The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •For anyone with a high I.Q. September was a disaster. In the South and Southwest temperatures soared, in the West and Northwest forest fires raged out of control, and in the...
...Well, we know it won't be Mr...
...In the South and Southwest temperatures soared, in the West and Northwest forest fires raged out of control, and in the end it was Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware who got burned...
...In September a study found that Rep...
...Perhaps Gorbachev was simply on an extended vacation, a particularly tempting scenario now that Reagan's hometown of Santa Barbara, California has established sister city ties with the beautiful resort of Yalta in the Crimean Peninsula...
...Tennis Open for a third time...
...But to my surprise, I really came to like him and his family...
...Frank Fahey last April, "I think I probably have a much higher I.Q...
...Then, glancing to his side at a stream flowing nearby, Babbitt delivered a line that will live so long as there are Democratic presidential candidates: "Clearly he was caught in a crosscurrent of changing judgment criterion...
...There's been talk of food poisoning, but Pizza Hut is not due to open its Moscow franchises until next year...
...There's no greater sacrifice than to give up your legs that a nation might walk," said the Democratic frontrunner...
...Gephardt has the poorest voting record (72-percent no-show) of anyone in the House, and late in the month the congressman retracted a whopper made in a July nationwide fundraising appeal, to wit: "The Reagan administration has cut aid to veterans while more Vietnam veterans have committed suicide than were killed in the war...
...George Will...
...Elsewhere it was back to school...
...Was this out of respect for the aging Ronald Reagan, a chance for Reagan to regain some of the limelight in the wake of Iran-contra and thus restore some balance to the superpower relationship...
...Patricia Schroeder has tearfully announced that she's not man enough to give it a go, and Kennedy stooge Michael Dukakis has taken credit for setting up Biden, the country is going to have to settle for the Hon...
...Meanwhile, Senator Biden's standards of eloquence have been adopted by his recent rivals...
...Miss Martina Navratilova took the women's title, but the victory that matters came two weeks later in San Clemente, California, where she won $20,000 and a new car...
...After all, he already has an American name...
...As estimated by Temple University's National Center for the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives in the Schools, more than two million incidents of corporal punishment occur in the nation's schools each year...
...John Zaccaro, who on September 28 went on trial in New York for extortion...
...The car was an incentive for me because I have one in Fort Worth and I needed one in Aspen," she said...
...S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam vet, reported his legs missing in action September 2 after he failed to derail an allegedly pro-contra munitions train in Concord, California...
...Frank," he told New Hampshire school teacher Mr...
...Everyone keeps saying, "Who's next...
...LeRoy committed the political crime of the century: he introduced Nancy Davis to Ronald Reagan...
...Because of its confusing language, I'm not sure whether the new law mandates the construction of additional women's rooms in public places, or merely grants women license to barge into men's rooms any time they please...
...This is a pope who is not prepared to budge on anything, except to say, 'I'm the boss.' I think he turned a lot of people off by coming to America and saying that theological issues are nonnegotiable, undiscussable...
...The incomparable Ivan Lendl—who, if he wishes to win more acclaim, American-style, might change his name to Johnny Lendell, suggests the Wall Street JournaPs Frederick Klein—won the U.S...
...She ate an avocado shrimp salad, he swordfish with mustard sauce...
...Mervyn LeRoy...
...Don Seemuller, 42, a physical education teacher at the Lake Braddock Secondary School who did not know that a joke is no longer a joke...
...Biden] took a look at his options and decided how to best manage the damage...
...Later he was visited at his hospital bedside by Miss Rosario Murillo, the Sandinista Betty Grable and mother of President Daniel Ortega's children, while Jesse Jackson prayed aloud at the the spot where the limbs were first reported missing...
...In Burke, Virginia, such drastic measures may soon represent the next stage in the strange case of Mr...
...In Hartford, Connecticut, state representative Eugene A. Migliaro, Jr...
...You be the judge of this one...
...Naturally, he's a Republican in a Democratic-controlled house...
...Pathologists who disinterred Mr...
...street, and death also took 86-year-old Hollywood director-producer Mr...
...In other pressing business, California Governor George Deukmejian has signed into law a bill that aims to end the long lines faced by women at rest rooms in California's auditoriums, convention centers, sports arenas, and the like...
...Here you have the most vigorous and inspiring leader of a major superpower since John F. Kennedy acting for nearly two months like Andropov...
...Reagan was last seen in public on September 23 at the Old Angler's Inn outside Washington at a two-and-a-half hour private lunch with Mr...
...Now that Rep...
...Chuck Allen, the founder of the National Scholastic Surfing Association and a Southern California rationalist of the first order—to prevent students from cutting class to surf...
...Leo Polk, the most prolific blood donor in the history of the United States—over 320 pints in 60 years, by his calculations—died on empty at 79...
