The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING...
...He hires the stalwart Patrick J. Buchanan, cutting his salary by three quarters and then relegating him to a dark place...
...Its pursuit has grown desperately grim...
...Richards became violent as the officers approached him at the scene of an automobile accident and, as county prosecutor Robert Weiss said, very politely, "started spitting on everybody, indicating he had AIDS and was going to kill everybody around...
...The infallible New York Post reports that the reason the Oxford Union cancelled its debate between this illustrious journal's editor and the Rev...
...And every time they pick up a book or take in the arts they, if their brains function at all, feel vaguely repelled...
...College students think them gaga...
...December passed, taking 1985 with it...
...By this criterion Singapore would be excluded, as I think it should be...
...Julius J. Fernbach Elmo, New York Although I suspect that Mr...
...Humanitarians will not be surprised to hear that police in our Nation's capital have found a common thread of humanity linking scores of murderers, burglars, muggers, rapists, and narcotics violators with all of us...
...In Washington, an even larger number of legislators went down on all fours to pass the Gramm-Rudman nostrum...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS...
...Poland is anothercountry that receives some U.S...
...If we accept it, Israel must be redefined as a Third World country...
...Who created this disgusting art, the Warhol, the fag sonnets, the irrational, the autistic, the insane...
...How many times did he have to declaim very politely, "This trip has been quite educational for me...
...aid but decline to accept it ("too proud to accept," as the AID officials say...
...If convicted the assailant faces life imprisonment...
...Moscow police broke up a demonstration that could have turned ugly after about twenty-five young people gathered in the fashionable Lenin Hills to mark Beatle John Lennon's death...
...aid, for reasons that are not clear to me (I am sure that they turned us down rather than vice versa...
...Peter Young Adam Smith Institute Washington, D.C...
...Mike Harely of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to admonish very politely that "The entire construction of this thing is horrendous...
...They have lost the common man, and even the common woman tires of their sniveling and their rodomontade...
...Perhaps the best definition of the Third World was provided by PT...
...Last month, Poland's Academy of Social Sciences noted with conspicuous pride that Poland has the worst environmental pollution in the world...
...Alas, the liberals created it themselves...
...In Davison, Michigan, Mr...
...Congress has ear-marked $10 million in development assistance funds to provide support to the Catholic Church Foundation of Poland to carry out pilot agricultural projects, and the country in fiscal year 1986 receives $13.2 million in food assistance...
...Still, it is interesting that one does think of Julius Nyerere's domain as quintessentially Third World, because that unhappy land has received, worldwide, perhaps more aid per capita than any other country in the past 25 years...
...Senator Edward Kennedy bowed out of presidential politics to pursue public service and the rise of another generation of Kennedys in politics, two distinctly contradictory objectives given the fact that one of the rising Kennedys is Joseph P. II, a rogue whose record in the classroom and on the road almost transcends the Senator's...
...Most people, the ordinary as well as the intellectual, have long since buried the concept of "collective national guilt" in the grave marked "Nonsense...
...Eliciting many larf-larfs and doubtless some lascivious fantasies, Mr...
...Tom Bethel/ Washington, D.C...
...John Richards was charged with attempted murder after the young victim of Rock Hudson's disease spit at four police officers...
...The racing car, called the "flaming hamster," is propelled by placing one's pet hamster on its tiny treadmill, prompting Mr...
...But surely a definition should exclude Second World countries (aligned with the Soviet Union) such as Cuba...
...His article was clear, rational, forceful, scholarly, and there can be no sound argument against his thesis...
...What is this boring drivel...
...Thus the foreign policy adviser who rose without a trace departs without a trace, and by the end of the month rumor had it that our rotund Secretary of State might also be departing...
...The correlation between antiGermanism and pro-Soviet sentiment which Oppenheimer explores is real...
...RET...
...In the White House their political leader wavers and withdraws from them...
...Taylor and William Shirer, but also in American history textbooks...
...In politics they face Ronald Reagan...
...Though after using the Soviets' most quantitative methods, Professor Viktor Zhdanov of the Soviet Institute on Viruses has found that Soviet AIDS cases number "less than the fingers of two hands...
...No, the American neo-conservatives seem to be in a class of their own when it comes to intellectual brawling...
...South Korea is a former colony of Japan, but I would not put it in the Third World...
...And indeed it does not receive U.S...
...But was 1985 any better for the conservatives...
