The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •March came in like a lamb (Ovis cities) and, rather surprisingly, exited like a lamb; though not for General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian strongman and...
...And as for the American economy for which the campaigning Democrats so movingly repine, the Commerce Department announced that the GNP enjoyed a real increase of 4.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 1987, following a 4.3 percent rise in the third quarter...
...Credibility continues to drain from Miss Tawana Brawley's complaint that she was sexually abused, rolled in dog excrement, given an uncouth hair cut, inscribed with racial slurs, and wrapped in a garbage bag in Wappingers Falls, New York by local nativists...
...In fact, he claimed that Jesus Christ's last words on the cross were not a lament but rather "a paen of praise to the god of the mushroom...
...By month's end even the Rev...
...In March the Reagan Administration did to his economy what Mr...
...He was 59...
...Arlan Seidon, the animal trainer who has been on the lam for nearly four years with two 3-ton pachyderms, has offered to turn himself in so that he might see his firstborn grandson...
...Jackson beat Governor Dukakis in the Michigan primaries making a Jackson-Dukakis ticket a distinct possibility...
...On March 8 Vice President George Bush wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination to the apparent astonishment of the wise doves of the Beltway...
...Mr...
...He is being dismissed...
...One of the nation's richest collections of homosexual memorabilia has been donated to Cornell University by the eminent Mariposa Education and Research Foundation, which, however, has yet to offer researchers the requisite condoms and rubber gloves...
...Davis had argued that his beliefs entitled him to diplomatic immunity as an ambassador from "the Kingdom of God...
...The USSR not surprisingly is the point of origin for this singularly pernicious scheme, Moscow having in the 1970s no other way to insinuate itself into the area...
...Reagan's critics insist he has done to the American economy, that is to say, devastate it...
...The Labor Department announced a mere 0.2 percent increase in the February Consumer Price Index...
...Jacques Tiffeau, a leading proponent of the miniskirt who lost interest in fashion after hemlines fell in the 1970s, died in Paris...
...The National Park Service has proposed landmark status for Whittaker Chambers's farm, in whose garden grew the pumpkin, in whose maw was placed the microfilms that hung the inveterate Alger...
...DA renewed spirit of detente is seeping out of the State Department, filling the ever-hopeful with helium and happiness...
...John Holmes, the pornographic film star, who in the 14,000 sexual conquests he bragged of must have encountered at least one rotten apple, died of AIDS...
...And Soviet sharpshooters showed how to deal with rowdy musicians when they shot their way into a Soviet airliner that had been hijacked by a Dixieland Band, composed of the Ovechkin family of Irkutsk...
...The most recent blossoming of question marks came when the Rev...
...Then it froze Panamanian funds, immobilizing the economy...
...In Boston a federal worker, Mr...
...He was 43...
...First, the State Department announced that it had suspended payments to Panama...
...Mr...
...Arnold E Willat, who developed the first permanent for women, died at the age of 102, bald...
...Lee Grant has hired legal counsel to defend him against the charges of a former employer who claims that he wore garish sport coats while selling used cars at Darby Buick in Sarasota...
...In New York another star of the "Donahue" show and a lecturer at the Harvard Law School is in trouble...
...Miss Joyce Brown, the homeless woman who was institutionalized for mental treatment before being sprung by ACLU lawyers convinced of her sanity, was again spotted on the streets, begging and shouting obscenities of a kind that are certain to get her a second appearance at Harvard and on "Donahue...
...This time the casualties could be Israel and South Africa, Nicaragua having been lost in March when the Capitol Hill Chamberlains cut off aid to the contras...
...The battle lines have been drawn...
...Jesse Jackson of Libya—both of whom have problems with the voters, the former because she is not widely known and the latter because he is...
...But in Tampa, Florida, Mr...
...In Commerce, California, an unidentified 31-year-old man who had conscientiously buckled his teddy bear into its automobile seat but then forgotten to buckle up himself died when he was thrown during a crash...
...Earlier in the month the Socialist Workers Party chose Mr...
...And March was the sixty-fourth consecutive month of economic growth...
...The device is a soft polyurethane vaginal liner shaped like a diaphragm, and because its outer ring covers the female labia it prevents any direct contact between male and female genitalia...
...but the Democratic race remained a bouillabaisse of oddities, including Senator Albert Gore who, after cosmetic surgery changed him from a dove to a hawk, emerged from Super Tuesday as a plausible challenger to the party's two improbable front-runners, Governor Mary Lou Dukakis of Guam and the Rev...
...Thor Eric Davis's plea that he is exempt from applying for a driver's license owing to his religious convictions...
...Finally, March may be remembered as the month that auspicated a new American rights movement, "wardrobe rights...
...John Allegro, who gained renown for his brilliant deciphering of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died in London...
...Researchers have dubbed the device "the garbage bag...
...His only stipulation is that the animals be well treated...
...Mr...
...Jesse Jackson might have admitted that Panama was in worse shape than the United States—assuming he could find a suitable rhyme in which to express the idea...
...Mr...
...There were no survivors...
...though not for General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian strongman and pharmaceutical dealer...
...RET...
...James McWarren, 36, a civil rights activist, and Miss Kathy Mick-ells, 37, a West Virginia coal miner, as presidential and vice presidential candidates respectively, assuring that the party, which polled 25,000 votes in 1984, will have at least as much experience in foreign policy as the Democrats and possibly be no further left...
...Mr...
...On March 26 the Rev...
...A Missouri Court of Appeals denied Mr...
...In fact sexual partners using the female condom .are hardly even having sex, their act being more like riding a subway at rush hour on a cold winter night...
...Roger Arnold, lost his 15-month battle against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' requirement that he wear a tie...
...8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1988 Wisconsin Pharmacal Company's revolutionary female condom will soon undergo tests...
...He was 65, and in recent years had suffered derision in the scientific world for his theories that Western religion originated in the worship of mushrooms...
...In Newark, New Jersey, Mr...
...Now in this new era of detente Moscow has Washington's help...
...A suggestion of Israel's perilous future was provided when Secretary of State George Shultz engauded his "peace process" with a plan to sit Israel down to confer about territories gained from the 1967 war with such devoted enemies as Syria, Jordan, China, and the USSR...
...Richard Croxton Adams, a descendant of Massachusetts's famed Adams family and the inventor of the paint roller, died at the age of 76...
...On March 16 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Admiral John Poindexter, and two associates were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to the Iran-contra affair...
...Al Sharpton, a self-appointed spokesman for the family who has been a self-appointed preacher since 14, charged that Miss Brawley's assailants were members of the Irish Republican Army...
...During the last bout with detente much of Southeast Asia lost its freedom, as well as Angola, Ethiopia, and Mozambique...
Vol. 21 • May 1988 • No. 5
