The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS o June 1984 is history, but rather than retire from this column for the summer I may just stick around. Jesse Jackson schmoozes with Fidel Castro. Walter Mondale buys a...
...Finally, all charges have been dropped against that Midwestern journalism dean who was arrested last month for masturbating in front of a urinal in a public comfort station and who then broke his right hand in a scuffle with police...
...In fact even the senior Hellmans were often glad she was gone, and they would frequently pretend she had gone to visit a sick aunt...
...In the 1970s she was seen posing in a $7000 Blackglama fur coat in such radical organs as the New Yorker, though her features were not comely...
...I had been nearly as credulous as Mr...
...The zoo has become a veritable Babylon: suspended by the esteemed American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, and investigated by the U.S...
...Tom Bethell has seized on an important, emerging clich~ of the Hive when he notes the recent buzzing that "poverty, not Communism," is the problem in Central America...
...Bethell draws out in a different way: The hard Left renounces any opposition to Communism at all, whereas liberals are allowed to oppose Communism rhetorically provided--and this is a biggie--that every time doing something pragmatic to combat Communism is proposed, the liberal is against it: "It's not that I love Moscow any more than my friends on the right do," the well-credentialed liberal argues...
...When we didn't agree to that they killed our Mayor and his helper...
...Betbell and Sobran and other apiarists...
...There was a lot of brave feminist oratory at the National Organization for Women's annual meeting in Miami Beach, but it was left to 25-year-old Carolyn M. Matsumoto to make the most eloquent feminist statement of the season when, unbeknownst to her parents or to her shrink, she crawled into the family dishwasher, turned it on, and became the first American ever to commit suicide in a dishwasher...
...Within six months, half the time projected, pacification had been virtually achieved...
...Alas, the Left has proved expert at co-opting various segments of our ranks on individual questions...
...Many of the Republic's psychiatric clinics were emptied at the end of the month as thousands of 1960s flower children journeyed to Likely, California for the thirteenth annual "family reunion" of American hippies...
...But we must not fail to note that an equal, perhaps larger segment of the Hive now more or less admits that Communism is bad ("of course the Russians are bad guys") but suggests a pragmatic difference over how to deal with it ("the issue is how we stop insurgencies," as Art Schlesinger lectured Bill Buckley on a recent "Nightline...
...The following day Mr...
...She can praise the Guatemalan government's treatment of the Indian population all she likes, but the facts as determined by other investigators are quite different...
...Thus far the Hon...
...But a year after that word got around one night that the soldiers were moving out...
...Robert Kent Schley, Virginia Mary Ball Mart[nez replies: I have yet to visit a model village...
...In scenic Khartoum, Sudan, a mob of avid fans turned out for that country's first public flogging of a foreigner since its Moslem government imposed the Prophet's sacred teetotal laws...
...But, for whatever it's worth, we in the offace of the United States Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank do not fall into the category Mr...
...Across America the wowser impulse grows...
...That is, we know that development in Latin America must go hand-in-hand with security and democracy...
...Kirkpatrick skipped the 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 flight entirely...
...Martlnez reads like a mirror image of Henry Wallace's report on his visit to the Gulag Archipelago...
...Anne Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, unparalleled calamity and even personal injury have resulted from reading the Bible, and she has urged the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection to label Bibles with the admonition: "WARNING...
...The publicity-conscious Soviets had planned to bring twentytwo blind runners, but then must have calculated how difficult it was going to be to keep these stallions and geldings from lecherous America's peep shows and adult bookstores and concluded that the bad publicity would vitiate all the celebrity of their epic runs...
...Lately in Mexico we heard the Army had beaten the subversives all over the country, so we decided to come back...
...Only the one Mr...
...In the Wall Street Journal for April 30, David Asman reviews the recently released report on Guatemala by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which effectively lays to rest most of the wild accusations of Amnesty International and that noisy little committee which calls itself Americas Watch...
...Senate passed legislation aimed at establishing a nationwide minimum drinking age, and now there is a move afoot to have warning labels placed on every Bible sold in the Republic...
...A lion and a tiger have died under mysterious circumstances, and city workers accidentally poured cement over some hapless prairie dogs' burrows...
...He is the Smith, Barney, Harris Upham & Company vice president who became visibly upset on the New York-to-Washington shuttle upon being asked to vacate seats reserved for our UN ambassador...
...First they burned down our village hall, then they made us men line up in the street and said we had to join them...
