The Continuing Crisis
• May provided an endless string of holidays and commemorations, and no one had a grander time than Our President. He celebrated such old favorites as May Day and the Cinco de Mayo, and on May 4...
...Miss Flowers also took comfort in a study conducted by Sacramento State University psychologist Prof...
...Its motto: "We steal less than others...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton head her husband's re-election campaign...
...Sorry, Saddam...
...Labor Secretary Robert Reich has discovered another unmet need...
...Wisconsin Democratic Rep...
...Cutler will desist from comparing the work of this august organ of politics to the scurrilities of those nineteenth-century scribes who accused Thomas Jefferson of licentious activity with Miss Sally Hemmings...
...Kalish has found that couples who renew there "love relationships," even after decades of separation, changes in appearance, and marriages to others, stand an excellent chance of picking up where they left off...
...Ousted from the secretariat in 1987 "for health reasons," he evidently died for same...
...Should Mr...
...The Sam Cooke revival has had an unfortunate side-effect in Elkmont, Alabama, where 300 prison inmates are back at work on a chain gang, the first such since the early 1960s when Cooke's hit romanticized the lifestyle...
...For on page 157 it sings the praises of one "Andrew Ferguson of the New York Times"—a factual impossibility that calls into question Miss Flowers's command of detail of a more intimate nature...
...Video copies of Boys Town can be sent to Mr...
...Phil Gramm of hypocrisy for investing in a brother-in-law's sleazy film project twenty-odd years ago...
...Death also claimed Dr...
...As Barbra Streisand said on CBS, there's always a lot of serious opposition when you're trying to implement change...
...To be fair, Mr...
...M. Jacques Rene Chirac was elected president of France, and John M. Deutch confirmed as director of Central Intelligence...
...Why not just open up the orphanages...
...Ignoring the advice of The American Spectator yet again, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked that a special counsel be named to investigate last month's cover boy, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown—whose cover drawing, incidentally, Utah Republican Sen...
...This is unbelievably ghastly," exclaimed empty-netted UC-Davis entomologist Arthur Shapiro...
...Sales haven't been brisk, though at a May 9 book-signing at Border's in San Francisco she sold twice as many copies in 90 minutes as Norman Mailer had in two hours the day before...
...I would give my life," she told Miss Oprah Winfrey, "to create a civil rights law for children so that we honor the lives of children...
...She's got better things to do...
...He was a perfect gentleman," said a visibly nervous district justice David Rishel, who isn't looking for any trouble now...
...Vindicating the reporting of Mr...
...Brown graciously offer to step down, an experienced successor might be Miss Ellen Cooke, the ousted treasurer of the Episcopal Church whom church officials accuse of embezzling $2.2 million...
...Who's the hypocrite now...
...David Pryor's gilded seat, nor will Ms...
...Besides creating a flood of new work for her law school constituents, what in goddess's name could that accomplish...
...If Mr...
...20210...
...Actually, the decision wasn't really his, it was Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's, following on the heels of the Secret Service, who in fact who were only responding to the adamant pleas of a bankrupt District of Columbia board of public officials, who in a big misunderstanding wanted to block off not the White House but the Treasury next door...
...Duly primed, he announced the most daring directive of his tenure: the decision to close two blocks along 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...The New Republic accused presidential contender Sen...
...Bush were a card-carrying member of the Democratic Party, no doubt he'd also resign from that feared organization, now that one of its mailings has accused Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of supporting terrorist policies...
...David Brock that ran in these pages last October, former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler sheepishly acknowledged that White House lawyers made use of confidential Treasury Department depositions of Whitewater witnesses to resolve inconsistencies in the accounts of administration officials about to testify at last summer's televised hearings...
...Then he flew to Moscow, to participate in the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union's decision to move V-E Day back one day to May 9. On his return he went into seclusion, where he reread Profiles in Courage, replayed his tape of Beethoven's Fifth, chewed but did not light a Churchillian cigar, called in the Joint Chiefs, and consulted with the United Nations Secretary General...
...Not the sort of scientific news a president needs to hear when he's running for re-election...
...Joycelyn Elders, who gave Playboy magazine a piquant interview and immediately pro8 The American Spectator July 1995 nounced the Hon...
...Reich at the Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C...
...Calling it "The Lost Love Project," Prof...
...A comparable storm has struck the United Kingdom, where the second volume of The Baroness Thatcher's memoirs has been published, its full weight crushing the repute of her spindly successor, Mr...
...Thomas Anthony Harris, author of the 1969 bestseller I'm 0.K—You're O.K...
...In nonClinton-related passings, Mr...
...Speaking in San Francisco on May 9, Vietnam war defector Robert McNamara confidently predicted that a reading of his recent book In Retrospect will reduce the anger Vietnam veterans feel for him...
...It is not thought that he will react like a Bolanos brother, liberal British libel law notwithstanding...
...Miss Gennifer Flowers has released her first volume of memoirs, Passion and Betrayal, which is proving more controversial than anticipated...
...Maybe next time he lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, as he did earlier this spring, Mr...
...Mack McLarty, the former chief of staff, will not run for retiring Arkansas Sen...
...A comparable cleanup movement is taking shape in Riga, Latvia, where the Latvian Party of Fools and the Landless held its founding convention on May 15...
...Robert Bennett found too mean, telling C-Span viewers it reminded him of Saddam Hussein...
...Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom...
...Reich remains one of the few administration officials to escape the notice of an independent counsel...
...Mikhail S. Zimyanin, editor-in-chief of Pravda during the reign of Leonid Brezhnev and a leading official of the late Communist Party, rejoined the party on May 4 at an undisclosed location...
...WP The American Spectator July 1995 9...
...Mac still has the magic touch...
...a month earlier the same magazine had attacked Gramm for not making a serious effort to curry favor with the religious right...
...Record rainfall last winter has left Northern California with record lows in butterfly sightings this spring...
...Benjamin C. Bubar, Jr., the Prohibition Party's 1976 candidate for president, died in Waterville, Maine, at 77...
...Mailer's new book is about Lee Harvey Oswald, who wasn't from Arkansas...
...John Major...
...He celebrated such old favorites as May Day and the Cinco de Mayo, and on May 4 marked the 25th anniversary of the Kent State shootings...
...Pointing to "the mismatch between workers' fluid schedules and available child care services," he's now calling for 24-hour-a-day day-care...
...Former President George Bush (19891993) has resigned from the National Rifle Association, which presumably means he won't be rushing off to see Mario Van Peebles's new flick Panther, in which, according to a militia-trained caption writer, "the Black Panthers try to enforce their constitutional right to bear arms...
...Why not just bring children up right, so that we can honor their lives after they become adults...
...Rodney King was arrested in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and charged with drunk driving...
...Nancy Kalish...
...Gerald D. Kleczka faced drunk-driving charges of his own in Alexandria, Virginia...
...Former Clinton Defense Secretary Les Aspin died in Washington on May 21...
...Which leads to Dr...
...Since the first part of the title no longer applies, it's unlikely there'll be a posthumous edition...
...A week later, in El Paso, Texas, the four Bolanos brothers—Rick, Bill, Louis Jr., and Benjamin, Vietnam vets all—filed a $100 million suit against McNamara, claiming the book is paid for in "American blood" and calling it "the epitome of repugnancy...
...But the deed is done and the presidency endures, even if nocturnal intruders in business suits continue to toy with White House security...
...Taking his show on the road, Mr...
Vol. 28 • July 1995 • No. 7
