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CORRESPONDENCE What's up in Jakarta—and Little Rock The September 1995 cover story ("What's Up in Jakarta?") by James Ring Adams contains an error. Mr. Adams incorrectly describes "[f}ormer state...
...Air, of course, resists compression, the mechanism by which it stores energy and increases density...
...This capability was one of the major reasons the Navy opted for twin-engine fighters early on...
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...That the former governor of Tennessee is close to the state's business leaders is not a bad thing...
...I guess you are liberals who vote Republican...
...Profanity is the language of children, about 16 to 20 years old...
...Having cashed out, should Alexander be rewarded with more power...
...Altgilbers attributes the ensuing events to the resultant asymmetric thrust...
...After all, if you don't like it, you can prevent your children from seeing it...
...Ralph K. Eyster Washington, D.C...
...It looks like a Democrat sneaked into the illustrator's ink somewhere...
...The stored back pressure then finds release forward and may actually reverse the flow...
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...Tell your illustrator to please consult his railroad friends...
...Actually, I too am against the V-chip, but for a sort of opposite reason...
...Giroir continues to make major international deals for the Riadys through his Arkansas International Development Corp...
...24 hours...
...congressman from Tennessee, "wrote the first income tax law," according to my 1960 edition of Field Enterprises' World Book Encyclopedia...
...At the time of the Clinton visit to Indonesia the media were criticizing the Brown delegation to China, saying it had been oversold and involved political favoritism...
...The baggy, sagging pants (which always reminds me of a soiled diaper in need of changing) are a direct copy of the Crips' garment style of choice...
...But for some it lingers...
...My temerity arises from what I believe are fair qualifications: fifteen years and 3,000-plus hours as a USAF fighter pilot, as well as degrees in math and aero engineering...
...Weaver is no innocent victim in this...
...So much so that I practically never go to the movies anymore...
...It gained great currency a few years back when someone noticed that the number of divorces each year (around 1.2 million) was roughly half the number of marriages each year (around 2.4...
...Senate in 1991 for education secretary without dissent...
...Gramm had learned a lesson from this in June of 1994, he might be doing better in his current campaign...
...John G. Crofts Consulting Engineer Columbus, Indiana I think John Cony was absolutely correct when he stated the "engine stalled...
...Fortunately, many more than I were offended by all of these goings on, and Mr...
...For a couple of years, I have been trying to figure a way to get Hillary Rodham Clinton as an adviser on the cattle futures market, only to discover that compared to Lamar and Honey Alexander, Hillary is an absolute piker...
...However, the Tomcat's engines are not that far from the centerline and their tailpipes are only a few feet apart...
...He may be correct...
...It just disturbs me to see conservative writers as well as elected officials, mine included, use incidents such as this one to play the same political game that the liberals do...
...18 plus only...
...Tom Pauken continues to shine as an example of conservative convictions and integrity winning the day over money and power...
...There are other conclusions and innuendoes in Ms...
...There was certainly no secretabout who they were...
...Ambassador to Indonesia during President Clinton's 1994 visit to Indonesia, I think I can clear up some of the confusion about "What's Up in Jakarta...
...businesses...
...So far, the administration has refused even to release an unredacted copy of Secretary Brown's itinerary...
...But the author doesn't see anything wrong with this, he just thinks we ought to contain it just a little so that the really bad words will continue to have a lot of impact...
...I will further assume that it is 4.8 divorces per 1,000 Americans, not 4.8 divorced people...
...Lippo, as I reported, is the property of the billionaire Riady family, whose ties to Little Rock and Arkansas kingmaker Jackson Stephens go back to the early 1980s...
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...The last time the media made a hero out of someone of Mr...
...There are lots more of those inconsistencies—which is why most of the agents took the Fifth Amendment rather than testify before the Specter committee...
...Even in Idaho, dogs don't run backwards on the chase...
...We suspect the White House is reluctant to reveal connections such as that reported recently in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story on the expansion of Wal-Mart Stores into Indonesia...
...Then on page 58 you have an article (by Stephen Chapman) which discusses the increasing use of profanity in this country (and maybe everywhere for all I know...
...The result is complete loss of power...
