The Continuing Crisis
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...General Ramos...
...Members of the Soviet Peace Movement were relieved when their schoolgirl envoy, Miss Katerina Lycheza returned from the United States free of AIDS and herpes but dying for a shot of vodka or a Sterno squeeze...
...Swine researchers as prominent as Miss Nelda Palmer converged on Mr...
...Never in world history has a military action been so prettily timed for the journalists...
...Worse still, Mr...
...D. H. Lawrence...
...When the NED was reported to have funneled $130,000 via a U.S...
...Embassy asked Marcos not to "move against" the movement...
...each year...
...In fact, the events between 1948 and 1955—events which the NATO intellectuals regard as unalloyed triumphs—convinced the Soviets that Western leaders did not have it in them to make use of a correlation of forces favorable to them, and that they might put up (continued on page 51) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 9...
...Thatcher's neighbors...
...Hamby treats this fact, as did the NATO intellectuals, like the proverbial skunk at the garden party, whose presence can be conceded only theoretically, lest the gathering be spoiled...
...The bombing horrified many Europeans even as an assault on Mussolini would have horrified many Europeans when that strutting bully was up and about in the 1930s...
...Aquino...
...House of Representatives eased restrictions on handgun transportation...
...The U.S...
...Harold Arlen passed on, as did Mrs...
...Here then is the essence of my remarks, which so upset the "NATO intellectuals": "Containment" is a method of mostly warless struggle which the Soviet Union practiced earlier and better than the U.S...
...Some 325 junior and mid-level officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines have come to the U.S...
...And there is more: "If 17 years ago some-body had killed Amy, I would not have . rested until her killer was punished...
...trade union to the Philippine trade union congress, this action reminded some observers of CIA activity with the earlier NAMFREL of the 1950s...
...The Soviet term for it since Lenin's time has been "peaceful coexistence...
...However, proceedings and papers were classified secret with a prohibition on release for 15 years...
...Irene Prater Dell Carl Junction, Missouri Hamby's Wallop Alonzo Hamby's reflections on our foreign policy establishment's celebration of forty years' containment ("Containment's Comeback," TAS, March 1986) inadvertently illustrates the point I made at that gathering: that the establishment is too smug to realize what is happening in the world...
...If only Dr...
...No climber ever used her scaffolding so well...
...and the anti-nuclear movement in the USSR received another boost on April 28 when calamity struck a nuclear power plant near historic Kiev...
...is expanding his fabulous coalition to include all "the enlightened" but how are the coalition's animal liberationists taking the news that more and more progressive homosexuals are turning up in hospital with impacted gerbils in their rectums...
...Herman Klenner, an East German professor who in February became vice chairman of the U.N...
...Swaps was reburied on the grounds of the Kentucky Derby Museum, a chore that must have been particularly disagree-able for all involved...
...Flavia Nicholson, the bonsai expert, and Mrs...
...You're the only one who really understands me...
...The unseen American hand was sending a signal...
...Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister, was asked to vacate his apartment for fear that his mother's recent rash actions might have terrorist repercussions for Mr...
...T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S...
...But then large crowds have turned up at Madame 'Iiissaud's Wax Museum too, and Madame lbssaud's celebrated figures are considerably wittier and more life-like...
...The Soviets' forays abroad in those years, including the great venture in Spain between 1936 and 1938, may be likened to a well-disciplined army's elastic defense...
...Actually, it is unlikely that the gimmick will bring any cheer whatsoever to these inveterate agelasts...
...Reacting to reports that Colonel Qaddafi's daughter perished in the American bombing, former President Jimmy Carter broke precedent as he has so many times and pronounced that if his daughter had been killed in such a happenstance "as long as life lasted, I would seek to retaliate...
...The U.S...
...There may be a rift developing in the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition...
...Why should George Bush need an "image" when he has already won his spurs in the political arena, and done so without besmirching either his personal life or his political integrity...
...Johnson plays for his pigs, and went away convinced of his thesis and perhaps just a little bit in love...
...If only you'd do the dishes, I'd treasure you day and night and a few afternoons...
...Cpl...
...I chose to do it with the voice of Boris Ponomarev, until this year and for nearly half a century the guiding light of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee's International Department...
...Helen Caldicott had been in Chernobyl at the time...
...Even after World War II and almost until his death, Stalin was convinced that the correlation of forces would favor Western "intervention...
...Josu Basterretxea finished off 87 snails weighing 2 pounds and 6.8 ounces in one minute and five seconds...
...What judge would be foolhardy enough to cross the Mad Dog of Plains, Georgia...
...On April 26 Miss Maria Shriver, a member of America's first family of fantasy, married Mr...
...Johnson holds that his pigs fatten faster while listening to tapes of such amorous lyrics as "My dearest red hot mama, you are so provocative in your black silk bikini underwear...
...All charges were denied by Mr...
...When, after the rebellion, the de facto Philippine base commander at Clark, Brig...
...foreign policy establishment...
