The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •One of the soggiest Mays on record has elapsed, but as the rains abate and the summer sun glints over the horizon, hope rises that at last America has another Gandhi, a...
...and the Maryland farm of Mr...
...The Judge, having taken a break from jogging, entered the facility without authorization and was relieving himself when a forklift raised the porta-potty and hauled it and the intruder a short but painful distance...
...Sharpton could soon divulge that Commentary magazine, the well-known neoconservative organ, has an agreement to supply Wappingers Falls' rapists with the specially treated dog manure used by them to complete their discreditable acts of sexual congress...
...Doubtless in time the Rev...
...C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States, who early in the month declared nicotine an addictive drug...
...Thomas Jefferson was arrested for setting his girlfriend's bed afire while she was recumbent upon it...
...and Mrs...
...Simply put, Mr...
...Finally, Mr...
...Meese's generation of conservatives does not have much appreciation for the younger generation that will live to write the older generation's biographies...
...Donald Regan gave new meaning to the Reagan Administration's term Star Wars when he revealed in his kissand-tell memoirs Mrs...
...Miss Brawley, as all conscientious Americans will recall, is the teenage black girl whom several white men raped, enscribed with racial slogans, encrusted in canine manure, and left in a common garbage bag on November 28 in Wappingers Falls, New York...
...Pete Rose, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, received a thirty-day suspension and $10,000 fine for crudities directed at an insentient umpire...
...Most recently a convenience store was robbed of three lottery tickets, cigarettes, and a lighter by a man wearing gray bikini briefs on his head and gray socks on his hands...
...John Hay Whitney...
...Miss di Bonaventura, the great-granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his lovely wife Eleanor, was until recently a secretary at Columbia Artists Management in charge of the coffeemaker...
...C. Vernon Mason—are making a heroic stand against the entire New York state power structure...
...Birsh is the son of Mr...
...Philip Steven Birsh were married in a private ceremony atthe Greentree estate of Mrs...
...every month manifesting precisely these symptoms...
...Eberenz is charged with second-degree manslaughter...
...Don Hodel...
...The culprit's name was not included in the report, but Madison is the home of the Progressive magazine, and reasonable readers can conclude that one of that magazine's editorialists has again been up to his old tricks...
...Birsh...
...In Los Angeles, California, gourmands who delight in that city's delicacies were put on alert when Mr...
...In San Diego, California, Judge J. Morgan Lester was badly bruised when a porta-potty erupted beneath him...
...On May 14 Miss Sarina R. di Bonaventura and Mr...
...Australian health authorities denounced the toad-slime cocktail, an hallucinogenic potion created by the infamous Hippies of Brisbane from the skin of the cane toad...
...King, Gandhi shut that whole system down, today we're saying No.' " It is about time that someone had the guts to say it...
...Black leaders were enraged...
...Alger Hiss's memoirs have been published...
...Britain's Press Council ruled that newspapers may with impunity refer to homosexuals as "poofs" and "poofters...
...The World Health Organization has honored Cuba's chief jailer, Mr...
...In London the British government announced a massive campaign against an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy that turns theretofore docile cows into "raging beasts...
...Terry Eastland, a frequent contributor to this journal...
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...In April Miss Guadelupe 0. Rodriguez, 25, also of Los Angeles, was charged with felonious animal cruelty for incinerating her boyfriend's parrot in a conventional oven...
...On May 15, Soviet troops began to depart Afghanistan, and on May 28 President Reagan began his fourth summit with Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Karl A. Wittfogel, the social scientist who after his 1939 break with Communism distinguished himself as one of its most scholarly critics, died, as did Mr...
...Sharpton, simply will not allow the crime to go unpunished...
...She and her unscotchable advisers—the Rev...
...Whittaker Chambers was declared a national historical landmark by the patriotic interior secretary, the Hon...
...and now they have uncovered evidence that despite his vaunted liberalism, Governor Mario Cuomo has confected an elaborate cover-up utilizing the vast resources of the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, organized crime, and Commentary magazine...