...The Stupid Party rides again deep in the heart of Texas...
...Compressor stalls can be caused in an axial flow engine at a high angle of attack and at low speed...
...Box 549, Arlington, VA 22216-0549 Yes, please send me: copies of James Ring Adams's "Beyond Whitewater" $ copies of James Ring Adams's "The Whitewater Obstructionists" copies of John Cony's "The MIA Cover-Up" copies of Michael Fumento's "This Magic Moment" copies of Daniel Wattenberg's "Lady Macbeth of Little Rock" copies of Daniel Wattenberg's "Love and Hate in Arkansas" copies of Terry Eastland's "Rush Limbaugh: Talking Back" copies of "The Incredible Shrinking AIDS Epidemic" copies of Lisa Schiffren's "The Unauthorized Clinton Financial Audit" copies of David Brock's "Living With the Clintons" copies of David Brock's "The Real Anita Hill" copies of David Brock's "The Travelgate Cover-Up" copies of David Brock's "Strange Lies" copies of Daniel Wattenberg's "Gunning for Koresh" Sub-Total VA residents add 4.5% sales tax Total Enclosed $ Name: Address: State: Zip Code: RP9510 The American Spectator November 1995 83 More Stalling Can you stand one more voice on the subject of the Kara Hultgreen crash...
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...He has never lobbied or done business with state government...
...Pauken's election was minor vindication of the system...
...Alexander's compensation...
...Still, Ms...
...In the engine, it must be brought to stagnation in this compressed state prior to the fuel-addition and combustion...
...only the door opened toward the sniper blocking his view of Vicki Weaver...
...First, after reading the article reference to the Weaver shooting, I felt that either Mr...
...The Justice Department confidential report indicated that Weaver had violated federal law as a result of the set-up: "Based on the information available to us, there is no evidence that Weaver proposed or was interested in selling weapons before the October 1989 meeting with [undercover agent] Fadeley...
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...Well, sorry but I really hate the swearing we now get in the movies, on TV, and everywhere else...
...Since switching to the Republican Party in the 1990s, Mrs...
...Jones was in fact a Democrat in 1985, albeit an increasingly unpopular one as her personal ethics repeatedly clashed with her party bosses' behavior...
...He has been successful in business...
...I can almost forgive his lack of core beliefs, although I hope never again to be forced into voting for anyone with such a shortcoming (no offense Mr...
...Barton and Pauken could be separated by a hair in their political philosophy...
...Difficult—because it brought into sharp focus many unflattering issues about Mr...
...First, Winczura, who admonishes John Cony to be "aviationally correct"— yikes...
...Corry was quite correct to use the term "stalled engine...
...that functioned in that manner was the Chicago & Northwestern...
...Nevertheless, what we know is that two human beings were killed...
...Jeff Basterrechea Boise, Idaho James Bovard replies: Mr...
...Just a Lot of Crip R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s observations regarding current teenage dress standards really struck a nerve ("A Dressing Down," TAS, July 1995...
...Adams incorrectly describes "[f}ormer state auditor Julia Hughes Jones—in 1985 the only statewide elected Republican...
...Lamar, to paraphrase the Great O'Rourke's advice to Generaton X, take off that stupid shirt and get a job...
...My source for the divorce rate was the Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States, which tells us, I should think reliably, that the "divorce rate" is 4.8 divorces per 1000 population...
...Basterrechea blames Weaver for arming his 14-year-old son...
...2) Reference being given the wrong court date, that fact is true...
...As Alan Bock points out in his excellent new book, Ambush at Ruby Ridge, marshal Larry Cooper admitted at the trial that he was "carrying a silenced weapon because [he] had orders to lure the dogs and shoot them so the marshals could sneak up on the Weaver cabin without worrying about the dogs...
...We contributors thought they were going to use our hard-earned money to defeat Dems...
...They are helping to glorify the criminal element in this country by making them "fashion role models" for our young people...
...If one engine did indeed undergo mechanical failure, the aircraft could still recover and execute a "go around...
...In severe cases, the engine flames out...
...If you watched Senate hearings you would have seen and heard Mr...
...Pollsters know that the phrasing of the question can cause a huge swing in the results...
