The Continuing Crisis

• The days of August 1989 grew progressively shorter, yet it turned out to be one long month. President Bush joined the hostage wars and came out of them wrapped in yellow ribbons. Sen. Robert Dole...

...Ole Bardahl, 87, of Miss the erstwhile Black Panther, was shot me...
...Not a happy place...
...Salman Rushdie have separated, and in New York City, Miss Mary Travers became the latest modern woman to make a public spectacle of the illegal abortion she once had...
...Still, that the Times had a point was confirmed by officers in Greenwich, Connecticut, who arrested Mr...
...This time the New Republic was ahead of the curve, predicting fifteen months ago that Powell would land the job...
...Tadeusz Mazowiecki was elected prime minister, quite a comeback for a man who the New Republic in January 1982 reported had been killed by General Jaruzelski's storm troopers...
...At an animal refuge in Pasadena, California, a raccoon named Voltage has spent a year recovering from burns suffered when she stumbled into a 16,500-volt switch at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
...Vince Neil, the tattooed lead singer of the heavy-metal band Motley Crue, displayed his gift for cultural exchange when he greeted 180,000 rock fans in Lenin Stadium with "How the f--- you doin', Moscow...
...and then instructed his listeners: "I want you to say, `f---.' " Reported the Los Angeles Times: "He shouted the word again and again in a steady rhythm, with the fans shouting along...
...If your taste runs to something livelier, you can emulate Mr...
...In other signs of human progress, Molodoi Kommunist, the official publication of the Young Communist League, has reprinted a series of articles by the late Mr...
...As long as he was alive, a lot chine who died on August 16 in Del- Bardahl hydroplane fame...
...Congress- dead by a drug dealer...
...Leon Trotsky from 1923, and Mr...
...This time around the same magazine asks, "Is the right to govern Poland something anyone sensible should want right now...
...Curtis Rock after finding more than 125 vials of crack stuffed into the bra and panties he wears as a matter of course...
...Robert Dole and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp renewed their guerrilla attacks of Campaign '88...
...Bush's popularity and the Dow Jones industrial average zoomed to unseen heights...
...Sparks of a different sort flew in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a 150-pound black bear, in town on a visit from her home in the wilds of the Sandia Mountains, climbed a 25-foot utility pole, Crocodile Dundee style, and survived a 7,200-volt jolt...
...Explains the female member of the famed folk trio: "While Peter and Paul were willing to travel with one baby, none of us could have gone on the road with two...
...In other words, a typical Republican month, even while Mr...
...New- (RET will return next month...
...Bush not even to think of pushing Mr...
...In London, after moving fifty-six times since February, Mr...
...Lucas through while the Senate was in recess...
...no, let's wait another fifty years...
...As the unfortunate French army lieutenant in Irwin Shaw's story "Hamlets of the World" had been told at St...
...On August 10, President Bush announced his choice of Army Gen...
...In an editorial published on August 25, the New York Times declared that the women's movement is "here to stay," which the women of Islamic Iran have known all along...
...Alfredo Aguirre, 17, tossed a Basque beret twenty-five-plus yards to win the fourth annual hat-hurling championship in Baracaldo, Spain...
...Ford Mason, Marsal, has died at 63...
...Her neighbors include a paralyzed hawk, a kangaroo with cataracts, and three "trash bears" from Yosemite whose taste for human garbage dooms them to captivity for life...
...and Mrs...
...At the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, Miss Kristin M. Baker, 20, received the academy's highest cadet honor when she was selected first captain of the Corps of Cadets...
...Ronald Scopinich, 44, and Miss Valerie Dodge, 47, who on August 18 were married—he for the third time, she for the eighth—at the Mustang Ranch brothel in Sparks, Nevada...
...WP ray Beach, Florida...
...Thus Miss Joanne Corker of Los Angeles spent four months looking for the perfect wedding spot, which turned out to be the Wee Kirk o' the Heather funeral chapel at Forest Lawn Memorial Park...
...Miss Jeanette Benton of the Evansville, Indiana, Housing Authority Board, hoping to legalize the living arrangements of many of the couples shacked up in her city's public housing, found no takers in a raffle she organized that offered a complete wedding and reception package...
...At an undisclosed location in the state of Tennessee, Miss Jeanette Lord THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1989 mailed in 5,500 pennies to cover a France, comes word that the guardian died in separate airplane crashes, and ton's former comrades when he told $55 speeding ticket, which proved a of the Lascaux Cave, M. Jacques at 5:30 a.m...
...In other competitions, the New York City-based National Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors has named Philadelphia's finest the best-dressed police force in the nation...
...on August 22 in Oak- USA Today on the day of the shoot-blow to 95-year-old Mr...
...The final stanzas are particularly seductive: "The preachers' well-meant sermons leave me cold,/the tippler breathing wine speaks words of gold/ You want to know what brought me to my senses?/The tavern wench whose fair hand wine dispenses...
...It happened in 1960, when she was young, divorced, and already the mother of a baby girl...
...Cyr, "An order given in the soprano register, Mister, is not calculated to drive troops to impossible glories...
...David of people were in danger...
...Otherwise, America's neoliberals have just plain run out of workable ideas...
...Contrast these earthy lyrics with the serene love poem allegedly penned by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which the Iranian news agency released 8 THE CONTINUING CRISIS in English translation on August 11...
...From Perigueux, men Mickey Leland and Larkin Smith Horowitz spoke for few of Dr...
...William Lucas as assistant attorney general for civil rights, and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell duly warned Mr...
...Colin L. Powell, the former national security adviser, as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Huey Newton, ing: "Today is a day of release for the inventor of the penny gum ball ma- took Mr...
...On August 17 the country agreed to import a million yards of black chador cloth from Oman in response to growing domestic demand...
...Evidently, Miss Benton has an incomplete understanding of incentives and made no provisions regarding locale, which for today's young couples is the sine qua non to any marriage plans...
...The authorities in Moscow, accustomed to comparable lines in front of the Soviet capital's meat and vodka markets, did not intervene...
...Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Poland, Mr...
...It's kind of weird when she yells commands, because it's a higher-pitched voice," said one 19-year-old cadet from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and there is literary precedent for his concern...
...Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee shot down the nomination of Mr...
...In Yaounde, Cameroon, pop star Obama Essoma Juliot de Feu —whom you will probably recognize by his stage name, Mongo Faya—is being sued for divorce by fifteen of his forty-five wives because he won't buy them a car...
...Elsewhere in the quaking Commie world, hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians formed a human chain across their small countries on the fiftieth anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin pact...
...Death also land, California, Dr...

Vol. 22 • October 1989 • No. 10


 
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