National Review back issues from November 1986:
Icelandic blues: behind us. (Reykjavik summit meeting) (column)
Nov 07, 1986 ... Icelandic Blues: Behind Us IF OUR condition is better than that of Housman's Spartans--and it certainly is--that is in large measure due to Ronald Reagan's refusal to yield the Strategic Defense Initiative to Mikhail Gorbachev's blandishments in Reykjavik. Reagan's refusal ...
Needed: spending cuts.
Nov 07, 1986 ... Needed: Spending Cuts IN THE LAST few issues, NATIONAL REVIEW has touted many of the virtues of the new tax-reform law. We went so far as to title an editorial in our September 12 issue "The Tax Revolt Lives." But this editorial prompted a letter from Mr. Stephen Hogan, published ...
Privateer? (covert operations in Nicaragua)
Nov 07, 1986 ... Privateer? DURING THE days of the Spanish Main and the gold-laden galleons, the English came up with a bright idea: the privateer. If an Englishman had distinguished himself, say, at the Battle of Zutphen, or if he had political influence, he could receive a license to operate as ...
American scholar. (William Bennett)
Nov 07, 1986 ... American Scholar SECRETARY OF EDUCATION William Bennett, who is becoming an increasingly powerful presence on the American scene, recently delivered a widely reported address at Harvard. The headlines focused upon Bennett's incidental criticisms of Harvard's so-called "core ...
Not that unusual. (management of trade unions)
Nov 07, 1986 ... Not That Unusual 'YOU HAD an unusual situation in a labor bargaining where the people who would actually be affected [the Frontier workers] weren't even at the negotiating table," according to Robert Joedicke, an airline analyst with Shearson Lehman Brothers. Joedicke was ...
Yale wins. (case of Wayne Dick for putting up poster on the university's Gay-Lesbian Awareness Days)
Nov 07, 1986 ... Yale Wins AN AMERICAN university president has just been sighted whose belief in freedom of opinion extends to times other than when he is giving a commencement address. Last spring, Yale sophomore Wayne Dick put up posters satirizing the university's Gay/Lesbian Awareness Days. ...
New guard, New York Times.
Nov 07, 1986 ... New Guard, New York Times WE DO NOT disguise that beyond the reach of memory, we at NATIONAL REVIEW have used the New York Times as our very favorite pincushion. Much of this, the paper has earned, particularly in its editorial pages, where, especially under the leadership of an ...
GOP jitters. (Democrats in Senate)
Nov 07, 1986; ... GOP JITTERS IT'S EITHER the millennium or the apocalypse, depending on whom you talk to. "A tremendous event that will change the future of this country for the better," crows a congressman. "It will lay waste to everything America has become," moans a Hill Staffer. The ...
Post-Stockholm euphoria.
Nov 07, 1986; ... POST-STOCKHOLM EUPHORIA THERE SEEMS to be something about the stopping of clocks that stimulates last-ditch conciliatory impulses in negotiating diplomats. Perhaps, therefore, I should control my natural inclination to label those impulses childish. The only ...
Disarming Britain.
Nov 07, 1986; ... DISARMING BRITAIN "MOMENTOUS" was the word rightly used in one editorial to describe the answer given by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party, to a question about his defense policy. Above him at the Labour Party's annual conference hung a pale pink rose, the new ...
Still crazy in Massachusetts. (former gubernatorial candidate Gregory S. Hyatt)
Nov 07, 1986; ... STILL CRAZY IN MASSACHUSETTS THE "ONE-PARTY" South, of blessed memory, had nothing on Massachusetts, which may have voted for Ronald Reagan but shows no other sigh of having moved farther rightward or having become more Republican in recent years. Since 1978, when Senator Edward ...
I just called to say I love you; Blacks and the GOP.
Nov 07, 1986; ... I Just Called to Say I LOVE YOU IN NORTH CAROLINA in October 1984, at the end of a hard-fought re-election campaign that had lasted almost two years, Senator Jesse Helms took a grand total of three days to campaign to black voters. During that period, Helms stumped at black ...
