The Continuing Crisis
T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I...
...Now the opportunity exists for them to get some real action going...
...In Manistique, Michigan, an unidentified man aimed with a double barrel shotgun barricaded himself in-side the Putvin Drug Store, where he promptly drank two and a half pints of peppermint schnapps, without a chaser, and passed out...
...Westway was doomed...
...At his investiture, the Right Rev...
...The Governor has lost a speech writer...
...Qaddafi took umbrage at a frighteningly destabilizing comment made by President Reagan, who said the Libyan leader was "flaky...
...Finally, Mr...
...The gambit drew customers in record numbers, from as far away as California and Alaska, and by October average monthly sales had fallen to "just over $1,800...
...The New York Times reported that a group of "Soviet cultural officials and artists" convened a press conference to condemn the works of American auteur Sylvester Stallone, among them Rambo and Rocky IV "I call them warnography," said poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the J. Gordon Coogler of the Urals...
...As usual his analysis is clear and logical, and recognizes a danger when it sees one: this time a reduction in defense spending...
...First to get his Irish up was the inerrable team of Evans and Novak, who dared report that some pols considered the Governor unelectable in a national contest...
...Joseph Beuys...
...CORRESPONDENCE...
...In the world of modern art the ranks of gasbags were depleted at the end of the month with the death in West Germany of the sculptor -Mr...
...Manuel S. Juares of Los Angeles deter-mined that he ought not drive and left his car at a friend's house, whereupon he was run over by a hit-and-run driver as he walked home...
...MX Futures Mr...
...Moammar Qaddafi...
...Reagan has accepted more domestic spending and less defense spending than he wanted...
...Stein advocates, does there have to be an immediate concession in favor of wasteful and counterproductive domestic pro-grams at the expense of necessary in-creases in defense, or, to avoid the latter, go full speed ahead with tax in-creases...
...an ambulance finally arrived to take the beast to a hospital, where it was reported to be in "stable condition...
...And at Harrah's Casino in Minden, Nevada, Miss Lillie Mae Collins opened fire with a .22 caliber revolver when a sluggish cocktail waitress took an unconscionably long time to bring her a drink...
...This Governor is a queer fish in-deed...
...Last year, with restaurant sales averaging more than $6,000 a month, Mr...
...Ashrita Furman, the manager of a health food store in New York, jumped 11.1 miles on a pogo stick around the base of Mt...
...Qaddafi denied the charge at an angry news conference, where he called the President an "Israeli dog" as he munched on an old innertube and pulled a pair of jockey shorts over his head...
...Mayor Bud Clark of Portland, Oregon, dropped his plan to read aloud at City Council meetings the names of men who had been convicted of patronizing prostitutes in that city after terrified council members objected...
...He ended up in Texas at a fund-raiser for Rep...
...Jerry Juliano, a restaurant owner, learned that religion and business, like religion and politics, don't mix...
...Hearings were held...
...Income that represents, again roughly, one very hard earned commission for my wife, and one fourth of the income from my part-time business...
...So clearly, from my perspective, spending reductions, not tax increases, are the only reasonable alternative...
...Stein's hypothetical tax in-crease from 20 to 22 percent of national income) would mean, roughly, a loss of $600 to me...
...To be sure, nothing comes easy, particularly $600 to the middle class...
...It makes a great bachelor pad," said the catty Mr...
...A commuter flight from Atlantic City to Islip, Long Island, was disrupted when the pilot asked Mr...
...The old gals at the Women's Christian Temperance Union took cheer as evidence of the evils of alcohol mounted around the globe...
...The cold hit most cruelly in the northern states, particularly Minnesota, where blasts reached 75 miles per hour...
...A tax increase of 10 percent (according to Mr...
...The Right Reverend Edmond Lee Browning was installed as the 24th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in ceremonies which clinched that church's standing as the preeminent institution of the New Age...
...Clearly, negotiating the expenditure side of the budget within the confines of the present revenue sources results in much lower defense spending than the President has decided is needed...
...Three billion...
...Beuys first came to prominence by soaking a length of gauze in animal fat, wrapping it around his childhood bathtub, putting the objet on display, and selling it to an heiress...
...My wife and I do not work only to consume...
...Or was Mr...
...T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S...
...As one major developer told the New York Post the day after Westway died: "The major real estate guys in town shed personal tears over the loss of Westway because they felt it was important from a business point of view...
...I offer this autobiographical material not as self-indulgent therapy...
...Asked what he would do after picking up his first check, Mr...
...Hung Dinh Vu, a Vietnamese refugee from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, who had been denied entrance to the U.S...
...It was, said Mr...
...The answer is almost exactly that of the supply-siders whom Mr...
...I am not an accountant or an economist, just an ordinary citizen with a modestly higher than average in-come...
...Several New Jersey mayors joined the anti Westway action...
...Carnes Lord's arguments, for MX are internally inconsistent and will never settle the MX question ("The MX in an Age of Defense," TAS, January 1986...
...In Texas, a group of 250 patriots posted a $50,000 bounty for anyone who will deliver to them Mr...
...Moammar Qaddafi's flaky nose, and in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Mr...