...He relates this alleged activity involved both the citizen watch-dog group that monitors elections (NAMFREL) and the military reform movement...
...warnings to Marcos together with rebel airpower nullified the threat to Enrile, Ramos, and people power...
...Jackson...
...As for the military reform movement, I can say with positive assurance not only CIA but DoD and State have long been aware of the role the reform officers could play to facilitate a succession of power in the Philippines...
...The optimists held it could provide further leverage on Marcos to clean up his act...
...and after an in-comparable hearing before South Bend, Indiana's Board of Public Service, police officer David Gnoth was disciplined for "gross misuse of the communication system...
...The movement pledged full support to Mrs...
...I thought it would be bracing for an intellectually and socially inbred audience to hear how they must look to the other side...
...More significant, but less public, was the liaison through IMED, the International Military Exchange program...
...Valentine Florintino inhaled 4 pounds, 10 ounces of chicken in 10 minutes and 37 seconds and Sr...
...Michael Deaver is triumphant...
...The American media, after a trill of excitement, reported the bombing with woeful countenance...
...Hayden has the worst complexion of any pol in America, suggesting snidely that wife Jane "develop a workout for his unfortunate complexion...
...The magazine further reported that U.S...
...Human Rights Commission, is a former card-carrying member of the Nazi party...
...The details of this relatively new homosexual practice will not be dwelt on in this family magazine, but suffice to say that when those who march against the use of animals in laboratories get wind of how some of the ithyphallic brethren are using unconsenting gerbils the Moral Majority will surely have reenforcements...
...On April 17 Mr...
...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, now a candidate for Austria's presidency, with Nazi war crimes...
...Wallis Warfield Simpson, the socialite divorcee who rose from selling tubular scaffolding in Baltimore, Maryland to become the Duchess of Windsor...
...Retail prices fell at an average rate of 1.9 percent during the first three months of 1986...
...Gnoth was found guilty of breaking wind on his police radio, possibly in hopes of attracting curious female police officers new to the force...
...Otto Preminger and Mr...
...Doug Johnson's pig farm in Fairfield, Iowa, listened to the love songs that Mr...
...Mr...
...Over the years the Pentagon knew many of the 1,500 or so reform officers as a byproduct of official contact: through JUSMAG for example, the U.S...
...Throughout the month increasingly convincing reports linked former U.N...
...The bombing of Libya even surpasses Ronald Reagan's June 1984 appearance on the wind-swept summits of Normandy...
...In Peking, China, police arrested a 42-year-old Peking man on charges of cannibalism, and passing off teenagers as pork...
...Harry Hopkins's legacy endures...
...Whether or not the Administration will be forced by law to undertake an environmental impact statement when, as the President ordered, it investigates the feasibility of developing a new mobile multiple-warhead missile remains absorbing to bird lovers and to the KGB...
...By last spring both interagency optimists and pessimists agreed this "friendship" could be directly applied in two ways toward the U.S...
...Yet kill-joys, cisatlantic and otherwise, missed the genius of the thing, to wit: the bombers' mission began just as the evening news was getting under way and lasted a mere twelve minutes, precisely the amount of time needed to fill the networks' opening news slot before scheduled commercial breaks—what foresight...
...In Providence, Rhode Island prostitution charges against two of Miss Amy Carter's fellow Brown University coeds were dropped just as charges had earlier been dropped against Miss Carter for her shameless anti-apartheid demonstrations...
...Thus when the Soviet Union was very weak, its leaders preached and practiced "Socialism in one country" and were willing to give up literally anything to safeguard that...
...Jan Stuart, the cosmetics wizard, has averred that Mr...
...This literary technique, familiar to readers of C. S. Lewis and Montesquieu, was obviously lost on Hamby, who also called Ponomarev, a man with the power of a Paul Volcker and the longevity of a J. Edgar Hoover, a "minor Soviet functionary...
...For Philippine democracy to revitalize as we all wish, the US...
...In its first two votes under Gramm-Rudman's suzerainty, the Republican-controlled Senate voted compliantly to raise taxes and spending...
...Waldheim, though he did drop his campaign slogan, "The Man the World 'Busted...
...In addition to improving the AFP's fighting capability, IMET served to forge what Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James Kelly calls a "special friendship...
...After years of provocations that no General Augusto Pinochet or President P. W. Botha would dare, that no Eastern Bloc Party panjandrum or Moscow Marxist-Leninist would attempt, the Colonel was awakened by a rain of bombs courtesy of the Pentagon...
...John F. Morton Annapolis, Maryland One Fine Lady Vic Gold's "Images of Bush" (TAS, April 1986) is very good, as is his assessment of the powerful supermedia big-feet-tub-thumpers whose ruthlessness can sometimes be very costly to honest politicians when it serves their purpose...
...and Mother Jones, the aptly named magazine of America's infantile left, offered as a subscription premium doormats emblazoned with President Reagan's face, so "you'll never be able to wipe your feet again without chuckling...
...Jonkheer Huydecoper, Dutch Ambassador to Britain, flew to the Scilly Isles off the English coast to proclaim an end to the Netherlands' 335-year state of war with the islands...