Michigan's Cool Hand Luke. (William Lucas)
Nov 07, 1986; ... MICHIGAN'S COOL HAND LUKE WHERE MICHIGAN POLITICS the soap opera it sometimes seems, black Republican Bill Lucas would have countless seasons to run for governor. Instead, he has only a few weeks, and the question is whether "Cool Hand Luke," as President Reagan called him, is too ...
The riches of the Orient.
Nov 07, 1986; ... THE RICHES OF THE ORIENT ON OUR LAST day in Taipei, on the island of Taiwan, I attended a breakfast meeting at the Grand Hotel with a small group of fellow junketeers. Our guest and speaker was Dr. Yu-ming Shaw, the director of the Chengchi University Institute of International ...
Belgrade. (railroad service in Albania)
Nov 07, 1986 ... BELGRADE Neighboring Albania has ceased to be the only country in Europe without a railroad. A 16-mile stretch of track between Titograd in Montenegro and Shkodra in northern Albania was inaugurated recently, and Albanian raw materials such as chrome ore can now be shipped to world markets ....
Canton. (South China port)
Nov 07, 1986 ... CANTON The great South China port of Canton has become once again the country's principal exporter. In the nineteenth century, Canton was the port of entry for most Western traders, including those from the United States. But in recent times, Canton languished until it received a new ...
Johannesburg. (emigration of white South Africans)
Nov 07, 1986 ... JOHANNESBURG Economic sanctions and the increasing violence in South Africa are driving white South Africans with British passports--or claims to them--to leave the country in increasing numbers. There are 800,000 such South Africans, many of them highly qualified professionals ....
Rheims. (Helene Dorigny, manufacturer of hot air balloon)
Nov 07, 1986 ... RHEIMS The craze for hot-air ballooning that swept the United States has spread to France, coming full circle and leaving France in the awkward position of having to import examples of its native technology. Balloon champion Helene Dorigny suddenly realized that the manufacturing of ...
The death of truth. (Strategic Defense Initiative research project)
Nov 07, 1986; ... THE DEATH OF TRUTH BACK IN THE 1970s, a theory emerged in academic paleontology about the death of the dinosaurs, and this theory received immense publicity. Supposedly, dust clouds from the crash of a big meteorite blocked the sun's rays for a number of years. Plants died, and the ...
The Catholic moment. (enculturation of U.S. Catholic Church)
Nov 07, 1986; ... THE CATHOLIC MOMENT IT IS AN idea I have been pushing now for several years. And of course it is always gratifying to see people picking up on an idea, even if it is distressing to see what they sometimes do with it. Consider, for example, William Lee Miller of the University of Virginia ...
The cycles of American history.
Nov 07, 1986; ... The Cycles of American History INTRODUCING WHAT he intends to be his crowning work, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes, "[Change] has left the experience of elders useless to the tribulations of the young. Children, knowing how different their own lives will be, no ...
Religion and nationalism in Soviet and East European politics.
Nov 07, 1986; ... Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics ACCORDING TO Marxist doctrine, nationalism is one of the ideological props of bourgeois society, a barrier to the unification of the working class worldwide. As scientific materialism liberates more captive peoples ...
John Paul II and the battle for Vatican II; report from the Synod.
Nov 07, 1986; ... John Paul II and the Battle for Vatican II SUBTITLED "Report from the Synod," Richard Cowden-Guido's John Paul II and the Battle for Vatican II is a well-nigh indispensable book for anyone who wonders what's been going on in the Catholic Church lately. It names names and quotes ...
Poison pen: or, live now and pay later.
Nov 07, 1986; ... Poison Pen: or, Live Now and Pay Later, by George Garrett (Stuart Wright, 258 pp., $20) GEORGE GARRETT continues to be the most surprising writer in America. As a wild young man, he failed to hit it off with his distinguished fellow Southerners who made up the Agrarian movement. ...
VN: the life and art of Vladimir Nabokov.
Nov 07, 1986; ... VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov, by Andrew Field (Crown, 417 pp., $19.95) IN THE 1950s my friends at Cornell raved about an idiosyncratic teacher, with a strange Russian name, who lectured on the European novel. One of his students once approached the podium at the end ...
Blue velvet.
Nov 07, 1986; ... NEAT TRICK HOW LONG has it been since an American movie has garnered a harvest of laurels like the one being heaped on a piece of mindless junk called Blue Velvet? David Lynch's previous films were Eraserhead, a gross-out for cultists, and the inept and contemptible Elephant Man ...