...E&N, who are good Americans...
...Vu told reporters after the measurement...
...Alexander Cockburn, who unlike Rambo and Rocky never met a Russian butt he didn't like, owes the New York State Tax Commission more than $10,000 in back taxes—the kind of delinquency that can only intensify Mr...
...In a textbook example of the tyranny of the majority, a co-pilot and other non-smoking passengers finally subdued him...
...Rock Hudson was sold for $2 million to 26-year-old Mr...
...After gorging himself on pasta and watching John Travolta dance movies for inspiration, Mr...
...Next he traduced the peerless Mr...
...In Studley, England, a British egg company announced that a hen belonging to Miss Linda Franklin of Warwickshire had produced an egg bearing a remarkable resemblance to Halley's Comet and awarded Miss Franklin a prize of £5,000, for seed money...
...Cuomo, emitting baritone whines worthy of his Italianate sister Geraldine, threatened to run for President just to prove them wrong, which should have prompted a quick retraction from Messrs...
...He has now accepted a Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill that will almost certainly involve further defense cuts...
...Westway sleeps with the fishes...
...The Lower West Side of Manhattan was going to be redeveloped whether Westway was built or not...
...He therefore concludes that there is a need for MX as a negator or killer of Soviet ICBMs since he judges that the new (continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 7...
...I think I know because the words sounded so different for me from the world of the Italian blocks of South Jamaica, where passion and pride and powerlessness all lived together and people talked with their hands and their hearts...
...Stein: What would a tax increase do to many Americans...
...In 1985, after hard bargaining with the Congress, he accepted a budget that cut 1988 defense outlays 15 percent below his own proposal...
...Paul Zisserson Cranston, Rhode Island Herbert Stein replies: My difference with Mr...
...Juliano heard from the Lord that if he allowed customers to pay whatever they chose, "the Lord would take care of it...
...A.F...
...January, and the new year was swept in on great gusts of air, both cold and hot...
...Fire Captain Lou Furst praised the fireman's heroic action, although there was no word on how the missus took the news when Mr...
...The underground highway, was not conceived to produce a landfill...
...The reason it was put offshore was to avoid razing residential neighborhoods...
...Our only major consumer purchases have been for furniture, not to replace old pieces, but to fill empty spaces...
...In the end, however, Westway was not done in by environmentalists, although environmental lawsuits did delay Westway long enough for the neighboring state of New Jersey to get wise to the highway land hustle on the New York side of the river...
...Incentive to increase marginal income would be reduced and noninvestment alternatives would become more attractive...
...Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School because his buttocks were too slender...
...It was not reported whether any of them were Episcopalians...
...Johnson, evidently suffering a Nic Fit of Titanic proportions, hurried to the cockpit and began beating the captain about the face and neck...
...Westway, a four-mile highway, would have cost at least three billion dollars...
...Beuys, "a kind of autobiographical key, an object from the outer world, a solid thing invested with energy of a spiritual [ungulate] nature," and a big money maker...
...Police found him slumped behind a counter, smiling...
...Henry Gonzalez, where he stumbled to the podium, pumped his organ, and exhaled: "I think I know how hard it was for Henry at first, as a boy going to school where the language was not the language of his home, where the words sounded hard-edged and tight compared to the rolling rounded rhythms of his mother and father's tongue...
...In addition, my income is supplemented by a very small part-time business...
...experts predict it may take her a while unless she gets an overhaul fast...
...Why No Westway...
...Its main domestic source was Governor Mario Cuomo who, struck by the mid-winter blahs, lit out from Albany for the hustings, maligning syndicated columnists as he went...
...Zisserson relates almost entirely to one part of one sentence: "there is no reason to assume that he [the President] cannot muster support for defense over domestic spending...
...Only MX will reliably threaten high-priority and extremely hard Soviet targets...
...Tell it to the sheilas at the WCTU...
...Greg Theyel, a law clerk, was hospitalized after a sea gull dropped a rock on his noggin as he was walking through downtown Seattle, and Mr...
...This land—and not the public park—is what Judge Griesa was talking about when he said a "development" should not be getting federal highway funds...
...Juliano, hopefully...
...Conservatives, shocked by socialist subsidies to capitalist developers, jumped on the bandwagon...
...Reuters reported that hundreds of in-consolable field mice are taking their own lives by jumping off the cliffs in the Golan Heights, and for the first time Spanish delegates attended the European Parliament of the European Economic Community, where their fellow delegates asked them to cool it with the rolling rounded rhythms and talk a bit more plainly...
...police jailed him on a 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 trumped-up charge of "interfering with a flight crew...
...I'm high on life," Mr...
...thinking that made Westway supporters their own worst enemies and helped to send this ridiculous boondoggle to a well-deserved grave...
...Fuji as a tribute to his guru, Mr...
...Exposed to the light of reason, Westway began to shrivel...
...Bicker mourns the loss of public parkland that would have been built on landfill along the lower west side of Manhattan...
...Anthony Scott New York, New York William nicker replies: The argument that Westway was a plot by developers is one of the most scurrilous arguments of the whole episode...
