The Continuing Crisis
CONTENTS DEPARTMENT S The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial I: Terry Krieger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Nixon's increased military activity in Indochina, campus violence again reared its idealistic head...
...The Pennsylvania race went to Senator Humphrey...
...Nixon announced plans to withdraw another twenty thousand troops from South Vietnam by July 1, though he will keep bombing North Vietnam until Hanoi halts its "massive invasion...
...But Governor Wallace showed astounding strength, finishing second in both (continued on page 27) 2 The Alternative June--September 1972 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) Wisconsin and Pennsylvania...
...On Sunday, April 16, a gay group gathered in Trenton, New Jersey to celebrate the birthday of Mr...
...9 In Illinois it was politics as usual...
...According to Jorgenson, its sexual surgery twenty years ago marked the beginning of the sexual revolution...
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...b i n Cambridge highly motivated street people rampaged through Harvard's Center for International Affairs building, destroying potentially dangerous research and furniture...
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...Appearing before an audience of Loyola University students, the Democratic senatorial candidate, Mr...
...Nixon as a pretext for sending B-52 bombers deeper than ever into an almost defenseless North Vietnam...
...But the assiduously vigilant American Civil Liberties Union leapt to the battlements...
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...9 America's baseball season did not begin until April 14 due to a strike by the performers, and, in Spain, the bullfighting season still is being jeopardized by striking members of the Bullfighters' AssOciation...
...Gill Hodges, Mr...
...Similar scenarios were enacted at many of the institutions of higher learning throughout the country during much of the month...
...Though the assembled throng was reticent concerning its own achievement, one young man (the one wearing glasses) asseverated that Mr...
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...Bobby Baker won parole...
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...The new morality suffered a set back in Plymouth, England where-a Victorian judge fined Doctor Peregrine Slemn $520 for taking off his pants while conducting an examination of a nude nineteenyear-old girl...
...Lyndon Johnson suffered a heart attack on April 7, and Jack Nicklaus won the Masters Golf Tournament...
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...Roman Pucinski, swallowed a live goldfish while assuring students America was coming "b~ick to normalcy...
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...Juanito Piring of San Fernando, Philippines had himself nailed to a wooden cross, and back in the States, Senator Muskie withdrew from active campaigning in the primaries on the same day Mr...
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...Judge Muju Pufewbop of Ndoia, Zambia convicted two moonshiners and coerced them into giving away two hundred cases of confiscated spirits...
...Charging that the university imperiled the militants' rights to privacy and a free press by cutting off their telephones in the occupied buildings, the ACLU filed suit in United States District Court...
...The massive invasion of South Vietnam by some ten or eleven North Vietnamese divisions was used by Mr...
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...Robert Kasen, editor of the Teamster Union's official publication Focus, criticizing the media for portraying the typical working man as an oaf named Archie Bunker ended with Senator McGovern promising to end the Bunker-Nixon tyranny...
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...CONTENTS DEPARTMENT S The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial I: Terry Krieger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Editorial II: R. Smmett TyrreU, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letter from a Whig: George F. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Correspondence: Letters from Reynolds, Penberthy, Docksai, and_ Finer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Senator Muskie, Dita Beard and Senator Name Withheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Current Wisdom: by Assorted Jackasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 KRISTOL AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST CROWD Robert Bartley: Irving Kristol and the Public Interest Crowd..5 Nathan Glazer: Kristol and the New York Intellectual Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 William F. Buckley, Jr.: Re: Irving Kristol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr...
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...As for the battles raging in South Vietnam, not much can be definitively stated at this writing except that the situation in the central highlands is not promising and the situation in the north is w o r s e . _9 Politics continued to stir the dust...
...Well, in Sacramento, California the Good News Paper, which printed only good ~ews, folded...
...Vel Bolderson passed away and an unidentified assailant shot the Italian civil rights activist Mr...
...e What kind of month was it...
...It was all quite curious...
...Adolph Hitler, the German nationalist, and sing "Happy Birthday Dear Fuehrer...
...John Lennon and the striking Oko Yono, despite the humanitarian lobbying of Mayor Lindsay...
...Kwame Nkrumah, and Adam Cleyton Powell expired while the luxury automobile that Rudolph Valentino had purchased for his i923 honeymoon with Natasha Rambova was sold to "a collector...
...C. H. Simonds [ ] Roger D. Tyrrell Contributors: John Avey l---] Paul Bernstein Frank W. Blatchford III LJ Bar~ Burr David Friedman [ ] Jerry Gerde [ ] Lynn German Sandy Houlle [ ] Wayne Johnson [ ] John Kelley W. Wesley Mcl~onald [ ] John Moscow[-] Jeffrey M. Nelson Gary North [ ] Mark Stpes [ ] Mark Souder John Sundt [--I David Tudor Sir Arthur Wellesley [ ] Timothy Wheeler Alien Contributors: Eric Brodin [[].Judy Tyrrell Art: Eric Lohnaas D Sandy Weeder The Allernalive was founcled in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale House...
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...So by the end of April most Americans found themselves agreeing with Mr...
...The Wisconsin and Massachusetts primaries were won by Senator McGovern...
...The University of Illinois reported that an unknown male student broke into a women's dormitory and forcibly administered enemas to three unsuspecting coeds...
...on On the Democratic Idea in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ARTICLES l George W. Car_9 A FormerChief Justice Speaks Out . . . . . . . 10 George F. Will: The Uses of Nooses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Thomas G. Moore: To Nationalize the Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr.: Frank Meyer, RIP . . . . . . . . . . . 14 John R. Coyne, Jr.: The Voice We'll Always Hear . . . . . 15 REVIEWS Roger Rosenblatt on Grooving the Symbol and others...
...The ITT controversy continued to drag as did: the unpleasantness in Ireland, the debate over British entry into the Common Market, the air bag controversy, the bumper controversy, the busing controversy, the Paris Peace Talks, the various FTC probes, the debate over Kleindienst, a bewildering government antitrust suit against television networks, the Red Chinese table tennis tour, Senator Proxmire's investigations of this and that, the cholesterol controversy...
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...9 Peace demonstrations were held in many major cities, but none featured the numbers or the elan of previous outings...
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...16 Gary North on Sometimes a Great Notion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Wick Allison on the Machiavellian Novelists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or ( most redunddntly of all ~ national origin - - and yes...
...9 And for those who had so hoped this spring would mark an incipient greening -- well Kenya announced a ban on hippies...
...Hitler would have been eighty-three years of age this month...
...The Nixon Administration's bombing touched off a week of political awareness at Columbia when students were prevented from attending classes when militants captured five buildings, picketing others...
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...The Italian newspaper II Gorno reports that 14.7 per cent of Italy's prostitutes hold university degrees and 41 per cent hold junior high school certificates...
...Alene Bertha Duerk has become the Navy's first woman admiral...
...On April 9 the B-52s rained destruction over Hanoi and Haiphone, setting off fuel fires in what the North Vietnamese described as mostly hospitals, convents, nurseries and pet shops...
...For the fourth year in a row, Mr...
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