...Rarely has a defamation campaign been as effective as the one the Left has waged against Guatemala...
...Andy is as clean as a hound's tooth--but, investigators might well ask, where is the rest of the hound...
...and the Gipper himself orders the CIA to finance every Salvadoran candidate but the one who supports Reaganomics, Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...Avoiding the usual journalists' airport Sheraton press conference routine, I rode dilapidated buses into the hinterland to talk to country people most affected by the long struggle...
...Now their convention approaches...
...Now some charge that rabbits have been purchased not for display but for the gustatory pleasures of corrupt officials...
...Occasionally she actually would visit her sick aunts, all of whom were quite rich and soon much sicker...
...The trip was a shocker...
...Only now is some truth beginning to emerge...
...Executive Director Inter-American Development Bank Washington, D.C...
...In the State of New York the legislature comes ever closer to passing a mandatory seat belt law for the criminally minded automobile passenger...
...I would favor an approach which places more emphasis on negotiations/economic aid [read 'subsidies for socialism' here]/expanding cultural links...
...We knew them...
...I asked them why they had all run away...
...The gringo rebel lived luxuriously on Park Avenue...
...In several reports of unusual sharpness, Amnesty International has condenmed the Guatemalan government's "attempt to control opposition, both violent and non-violent, through the widespread use of torture and the killing of large numbers of rural noncombatant civilians including young c h i l d r e n . . . " Not only has the Organization of American States cited the "alarming climate of violence either instigated or tolerated by the government," but even such a less than notorious leftist as Jeane Kirkpatrick has expressed dismay at the horrors being perpetrated in Guatemala...
...I may not take my vacation until the fall...
...RET C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Guatemalan Watch Rather than visiting only model villages while in Guatemala, Mary Ball Martfnez ("Clerical Materialism in Mexico's Southeast," TAS, April 1984) might have spent some time visiting the many places where what she calls "horror fiction" has actually been documented...
...There are charges that party stalwarts loaned Twinkles the elephant to a traveling circus against his will and while he was in illhealth...
...Was Mr...
...The day I stopped there last summer a dozen families had just returned from self-imposed exile in Mexico...
...Thus National Review has nothing critical to say about Reagan Administration dealings with the IMF...
...A particularly skillful counterinsurgency campaign had been launched at the beginning of summer, and in conjunction with it, something new in Central America--a generous "reach-out" to peasants who had willingly or unwillingly gotten involved with subversion...
...An important and emerging task for conservatives, then, is to expose the superficially ad hoc, pragmatic rhetoric of the Left for what it is: a design, in which any sort of action unfavorable to Moscow is said not to work...
...oSwales, winner of two legs of this year's Triple Crown, died as did LiUian Hellman, that lonely feminist inspiration who as a little girl frequently disappeared for days after going off with her chums to partake of a vigorous game of hide-and-seek...
...He too was a rebel...
...Christopher C. Sundseth Special Assistant to the U.S...
...No, it's only intended as an elaboration on the insights into political manners already developed in these pages by Messrs...
...Konstantin U. Chernenko at the earliest possible opportunity...
...I take strong exception to Tucker's statement that "the truth is the Jews have probably been more solicitous of the cause of blacks than any other ethnic group in America, but the patronage has probably been based on a tacit understanding that blacks will return this support on the problems in the Middle East...
...Kent over stories the world was getting about Guatemala until I went down to see for myself...
...Enrico Berlinguer, the millionaire leader of Italy's Communist party...
...To her last days she remained the obnoxious little girl, her exertions now being focused on paring away the First Amendment rights of her fellow Americans by suing Miss Mary McCarthy who had called her a liar...
...Chernenko threw spitballs at the Western leaders' proposal for renewed disarmament talks...
...Walter Mondale buys a house in the provinces and drags a gallimaufry of potential vice presidential candidates out there, all carefully chosen on the basis of gender, race, color, creed, and sexual orientation...
...An impressive haul that, which suggests that the Third World bishop could hold his own with practically any member of our National Conference of Catholic Bishops, assuming, of course, that Brother Manara's provisions were solely intended for his excellency's Saturday luncheon...
...We never underestimate the power of the market as an engine for development, and this office is doing its best to preserve integrity and long-term results in the loan projects of the IDB...
...It climaxed in the l~tte fall of 1982 when, after twenty years in the field, the rebels, under Cuban-trained leadership, suddenly found themselves bereft of that essential base for guerrilla warfare, namely peasant support...
