The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •A very dry June simply evaporated, leaving many of the Republic's farmers looking like Ethiopian horticulturists. President Ronald Reagan returned from his triumphal Moscow...
...Gormley was laid in Mr...
...Head's computations, during the four-week trial Mr...
...He even lifted his leg several times...
...In New Haven, Connecticut, mourners arrived at one of the Sisk brothers' funeral parlors to view the remains of Mr...
...Carl Rowan, the career Liberal and opponent of privately-owned firearms, shot a nocturnal skinny dipper, wounding the teenage desperado as he accosted Mr...
...Clark Head, a lawyer who claims that he was impaired from effectively defending a client by Mr...
...And in the small town of Aabenraa, Denmark, a small West German bridegroom was asked by officials to lower his pants that they might inspect his genitalia before officiating at his marriage...
...Robert M. Pennoyer of New York and Katonah, New York, was announced by her parents, Mr...
...Eagan's coffin...
...Finally, Mr...
...Massachusetts Governor Mary Lou Dukakis solved her state's unforeseen budget crisis with a laconic tax increase...
...Stanley G. Mortimer, were married on June 25 by the sea...
...Judge Gerhard Gesell decreed that the four defendants in the Iran-contra case be tried separately, and on June 10 Mr...
...Arthur B. Spitzer, "If they had a rule that said no T-shirts, that might be an acceptable rule...
...Coughlin sought...
...In Indianapolis, Indiana, Miss Sherry McDonald, a substitute teacher, has been suspended for enlisting the tenyear-old boys in her class to line up and spit on two boys whom she considered beyond the pale...
...The penis had fallen off during a bath...
...Averell Harriman Mortimer, a son of Mr...
...Dorothy Coughlin, 67, who was importuned by Trans World Airlines to check her husband's ashes as common baggage rather than carry them aboard a Los Angeles-to-Boston flight in 1985...
...1988 putation of his legs and fingers...
...The Supreme Court upheld New York City's legislated bigotry against men's clubs, but there is hope that in far-off Santa Ana, California, a renaissance in judicial thought might take place...
...The patriot, Dr...
...Eugene McCarthy is making his fourth run for the presidency, this time on the Consumer Party ticket...
...Richard Pearman of Paget, Bermuda, and Mr...
...but he has won a one-year subscription to this journal of the arts...
...Louis and of Mrs...
...South Korea, where there were student protests...
...On June 15 President Reagan called for an independent counsel to examine the proliferating irregularities in the life of House Speaker Jim Wright whose monograph, Reflections of a Public Man, was apparently neither written nor read by the Hon...
...Gormley is a fine looking man, but the mourners had come to see Mr...
...Readers of this column know that such mix-ups take place frequently, owing to the deceased's inability to communicate effectively with hospital and mortuary personnel...
...Dried blood and animal entrails found in the dormitory rooms of four University of Minnesota football players have caused their eviction...
...Rowan by the Rowan family swimming pool...
...How odd that only those boils that pain American interests continue to worsen during the renewal of U.S.-Soviet comity...
...P. Anthony Ridder of Miami...
...Head fumed while announcing that he would appeal his client's conviction...
...The reasoning was good enough for the Attorney General and henceforth the First Amendment applies to T-shirts, at least on the premises of the Justice Department...
...There Municipal Judge Richard Stanford, Jr...
...Thus they are better prepared than, say, the readers of Sports Illustrated for funereal happenstance...
...and Israel, where unrest continued on the West Bank...
...Elwood D. Bracey of West Palm Beach, Florida, has been charged with third-degree arson and is free on $50,000 bail...
...Judge Stanford fined the culprit $58 and had done with him...
...The House approved a catastrophic illness package to be grafted onto Medicare...
...Jesse Jackson continued to campaign, though after winning June 7 primaries in California and New Jersey Mrs...
...According to Mr...
...Miss Katherine Lee Ridder's engagement to Mr...
...Oliver North was chosen as the first to be tried...
...Hanshew's claim that the four cadavers being transported in his van qualified as passengers...
...He suffered several broken ribs and the loss of television privileges...
...stood firmly by logic and good sense and judged Mr...
...The ashes were lost, and now a federal judge has ruled that the airline is liable only for a $1250 settlement rather than the $78,000 that the bereaved Mrs...
...The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has yet to rise to Mr...
...A correct-thinker showed up at Yale University's reunion for the Class of 1958 and put a match to a protest shanty erected on campus ground that had been set aside many years ago as a memorial for Yale graduates killed in combat...
