National Review back issues from July 1987:
Two ways to zero. (nuclear arms control)
Jul 03, 1987 ... Two Ways to Zero EVEN IF WE TOOK all our intermediate- and short-rangemissiles out of Europe, we'd have plenty of nuclear firepower left there, wouldn't we? This argument might be called track two of theAdministration's push for an autumn arms-control Summit. Track ...
The pro-American activities committee. (Iran-Contra arms sales)
Jul 03, 1987 ... The Pro-American Activities Committee IN THE BAD old days, such congressional committeesas the House Committee on Un-American Activities conducted investigations on Communist subversion, plotting, and espionage. The current Iran-Contra hearings have spun the coin around. ...
Exit Volcker, enter Greenspan. (Paul A. Volcker, Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board)
Jul 03, 1987 ... Exit Volcker, Enter Greenspan IN AN IDEAL WORLD, it wouldn't matter who waschairman of the Federal Reserve. Yet national monetary policies for nearly two decades have been built upon shifting theories and seat-of-the-pants judgments. The result has been wild gyrations in prices, ...
Global self-police. (problems with verification of arms-control treaty)
Jul 03, 1987 ... Global Self-Police FRED IKLE, the veteran arms-control expert and currentUnder Secretary of Defense for Policy, writes on the New York Times Op-Ed Page that he'd simply oppose any arms-control treaty right now. Why? Because Congress, in its present temper, would ignore Soviet ...
The singular threat to the Atlantic Alliance. (excerpts from address by Henry A. Kissinger on nuclear arms control)
Jul 03, 1987 ... The Singular Threat to the Atlantic Alliance WHEN THE Atlantic Alliance was formed, it was assumedthat the threat to peace was similar to recently familiar totalitarian phenomena: a large-scale invasion across sovereign borders with the avowed aim of domination of the world by ...
AIDS and the sexual counter-revolution.
Jul 03, 1987 ... AIDS and the Sexual Counter-Revolution TOM BETHELL wrote recently in The American Spectatorthat the point of the current condom campaign appears to be less to save the nation from AIDS than to preserve the sexual revolution. The truth of that is illustrated by the difficulty of ...
The front-runner. (Jesse Jackson)
Jul 03, 1987 ... The Front-Runner YES, HE'S THE front-runner, all right. It's not by default,and he's no fluke. Jesse Jackson is in the ideological mainstream of the Democratic Party--now the American Left--on everything from gay rights to apartheid, the difference between him and the others ...
Another summit? (economic summit in Venice)
Jul 03, 1987 ... Another Summit? ECONOMIC OFFICIALS of major nations have met onceagain in Venice. Expectations regarding such meetings have become increasingly modest, even cynical, and modest goals generally produce banality. But the related challenges of protectionism, exchange-rate ...
Pseudo-crisis in the Persian Gulf.
Jul 03, 1987 ... Pseudo-Crisis In the Persian Gulf CALM DOWN. Easy does it. Cool it, everybody. Thearmchair hysteria and the media hype over the situation in the Persian Gulf are way out of proportion to the military and political realities involved. To put this pseudo-crisis in perspective, a ...
John Davenport, RIP.
Jul 03, 1987 ... John Davenport, RIP JOHN DAVENPORT was one of the tight Time Inc.circle in the heady Luce years during the war and just after that kept its eye on the looming menace in the East. The little fraternity included Whittacker Chambers and John Chamberlain and Jack Jessup and, yes, ...
The favorite-son myth.
Jul 03, 1987; ... THE FAVORITE-SON MYTH Favorite Son: An aspirant for a presidentialnomination who has little or no support beyond an instructed delegation from his own state. Dictionary of American Politics QUADRENNIALLY, usually in thesummer, when time is slack and often ...
Scandals in Catholic relief.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Scandals In Catholic Relief DURING A fundraising campaign for Ethiopia,Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official overseas charity of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC)--i.e., the American bishops --distributed a poster throughout the United States. The poster featured a ...
Feminism arrives. (demonstration against male brutality in Istanbul)
Jul 03, 1987 ... Feminism Arrives Close to two thousand women demonstrated in the streetsof Istanbul in an unprecedented protest against male brutality. One in four Turkish wives is believed to suffer from battering by her husband. The demonstrators, cheered on by a large crowd, denounced the ...