...the other is a much nicer and more efficient 1985 needed, in part, for my wife to make a decent impression upon her real-estate clients...
...Don't Raise Taxes First, to praise Herbert Stein ("Raise Taxes," TAS, December 1985...
...Joseph Sobran, whose only offense was to compare Gov...
...Basically, Westway was a massive land development deal that was to be financed with money from the Federal Highway Trust Fiund...
...I usually admire William Tucker's work, but his article on Westway ("Westway Story," TAS, January 1986) represents the kind of...
...And the Opportunity Society finally made good on Mr...
...And I suspect that the 1984 presidential election shows many others share my general feelings on the matter...
...And Mr...
...But I believe that my circumstances are relevant to a question raised by Mr...
...But the park was only thin public icing on a thick private cake...
...Vu re-took the test and passed with a tenth of an inch to spare...
...Nelson got home...
...was attended by "blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, American Indians, visually and hearing-handicapped persons, youths and senior citizens...
...iWo New Jersey Congressmen, Frank Guarini and James Howard (who chairs a key committee), began to question the use of public highway money to fund a private land development scheme, and were joined in their opposition to Westway by New Jersey Senators Bradley and Lauteitberg...
...To hear Tucker tell it, the "environmentaloids" nibbled this superhighway to death with their sentimental concerns over striped bass and air pollution...
...The striped bass, who had their day in court, now have the highway...
...Sri Chimnoy, who lives in the neighbor-hood...
...About 160 acres of commercially valuable land would also have been created by Westway...
...One of our cars is a gas-guzzling 1977, purchased used...
...Cockburn's devotion to wealthy matrons...
...Missing from Tucker's biased report is a clear analysis of the real reasons why Westway was eventually opposed by both liberals and conservatives...
...In New York, an apartment once owned by the late Mr...
...Cuomo to some movie stars...
...The main impact of the Westway park development is that it would have retarded development over the next ten years...
...The President has achieved some extraordinary accomplishments, and there is no reason to assume that he cannot muster support for defense over domestic spending...
...Why, as Mr...
...Wendel said his condition resulted from eating a lunch of steak marinated in rum and smothered in "potent gravy...
...This land, and the new waterfront it would help to create, is what prompted real estate speculators to buy up adjacent property along the Westway route...
...Assuming for debate's sake that advances in "superhardening" and recent "findings" on nuclear cratering effects (even though there have been no new nuclear craters in many years) are indeed real, Lord says that "the rationale for the MX or a missile like it remains compelling...
...But his proposal, a tax in-crease, is, with all due respect, an egregious solution to the nation's budgetary problems...
...A more balanced account of the denunciations appeared, as usual, in the alternative press, where the neoconservative Weekly World News reported that "crybaby Soviet critics , . . officially denounced the American film industry claiming that characters like Rocky and Rambo can no longer be tolerated—because they kick so much Russian butt...
...Scott Nelson, a fireman in Irvine, California, hauled an unconscious eight-pound Chihuahua-terrier mutt from a burning airplane and gave it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for five minutes...
...In each of the last four years Mr...
...This land is what made the developers drool...
...In financial news, Mr...
...Darrin...
...Maybe the Lord is finished with this," said Mr...
...Stein so often denigrates...
...I, like any relatively provident American with my income, live a very comfortable life...
...After a bibulous New Year's Eve, Mr...
...Furthermore, there would be $600 less for the important investment in my children's education...
...Defense spending does not have to become the victim...
...Reagan referring to his scalp...
...They were worried the landfill would cause flooding, and were not reassured by Tucker's silly argument that the ocean has room for the water (the real question was whether the river has room enough between its banks...
...Close runner-up for gasbag of the month was a figure slightly more sinister, the "Libyan leader" (as he is called) Mr...
...The in-fallible New York Post reported that Mr...
...My family's income has become higher since my wife has returned, part time, to the work force now that our children are in school all day...
...The sly Mr...
...Once the landfill was created, however, the city decided to use part of it as a park and sell part for commercial and residential development...
...but the hot air blew everywhere...
...Pasquale Con-salvo, a 59-year-old construction worker from New York City, won the New York Lotto grand prize of $30 million, to be paid in yearly dribbles of $1,142,857...
...And this would be in addition to the continuing increases we . have had to pay—and will have to pay in the future—to Social Security in self-employment tax...
...Drake Darrin...
...Consalvo replied with his hands and his heart, saying, "I will go home and lay on my couch...
...Christian Wendel was arrested for being three times over the legal alcohol limit when police pulled his car over in Alice Springs, Australia...
...Cuomo brags about writing his own speeches, but I wager that after two weeks of hearing this kind of noise from the White House we'll be pining for the days of Ted Sorensen...
...In Saint-Tropez, France, Miss Brigitte Bardot announced that she was looking for another husband...
...Moreover, a considerable part of our marginal income has gone to pay our children's tuition at a private religious day school...
...The private developers who backed Westway understandably preferred to get the money from federal highway funds and not by borrowing it from a bank...
...John Gary Johnson, of Newark, New Jersey, to extinguish a cigarette he had lit before take-off...
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