The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS It has not been a benign summer. The Republic broils under an unkind sun, and certain areas of the West and of Canada have actually burst into flame. The citizenry's serenity...
...They seem to take an especial interest in denigrating the objectivity of American journalists who hew to an independent course and are always demanding the banishment of those who displease them...
...Yet not all the protagonists in the sexual jungle are awash in animus...
...The citizenry's serenity strains beneath rumor of terrorist plots, spy cases, and now a breach of Central Intelligence Agency security in the.person of Miss Sharon Scranage, a lewd clerk accused of passing classified information to a foreign lover...
...As much as 55 million dollars was raised, and it is only a matter of time before it is used to fill the stomachs of the hungry...
...Rupert Murdoch into those of the gullible anglophile, Mr...
...Keith Everitt admitted to being the infamous "Jack the Crimper" who has been accosting women on the street and rubbing shampoo into their hair whether they liked it or not...
...Hilchens's position is only "temporary," but now that the paper is passing from the capable hands of Mr...
...Gromyko's post...
...Cockburn writes in the Wall Street Journal where he rebukes editors and writers alike, and Mr...
...Grigory V. Romanov cheerfully retired from the Politburo, ending a surprisingly good-natured rivalry with the suave Mr...
...The colossal Madonna filed neither plaints nor whimpers when it was announced that some of the nation's leading men's magazines had laid hands on nude pictures of her person...
...David Stockman announced his plans to leave the government, and Mr...
...And in Tokyo, Japan, police nabbed a 22-year-old dishwasher given to slitting the skirts of innocent ladies in broad daylight and allowing them to walk off unsuspectingly with their unmentionables exposed for all to see...
...Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...The Republic's feminists remain as angry and irrational as ever...
...Intelligence experts even speak of the return to the Voice of Mr...
...At places like the New York Times the tactic seems to work, and now both men are actually moving out of their lairs on the left and into respectable forums...
...He left no issue...
...The growth proved to be cancerous and necessitated the removal of a two-foot section of his right colon, leaving him with a semicolon but good chances of a complete recovery...
...The thing was beaten back by a vote of 23-13...
...In Santa Cruz, California, nearly two dozen head of them turned out to protest the Miss California pageant, pouring blood on the sidewalk and shouting inscrutable slogans such as "Over the blood of raped women...
...Eduard Shevardnadze was called in from Tbilisi, Georgia to fill Mr...
...And then there will be songs...
...Hitchens will be hard to scotch...
...Romanov has decided to become a fern salesman in Murmansk...
...Yet some men have quite obviously had enough...
...Alexander Cockburn, another well-known British agent whose aptitude for living in Oriental splendor off American heiresses has saved his government a pretty penny...
...and throughout its noisome campaign the press was always at pains to report the farce as if it were but one more episode in America's long march to justice: from Concord to Gettysburg, from the Birmingham bus boycott to the burning of bras in Central Park...
...After dinner there will be still more tapes, this time featuring speeches from the United Nations Decade for Women Conference that opened on July 12 in Nairobi, Kenya...
...In West Los Angeles, California, feminist attorney Miss Gloria Allred filed suit against a local children's hair salon on behalf of a three-year-old girl whose mother, Mrs...
...The system works...
...Christopher Hitchens, an Englishman now ubiquitous in Washington, suddenly took over the Village Voice's prized "Press Clips" column...
...Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats...
...is not only that its agile principals are effective in inflaming the anti-Americanism of the left, but that their criticism of American journalism is spreading John Bull's influence throughout major media...
...In Watford, England, Mr...
...That is it precisely, all these previously famished Third Worlders will leap to their feet and sing and throw frisbees and disport on their skate boards...
...Give a modern progressive a few rock singers and a "feed" from the studio and hesto presto you have a better world, at least until the electricity fails...
...The accused is Mr...
...Nairn At-tall...
...Only the American do-gooder could have transformed human rights into a tasteless joke...