...In Monrovia, Liberia, police have broken up another ritual murder ring, this one involving six people who hoped to procure better political jobs by finishing off two young boys...
...Nancy Reagan's interest in astrology...
...In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Cajuns were added to the state's growing list of officially designated minorities over the vociferous objections of fuliginous state legislators...
...Kim Philby died in Moscow, alas, of natural causes...
...George Jimenez, 26, was sentenced to a month in the hoosegow for baking his wife's six-week-old kitten in a microwave...
...The Associated Press reports that a Madison, Wisconsin man accused of exposing his private parts to women while posing as an underwear model has been convicted of three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and four counts of trespassing...
...Carroll Righter, the syndicated astrologist, expired—a fact to conjure with...
...The fearless defenders of art who administer the Art Institute apologized in newspaper ads, and only the American Civil Liberties Union came to Mr...
...Polish labor unrest extended through much of the month, and the Pope spent twelve days on a four-nation visit to South America where he inadvertently effected a row between himself and General Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's leader, by letting slip an impolite observation about the General's boots...
...Governor Mary Lou Dukakis's daughter, Andrea, vivacious and looking for all the world as though she had just had a top-of-the-line electrolysis servicing, notified the citizenry of California from the steps of the San Francisco City Hall that until some time in May "My father did half the housework and half the cleaning" plus all the grocery shopping...
...The Food and Drug Administration reported on May 11 that fewer defective condoms are showing up on the United States market and none contained defects that are life-threatening...
...David Nelson, a student at Chicago's Art Institute, achieved the limits of art when at a school exhibition he displayed his portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington clad in lingerie...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS •One of the soggiest Mays on record has elapsed, but as the rains abate and the summer sun glints over the horizon, hope rises that at last America has another Gandhi, a replacement for the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and in sync with the times—for this replacement is a woman...
...In Deer Park, Long Island, Mr...
...In New York City, Miss Jean Benes died when her companion of two years, Mr...
...Al Sharpton and her lawyer, Mr...
...Regan's revelation became known Mr...
...The candidate is Miss Tawana Brawley...
...Milton Eberenz, folded her into a convertible bed and simply had done with her foul disposition...
...Four hundred Missouri bullfrogs shipped to England to scare off cats 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1988 from country-house ponds were recalled when environmentalists raised another of their inscrutable complaints...
...and on the very day that Mr...
...Miss Brawley's lawyer, ably abetted by the pious Rev...
...Unfortunately, the government does not intend to extend the campaign to include the large herds of upper-class English girls who enter the U.S...
...Yes, our agents tell us that the Rev...
...Former White House Chief of Staff Mr...
...Morris (Red) Rudensky and Mrs...
...Five days later Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed a major cause of the looming conservative crack-up by dismissing his enormously able spokesman, Mr...
...Nelson's defense...
...What is more, there may be a few Progressive writers in retirement in Hudson, Florida, for there an outbreak of robberies perpetrated by nude thieves has struck terror among retirees...
...The government announced that unemployment dropped to a fourteen-year low in April, and various national polls gave Governor Dukakis a 10-13 point lead over the principal passenger in Air Force Two...
...He calls them Recollections of a Life...
...Bernadette K. Devine...
...There is an alarming trend here, and it does not bode well for Los Angeles cuisine...
...Mason declaimed on May 24, "We say to all New York, 'Bob Abrams, you cannot come with an illegal subpoena to an illegal grand jury that's set up to cover up the dirty, bloody tracks of these perpetrators...
...Sharpton will divulge the names of those who supply Wappingers Falls' rapists with their requisite garbage bags, but for now neither the redoubtable Miss Brawley nor her venerable Mum will participate in Attorney General Robert Abrams's grand jury proceedings, for as Mr...
...Fidel Castro, for giving up his cigar and setting a "smoke-free example" for his countrymen similar to that set in this country by the tiresome Dr...
...On May 12 President Ronald Reagan announced at a Republican fundraising dinner that he will support George Bush despite Miss Dukakis's testimonial to her father's mastery of domestic policies...
...Police confiscated the portrait...
...You can't come with that because just like Rosa Parks, Dr...
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