...Find out the truth behind what happened in Waco from Daniel Wattenberg's report on David Koresh...
...First of all, it is absolutely untrue that the $40 billion in contracts and agreements signed during the visit to Jakarta were arranged through back-door networking with the Riadys or the small circle of ethnic Chinese Indonesian billionaires mentioned in your article...
...the expanding force of the burning gasses provides thrust...
...So, thanks but no thanks...
...Ben may be a person who writes nicely, but he sure seems to lack the judgment or intelligence to be a father or a sailor...
...There was no mention of his son having any instruction in water safety or boating conduct, or made familiar with motors, etc...
...Must be 18...
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...It is America's largest company helping corporations offer child care services to their employees...
...Otherwise, I found Mr...
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...I would like to offer some comment on the letters of T.E...
...The compressor consists of several stages of spinning blades which are properly described as airfoils, and are subject to the same physical laws as the airfoil of the aircraft wing...
...It occurs when the operator tries to force the engine, in conditions of reduced air flow, from low or moderate thrust to high thrust, more rapidly than the turbine/compressor can spool up to meet the demand (in other words, when the pilot jams the throttle forward too fast with the aircraft at relatively low airspeed...
...I just know that the country was a more pleasant place in which to live when we had more censorship...
...Air (flame, too, on occasion) was ejected forward with explosive force, sometimes knocking the pilot's feet off the rudders...
...Weaver is the person who made the choice to sell the illegal firearms...
...We work not to drive fancy new cars but to support our three children and to pay private school tuition...
...This is the short version of what pilots call an engine compressor stall...
...A small sailboat such as a sunfish, after appropriate instruction such as many yacht clubs provide, would have been appropriate...
...When I hear someone swear I think: this person is immature, tasteless, and ignorant—he can't express himself in any way other than to draw on a short list of words that have shock value...
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...I happen to believe that we can promote trade and human rights at the same time, and that the Clinton administration did an effective job of pursuing both complementary goals in Indonesia, resulting in more jobs for Americans and progress on human rights as well...
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...Perhaps I should have used the word "quixotic" to describe their verylong-shot candidacies...
...With my own mother running an ultimately unsuccessful campaign for state rep., the entire family got an eye-opening education into politics...
...Ferguson's corrections of Ehrenreich's statistics only muddy the waters further, reminding us of the adage about "lies, damned lies, and statistics...
...In her book Barbara Ehrenreich states that the "divorce rate" is 50 percent...
...But in one place it went too far for me...
...Easy—because it was so well written, eye opening, and compelling...
...Pauken did not include his triumphant election as Texas party chairman...
...In simple terms, thrust, T, equals the mass rate of flow-through times the increase in velocity the engine imparts to that flow...
...Schiffren wonders about Mr...
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...To achieve this, it must take in air, compress it, mix it with fuel, and burn the mixture...
...It appears, in Texas and in the nation, money alone can't buy everything...
...Indonesia, after all, looks like an economy about to take off, and you would think the president would be bragging about our excellent position in that emerging market...
...Pauken was handily elected state chair...
...er, Correctional Officer almost ten years in a well-known California prison . . . er, institution, and see a clear correlation with the present clothing "styles" worn by our young people on the street and the "gangsta" styles worn by the thugs housed in our correctional facilities...
...What occurred next is two conflicting stories from both parties...
...Stein reports that Tommy Stein had extensive training in water safety and outboard boating, and is not allowed to ride in the Sea Trixie without an experienced adult present...
...They never asked or received any kind of special treatment from the Embassy because of their friendship with the first family, nor did they play a role in the 1994 signings...
...This is sort of an interesting coincidence, but it doesn't tell us what Ehrenreich would like it to tell us—namely that half of all marriages are ending, or will end, in divorce...
...The Mexican gangs have worn oversize pants for years, though not sagging and bagging like the black "gangstas...
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...Alexander is glad to say what Belmont College paid him during 1987 as director of its Leadership Institute: $50,000...
...Basterrechea states that Weaver was "the person who made the choice to sell the illegal firearms...
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...Preston P. Campbell Richmond, Virginia Once again, I've fallen into a fit of deep depression which seems to occur each month after I finish reading my current copy of The American Spectator...