Apres ski. (Matterhorn)
Nov 07, 1986; ... APRES SKI 'THE ECONOMIC and social structure of Switzerland," the great English philosopher Owen Barfield wrote, "is noticeably affected by its tourist industry, and that is due only in part to increased facilities of travel. It is due not less to the condition that . . . the ...
South Africa: the solution.
Nov 07, 1986; ... South Africa: The Solution PERHAPS BECAUSE all other arguments concerning South Africa lead by one route or another to Gotterdammerung, Leon Louw and Frances Kendall's plan to transform an apocalyptic situation into the quietude of Switzerland has gone virtually unnoticed--at ...
'And I was there.'
Nov 07, 1986; ... "And I Was There" ON DECEMBER 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Layton reported for duty at Pearl Harbor as Pacific Fleet intelligence officer. Five days before the first anniversary of his posting, he was kidded by Admiral Kimmel on his inability to give the whereabouts of the ...
Child abuse. (liberalism and children)
Nov 07, 1986; ... THE GIMLET EYE IT IS A tactic of the liberal mind not only to exploit children whenever possible but also to affect childish or childlike attitudes. Liberalism has claimed superior innoncence for itself: an attribution that is, at best, ignorance and self-flattery; at worst, ...
Slouching towards Reykjavik-I. (summit meeting) (column)
Nov 07, 1986; ... SLOUCHING TOWARDS REYKJAVIK-I THE HAUNTING thesis of Jean-Francois Revel revisits us ever so regularly; sometimes ALMOST UNNOTICEABLY, as when we permitted the Communists in East Germany to murder Major Arthur Nicholson, an officer of the United States Army doing his duty; ...
What next in South Africa? (column)
Nov 07, 1986; ... WHAT NEXT IN SOUTH AFRICA? THERE WERE a couple of nice touches in the final few days leading to the override of Mr. Reagan's veto. On wednesday, the foreign minister of South Africa, no less, telephoned key senators and told them that South Africa might react against sanctions in any number ...
Meese v. Supreme Court. (Edwin Meese, Court rulings)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Meese v. Supreme Court ATTORNEY GENERAL Edwin Meese III is, according to Ira Glasser of the American Civil Liberties union, "the most dangerous public official since Richard Nixon" and "the most radical and dangerous Attorney General in this century." Glasser was ...
Diplomats and spies. (expulsion of Russian diplomats)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Diplomats and Spies OUR SOURCES INDICATE that the expulsion of eighty Soviet "diplomats" from the United States removed the top of the spying command structure in this country. All of the Russians were top-level members of the KGB and of military intelligence. The expulsions ...
Lumber wars. (Canadian lumber exporters)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Lumber Wars LAST MONTH the Department of Commerce ruled that Canadian lumber exporters are being heavily subsidized. In july, the International Trade Commission made a preliminary finding that imports from Canada were "hurting" U.S. lumber producers. Assuming that both the ITC ...
Show trial. (trials of Eugene Hasenfus and Ramon Conte Hernandez)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Show Trial SHOW TRIALS are no longer in vogue in the USSR and Eastern Europe: The seasoned Communist governments there have learned that the publicity generated can cut two ways no matter how careful the preparations. The unseasoned Sandinista government of Nicaragua, however, is ...
Let them be, er, anathema. (disciplinary measures against Raymond Hunthausen and Charles Curran)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Let Them Be, er, Anathema THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE of New York wasn't about to take the Vatican's disciplinary measures against Seattle's Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and Catholic University's Father Charles Curran lying down. At its recent convention, the 518 members in attendance ...
Picking and choosing. (religious freedom and school textbooks)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Picking and Choosing TWO BIBLE BELT court cases have raised the issue of religious freedom, which all parties concerned claim as their own cause. In Tennessee, a federal judge has ruled in favor of parents who said their religious freedom was violated by the requirement that ...
Populism redux. (economy)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Populism Redux THE INESTIMABLE Warren Brookes made an interesting point at a recent World Media Association conference, later picked up by the Wall Street Journal. Brookes asked why the dollar was so strong--in the cant phrase, overvalued--through 1985. His answer: Federal ...