The worst concern. (autonomy movement of Moslems in Philippines)
Jul 03, 1987 ... The Worst Concern President Corazon Aquino's efforts to neutralize Communistforces in the Philippines are well publicized. But another and quite separate guerrilla war is causing her government more concern for the long term, namely rebellion in the southern islands by the Moslem ...
Why Johnny can't abstain. (criticism of sex education)
Jul 03, 1987; ... WHY JOHNNY CAN'T ABSTAIN SEX EDUCATION is much in thenews. Many states and localities are considering proposals to implement or expand sex-education curricula. Polls suggest that a substantial majority of the American people favor sex education in the schools. I too tend to ...
Nothing left to steal. (Mexican economic problems)
Jul 03, 1987; ... NOTHING LEFT TO STEAL ONE OF Miguel de la Madrid'sprincipal promises when he began his six-year term as president of Mexico late in 1982 was to put an end to the inflation that had ravaged the country for nearly 11 years. But his time is running out, and inflation is worse than ...
Kinds of Catholics. (American Catholic assimilation)
Jul 03, 1987; ... KINDS OF CATHOLICS I HAD TO SEND the cover design ofthe book back to the publishers. They had printed the title as "The Catholic Moment.' The italicized definite article would be presumptuous, as though this were the definitive, make-or-break, do-or-die moment for Roman ...
Stategy: the logic of war and peace.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace. by Edward N. Luttwak (Harvard, 283pp., $20) ATTEMPTING A theoretical treatise onmilitary strategy is pretentious, but no one can deny that Edward N. Luttwak is the most qualified of living military writers. His background ...
The black and the red: Francois Mitterrand - the story of an ambition.
Jul 03, 1987; ... The Black and the Red: Francois Mitterrand --The Story of an Ambition. byCatherine Nay (Harcourt Brace, 404 pp., $19.95) FRANCOIS MITTERRAND may well remainpresident of France for another eight years, and hence in charge of the defense and foreign policy of our most ...
Caesar's coin: religion and politics in America.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Caesar's Coin: Religion and Politics in America. by Richard P. McBrien (Macmillan,294 pp., $19.95) AN ECCLESIOLOGIST by trade, ProfessorRichard P. McBrien is a liberal apologist by avocation. Through his newspaper column and television appearances, he acts as the ...
Fidel and religion.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Fidel and Religion. by Frei Betto (Simon& Schuster, 314 pp., $19.95) IF YOU HAVEN'T had the privilege ofsitting in a hot stadium listening to Fidel Castro speak for five hours, this may be the book for you. Father Betto is a Brazilian priest of the liberationist ...
Mutiny on the Amistad: the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. by HowardJones (Oxford, 271 pp., $22.95) AS HISTORIANS have exhausted thelarger issues of American history, they have turned to the smaller, and sometimes to ...
Lionel Trilling and the fate of cultural criticism.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. by Mark Krupnick (NorthwesternUniversity, 215 pp., $21.95) BY THE TIME of his death, in November1975, Lionel Trilling had become truly a celebrity. A long, laudatory obituary of him appeared in the New York Times; ...
Devil in the flesh.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Ishtar Devil in the Flesh EVERYTHING is relative in this world,even criminal waste. When Michael Cimino spent $40 million on the godawful Heaven's Gate, it caused the collapse of United Artists; when Francis Ford Coppola spent a similar sum on the somewhat better Apocalypse Now, ...
Terrorist or freedom-fighter? The cost of confusion.
Jul 03, 1987; ... Terrorist or Freedom-Fighter? The Cost of Confusion THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, being norespector of forms, has a hard time with distinctions. Thus, novels are confused with movies, rock with music, and sodomy with sex; while abortion is detached from the category of murder, and ...
The Oxford book of British political anecdotes.
Jul 03, 1987; ... The Oxford Book of British Political Anecdotes. edited by Paul Johnson (Oxford,270 pp., $17.95) THE AUTHOR of Modern Times boilsdown over five hundred years of British history to 312 anecdotes. "Anecdotes,' he writes in a learned and entertaining introduction, "are a ...