...If you are operating the engine at a low RPM (thrust), and then abruptly advance the throttle to provide maximum power, or thrust, you can inject so much fuel into the "burn chamber" that the engine "backfires," or "floods" out for a few seconds, until it can catch up, and resume the controlled burn...
...In any event, nothing about his accumulation of personal wealth suggests exceptional financial acumen or business skills...
...As ambassador, I got to know the Riady family well before President Clinton's election, because they were valued partners for U.S...
...Sort of like passing out condoms in school, come to think of it...
...Surely Mr...
...The facts are these: In 1987, Mr...
...Each type of engine "stalls," but the mechanisms are very different...
...Phil Gramm for President club members should have been taking notes...
...State...
...But whatever species of Ferguson apple this is, it tells us precisely nothing about the truth or falsity of the Ehrenreich orange that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce (but cumulatively, not per year...
...Although Fadeley had seen Weaver on a number of occasions with a variety of weapons, Weaver apparently had never said that he wanted to sell guns...
...Similarly, it remains difficult to believe that the enormous work required in launching a successful start-up business can be provided from a continent away, regardless of what Ms...
...Merritt does not seriously contend that transferring one's assets to one's wife avoids a conflict of interest—unless technical compliance with the formal ethics rules of a small Southern state is now the universal standard...
...Skeptics and cynics like myself were thrilled to watch it happen in Texas...
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...Jet engines do indeed stall...
...They recruited management, formed a board of directors, developed a business plan, and recruited capital...
...Weaver making the statement that maybe he was partially to blame for this tragedy...
...Weaver...
...Alexander sought advice from the State Attorney General and of UT's General Counsel as to the best way to handle his investment in Blackberry Farm...
...Does the figure quoted mean the percentage of women who are currently having an affair, or who have ever had an affair...
...Regarding Mr...
...My article laid out a long record of Alexander's financial dealings that goes largely unchallenged by Mr...
...The report also pointed out that his decision to shoot was "inconsistent with the justification he gave" for the shooting...
...In summary, the writer is against the V-chip, because he thinks it will reduce the smutty stuff on TV...
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...This would be interesting to me, but the article is so loaded with sarcasm that I don't know if the premise is true or not...
...Altgilbers's one notable error lies in comparing a gas turbine, which works on the Brayton thermo cycle, to the family car, whose engine functions on the Otto cycle...
...For example, the FCC should bring back the old rules—no swearing over the airwaves, etc...
...The twin-spool P&W J-57, which powered the F-100, had a highly vigorous way of protesting such abuse...
...After all the hype died down on him the public really saw what he was: a cold blooded killer...
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...Outraged, I snatched up rolls of plain, inexpensive Pauken stickers and signs and waded forth into the fray...
...Lyle Tuttle South Sioux City, Nebraska Sad September Thank you for the trial issue of American Spectator, but I guess I won't be subscribing...
...The ex-Secretary made no impact on our local public schools, which are deplorable in every sense of the word...
...Massey-Burch is one of four venture companies whose funds have purchased stock since 1987...
...The media, true to form, wrote its story before it even arrived, and then spent God alone knows how long looking for corroboration...
...Then the article on V-chips (by John Cony, p. 42) starts out with the unsupported assumption that it is censorship, in all probability censorship by the government...
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...As I mentioned in my review, the adultery statistic of 15 percent comes from the survey Sex in America, published by Little, Brown last year...
...When the flow through the compressor is too low, the rotor blades, small airfoils projecting from a revolving drum-like structure, stall in much the same way a wing does...
...But Mr...
...gangster groups apart from each other and everyone else...
...As to Ron Brown's "fellow travelers," there were none...
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...One can only hope that if enough teenagers continue to wear the grotesque clothing and hair styles long enough, it will cease to set the various The American Spectator November 1995 82 The editors reply: Mr...
...he is the father who armed his 14-year-old son and allowed him to be a pawn in his war against the government...
...Thus the term stall is the correct term, rather than failure, which implies a derangement of one of the operating components or systems in the engine...
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...This condition is called "stalling" the engine...
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...Even so, some reporters criticized the signings as a downgrading of our human rights concerns...
