The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Like the earlier summer months of 1991, September sizzled in record heat and many of the world's statesmen lost their cool. President Bush tore a page from Pat Buchanan's...
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...William Cleary, deputy director of the Michigan occupational health department...
...In other schoolyard news, New York state, city, and borough officials have moved to outlaw sales of popular Taiwanese syringe-shaped novelty pencils to students matriculating in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens...
...Other ears, however, are convinced the senator called it "The American Specter," an instinctive bit of senatorial courtesy directed at Republican borker Sen...
...President Bush tore a page from Pat Buchanan's playbook and took on the Israeli lobby, Mr...
...In Houston, Texas, Mrs...
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...Tom Harkin, who after some indecision announced, "I'm going to run as a Democrat...
...Kate Michelman...
...Oceans will rise and fly and sound like a mewing kitten...
...Where is God when you need Him...
...Owing to their alleged discriminatory practices against pre-adolescent homosexuals, the San Francisco Board of Education has forbidden the Boy Scouts of America from operating on school property, the first such effort in California if not the world...
...The Expos were to play their remaining home games on the road...
...011ie North, Cuban charmer Fidel Castro recognized the renewed independence of the Baltic states, and for a brief, shining moment, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joseph Biden dared to disagree with a kvetching feminist...
...Another fragile creature is the gnatcatcher of California's south coast scrubland, a four-inch-long slate-gray 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1991 songbird that is said to flit rather than spotted owl on the nation's most favored conscientious colleagues, a growing opponents scream...
...As the baseball season wound down, Topps, the baseball card company, announced it will no longer include a stick of gum with its products, depriving many youngsters of hours of cardboard-sniffing pleasure...
...Alas, the event renewed speculation about which players on the home team are closet gays, which closet lesbians, and which—probably the utility men a mixture of the two...
...He is, however, expected to carry Kazakhstan, where Mr...
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...Heat or no heat, a host of hapless Democratic hopefuls tore off their sandals and T-shirts and plunged into icy presidential waters...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited Nagorno-Karabakh, ostensibly to mediate longstanding ethnic disputes, but in fact to scout the site of an ideal new federal capital that each night is home to countless shootings, kidnappings, and other acts of violence...
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...This is just like smoking...
...At ever having seen the bird, which explains recession-riven Los Angeles and San what it is, is hardly a bad thing...
...What which point we'll begin to hear endless why it is about to replace the northern Diego...
...Od- endangered species list, preventing the number of the nation's scientists are op- coasts disappear...
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...Miss Ross will be delighted to learn that Fidel Castro is introducing stringent rationing of cigarettes and cigars in Cuba, though his immediate goal seems less a fragrance-free environment than a populace healthy enough to convert to a bicycle-driven economy...
...Wanda Ann Webb Holloway, 37, of Channelview, was found guilty of plotting to murder the mother of her daughter's rival for a final spot on a high school cheerleading squad...
...It happened at the Clarence Thomas hearings, and the woman's name was Ms...
...Doubtless, as befits a pol with a stupid grin, Biden intended both versions...
...It's somewhat disappointing when the health department can't solve its own problems," said Mr...
...A factor in the Topps decision appears to be the work of Miss Sandy Ross, the "chemically sensitive" president of Health & Habitat, a Mill Valley, California foundation devoted to a healthy environment, who is seeking widespread prohibitions against the indoor use of perfume and other heretofore pleasing fragrances...
...But I guess that's government...
...As a preview of his 1996 run for the Republican nomination, Secretary of State James Baker barnstormed through Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and drew crowds in the tens and twenties—this in constituencies where he enjoys excellent name recognition...
...It goes without saying that the Giants lost, 3-1, but that doesn't mean the team will be holding a Ladies' Night anytime soon...
...There is fear that said students will use the items to poke holes in the condoms said officials hand out to them before and after each and every class, lunch break, recess, and pep rally...
...She had just regaled the committee and a nationwide television audience with an account of the advance work behind her 1970 abortion, the basis for her assertion that Judge Thomas had indicated that he was opposed to the idea of a constitutional right to abortion...
...Of the professed candidates for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, the murkiest character is that of "dark-horse" ex-mayor Larry Agran, the former Evil Emperor of Irvine, California, whose future will depend on having his name cleared of any involvement in the failed August coup in what is now the former Soviet Union...
...Among the most formidable is Iowa Sen...
...Biden also did not find in the record the proper pronunciation of this magazine's Anglo-American name, though how badly he botched it we'll let history decide...
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...their talk about our vanishing deserts...
...One institution that keeps its doors open to kids of all sexual proclivities is Candlestick Park, which on September 14 hosted the San Francisco Giants' Gay and Lesbian Day game against the San Diego Padres...
...Because I know who I am, I know what I am"—and so do we...
...In Washington, D.C., the debate over the future of women in combat was silenced when a metal blade flew off a sword during one of the fight scenes in the Folger's new production of Coriolanus and bloodied a woman observing the action from the theater's "front" row...
...Abai Kulmagambetov have named their new baby boy James A. Baker Kulmagambetov...
...Saddam Hussein made it known that his nuclear installations will require new rounds of carpet bombing, aging inquisitor Lawrence Walsh dropped all charges against Lt...
...We're talking about shared air here," Miss Ross says...
...Yeah, and create vast der still, none of its admirers can recall development of 250,000 acres between timistic that global warming, if that's new wetlands that are actually wet...
...In Canada, dropping a 55-ton block of concrete from the ceiling of the Montreal Expos' Olympic Stadium onto an empty playing field...
...Raisa Gorbachev recounted her days of rage while in Crimean captivity, where for a time she'd feared the Gorbachev dynasty would go the way of the Romanovs...
...Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania...
...Much to the horror of their more about the melting polar icecaps...
...Their government careers suffered further when county workers sent to install a fan to diffuse the stench pointed it in the wrong direction...
...More ideologically combatible with Miss Ross's way of thinking are the hypochondriacal employees inside the Wayne County (Michigan) Department of Health, who complained as one of headaches, nausea, dizziness, and respiratory problems after raw sewage spilled into their once Lysol-fresh offices...
...Referring, on the hearings' first day, to Lewis Lehrman's 1987 TAS essay which Judge Thomas had praised in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, Biden said it appeared in "The American Sector," this in tribute to the magazine's devotion to the private sector...
...Not so, the senator interjected: "1 did not find anywhere in the record where he evidenced those extreme views...
Vol. 24 • November 1991 • No. 11