Hungary plus thirty: any difference? (excerpts from National Reviews)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Hungary Plus Thirty: Any Difference? EUROPE, NOW THAT the Hungarian witnesses to man's indomitable hunger for freedom are buried, . . . remembers how each time when it was hopefully dreaming of victorious deeds by somebody else--by heroic slaves of Communism, for ...
Sherman Adams, RIP. (obituary)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Sherman Adams, R I P SHERMAN ADAMS deserves to be remembered. He prevailed politically at a time when the Eastern Republican establishment was as rock-hard institutionally as the granite of his native New Hampshire. As governor in 1952, he swung New Hampshire against Taft and ...
Samora Machel, RIP. (obituary)
Nov 21, 1986 ... Samora Machel, R I P THE DEATH of Samora Machel in a plane crash near the Mozambican-South African border is not the sort of event that gives rise to thoughts that lie too deep for tears. A surviving Russian crew member says that he heard a loud sound in the plane before the ...
Lawrence Fertig, RIP. (obituary)
Nov 21, 1986; ... Lawrence Fertig, R I P THIRTY YEARS AGO, when conservatives in New York could fit into a single medium-sized living room, they often did. And always there were Lawrence Fertig and his strikingly beautiful wife, Bertha. He was easy to talk to, but never intrusive. He was as ...
Blackness no more. (Afro-Americans in politics)
Nov 21, 1986; ... BLACKNESS NO MORE 'I WANT TO BE accepted for the content of my character, not the color of my skin," says Carol Schwartz, borrowwing Martin Luther King's famous utterance at the apogee of the civil-rights movement. Mrs. Schwartz, a white Republican, is running for mayor of ...
Summitry primer. (United States and Soviet Union)
Nov 21, 1986; ... SUMMITRY PRIMER THE GOOD NEWS is that the Reykjavik microsummit collapsed. Engineering that meeting was a bold move on Mikhail Gorbachev's part. The Soviet squeeze started with the Daniloff frameup. Having startled the world with his Reykjavik proposal, Gorbachev pushed his ...
Fowler play. (renomination of FCC Chairman Mark Fowler)
Nov 21, 1986; ... FOWLER PLAY YET ANOTHER conservative Reagan appointee is meeting organized resistance, only this time the fight is intramural. A coalition of New right groups seeks to block the renomination of FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, citing his allegiance to a "libertarian agenda." Fowler, ...
Slow death. (55-mile-per-hour speed limit, includes a true or false quiz)
Nov 21, 1986; ... SLOW DEATH IT WAS A modest proposal: Let states raise the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. Not anywhere they want--let's not be radical--but at least on interstate highways outside communities of fifty thousand or more. That's the rider Senate Republicans attached to authorization of a ...
Milking the poor. (Legal Services Corp.)
Nov 21, 1986; ... MILKING THE POOR THE Legal Services Corporation has a rule: Agencies that receive LSC funds must put citizens of the local community on their boards of directors as protection against improper use of federal funds. The LSC (a federal agency) also pays for the training of executive ...
Does Mexico need a revolution?
Nov 21, 1986; ... DOES MEXICO NEED A REVOLUTION? MEXICO's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) scored another in its long series of election victories this July. In fact, during the 57 years that the party has ruled Mexico, not one of its candidates for president, governor, or senator, ...
Fatcats and Democrats.
Nov 21, 1986; ... FATCATS AND DEMOCRATS IT BEGAN with a faculty argument about the congressional vote to bail out the Chrysler Corporation back in 1979. It was a small point, really: just a thread out of place. But once I got to pulling on it, more and more of the prevailing wisdom about American ...
An exorbitant privilege. (United States economic conditions)
Nov 21, 1986; ... AN EXORBITANT PRIVILEGE TWO YEARS AGO, Congress began to assemble the most comprehensive protectionist legislation since the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1929-30. Hundreds of new bills have been introduced, some calling for fair trade, others calling for quotas, "voluntary" ...
Monarchs and presidents in Islam.
Nov 21, 1986; ... MONARCHS AND PRESIDENTS IN ISLAM IN THE Islamic world's relations with Israel, the hard-liners are the various Arab and non-Arab republics. When there is any sign of softness, it comes, almost always, from one of the monarchies. (Egypt, and Egypt alone, is the exception.) It ...