...A good writer can express himself better—more forcefully—without using profanity...
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...That's all there is to it...
...The dog was shot by one of the Marshals after he realized he could no longer outrun the dog and felt it would attack him...
...He was confirmed by the U.S...
...Even Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison showed up to host receptions for his opponent, Joe Barton, effectively demolishing any respect I had left for them...
...I still feel there needs to be hearings into what actually occurred at Ruby Ridge as well as why the FBI took certain questionable actions such as changing their shooting policy and removing evidence before it was documented properly, which compounded the problem...
...The company provides 2,800 jobs in 22 states and serves over 6,000 families and over 65 corporate clients...
...It's hard for me to believe that so many people are blissfully unaware of just where this ugly "fashion statement" is being produced...
...Again, the capability to sustain loss of an engine under these conditions would be a major part of the aircraft's original acceptance trials...
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...Altgilbers and R. Winczura (Correspondence, TAS, September 1995) and add some thoughts of my own...
...That Hultgreen failed to apply corrective rudder is further evidence of what we used to call a "short-circuit between the seat and the controls...
...Yoakley Retired Test Pilot North American Aviation/ Rockwell International Mesa, Arizona Your correspondent R. Winczura is incorrect when he says that the left engine in Karen Hultgreen's aircraft "failed" rather than "stalled...
...The authors make clear, as I did not but should have done, that the figure refers to people who say they had sex with partners other than their spouse over the course of the marriage...
...million...
...And anyway, I think we need to bring back a lot more censorship in this country, because the widespread smut has a bad influence on adults as well as children, and it's just sickening to be exposed to it all the time...
...I'm glad to see that you maintain a sense of humor, like that other famous conservative magazine...
...Jack Massey never invested in Corporate Child Care—although he often said he wished he had...
...Palm Coast, Florida Death and Taxes In his review of Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs in September's TAS, Robert D. Novak writes that Cordell Hull died of consumption...
...Judging from the scenario, Hultgreen did indeed stall one engine severely enough to cause a flame-out...
...The resultant power loss in the left engine would cause the plane to yaw to the left, causing the right wing to assume more lift...
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...The off-the-wall hair styles also come right out of ghettos and into the prison system, and from there the mainstream...
...Cony failed to ask the Navy pilots what they meant when they said "the engine stalled...
...In my own household the word "crank," especially when applied to an extreme right-wing person or idea, is not pejorative...
...Weaver knew he was under surveillance...
...Shouldn't true believers in free enterprise celebrate the possibility of having a president who actually knows how jobs and profits are created...
...The Baker law firm's reorganization had nothing to do with Mr...
...In this flight attitude, should the throttle be suddenly advanced, calling for full power, the disturbed airflow in the intake can cause the compressor blades, which are like small air foils, to stall...
...In jet engines, we call the condition "compressor stall...
...What actually occurred was during the officers surveillance of Mr...
...Alerted by the dog's action Weaver, Harris, and Weaver's son also joined in, armed...
...If the wrong set of conditions occur in a turbine engine, such as a sharp acceleration of the blades under unfavorable air inlet conditions, these blades literally stall in the same manner as an aircraft wing, and the compressed air flows the wrong way in the engine, from back to front...
...Mrs...
...Swearing is usually considered third in importance after the violence and gratuitous sex, and maybe it belongs there, but it is so unnecessary...
...However, Mr...
...The second statistic, about the prevalence of unfaithfulness of married women, is no more meaningful in Ferguson's version than in Ehrenreich's...
...Yet they rushed to secure a grand jury indictment of him for failing to appear before the second court date (which Weaver believed was the correct date) came around...
...The company has been on Inc...
...Weaver's property and shot the dog in cold blood...
...In closing I hope the public is smart enough to see Mr...
...No one knows just what would happen with legalization, but my guess is that it would about double or triple the problems we currently have with alcoholism...
...Sallee—Alexander's former appointee/colleague—asserts...
...On p. 8 you say that Clinton was interrogated under oath for 3.5 hours, by Kenneth Starr...
...The engine will suddenly lose power, and often flame out...
...That is censorship only in the sense of a parent's censoring what his children see or read, which as far as I know is not what one normally means by "censorship...
