The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • livo years ago, many conservatives were wondering what kind of president George Bush would make. One favored scenario had him playing Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan's FDR: a...
...ANT° hundred sixty members of the University of California's class of 1970 gathered in Berkeley for a belated commencement, twenty years after the original ceremony was canceled in a fit of antiwar fever...
...The struggle against apartheid suffered another setback when the insensitively named Southern right whales returned to Hermanus, South Africa, where their incessant groans in the bay below keep residents awake at night...
...Among the re-printable lyrics: "Abe Lincoln, Jefferson Tom,/They didn't need the atomic bomb./We need beauty, we need art,/ We need government with a heart...
...The West sees him as a friend and a fighter for peace, but to us he's only hot air...
...military installations on the islands...
...Mestrinho won by a wide margin on October 3. • In Teramo, Italy, a 35-year-old truck-driver, whose name has been withheld, chose an exclusive brothel as his rest stop one recent evening, and "when he finally obtained the prohibited meeting," La Stampa reports, "the woman he dreamed of . . . turned out to be his wife...
...Among the species shot for the study were the common eider, the murre, the pelagic cormorant, the double-crested cormorant, the harlequin duck, the crested auklet, the white-winged scoter, and the surf scoter...
...After she tried to run away, the husband caught her and beat her, according to charges filed by the wife-mistress, whose name has also been withheld...
...Military Academy in West Point, New York, and Miss Madonna released her latest public-service video in which she waves the Stars and Stripes as part of the "recording industry's" efforts to encourage 18-to24-year-olds to vote against censorship in this year's elections...
...Armed Forces radio and television participated in an international broadcast of the ultimate peace song, Mr...
...One favored scenario had him playing Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan's FDR: a consolidator of the revolution his predecessor had set off...
...Alas, the song wasn't heard in Ekaterinburg, Russia, where a Russian Orthodox church will be built at the site where Czar Nicholas II and his family were butchered by progressive forces in July 1918, nor in the country of Hungary, where the body of the sainted anti-Communist Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty will be reburied in May...
...Just in time for a Middle East showdown, U.S...
...The unusually sophisticated lyrics continue to impress...
...After giving away the store, supermarket, and shopping mall to Democrats and forcing Republicans to shun his presence in their election campaigns, Mr...
...Vote for Mestrinho," his opponents proclaimed...
...Next year, the Socialists will save face if they gather in more appropriate surroundings—say, the Kholerkan and Kodru hotel near Kishinev, Moldavia, where the suite used by the late Soviet strongman Leonid Brezhnev can be had for $525 a night...
...John Lennon's "Imagine," on what would have been the artist's fiftieth birthday...
...The U.S...
...To hear a whale blow is like hearing the breath of life," says conservationist Nan Rice of the Dolphin Action and Protection Group, who has yet to attend a football game involving the University of Texas Longhorns...
...It appears Mr...
...Sure enough, Mr...
...Bush to the beleaguered Harry Truman of 1946, counting on a miracle comeback two years down the road...
...Stanford University is extending married-student housing to unwed hetero- and homosexual couples, and at the University of Texas, Miss Candace Brister, whose avid cheers at school sporting events have led friends to dub her "the human microphone," has filed a sexual discrimination suit against the Longhorn Hell Raisers, a 76-member all-male spirit group she wishes to join...
...Gorbachev...
...While the new system may not be suited to lengthy written answers, it will prepare students for the realities of modern life, such as those faced by an unidentified Denver woman...
...Dream on...
...John Sununu would no doubt tell Oleg to count his blessings...
...That will take some doing, now that Mr...
...The heart works in mysterious ways, though, especially in Brazil, where Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral was hounded from office for carrying on with Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello, and where Gilberto Mestrinho, running for governor in Amazonas state, was said to be the father of nine children by four lucky women...
...On October 3, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic united to form the Fourth German Reich...
...I don't know why they are giving it to him," said Oleg, a Moscow repairman, on learning of the peace prize awarded Mr...
...Bush is no more in touch with the Soviet man in the street than he is with the average American...
...Bob Dylan performed to a standing ovation at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Hall of the U.S...
...He could be your father...
...Bruce Springsteen's first formal concert in two years sold out in forty-five minutes in Los Angeles...
...Bush has clinched the role of Thomas Dewey...
...Bush found solace in foreign affairs, particularly in his dealings with newly crowned Nobel laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he praised as "a courageous force for peaceful change in the world...
...Perhaps she should take her business to Moscow, where Miss Yevgenia Debryanskaya, a member of the new Libertarian party, operates in a much freer atmosphere as evidenced by the near riot she caused a block from the Kremlin when she tossed choice American condoms at passers-by and demanded that prostitution be legalized—this before Jane Fonda's triumphal jog around Red Square...
...At least it can be said that a growing number of candidates did show heart in this year's campaign...
...Imagine there's no countries./It isn't hard to do./Nothing to kill or die for./No religion too...
...After all, he'll be needing that hot air once the Russian winter sets in...
...By the end of October 1990, the Bush presidency having crashed like a junk-bloated stock market, well-wishers were left comparing Mr...
...In Cebu City, 10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1990 the Philippines, police who had kept a young man from committing suicide wound up shooting him to death when he broke away for a second try—which may explain why the latest polls show that 63 percent of Manila's residents oppose any American withdrawal from the six U.S...
...Fish and Wildlife Service announced that more than 200 wild seabirds were killed by zealous researchers seeking evidence in the federal government's case against the Exxon Corporation over the Valdez oil spill off the Alaskan coast last year...
...Proceeds from the November 16 show will go to the Christic Institute, which even the Nation keeps at a distance...
...At National Review's thirty-fifth anniversary dinner held at New York City's resplendent Waldorf-Astoria, Mr...
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...If it's revenge they're after, the Hell Raisers may ponder, the strategy adopted by highschoolers Paul Martikainen and Tomo Ilves of Lake Worth, Florida, who received three-day suspensions for coming to school on October 3 reeking of the four cloves of garlic each had consumed for breakfast that morning...
...In other musical news, tickets to Mr...
...In Casper, Wyoming, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mary Mead apologized for the "boring" speech she made to the Wyoming Association of County Officials, and in Missoula, Montana, state legislator Bob Ream interrupted a door-to-door campaign swing to climb through a window with a garden hose to help put out a house fire...
...Higher education suffered further setbacks when striking Temple University professors agreed to return to classrooms on the overcrowded Philadelphia campus, but the good news is that the Governors State University of suburban Chicago will henceforth allow students to take examinations by touch-tone telephone...
...I don't see anything about being female that prevents you from being loud and obnoxious," she argues...
...After an intruder tied her in a chair and turned on the gas in her oven, the woman tipped the chair over near her telephone and dialed 911 with her nose...
...Fortunately for the Wildlife Service, it's not located in Los Angeles, where the city council voted to outlaw all forms of animal sacrifice...
...William F. Buckley, Jr...
...ruined appetites by announcing his retirement as editor-in-chief, which resulted in plenty of leftovers for the Socialist International's two-day meeting at the same hotel the following week...
Vol. 23 • December 1990 • No. 12