...Lowenbach broke wind "about 100 times...
...Yet in Nicaragua a bizarre serenity remained as the contras' supplies dwindled and talks between them and the Sandinistas ended in irreconcilable gibbering...
...and Mrs...
...It was disgusting," Mr...
...If a neoconservative is a liberal mugged by reality, perhaps it can now be said that a neoliberal is a liberal mugged by his swimming pool...
...But apparently they have a rule that says no T-shirts that insult Ed Meese...
...RET THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1988 7...
...Lowenbach's defense, its lawyers having been immersed in the "T-shirt rights" issue...
...In Sonora, California, Assistant District Attorney Ned Lowenbach's First Amendment right to free expression has come under challenge from Mr...
...Eagan, alas, was irreparably cremated...
...Dukakis has almost assured herself the Democratic presidential nomination, thus becoming the first lady of Greek extraction to win the once commanding though now largely ceremonial nomination—and Rev...
...There they assaulted him, causing him to leap through a window...
...Queen Elizabeth's representative to New Zealand, Governor General Sir Paul Reeves, was forced to resign from the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals after reports appeared alleging that he clubbed two pigs to death in ritual ceremonies somewhere in the Third World...
...Eagan...
...Hanshew brought up his mother's recent death and expressed the hope that no one would refer to her as "cargo...
...According to alarmed scientists, the practice has already caused one man to suffer a three-day erection that became surprisingly painful and eventuated in the am6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST...
...Jackson's arsenious murmurings about his role on the 1988 Democratic ticket might again threaten to make the Democratic presidential nomination an even emptier title, though Washington pundits think otherwise...
...The couple plans a September ceremony, though by then anything can happen...
...We had to be sure," declared an aide to the town's mayor, because the young man "looked very feminine and was heavily made up...
...A spokeswoman for PETA pledged "to make it [Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery] a place for contemplation, but an upbeat place...
...Robert Hanshew, 25, guilty of driving his truck alone in a car-pool lane...
...Peter Morgan Pennoyer, a son of Mr...
...and Mrs...
...In Moscow Miss Maria Kalinina became the first Moscow Beauty Queen, proving that the Soviets' all-potato diet is eminently capable of producing a terrific set of legs and other fleshy assets...
...Certain of the planet Earth's uncomfortable boils erupted painfully during the month—to be specific: South Africa, where there was another unauthorized strike and more anti-apartheid demonstrations...
...It has happened again...
...He even remained steadfast and dry-eyed when Mr...
...As our President is wont to say, "Trust but verify," or in the original, "Doveray no poveray...
...In Liege, Belgium, an unnamed fortyeight-year-old man has filed suit against twenty vampires—also unnamed—who, he contends, entered his second-floor flat uninvited as he watched the 1959 classic, The Nightmare of Dracula...
...Said the ACLU's chief philosophe, Mr...
...Harry Wallace Newhard of St...
...and Mrs...
...We immoderate materialists are all with you, Gene...
...Eagan's place and Mr...
...The Journal of the American Medical Association is warning Americans of a modern cast of mind to eschew the chic practice of injecting cocaine into the penis before copulation...
...Lowenbach's egregious gambit of repeatedly passing gas...
...Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, has been purchased by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights group that intends to preserve the historic cemetery, which contains the remains of 70,000 creatures including more than fifteen humans, Petey, a dog from the "Our Gang" television series, and a pet fly...
...Kent Rees, a "university environmental health hygiene officer" who is a specialist in dealing with the university's football players, also found an empty beer box filled with maggots and body parts from a beaver, squirrels, and other animals before pronouncing the rooms "unfit for human habitation...
...William J. Gormley was resting in Mr...
...President Ronald Reagan returned from his triumphal Moscow summit elatedly displaying a cover of Time magazine autographed by his new friend, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Judge Stanford was unfazed by the clever Mr...
...The Rev...
...The government spending machine is again building up steam...
...and one can imagine their disappointment upon being notified that in a hospital mix-up Mr...
...Miss Gigi Hamilton Newhard, the daughter of Mr...
...When security guards barred a bicycle messenger wearing a T-shirt adorned with "Meese Is a Pig" from entering the Justice Department, the ACLU threatened action...
...Thomas P. Eagan and discovered that the body of Mr...
...Jim Wright, nor by anyone else...
...But forget not the plight of Mrs...
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