...Halas's body last month found it filled with sawdust...
...Deukmejian is now studying a bill that would create a state fund to pay for retirement homes for aged performing animals...
...According to Professor Seymour Martin Lipset, "a major part of the problem was the pope himself...
...Traficant had accepted $108,000 in bribes from "organized crime figures...
...Twenty-four Orange County, California high schools are now offering surfing classes for credit, the point being—according to Dr...
...Former Senator Gary Hart went public himself to call Gorbachev "a modern man," i.e., someone probably "more far-sighted and insightful than we are...
...The question now: who's in line behind Gephardt...
...Just who does Mikhail Gorbachev think he is...
...Nor will it be Democratic Rep...
...In other sports news, New York Yankee third baseman Mike Pagliarulo refused to pose for a picture with one Jane Fonda on the grounds that his uncle is a Marine sergeant...
...Sounds like he was a Soviet spy...
...WP...
...More generously still, the U.S...
...They both sipped Perrier...
...Allen can remind them that paddling can also be done out of water...
...A Gallup poll revealed that 54 percent of the American people have a "favorable" opinion of Gorbachev—a ten point increase since last year...
...In Dania, Florida, Mr...
...My two females at home are a sixteen year old, whom I permit to chauffeur my son to and from his many activities, and my wife, who is an adequate cook and housekeeper...
...James Traficant of Ohio, whose favorite-son candidacy, announced last August, was stunted before reaching dwarf status by a federal tax court judge who on September 14 ruled that Rep...
...Former Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt couldn't have said it better, not for lack of trying...
...And if they do cut, Dr...
...Fahey...
...The new editor-in-chief is Miss Anne Summers, the former head of Australia's Office of the Status of Women, and I take it her first issue will announce that the term "down under" is unflattering to attractive women...
...When a firestorm like that hits," Jesse Jackson said in response to Mr...
...Seemuller has already been denied a pay raise and placed on probation for writing the following to the school's newspaper in response to allegations of "sexism" in the gym department: ". . I like girls, and the many things they can accomplish...
...Finally, it was revealed that William Novak, co-author of Tip O'Neill's autobiography Man of the House, is also the co-author of Mayflower Madame, and now critics don't know what to make of Tip's title...
...Whatever the case, Americans were deeply worried about Mike and tried through various forms 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1987 of flattery to flush him back into the public eye...
...It took a dim nation nearly six months to catch on to the incendiary nature of Senator Biden's remark, whereupon the senator immediately withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, though he remained adamant about the superiority of his mental gifts to those of Mr...
...The United States Senate voted 58 to 38 to restrict SDI testing, and New York Governor Mario Cuomo traveled to Leningrad and Moscow, compiled twenty-six hand-written pages of diary notes but left blank the sections he hoped to fill with impressions of the Soviet First Secretary...
...This is the kind of thinking that moved Miss Donna Hanson, the lay Catholic priestess who preached at Pope John Paul II in San Francisco, to call "consumerism in the United States" a source of as much pain for the Pope as "persecution in your beloved Poland [and] starvation in Ethiopia...
...Why was the Pope so badly treated in the U.S...
...Recall for a moment his selling of himself as the son of a milkman, or the ghastly joke about Henry Kissinger that he told at the Buckley-hosted debate in Houston on July 1. Conventional wisdom has it that he will set up anyone...
...Sure enough, at month's end the lunkheaded teacher was inviting Senator Biden back to New Hampshire to speak to his students...
...Bob Fosse, whose life was one continuous ugly dance, died on a Washington, D.C...
...than you do...
...The pattern is unmistakable...
...has been formally censured by the General Assembly for referring to homosexuals as "lollipops...
...magazine, Miss Gloria Steinem's—if I may be so bold—baby, has been sold to a female-run subsidiary of a major Australian media group...
...On September 22 the gorillas of the National Football League went on strike, and on September 6 it was announced that the late George Halas, Jr., the son of the Chicago Bears founder, had been a blocking dummy...
...Biden's ordeal, "then there is no way to handle it...
...In authentic news of veteran's affairs, Mr...
...My wife also does light yard work enabling me to play golf, and pursue many other masculine activities...
...Nikita Khrushchev never scored higher with Americans than 10 percent, in 1964...
...When the campaign began, I'll be honest, I wasn't very warm toward Joe Biden," reminisced Babbitt one evening 'round a campfire near the bottom of the Grand Canyon...
...In 1951 Mr...
...Richard Gephardt...
...Lorne Greene, the Canadian actor and dogfood master, died at 72 in Santa Monica, California...
...allowed one of its soldiers, on a military liaison mission in East Germany, to be shot at seven times by Soviet soldiers...
Vol. 20 • November 1987 • No. 11