The rise of modern judicial review.
Nov 21, 1986; ... The Rise of Modern Judicial Review THROUGHOUT our history respected leaders have initiated vigorous public debate about the Supreme court's role in interpreting the Constitution. Reflecting on the esteem accorded men such as Hamilton and Lincoln, poor Attorney General Meese must have ...
The establishment clause: religion and the First Amendment.
Nov 21, 1986; ... The establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment LEONARD W. LEVY is one of our most respected constitutional scholars. He makes no secret of his liberal politics, but his careful researches--especially on the free-speech clause of the First Amendment--have often cut against his ...
Mexico: chaos on our doorstep.
Nov 21, 1986; ... Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep NEARLY THREE YEARS have passed since General Paul Gorman, then head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, warned members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that "unless there is a dramatic change . . . Mexico will be the number-one security problem of ...
The fringes of power: 10 Downing Street diaries 1939-1955.
Nov 21, 1986; ... The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955 IN OCTOBER of 1939, John Colville, a 24-year-old member of the British Foreign Office, was approached by one of Neville Chamberlain's private secretaries and asked whether he would like to be an assistant private secretary to the ...
Dostoevsky: the stir of liberation, 1860-1865.
Nov 21, 1986; ... Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 THIS VOLUME--the third of five projected volumes in this learned and magisterial biography--describes the influence of the social and political background of Dostoyevsky's Russia on his intellectual and artistic development. Frank ...
The tears of the white man: compassion as contempt.
Nov 21, 1986; ... THE RIGHT BOOKS/CHILTON WILLIAMSON JR. AFTER THREE YEARS, Pascal Bruckner's Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc--first published in France in 1983 to praise from, among other critics, Jean-Francois Revel--makes its appearance in the United States as The Tears of the White Man: Compassion ...
Menage.
Nov 21, 1986; ... Menage HARDLY HAVE I got through decrying Blue Velvet for you before there is Bertrand Blier's Menage to bemoan. The French title is Tenue de soiree, evening dress, almost never worn by the characters, which tells you right away what sort of contrariness is afoot. Menage is a French Blue ...
Moonlighting.
Nov 21, 1986; ... SEARCHING FOR HORIZONTAL TELEVISION'S IDEA of class is Dynasty: silk sheets and straight faces. The idea that a lowly sitcom might conceivably aspire to sophistication is anathema; indeed, ABC's Moonlighting, the first plausibly stylish sitcom in recent memory to score with a mass audience, ...
Food, money, class. (column)
Nov 21, 1986; ... FOOD, MONEY, CLASS WHEN DID FOOD become a matter of class in the United States? It may have happened when class in this country got to be a matter of money, and the classy but still insecure haves felt the need to proclaim their superiority over the have-nots any way they could. Food ...
A baseball winter: the off-season life of the summer game.
Nov 21, 1986; ... A Baseball Winter: The Off-Season Life of the Summer Game BASED on the reports of five newspaper sports writers, A Baseball Winter chronicles the feverish activities of five major-league front offices during the 1984-85 off-season. The book shows how complex a business baseball has become, ...
The Catholic classics.
Nov 21, 1986; ... The Catholic Classics DINESH D'SOUZA'S collection of essays on Roman Catholic classics, more or less evenly divided between theological and literary interests, has garnered more endorsements than a newly promoted box of breakfast cereal. And that's only on the outside. Inside, there's a ...
The bishop's prescriptions. (Archbishop Rembert Weakland lecture on the Pope's crackdown on liberal Catholics) (column)
Nov 21, 1986; ... THE BISHOP'S PRESCRIPTIONS THE PRESS IS everywhere writing about the tensions caused by what is referred to as the Pope's "crackdown" on "liberal" Catholics. Cited especially are Father Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America, who was told by the Vatican that he ...
Saved from the brink. (arms control) (column)
Nov 21, 1986; ... SAVED FROM THE BRINK RONALD REAGAN's faith in his own insights is a continuing inspiration, and I will happily contribute to any monument that would memorialize the chief of these, for instance: ON THIS PODIUM ON MARCH 23, 1983, PRESIDENT RONALD WILSON REAGAN ANNOUNCED HIS ...