...The Rev...
...Walter Mondale laid his 1984 defeat to the Rev...
...I fully meant to discomfit the overstuffed egos sitting with Hamby's "lion...
...Henceforth history will conform with the dictates of media or it will be cancelled...
...military advisory group provided under mutual security agreements...
...Last summer the notion was hot...
...Johnson is an admirer of the late Mr...
...must see to it that this marriage is appreciated as one not of convenience, but necessity...
...must en-courage them to continue the job should the squabbling factions that comprise people power cancel each other, to the advantage of the some-what dormant Communist insurgents...
...Thatcher was the only European leader to support the American bombing of Libya...
...The military reformers were the honest brokers...
...Citing reformist sources, Business Day in Manila revealed on February 28 that the movement originally planned to liberate the Cagayan region as a first move against Marcos...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy was fined $75 for speeding and not carrying his driver's license...
...Miss Judith Richardson Haimes, the es-teemed psychic from Clearwater, Florida, was awarded more than $1 million in damages after contending that a CAT scan had destroyed her miraculous powers, and Mr...
...Evidence mounts that the United Nations may actually be a Nazi front 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1986 organization...
...Miss Jane Fonda and her husband, California Assemblyman Tom Hayden, were sued by a former employee for alleged= ly violating the federal Racketeer Influence and Corruption Organizations Act...
...Late in the campaign a reform officer was quoted in the Far...
...However, both the National Endowment for Democracy and the Asia Foundation were influential in that organization...
...policy objective—!'the revitalization of Philip-pine [democratic] institutions...
...At the end of the month the Simon Wiesenthal Center revealed that Mr...
...A more appropriate premium for MJ readers would be a pamphlet warning of the perils of hookworm and drug overdose...
...Shortly thereafter the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima, with a Marine battalion landing team of 4,000 men, arrived at Subic Bay...
...Clint Eastwood, a movie star, was elected mayor of Carmel, California, and despite the rumored spread of prudery among homosexuals the incidence of AIDS among them grew at a surprising rate in recent months, according to medical authorities in New York City and Chicago...
...Further, they had informed our military attaches of their plan a good week before the rebellion...
...Ladies and gentlemen, the prosecution again rests...
...On the day, it was this latter role that made international heroes of Defense Minis-ter Enrile and Lt...
...Arnold Schwarzenegger, the physical culturist, and a huge crowd turned up in Hyannis Port...
...Hamby basked in the aurora of the establishment's icon, the man he called his "lion," George Kennan, and then called me a "yelping cub" because I do not think much of that "lion...
...Believing that in the long run this planet is not big enough for any way of life contradictory to theirs, the Soviet leaders have always looked at the frontiers separating the "Socialist commonwealth" from the rest of the world as depending purely on the "correlation of forces" between the two camps at any given moment...
...In Dallas, Texas Mr...
...The pessimists saw that, in the event of collapse, it could enable the reformers to act as honest brokers during the transition of power—encouraged, to be sure, by an unseen American hand...
...The National Defense University held a conference on the military reform movement...
...What prospective MJ reader wipes his shoes or for that matter wears shoes...
...officials had assured the reformers that the U.S...
...But this did not mean that Soviet leaders accepted this unfavorable correlation of forces for the long run...
...Obviously having failed to understand a word of what I said, he passed his misunderstanding on to his readers...
...His credentials are authentic, and not the least of his assets is his loyal, faithful wife who is one fine lady...
...Fortunately, the message was received and understood...
...Essentially, the policy quietly aimed to foster the reformers through backchannels...
...In Lake Buena Vista, Florida, concerned citizens were notified that the nation's last dusky seaside sparrow only has a year to live...
...The Soviets really do have a view of what has happened since 1917, different from that of Hamby's "NATO intellectuals"—a view that ac-counts for the fact that now the sun literally never sets on Soviet troops, while the West has not ceased to retreat...
...John Zaccaro Jr., son of the forever-wronged Geraldine Ferraro, pleaded not guilty to yet another cocaine charge...
...Eastern Economic Review: "If there are reliable reports of massive fraud in the election `then we would have to act.' " In a statement issued after the election, the military reform movement claimed fraud and said its members would "refuse to use force and violence on innocent and freedom-loving Filipinos...
...General Eduardo Ermita, defected, rebel air craft were permitted to land—secure from forces still loyal to Marcos and Ver...
...As for NAMFREL, I am unfamiliar with any involvement the CIA may have had...
...this intolerable ass never had a clue as to the duties of a President, even a retired President...
...BET...
...April, and some of the brag and bounce was evacuated from the desert rat, Colonel M. Qaddafi...
...Finally, world chicken-and snail-eating speed records were set on April 27 in Kortezubi, Spain, where Sr...
...CORRESPONDENCE : Making Way for Aquino In the April issue of TAS, Tom Bethell footnotes he was told of CIA involvement in anti-Marcos activity in the Philippines...
Vol. 19 • June 1986 • No. 6