...Renegade Randy Weaver Being a conservative and an Idahoan who followed the Weaver escapade, I feel I must comment on James Bovard's article in the August issue regarding FBI Director Louis Freeh ("The New J. Edgar Hoover"), dealing with the Weaver incident...
...Adams typically more insightful than most of our local media representatives here in the Little Rock area...
...Weaver, they were discovered by the family dog that gave chase...
...There was no official business delegation, and those who came made their own arrangements and selected themselves...
...After watching both the Waco hearings and the Ruby Ridge hearing I have been dismayed by the fact that Republicans have been conducting themselves as the Democrats usually do and the Democrats are acting like the Republicans used to—sticking to the facts...
...Every time I see youngsters clothed in these ways I cringe...
...NICE SINGLES with Christian values wish to meet others...
...The question any reasonable voter will have is whether a quid pro quo existed...
...That his post-political career might have owed partly to their largesse is not unexpected...
...From "Troopergate" and other Boy Clinton escapades, to Hillary's tremendous successes in cattle futures, to Georgie's sweetheart loan deal, you further the true cause of freedom by shinning your light not only on the dark underbelly of privilege but on the lighter side of power-people taking themselves too seriously...
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...I think some clarification as to what occurred at Ruby Ridge needs to be addressed: (1) Primary blame for the whole incident rests on nobody but Mr...
...Sony to be so dense, but I can't tell if Clinton really was so interrogated (I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else in the press), or if the writer made up the whole thing just for a joke...
...So are James Ring Adams's blistering reports on the Whitewater scandal, as well as Brock's "Living With the Clintons," the inside story of Troopergate that the mainstream media didn't want you to know, and Daniel Wattenberg's "Lady Macbeth of Little Rock," a no-holds-barred portrait of the first co-president of the United States...
...Lana K. Jordan Belton, Texas Damned Statistics After reading Andrew Ferguson's review of Barbara Ehrenreich's The Snarling Citizen (TAS, August 1995), I wanted to do some snarling of my own...
...As a Washington pundit once said, what is legal is often more shocking than what is illegal...
...Glitzy posters, buttons, booths, and stickers for Barton blanketed the convention...
...Alexander is a different kind of candidate for president: He has spent 12 of the last 25 years not on the public payroll...
...They were referring to a "compressor stall...
...I have been a prison guard...
...Here, in the illustration, are two main tracks, and the engine and train are running on the left hand rail right-of-way, instead of the right, if the direction of travel as shown in the illustration is to mean anything...
...Gas turbine engines consist basically of an air compressor section followed by the combustion chambers and finally the turbine section, where energy is extracted from the hot gas flow to power the compressor...
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...If it is the latter, does it mean those who have ever cheated on their current husband, or those who have ever cheated, period...
...Hull's death by consumption thus proves that there is a God, and He is just...
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...I suspect I should go on to assume that it is 4.8 divorces per 1,000 Americans per year...
...Thrust asymmetry should be moderate and easily correctable with rudder...
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...I feel that if we get it, the TV industry will figure that they've done everything they can, and will feel free to broadcast X-rated stuff any time of the day or night...
...the contracts were signed in front of the world press under the lights of TV cameras, and any investigative reporter who wants to know who did the signing can find out by reviewing the film clips or press archives...
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...She and Michael Stein can slug it out with the Census Bureau if they want...
...My wife and I have both created our own businesses and often work nights and weekends while juggling child-care responsibilities...
...He has now taken his tour national in a replay of this "shoot myself in the foot" strategy, crisscrossing the country offending as many Republican supporters as possible in his limited time away from the Senate...
...My only disappointment with this fine book is that Mr...
...This could be labeled "engine failure" when the engine(s) had nothing wrong with any working parts...
...Weaver's peers on the federal jury at his trial concluded that he had been illegally entrapped by the federal government...
...Tom Pauken's Untold Story It was great to see John Von Kannon's review of The Thirty Years War by Tom Pauken (TAS, August 1995...
...The dog was shot in the rear...
...This was, as I recall, the reason for not creating an official business delegation or involving the president in the Jakarta signings...