...In Nimes, France, Mr...
...Spain and Italy also receive very small amounts of U.S...
...About a third of the time these are very interesting and thought-provoking for conservatives...
...aid, perhaps the Third World itself would dissolve into its component countries within a few years...
...There is no escape for the hamster until the child decides it's time to stop playing" or that it is time to replace the hamster with another house pet, say, a goldfish...
...He has grown noticeably petulant, and his December trip behind the Iron Curtain summoned visions of the architect of Peanut Politique...
...Invitations from a bogus sports television station were sent to thousands of Washington-area fugitives, promising gratis tickets to those who would turn up at a pre-game brunch at the Washington Convention Center...
...foreign aid...
...Now he faces the hoosegow...
...December witnessed the departure of National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane from the White House...
...On this occasion he succeeded brilliantly...
...Recipient status ensures an attitude of resentment toward the donor (people don't like being treated as welfare cases, even if they do take the money), and it also ensures continued poverty (the aid itself distorts economic incentives, making it unlikely that recipient governments will change destructive policies...
...They seem uneasy too...
...But a French court has decided that France can no more return M. Daoud's finger, which he amputated and mailed to officials in protest of prison conditions, than it can return Marie Antoinette's head, and she has been waiting far longer...
...German Guilt It will be interesting to see how the TAS readership will respond, if at all, in subsequent issues to Franz M. Oppenheimer's article, "Treacherous Signposts: The Perils of Misreading Germany's Past" (TAS, November 1985...
...Worsthorne, therefore, is much like a paper dart...
...An older generation passes quietly but hesitantly...
...In addition, there are some countries that are eligible for U.S...
...Special Correspondence Update Your outraged correspondents committed a fatal error in their reaction to Peregrine Worsthorne's views about Europe and America—they took him seriously ("Peregrine Worsthorne Meets His Critics," TAS, December 1985...
...No wonder they are edgy...
...TAS should be commended for printing it...
...Jesse Jackson was that the students planning the debate caught the Rev...
...Its instructions even inform children how to capture ants without bending the creatures' little limbs...
...Only the specious, those driven by hate, and those politically motivated would disagree...
...some are downright misogelastic...
...When the students discovered his scam, they rescinded their invitations, and the UK was denied the chance to witness a Twentieth Century equivalent of a Lincoln-Douglas debate—Lincoln being short, Douglas being inebriated and somewhat demented...
...I, too, as a historian, have noted it not only in such obvious cases as A.J.P...
...aid does work quite well to define what one thinks of as the Third World...
...When ninety-eight of the felonious fans arrived drinks and dainties were served, after which the maitre d' enunciated, very politely, "We have one big surprise for you...
...And if we stopped all U.S...
...For the liberals who reign so pompously over our culture it has been 365 days of anxiety, including even Martin Luther King, Jr...
...The Communist governments of Ethiopia and Angola also receive PL 480 Title II (food assistance), while the Soviet-controlled government of Mozambique is scheduled to receive $30 million of tax-payers' money in fiscal 1986...
...One thinks of both as Third World countries...
...CORRESPONDENCE...
...By the same token Israel should be more wary of accepting American hand-outs...
...The most important are Mexico and Nigeria...
...Ed-ward Leigh's tooth popped out midway through one of his pro-government diatribes...
...Janel Daoud, a 29-year-old prisoner who attempted to give the prison system the finger, now wants it back...
...Twelve million Poles live on the "verge of ecological catastrophe...
...They also passed a 1500-page "tax-simplification" bill that encountered a six-day delay after one of the honorable gentlemen actually read the monstrosity and noted its economic imbecility...
...trying to shake them down for the cost of five transatlantic fares, though he and his entourage of spongers were going to be in London anyway under the sponsorship of the Greater London Council and the Anti Apartheid Movement...
...In one respect, the article need not have been written...
...One even disguised himself as a gigantic chicken...
...Finally, in the December 14 Spectator of London Mr...
...Oppenheimer will indeed suffer the collective wrath of Teutonophobes, his superb essay on modern German history deserved to be published...
...Yet it gives no indication that it has a galvanizing new idea, something distinctive and stimulating, something capable of soothing the dyspeptic liberal and offering hope...
...You're all under arrest'.' •In London, the House of Commons ground to a standstill when Mr...
...There, attired in tuxedos and Indian headdresses, the cops awaited their quarry...