Harvard to the rescue. (emphasis on anti-apartheid movement in overseers election)
Jul 03, 1987; ... HARVARD TO THE RESCUE DID YOU graduate from Harvard? Neitherdid I, and that saves us both from embarrassment today. You oughta see the booklet giving biographical information on the 18 candidates for overseer. After you read the booklet, go to Harvard to listen to one of the ...
On the Stark front.
Jul 03, 1987; ... ON THE STARK FRONT CONCERNING THE attack on the Stark inthe Persian Gulf, a few observations: 1. Europeans ought to watch very carefullythe quiet movement of American opinion, which is not yet resolute, but is isolationist-bound. This is so not alone because we lost ...
Beyond Bakker. (Jim Bakker and PTL scandal)
Jul 03, 1987; ... BEYOND BAKKER OTHER PEOPLE'S embarrassments can befun, particularly when bigmouthed people are caught up in hypocrisy. But the awful mess surrounding the Reverend (if that is what we still call him) Jim Bakker is a mess we revel in at our own risk. It is one thing for a man who ...
Memo to the Senate. (General Bernard Rogers' criticism of arms control in Europe)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Memo to the Senate GENERAL BERNARD ROGERS, after serving as commanderof NATO for eight years, has stepped down, and he did not go gentle into that good night. General Rogers calmly told a reporter from the Washington Post that the Reagan Administration's push for a fall Summit and ...
Patrolling the Gulf. (Persian Gulf)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Patrolling the Gulf FROM THE VERY beginning of the American Republicwe have struggled to bridge a paradox. On the one hand, America is geographically an island, looking east and west upon vast oceans. From the very start, America has known that its economic and strategic health ...
SDI watch. (errors in American Physical Society's report on Strategic Defense Initiative)
Jul 17, 1987 ... SDI Watch IN THE LAST "SDI Watch' [May 22], NR disclosedthree major errors in the American Physical Society's report on the future of directed-energy weapons in SDI. The APS report overestimated the power needs of laser-equipped satellites by a factor of one hundred, and of ...
Ollie North: hearing tactics. (Iran-Contra arms sales hearings)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Ollie North: Hearing Tactics THE MANEUVERING over the preliminaries to LieutenantColonel North's Iran-Contra testimony highlighted a key aspect of the process. Colonel North's motives in delaying his appearance before Congress were mainly histrionic. But then, so were ...
Partisan budget.
Jul 17, 1987 ... Partisan Budget COMPLAINING ABOUT the United States budget wasmore fun for the Democrats before they controlled both Houses of Congress. Now, voters are likely to hold them responsible for any new taxes. President Reagan had proposed only a modest $19-billion slowdown in ...
An introduction to the attorney general. (Edwin Meese)
Jul 17, 1987; ... An Introduction to the Attorney General AS I WAS LYING AWAKE at the office last week, Iheard Dorothy calling to me and Toto, saying, "Come on. We must hurry to the Emerald City. The polls will be closing soon.' She was right. It was late. I had hoped to vote,if not ...
Goetz and the future of New York. (Bernhard Hugo Goetz)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Goetz and the Future of New York BERNHARD GOETZ was cleared on all the more seriouscharges stemming from his shooting of four hoodlums in the subway, and, like most such cases, his was decided, properly, on its particulars. If it has any implication for future cases, it's that ...
Olympic stakes. (political reform in South Korea)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Olympic Stakes TEN DAYS OF escalating street demonstrations andriots in major South Korean cities brought the first conciliatory gesture from the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As we go to press, he has promised to release most of those recently arrested, to free ...
Fred Astaire, RIP.
Jul 17, 1987 ... Fred Astaire, RIP ONE CAN'T really say that one mourns the deathof an artist who, like Fred Astaire, ended his career 18 years ago. Not since then had the camera viewed his body at dance: He had been dead ever since then, for all his fans--for all who have eyes to see. The ...
The pope in Poland.
Jul 17, 1987 ... The Pope in Poland PRIOR TO THE Pope's mid-June visit to Poland, aSolidarity leader expressed fear that the Vatican had made a deal with Poland's Communist leaders that might "sell Solidarity down the river.' He needn't have worried. "Holy Father, Speak Out against Atheism and ...