...I know this position is not popular on either side of the political spectrum...
...So if Hultgreen hit the panic button—the apparent case—and jammed the throttles, she could easily have stalled and/or flamed out one or both engines...
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...Basterrechea's dog story: It don't hunt...
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...Reading of the peccadilloes—or should I say outright crookedness—of our politicians is enough to put any thinking American citizen into a fit of deep depression...
...Concerning the hype factor, you can't win...
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...Alexander, his wife, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), and two others created this company from scratch and acquired all the founder's stock...
...James Ring Adams replies: Ambassador Barry's defensive letter fails to explain why the White House continues to treat the commercial aspects of Clinton's Indonesia trip as a state secret (except to imply in the last paragraph that there is some fear about adverse publicity involving political favoritism...
...Because of this Vicki was tragically killed...
...3) As for the first shooting incident, Mr...
...The "white power" bunch, with their military shoes and shaven heads, make their presence known as well in the fashion industry with black boots and rings through nose and nipples...
...Weaver indicated that he saw two figures behind the window in the cabin door...
...MOVING...
...Anthony Ambrose, Jr...
...John Cony and the Navy pilots Cony spoke to were right...
...In that event, the "bad guys" will have to create a new fashion line—perhaps suits and red "power" ties from Brooks Brothers...
...Weaver was aware of what his second court date was but refused to appear, feeling he had no legal obligation to appear on the correct date...
...what a mouthful—himself seems ignorant of the concept of a "stalled engine...
...The dogs discovered the marshals only after the latter began throwing rocks to provoke them...
...Teenagers in northern Idaho routinely carry guns for protection from bears and other predators, as Weaver pointed out in his testimony on Capitol Hill during Sen...
...I hope Gellman also reported that Hull, as a U.S...
...The Justice Department Task Force report was extremely critical of the second shot that killed her—it found that Horiuchi was "in violation of even the special Rules of Engagement" and that he "needlessly and unjustifiably" shot them...
...The company CEO, Marguerite Sallee, says, "Without Lamar Alexander, there would not be a Corporate Child Care...
...Referencing TAS, September 1995 and Byron York's article on Amtrak—you struck right in the center of my heart...
...Mark Merritt Communications Director Alexander for President Nashville, Tennessee I have been a faithful reader of your magazine for almost ten years, and have come to depend on you for the stories the "mainstream" press consistently ignores...
...why do you think he would not leave his mountain retreat...
...As to the killing of Vicki Weaver, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi's drawing on the day after he shot Mrs...
...2 per minute...
...attorneys were aware that Weaver had been sent the wrong date...
...Mary P. Ingham Citrus Heights, California Ensign Stein Re: Ben Stein's Diary, TAS, August 1995: My opinion of Ben Stein plummeted when I read of his giving his sevenyear-old son a motor boat with a six–horse power motor...
...Of course, all societies generate elites...
...Finally, for the many readers who took umbrage at my calling Alan Keyes and Robert K. Dornan "crank candidates," God love you...
...However, there is no technical failure of any component 86 The American Spectator November 1995 in the engine, which can be restarted again if time is available...
...Michael P. Stein Arlington, Virginia Andrew Ferguson replies: Michael Stein is right about the word "percent...
...James H. McCabe, Jr...
...A. Kenneth Goldsby Commerce, Michigan Mr...
...In anticipation of becoming president of the University of Tennessee, Mr...
...It is very possible to roll a jet by such manipulations—ask any jet jockey...
...Schiffren's effort came off so well because it was devoid of animosity...
...Meet that "Special Someone" near you...
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...Schiffren's article with which I disagree, but what puzzles me most is that a conservative magazine would find such fault with success in free enterprise...
...Similarly, with the V-chip each show would have a rating, and the parent could prevent his children from seeing shows with certain ratings...
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...The problem comes when people who have spent their lives pursuing power are rewarded with sweet deals and bushels of cash—most unavailable to the millions of Americans who have never held office and always worked in the private sector...
...Green Jeans Your featured article by Lisa Schiffren on Lamar Alexander ("The Man From Tennessee," TAS, September 1995) was both difficult and easy to read...
...4) As for the shooting of Vicki Weaver, Mr...