...In Moscow, the Soviet cultural newspaper, Sovetskaya Kultum, reversed earlier reports that AIDS is unknown in the Soviet Union and 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 caused by Pentagon-inspired experiments...
...So does Portugal...
...For various reasons, receipt of U.S...
...Elie Wiesel, a man who justifiably has a stake in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive "lest it happen again," expressively harbors no ill will against the Germans collectively...
...A new generation judders forward...
...Nor do I believe that race should be thought of as contributing to a definition of the Third World...
...It may also be that there is no simple way of defining it...
...Never before in my entire professional life has any article of mine provoked such personal abuse...
...It is only rarely that he hits the right target, and is more likely to spike a friend in the eye...
...The link is a ticket to the Redskins' game with the Cincinnati Bengals...
...Actually the ant skyscraper is very educational...
...A conservative paradise...
...Another third are directly contrary to conservative beliefs and aspirations, (e.g., capitalism will never work in Britain because . . . ), and the remaining third are so obviously wrong as to be not worth considering...
...Having read the Worsthorne columns in the Sunday Telegraph every week for many years, I am well aware of his technique...
...Aid Killer Owen Harries is surely correct when he insists that there really is a Third World ("A Conservative's Guide to the Third World," TAS, January 1986...
...Worsthorne is not a pro-found political thinker, but a journalist who routinely makes a deliberate effort to be provocative...
...Setting aside Peregrine Worsthorne, and those few other British conservatives who sometimes like to indulge a snobbish anti-Americanism, American Spectator readers can rest assured that the vast majority of British conservatives share much the same ideas, fears, and hopes as American conservatives...
...Pierre Alossa, 23, a mechanic who is engaged to be married, has been charged with accosting Long Island maidens, falling to their ankles, and inquiring, very politely, "Can I kiss your toes...
...The Asian Rim countries are non-white and non Third World...
...Harries wants to include it, because it is an ex-colony, non-white, and non-aligned...
...Early in the month the "Long Island Toe-Kisser" was arrested...
...Admittedly, Bauer's criterion is imperfect...
...aid, although not much...
...The latter would save themselves much anguish if they would treat the ruminations of Mr...
...I don't think that colonial or ex-colonial status is of the essence, although in fact most aid-recipient countries are ex-colonial...
...Worsthorne in the same light-hearted manner as they were written...
...Peregrine Worsthorne laments an "anti-American article of mine" that appeared in the October American Spectator...
...Furthermore Tanzania, which is practically the archetypal Third World country, now does not seem to be receiving U.S...
...Then the ants must be placed in the refrigerator—"This will quiet the ants down and enable you to drop them in the module without any fuss:' 'Chivalry is dead or at least malum prohibitum...
...The conservative pols and intelligentsia proliferate, but there is little for them to do...
...Perhaps it is time to take on the blithe claims of materialism and all the "pursuit of happiness" hooey...
...Of course, holocausts have happened again—and again—even to the present day, but that's another story...
...Benefits continue to flow from the re-cent summit...
...Bauer (now Lord Bauer): those countries that receive U.S...
...If there still remain pockets of doubt over the indictment of "collective national guilt," in this case, the guilt of Germany and the Germans over what transpired in the Hitler years of the 1930s and 40s, Oppenheimer's article should put such doubts to rest...
...All references to the Pentagon have ended and the Soviets admit that the disease exists in the USSR...
...If we could only stop giving aid to Communist countries, Bauer's definition would work quite well...
...He deliberately takes a perverse approach to his subject in an attempt to come up with some novel and stimulating conclusions...
...In art they face uniqueness and novelty recycled for the ten-millionth time...
...Christmas shopping emboldened the Commerce Department to estimate economic growth for the fourth quarter at 3.2 percent, though madcap pro-testers here and in the United Kingdom issued their customary complaints against unwholesome toys...
...And Marxism may not be the hopelessly improvident system that the Chamber of Commerce's flacks claim...
...Leigh and the indispensable Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith immediately went down on all fours in search of the fugacious tooth, but to no avail...
...Two toys arousing the wowsers' ire were the remarkable hamster-powered racing car and a thrilling skyscraper inhabited solely by ants...
...The Stanford historian, David M. Kennedy, for example, heartily endorses American involvement in the First World War against "Prussian Militarism," but (continued on page 54) .THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 9...
...Yes, but how else is one to prevent the immanetizing of the eschaton, and Perry is not anti-American...
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