The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •August brought unparalleled exultation to thousands of American Spectator subscribers. They received their monthly volume of Truth a full two weeks early. The August issue...
...Gary Hart scotched rumors that he is reentering the presidential race, but the rumors that he skipped out on a hotel bill and that he was observed urinating in the sink in the men's room of a Dublin pub remain...
...RET...
...South Korea and South Africa both suffered the kind of union strife that is unheard of in egalitarian hot beds such as Cuba...
...John Wood, 48, a resident of the West Virginia Penitentiary serving a life sentence for uxoricide, has asked to be put to death that he might donate all his organs to humanity...
...I don't have any hopes or dreams for tomorrow...
...Glass's story on the "CBS Evening News," whereupon eminences from the other networks began sounding like disciples of.Mr...
...Charles Glass, an ABC correspondent on leave, was sprung from a secret Beirut hoosegow, occasioning an amazing pother...
...Quoth Mr...
...Idi Amin, to depart his residence in Saudi Arabia and appear in Bonn where his wife Mrs...
...protection despite the menace of mines and saintly Iranian amphibians...
...Dan Rather questioned Mr...
...A team of seven doctors removed a common skin cancer from President Reagan's nose...
...After Mr...
...That your hands may remain immaculate and free of ink, we recommend that all subscribers purchase these gloves...
...Rather of bias and sinking him in black contumely...
...I'm a fun girl...
...In Indianapolis, Indiana, American athletes accounted for the majority of medals in the Pan American Games, and a nurse convicted of feeding her hospitalized 19-month-old daughter fecal matter through intravenous tubes was given a suspended sentence against the protests of police investigators...
...Miss Joan Rivers's husband, the confusingly named Edgar Rosenberg, took his life after finishing Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind...
...In Burbank, California, Mr...
...Wood: "I don't have any quality life...
...Incidentally, warn your postman that our twentieth anniversary issue, which will be mailed in November, is going to have over one hundred pages...
...Rudolph Hess —no relation to Alger—committed suicide...
...In Dublin, Ireland, Mr...
...In Spandau prison Mr...
...David Letterman made an on-air drollery about Miss Martha Raye's denture cream commercials ("I saw the most terrifying commercial on television last night featuring Martha Raye, actress, condom user...
...After he has completed his application for political asylum and passed all the requirements for citizenship, have you any doubt as to how he will vote...
...Pietists in holy Iran celebrated a "Day of Hatred" against the United States after 400 people died during unauthorized riots in metropolitan Mecca...
...National Review's irreplaceable James Burnham passed away...
...We know that deteriorating public health conditions have impelled many of you to wear rubber gloves all the time...
...In Italy the Italian Association for the Fight Against AIDS sent condoms to all legislators in the new Italian parliament...
...The intruder was taken into custody...
...Captain Edward Kennedy, the happy-go-lucky senior senator from Massachusetts, ran his 50-foot schooner, Mya, aground in the wild waters near Martha's Vineyard after becoming "disoriented...
...William Faulkner, the failed postmaster who went on to become a novelist of stature, is being honored with a commemorative postage stamp...
...On August 12 President Reagan made a public statement on the Iran-contra affair, taking full blame but again claiming ignorance of diverting funds...
...Reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers began plying the Persian Gulf under U.S...
...The State Department suffered embarrassment when hesto presto the presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica signed a pact in Guatemala City calling for ceasefires in Central America and good government...
...Jesse Jackson has yet to scold the department for racism—another sign of his growing moderation...
...Yet some Americanos remain in the Dark Ages...
...West German judicial officials have issued papers ordering former Ugandan strongman, the Hon...
...But I'm not a slut...
...The nurse, Miss Elizabeth Lynn Miller, caused illness and enor7 mous suffering for her daughter in the hope that the babe's plight would improve hospital service toward the girl...
...A bulldozer operator unknowingly destroyed an unmarked 800-year-old Indian village near Plymouth, Massachusetts as it quietly awaited the ministrations of archeologists who hoped it would provide information about pre-European American (read Indian) culture...