...Bovard would have his readers think that the officers walked onto Mr...
...Without such information, there's no telling if Ferguson's statistic is any more comparable to Ehrenreich's than his divorce rate number...
...I know there are several notable conservatives who share this view, but I don't and, I think, most conservatives don't...
...Of course this won't really work, so the V-chip will spread the bad stuff, not contain it...
...That being, inflaming the public with half-truths and innuendoes...
...I saw one reporter go through twenty people in a concession line looking for the right response...
...Acting upon their advice, he transferred his interest to a blind trust for Honey (continued on page 8) 6 The American Spectator November 1995 Alexander's sole benefit to avoid a conflict of interest, not to create one...
...Alexander's role in Corporate Child Care, Inc...
...W.R...
...Wal-Mart signed an agreement with the Lippo Group to open a 180,000 square foot superstore in Jakarta early next year...
...Giroir helped put together the bank mergers that produced the Worthen Banking Corporation in 1984, and then sold his share to a consortium of the Riadys and Indonesia multi-billionaire Liem Sioe Liong...
...About the court date: U.S...
...Please Print) Address...
...In the issue you sent, September 1995, you have an article supporting the legalization of drugs (by Tom Bethell, p. 20...
...Given that, why would anyone waste all this time and money to give the press and the Democrats ammunition provided by Republican insiders...
...Weaver's caliber his name was Claude Dallas...
...The question is whether the Riadys and their backers are abiding by American rules, including campaign-contribution laws, in exerting their influence on Bill Clinton...
...It is not censorship, in my opinion, any more than the current system of rating movies and then allowing a parent to prevent his children fromgoing to movies with certain ratings...
...Schiffren...
...Henry S. Warren, Jr...
...But it's worth noting the provenance of the 50 percent factoid...
...I tried to avoid "innuendo," because I have no reason to think that his candidate has engaged in explicitly corrupt or criminal activities...
...Bush), but how vain must this man be to have slopped so gluttonously at the public trough and to dare call it private enterprise...
...Ferguson's statistic is particularly misleading, as a large number of those 1,000 Americans are unmarried, hence completely irrelevant to the question of how many marriages fail...
...Jones has often cited the flagrant abuse of one-party rule in Arkansas as her chief reason for becoming a Republican...
...The liberals have taken that away from me...
...Get to know someone you'll really like...
...Basterrechea claims one of the marshals (it was Arthur Roderick) shot the dog "after he realized he could no longer outrun" the dog...
...These contracts, many of which had been under negotiation for years, were concluded by major American corporations as part of a process recommended and pushed along by our embassy in order to bring negotiations to closure...
...Alexander, someone I was prepared to support in his drive to the White House...
...After the disillusionment of the campaign, Mr...
...He brings in more money to the firm than he takes out...
...She had become a mere passenger...
...One such experience was generally enough to educate any pilot...
...Bovard got his information (continued on page 80) 8 The American Spectator November 1995 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 8) second-hand and failed to fully investigate his "sources," or he felt it better to leave out pertinent facts in order to make his story more inflammatory and arouse sentiment against federal law enforcement...
...As for the shooting of the dog, Mr...
...Terri Haughay Sherwood, Arkansas As the U.S...
...It shouldn't have been in there...
...Ferguson's first correction, a divorce rate of "4.8 percent per 1,000 Americans," is meaningless on the face of it—I will assume that the "percent" was an editing error, and that he meant 4.8 per 1,000 Americans...
...Not only are parents naively spending their hard-earned cash on this monstrous slap in the face to pure aesthetics, but they are unwittingly helping to promote the very types of criminal behavior they abhor...
...The basic issue isn't commercial deal-making, which is fine by us...
...Bovard failed to mention that when she was shot by the FBI sniper, Weaver and Harris were running to the cabin and as they were approaching the door, Vicki opened the door just as the sniper was making his shot...
...The deal was brokered through Little Rock lawyer C. Joseph Giroir II, the former chairman of the Rose Law Firm who hired Hillary Rodham Clintonwhen husband Bill was elected state attorney general in 1978...
...His tax returns have been a matter of public record for every year since 1978...
Vol. 28 • November 1995 • No. 11
