C O N T E N T S The Big Cancer Lie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edith Efron 10 Deceiving the public and corrupting science...
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...33 The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980, by Diane Ravitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John R. Turner 35 BernardBaruch, by James Grant...
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...Taki 45 Current Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted Jackasses 47 BOOK REVIEWS Reflections ofa Neoconservative, by Irving Kristol...
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...Cockburn (pronounced K6~burn), who is widely known for his suctorial conception of wealth and his equally suctorial relationships with wealthy women, was reclining in balmy Florida when the Boston Phoenix broke the story that way back in August 1982 Mr...
...William Rusher, with a reply by Joseph W. Bishop, Jr...
...According to his researches, "There are 70,000 more millionaires now than when Ronald Reagan became president...
...Adrian Karatnycky 28 The Talkies/Silkwood Vague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marttta Bayles 31 Politique Internationale / Visions of Cairo...
...In Tangent, Oregon, Kitty Kat has inherited $100,000 from his late owner, Mr...
...That is the figure arrived at in an out-of-court settlement, and not only is it a handsome sum but no one has to share it with the deceased who could be very difficult even in the best of times...
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...And in Indianapolis, Indiana the Catholic archbishop, a volupt 300-pound hippopotamus of a saint, still stands by a parish priest who is withholding 50 percent of his taxes, the percentage of taxes that most dimwitted clerics believe goes to our defense budget...
...A city ordinance has barred such practices, and when she went to court claiming her "constitutional right to be touched" a judicial holdover from the Dark Ages repulsed her, braying "Are you serious...
...All Syrian Jews live in conditions similar to those experienced by Lieutenant Goodman, a s do the members of a dozen other groups on the outs with the humanitarian Mr...
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...Cockburn accepted a $10,000 grant from something called the Institute of Arab Studies to write a monograph on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...He said so on the evening of January 29 and he,looked as fit as he did four years ago, which is more than can be said for Mr...
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...DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Editorials / Worst Books of the Year / Doped / Chef Kroc...
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...In southeast China a peasant who insisted that he was an emperor of the 13thcentury Yuan dynasty was executed for swaggering around his province wearing an imperial robe and a crown...
...For three years, they have opened their arms to those who are rich and male and white, turned their backs on those most in need of help, insulted women and minorities and made jokes about the handicapped," lamented Senator John Glenn in Iowa...
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...Jesse Jackson, who is indignity itself, flew to Damascus for assistance in his drive to become an American public nuisance of capital proportions...
...Yet what publishing house or foundation has a military component, and how many military components are dedicated to eliminating an entire state by directing its soldiers almost exclusively against civilians...
...The Truth About Joe McCarthy...
...The movement is e.~en gaining adherents in our schools...
...An organization called the Delhi Eunuch Welfare gociety has composed a letter beseeching the United Nations to help eunuchs .around the world to attain human rights and receive "employment opportunities, free education, and old-age pensions...
...Lilian Abadi, the pregnant Syrian Jew who about the time the Rev...
...I think it might be demeaning for a child to have this done to him...
...Cockburn pleaded innocence and insisted that his actions were similar to accepting an advance from a publishing house or a grant from a foundation...
...T. John Jamieson 21 Survival in the modern age...
...A three-time convicted felon has struck it rich in HoUoway, Minnesota where one of his victims has agreed in an out-of-court settlement to pay him $40,000...
...The economy grew at an annual rate of 4.5 percent in 1983's fourth quarter, and inflation for the year was merely 3.8 percent...
...Queen Elizabeth II became incensed early in the month when newspaper photographs showed her 6-year-old grandson Peter Phillips twirling a dead pheasant by the neck, a royal divertissement dating back to the time of old King Gustav Foolsfoot and reveled in by royalty and pheasants alike...
...Jackson, whose moronic gibbering the colleagues in medialand extol as unsurpassingly eloquent (but then remember that they also find great merit in the utterances of eleven-year-old Miss Samantha Smith), returned from Damascus trumpeting President Hafez Assad's "humanitarian gesture" and flumdiddling on about how his flight had demonstrated another of his learr~ed political findings, namely " i f leaders talk something will happen...
...According to newspaper accounts, the Injuns, all male, are charged with beating and biting the sides of two teenage girls, one of whom has asserted in a mouth-watering testimony that "my sides felt like jelly...
...And there is more bad news: Who owns Alex's Lounge in historic Stoughton, Massachusetts...
...Milo Stephens, the 26-year-old incompetent who botched a suicide attempt in 1977 during which he launched himself into the path of a New York Transit Authority subway train...
Vol. 17 • March 1984 • No. 3