Waldheim and the pope. (Kurt Waldheim)
Jul 17, 1987 ... Waldheim and the Pope THE VATICAN announced that the Pope would receiveKurt Waldheim on a state visit, and all hell broke loose. Jews charge that Waldheim is not morally acceptable as a world leader. Catholics reply that the Pope is a priest, and priests specialize in sinners. ...
Jackson the moderate. (Jesse Jackson)
Jul 17, 1987; ... JACKSON THE MODERATE IT'S A NEW ballgame for Jesse. Hehas catapulted into presidential front-runner status, with media coverage four times what it was before Hart's fall. The fresh legitimacy of Jackson's campaign is giving Democrats a case of terminal jitters. In fact, they ...
On the receiving end. (anti-Communist insurgency in Afghanistan)
Jul 17, 1987; ... ON THE RECEIVING END IN AN IMPORTANT symposium publishedin 1985, Mr. Charles Moser took me to task in these words: "So firm an anti-Communist as Brian Crozier, who published a detailed book on insurrection as early as 1960, included a section on anti-Communist rebellions like the ...
The law of the Constitution. (Saving the Constitution)
Jul 17, 1987; ... The Law of the Constitution DURING ITS nearly two hundred years, the U.S. Constitution,which Gladstone pronounced "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man,' has been the subject of arguments both petty and profound, among great men ...
A theory of power. (Saving the Constitution)
Jul 17, 1987; ... A Theory of Power CONSTITUTIONAL LAW is not a difficult or mysterioussubject; the Constitution is a short and simple document, and very few of its provisions play even a nominal role in the making of constitutional law. The need for anything as portentous as a "constitutional ...
The new science. (Saving the Constitution)
Jul 17, 1987; ... The New Science TO STRUCTURE life around intellect is a distinctivelyJewish and Christian impulse, a central thrust in what we mean by "the West.' The God of Judaism and Christianity offers us in the Scripture the Names He most prefers: "I am Who am,' Creator of all things, ...
No slacking. (Margaret Thatcher's reelection)
Jul 17, 1987; ... NO SLACKING MARGARET THATCHER scored atremendous victory, far greater than she or the Conservative Party managers had dared to expect. Not for 160 years had a British prime minister been elected for a third successive term: and Mrs. Thatcher was not merely re-elected but given ...
No more Mr. Nice Guys. (Senate Republicans succeed in blocking most new Democratic initiatives)
Jul 17, 1987; ... No More Mr. Nice Guys SINCE MID MAY, Senate Republicans,who began this term of Congress cooperating with Democrats to override two presidential vetoes, have turned feisty. Heritage Foundation analyst Gordon Jones, a close observer of the Senate since his days at the Republican ...
Trouble in Grove City. (Civil Rights Restoration Act and abortion)
Jul 17, 1987; ... Trouble in Grove City PRO-LIFE SENATORS face an uphillbattle to keep the Civil Rights Restoration Act, poised for passage in midsummer, from becoming a proabortion tool. Popularly known as the Grove City bill (because it reverses a 1984 Supreme Court ruling of that name), the ...
The book of jobs. (report on Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act of 1983)
Jul 17, 1987; ... The Book of Jobs SUPPORTERS of the 1983 EmergencyJobs bill had no doubts about the virtues of the legislation. "We're talking about creating up to 600,000 jobs within ninety days of enactment,' boasted Representative Frank Annunzio (D., Ill.). But according to a recent GAO ...
The empire strikes back. (legislation to create fourth branch of armed services to defend against nuclear attack)
Jul 17, 1987; ... The Empire Strikes Back DOES THE United States have inplace a system to defend against nuclear-missile attack? According to a recent poll, 64 per cent of the American people think so, yet right now, notes Senator Malcolm Wallop, the U.S. can't defend itself against a single ...
A thunderclap. (nuclear arms control in Europe)
Jul 17, 1987; ... A THUNDERCLAP GORBACHEV'S proposal that all nuclearmissiles be removed from European soil broke over Western Europe like a thunderclap. The pars maior et insanior, the majority, welcomes this proposal as another sign of the USSR's decision to embark on the road to sanity, peace, ...
Steering the elephant: how Washington works.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Steering the Elephant: How Washington Works edited by Robert Rector and MichaelSanera (Universe, 356 pp., $24.95) WHEN CONSERVATIVES won a surpriselandslide victory in 1980-- a Republican majority in the Senate along with Ronald Reagan's Presidency --a mixture of ...