...His liberal opponents preferred Miss Johnson's statement...
...Spiro Agnew, accusing Mr...
...Gary Stollman, an armed and idealistic young man with many advanced views about the CIA and homunculoses from outer space, had an opportunity to have his views read on the air during a KNBC news telecast when he pointed what appeared to be a gun at consumer reporter Mr...
...What the hell is this . . .") she filed a $10 million defamation suit, charging that Letterman's remarks implied that Miss Raye is "sexually promiscuous and un10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1987 chaste," "has frequent intercourse or relations with persons infected or exposed to AIDS," and "personally uses condoms in some form of deviant, aberrant or socially unacceptable .. . behavior...
...Sarah Kyolaba Amin is seeking a divorce...
...Stollman's views whetted...
...President Ronald Reagan named Mr...
...Dimitri Vinogradov, 30, a Soviet zoologist visiting Aberdeen, Washington, ditched his gloomy colleagues and entered a local bar shouting, "America's great . . . I love America...
...I really believe I can accomplish more by dying than by living...
...In Moundsville, West Virginia, Mr...
...Finally, after studying bottom fish for several months in the Bering Sea, Mr...
...Peter Schidlof, imperiling the life of the quartet as well...
...Advocates of safe sex in Cleveland, Ohio remain disconsolate over reports that thousands of volunteers overwhelmed switchboards at the Fran Arman University Hospital to enroll in an experimental program aimed at increasing individual sex drive through an Eli Lilly & Co...
...Donald H. Baker, 37, apparently a charter subscriber to Ms...
...magazine, was dragged from his hiding place beneath a woman's outhouse where, dressed in plastic clothing and surgical gloves, he was caught girl watching and charged with loitering...
...Mr...
...The site had been unmarked, as archeologists feared looting...
...At Montana de Oro State Park in California, Mr...
...A crash in Detroit, Michigan took the lives of at least 156, and a Northwest Airlines 747 almost collided with'a parachutist over Chicago, Illinois...
...David Horowitz during a live broadcast...
...drug known simply as LY16350...
...A lone African pumpkin fly captured in Los Angeles County was executed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture...
...The corpulent defender of poverty actually spent $2,045.75 at a New Orleans eatery, and that does not count the stomach pump...
...The fly of the species Dacus bivittatus was denounced by department spokesmen as dangerous to flora...
...The August issue was produced by a new printer, and owing to his proficiency the magazine will now be delivered so rapidly that its ink may still be wet as the postman cometh...
...KNBC's alert news director cut the broadcast, but not before hundreds of Los Angeles consumerists had their appetites for Mr...
...The safety of commercial airways became a theme of major concern as near misses were reported throughout the system...
...Amin now resides in a low-income housing project in Bonn with her daughter Daisy...
...C. William Verity to become Secretary of Commerce, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 2700, which is no consolation to our liberal friends...
...I'm always the life of the party, the one who knows all the dirty jokes, the one who makes people laugh...
...The binge continues—in accordance with federal campaign statutes, ex-Speaker of the House Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill has admitted that a goodly portion of that $100,000 left to him from his last campaign was spent on dining out...
...the Rev...
...Miss Diana Johnson, that city councilwoman in Kelso, Washington who has been accused of dancing topless at a local saloon, moved to assuage the apprehensions of the Kelso citizenry by confirming, "I know I have a reputation, and some of it is true...
...Ron Reagan will be commenting on and demonstrating the use of condoms in a fall spectacular entitled "AIDS, Changing the Rules," and Miss Morgan Fairchild plays a similar role in a video guide for heterosexuals entitled "Safer Sex for Men and Women: How to Avoid Catching AIDS...
...A heart attack took the life of the Amadeus Quartet's Mr...
...If only others would share this realism, particularly others roosting among the intellectual classes, so-called...
...PBS announced that Mr...
...We cannot be held responsible for personal injuries suffered by transporting it...
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