...Does this suggest a split in the ranks of the Left...
...Tucker's use of the words "solicitous" and "patronage" tells us more about his motives than perhaps he'd want known...
...I have been a reader of The American Spectator for about six years now, and have never written a letter to the paper...
...But I don't think that sanction/military aid/covert action/Voice of America broadcasts/military intervention are the way to oppose it...
...Referred to in the article is Nenton, a town which was totally abandoned in January 1982...
...And so our whole village began to pack up, too...
...According to Mrs...
...oOn June 12 Senators Howard Baker and Charles Percy notified President Ronald Reagan that so arctic had U.S.-USSR relations grown that he must palaver with Mr...
...Thoughts on Poverty I would like to make a comment about Tom BetheU's "Thoughts on Poverty" from the June 1984 issue...
...The floggee was Brother Joseph Manara, an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman who had been nabbed lugging a bottle of whiskey, sixteen bottles of wine, and a case of beer to the Bishop of Wau in southern Sudan...
...All her life she lolled in opulence as is characteristic of so many of our rebels...
...And so on...
...A Kentucky railroad worker claiming that bird droppings are impairing his health has sued the Seaboard System, Railroad for $850,000, and soon consumer advocates may be casting their woeful glances toward professional baseball, for a San Francisco Giants fan has fallen to his death from the upper deck of Candlestick Park while shouting obscenities at an offending player...
...One night they came to Nenton...
...Literal belief in this book may endanger your life and health...
...Then the Army came...
...The real truth is most Jews like myself, fourteen at the time Tucker went to Mississippi, championed civil rights because of a strong identifica(continued on page 4J) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 7...
...businessmen support subsidies to the East bloc under the rhetoric of "free trade...
...The country continues to prosper under the most conservative President since Coolidge, and all ritualistic liberals slip ever further into irrationality and bigotry...
...So obnoxious was she that once she had duly hidden herself away all of her little friends would exult and solemnly promise not to look for her...
...In fact he created such a row that the fierce Mrs...
...In Atlanta, Georgia, Mayor Andrew Young's administration is floundering in one of the most bizarre scandals in the history of urban politics, a scandal linking intolerable political corruption to the local zoo...
...The point of mentioning such specific groups is 9ot to single them out, but to alert us all to put wax in our ears every time the siren's call of "maintaining the moral high ground" drifts toward the ship...
...The grateful exit came just nineteen days after the expiry of a similarly endowed Italian progressive, Sr...
...Joseph Fichera there...
...Bethell estimates "50 percent of those employed by the World Bank and IMF" do...
...Department of Agriculture for possible violations of the Animal Welfare Rights Act...
...Gregory A. Fossedal Editorial Page Writer The Wall Street Journal New York, New York Jesse uad the Jews I must write in regard to William Tucker's dishonest and slanted assessment of the "fall-out" between Jesse Jackson and the Jews ("Jesse Jackson: The Great Man's Populism," TAS, May 1984...
...Stunned by unexpected defeat, rebel leaders, now over the border in Mexico, raged impotently and their cries were snatched up and broadcast to the world by the ever Left-leaning international media...
...The article by Ms...
...What were they afraid of...
...Naturally such a pest became a leftist malcontent of the Stalinist hue, or a "rebel" as the obituary writers were prone to sigh in their sentimental obsequies...
...The subversives, Sefiora...
...Her parents often had difficulty getting the police to look for her...
...Miss Hellman died in the jungles of remote Martha's Vineyard...
...In Monroe County, Indiana, members of a group called Citizens for Clean Air and Water may be in hot water...
...The U.S...
...That frightening display they set up in the Monroe County Public Library to illustrate the perils of PCBs ended up contaminating the entire building, and now the patheticoes are facing possible prosecution...
...Apparently he was taking the cure...
...One foreign report after another proved to be false...
...eOceans of fruit juice and warm milk flowed at the Sheraton Washington hotel at the end of June when the Ninth National Conference on Men and Masculinity convened to meditate on the theme "Men Working, Men Playing, Men at Peace...
...Is this another way of saying that we must "clean up our own house" before we "criticize others," another familiar tune...
...oIn sports news the Soviet Union withdrew from Uniondale, Long Island's International Games for the Disabled...
...We are dealing with a uniquely dangerous book filled with lethal teachings," this aroused consumer warns...
...It is further alleged that two unfortunate Kodiak bears lost their lives while doing similar service...
...His indelicate act was reputedly undertaken on doctor's orders...
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