Interpretation and social criticism.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Interpretation and Social Criticism byMichael Walzer (Harvard, 96 pp., $12.50) AT LEAST SINCE the Enlightenment,when conventional notions of morality were stood on their heads, the intellectual class has found itself in diligent pursuit of its own elusive Holy Grail: a ...
New York intellect: a history of intellectual life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time.
Jul 17, 1987; ... New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time by Thomas Bender (Knopf, 422pp., $25) NOT TOO LONG ago, the editor ofThe Nation ran a series of devastating essays against a government plan that would ...
More die of heartbreak.
Jul 17, 1987; ... More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow(Morrow, 335 pp., $17.95) SAUL BELLOW has a quality of mindand a richness of ideas that are more characteristic of European than of American fiction. His ambitious, moving, and brilliantly achieved tenth novel concerns vainglory, ...
Talkative man: a novel of Malgudi.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Talkative Man: A Novel of Malgudi byR. K. Narayan (Viking, 123 pp., $15.95) MOST OF OUR big discoveries aremade by accident. Thus, a few weeks ago, in a casual literary conversation with friends, I suddenly realized that five out of a dozen of my favorite ...
Emily Dickinson.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Emily Dickinson by Cynthia GriffinWolff (Knopf, 641 pp., $25) IN LITTLE MORE than an ample lifetime,there have developed two main critical attitudes toward Emily Dickinson: first, a more or less benign recognition of her poetic achievement; and, second, the ...
Mephistopheles: the devil in the modern world.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World by Jeffrey Burton Russell (Cornell,330 pp., $24.95) "THE DEVIL IS the best-known symbolof radical evil,' writes the historian Jeffrey Russell, and "The existence of radical evil is clear to anyone not blinded by current ...
Yevtushenko. (poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Jul 17, 1987; ... YEVTUSHENKO HE IS PROBABLY the last internationalpoet. Yevtushenko*, at 53, seems well past sixty now--hair thinning, face wrinkled from a life of tactfulness and old compromise. How much, I think, must he have seen. And, shrewdly, not seen. His frame is long and stiff and, in ...
Thinking like a Communist: state and legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Thinking like a Communist: State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba TONY SMITH's Thinking like a Communist:State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba (Norton, $16.95) is a brilliantly original study of the "laws of motion' of Communist thought, ...
The life and legend of Jay Gould.
Jul 17, 1987; ... The Life and Legend of Jay Gould byMaury Klein (Johns Hopkins, 595 pp., $27.50) PROFESSOR KLEIN here rehabilitatesJay Gould (1836-1892), archvillain among the robber barons and "one of the most important and influential Americans of his age.' Unlike the paper pirates ...
Joyride. (Mathias Rust's flight to Moscow)
Jul 17, 1987; ... JOYRIDE NEW YORK, JUNE 8 IT WAS five years ago that a youngish Britdecided he ought to have a chat with the Queen of England, and how do you get from central England to the Queen? It turned out to be quite simple. You go to Buckingham Palace (everyone knows where ...
What do we know? When did we know it? (James Reston on Iran-Contra arms sale hearings)
Jul 17, 1987; ... WHAT DO WE KNOW? WHEN DID WE KNOW IT? NEW YORK, JUNE 12 THE IRAN hearings are half done and direconclusions are being reached, most notably by that Prince of Gloom, James Reston, who sees what has happened as the end of collaborative action between President Reagan ...
The high-schooler's informational IQ test. (proposal that common-information test be required of applicants for driver's licenses)
Jul 17, 1987; ... THE HIGH-SCHOOLER'S INFORMATIONAL IQ TEST NEW YORK, JUNE 19 LAST WEEK's issue of People mag featuredthe shocker from Donna Rice's girlfriend, or, rather, ex-girlfriend, confirming that the romance between Donna and Gary Hart had not been platonic. But that was not ...
Moscow and the Vatican.
Jul 17, 1987; ... Moscow and the Vatican by Alexis Floridi,SJ (Ardis, 279 pp., $23.50) THIS IS AN impatiently written book,reflecting the author's outrage that churches continue to be persecuted under the iron grip of atheistic Russian domination. The text, as is characteristic of such ...