...Rainbow Warrior," referred to in the popular press as "the flagship of the Greenpeace environmental organization," sank in a New Zealand harbor after a surreptitiously planted bomb went off, killing one crew member...
...Joni Zuckerbrow-Miller, discovered that the little girl's haircut took – less time and cost more money than that of her four-year-old brother, whose life will not be easy...
...Goetz shot in the chest, and who later notified the world that he wanted "to see Bernie Goetz fry...
...RET...
...Champagne must have been flowing at the New York Post when one of Mr...
...Finally, July brought disturbing evidence that the American left is more heavily influenced by British intelligence than ever before...
...The Voice claims that Mr...
...Hitchens's links to the Middle East are even more revealing...
...David Goodstein, former publisher of the Advocate, a homosexual rights magazine, died of bowel cancer...
...Allyn Conwell, the facile spokesman for the kidnapped Americans on TWA Flight 847, was boomed for high political office by the preposterous Miss Phyllis George on "The CBS Morning News," revealing once again the low intelligence of TV's celebrity journalists and the liberties that are allowed them in a bogus journalism devoid of standards beyond the anatomical and the tawdry...
...Hitchens appears regularly on television, notwithstanding the fact that while on camera he never looks up from his shoes...
...James Ramseur, whom Mr...
...An unfriendly growth was discovered in the President's colon on July 12 during routine surgery of a cosmetic nature, and on the following day he underwent a much more critical operation to remove it...
...He has openly accepted funds from Quartet Books, owned by the shadowy Mr...
...Now it is the transsexual's conquest of the American Legion...
...Leonard Stern, whose fortune was made in the bird and dog food business, the wily Mr...
...In New London, Connecticut, a creature even more preposterous than Miss George failed in its attempt to head a local American Legion Post...
...In the category of believe-it-or-not, a surgical team at Norfolk General Hospital removed a 36-pound tumor from the face of a 44-year-old Filipino woman, and Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, Jr...
...Geldof is the brain behind the Live Aid concert broadcast from London and Philadelphia July 13 to raise funds for Africa's victims of starvation...
...In San Diego, California, Mr...
...AttaH's ties with the British, upper class are quite clear, his tendency for hiring the daughters of British aristocrats having caused London wags to christen his publishing house "Nairn's Hareem...
...She is a working girl with the traditional big heart...
...has sold his memoirs-as yet unwritten-to Random House for "in excess of a million dollars," that is, about ten cents a pound...
...Finally, Ethiopia is a happy land today, thanks to the efforts of a rock artiste, Mr...
...RETy fails...
...This became clear when Mr...
...Cockburn moved effortlessly from the Voice to the Nation, where his influence has become legendary, after it was revealed that he had been the recipient of $10,000 from the now-defunct Institute of Arab Studies...
...Jae Kyu Park, the celebrated turkey sexer of Garner, North Carolina, has lost yet another court fight in his struggle to be reinstated at the Sleepy Creeks Farms from which he was fired when his success rate slipped to an unflattering 92 percent...
...In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr...
...Bridgett Poi" is what euphemists call a transsexual-that is to say, a male whittled into a facsimile of an extremely troubled female, but a male nonetheless...
...Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko was elevated to the Soviet presidency, while Mr...
...Hitchens, whose "high-tea" radicalism is recognized by intelligence experts as an ill-conceived disguise for advancing the interests of the British upper class, was educated at Oxford, is married to a Cypriot, and maintains close ties to Middle Eastern figures long associated with the interests of the British Empire in that area...
...Bernhard Goetz's luckless assailants was charged with rape, robbery, sodomy, assault, and criminal possession of a gun in connection with a complaint lodged by a 20-year-old New York woman who, much to her misfortune, was unarmed...
...What is particularly worrying about Hitchens & Cockburn Ltd...
...One sees hundreds of thousands of smiling Ethiopes, all sitting around their tape decks listening to the warbling and dining on delicious Stouffer's frozen meals prepared in a nearby communal microwave...
Vol. 18 • September 1985 • No. 9
