The Continuing Crisis
DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The...
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...And finally came the revelation that some Egyptian jets were being flown by recent converts to Islam from North Korea...
...Nixon hatched a compromise, acceded to by Senator Ervin and Senator Baker on October 20...
...October featured the thrilling liquidation of a vicepresident, Arab aggression, Arab retreat, and President Nixon's continuing magic act: Mr...
...Then came Arab threats to limit oil and to crush Israel...
...9 President Nixon was up to his old tricks...
...Along the way it was noted by the eminentoes of pop letters that "the Veep" was "always carefully dressed" and "without a hair out of place...
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...Finally a civil liberties struggle is raging in San Francisco where repressive forces are attempting to construct a one million dollar suicide prevention barrier on the Golden Gate bridge...
...Nixon's promotion of Rep...
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...Lash Larue, who was arrested seven years ago for vagrancy, has become an evangelist for Mission Power Headquarters and Home of the Apostles, Inc...
...9 So the land continues to soak in corruption...
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...5 Richard wheeler: Buchanan: The Apodiabolosis that Failed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A. Lawrence Chickering: The California Welfare Reforms of 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ernest van den Haag: Everybody Above Average . . . . . . . . . 11 Karl A. Wittfogel: Social Revolution in China . . . . . . . . . . . 13 REVIEWS J.P...
...Ford's son John was having the plumbing repaired in his apartment at plush Utah State University...
...9 In Nashville Judge Charles Galbreath claimed that if officials insist on prosecuting him for a $5 parking violation, they will have to impeach him first...
...Duggan on An Assassin's Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Patrick Cosgrave on At theEnd of the Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 James Grant on Retreat from Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed or (most redundantly of all) national origin---and yes, sex, even sex...
...representatives rose to protest the cruel incursions of Israeli troops into Syria and Egypt on the holiest of all Jewish religious days...
...Gerald Ford became bigger than life...
...Later in the day Special Prosecutor Cox discommoded the Administration by expressing his intention to pursue the tapes anyway and was canned, and after Attorney General Richardson resigned, so was Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus...
...It had been wedged between the roof of the elevator and the elevator shaft, leaving him dangling in midair as was shown in some spectacular news photos, which the media-conscious Mr...
...Kevin McGoff has had his head released...
...Nixon moved from trick to treat...
...The next day President Nixon held a preposterous White House ceremony, and amid violins, foreign notables, domestic solons, and hot air he unveiled Representative Gerald Ford, the next Vice-President of the United States...
...Leonard Bernstein, was given a taste of the new politics when a bomb threat interrupted his lecture on Mozart's G Minor Symphony...
...9 October was indeed a grim month...
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...DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Business of America: Lindley H. Clark J r . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letter from a Whig: C. Bascom Slemp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Public Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Brudnoy's Film Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Bootblack Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Current Wisdom: by Assorted Jackasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 ARTICLES Justus M. van der Kroef: Southeast Asia: Accommodation or Surrender...
...So while Israel drubbed most of the Arab world and some of the Communist world, America opened what in an earlier day was called its Arsenal of Freedom and sent Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who this month won a share in the Nobel Peace Prize for his truce in Indochina, to arrange a similar truce in the Middle East, which he did...
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...Then came Russian war supplies to their Arab pawns...
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...Poyne apparently fell into a berry-picking machine, and much of him went unnoticed until a large breakfast cereal manufacturer reported finding parts of his wallet in a berry carton in their warehouse...
...It began with the Vice-President "twisting slowly in the wind" and ended with "the Veep" reduced to the proportions of a "common criminal...
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...The Department of Agriculture reports that oil-rich Kuwait has opened the Middle East's first Kentucky Fried Chicken shop...
...Washington continues its evolution towards the politics of Byzantium and in San Francisco they contemplate erecting an existential Berlin Wall--Alas and Fie...
...Rumors are circulating in Saint Petersburg, Florida, that the erstwhile western star, Mr...
...Nevertheless Oakland won the World Series, and Dr...
...Halfway through the month Miss Sally Quinn threw up while reporting the CBS Morning News...
...Early in the month the Federal Court of Appeals ordered him to yield his tapes to Judge Sirica, but on October 19 Mr...
...A truck load of Tootsie Rolls was highjacked in Chicago, and humanitarians were distraught at the news that researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered that the most common method by which cold virus is transported is from shaking hands...
...It was signed as the Israeli army pulled up some twenty miles outside Damascus and forty miles from Cairo...
...Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Jordan fell on Israel...
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...Archibald Cox disappeared...
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...Calvin Parker claimed they had been interviewed by three missionaries from outer space, but when a Northwestern University astronomer and a University of California professor confirmed the story, they roared...
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...9 O c t o b e r . . . Halloween and ghouls and children in false faces...
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...troops, which (continued on page 27) 2 The Alternative December 1973 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) CBS neurotics considered a Nixonian subterfuge, was relaxed when our Russian partners in d~tente took up detente...
...William Ruckelshaus, and Mr...
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...Phillip Tobias revealed that if Homo sapiens persists in wearing shoes and consuming what he referred to as "mushcooked" viands their small toes and wisdom teeth will be irretrievably lost...
...Robert Lange, Sr., will not serve a day in jail for his felonious misdeeds...
...Billy Joe Poyne may be appearing on breakfast tables throughout the country...
...9 At 2 PoMo on the Jewish Day of Atonement Syrian and Egyptian armies struck across Israeli territory, shortly before their U.N...
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