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Snow, Tony, Files
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" THAT'S YOUR FIRST LESSON. BUT REMEMBER, NEVER HANG AN ISRAELI OR
RUSSIAN YOU CAN'T TRUST THEIR COUNTRIES NOT TO RETALIATE "
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Universal Press Syndicate
This cartoon not funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
I love the comment
Senator
on contemporary
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violence these
canvases represent.
Who's the artist ?
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01989 HOUSTON POST
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- THIS 15 THE OPERATOR.
I CAN'T COME TO
THE PHONE RIGHT NOW
BUT LEAVE YOUR NAME
AND NUMBER AFTER THE
BEEP AND I'LL GET BACK
TO YOU AFTER THE
STRIKE
HAB
PHONE
THE TREEME
HANDELSMAN
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RONNIE,DEAR?
REMEMBER
WHENYOUSAID
YOU WERE A
CONTRA,TOO?
DING
DONG!
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Yes, Excellency, it is
a checkbook. In their
primitive culture, it's
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USA
ETTA ©1989 FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
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"WE'D HAVE TO BE SELECTIVE BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN PICKED OVER, BUT THERE ARE
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RECONPROGATIVES
724 "
PLANTE
AT LEAST
WE'RE WE EXPORTING
SOME THING TO
JAPAN.
ETHICS SCANDAL ROCKS
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
MENU
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COPYING OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!
BillDay
Detroit Ree Press
Trilms Make
U.S. TREASURY
FAST BUCK S2L
DRIVE-THRU
HUP-TWO-THREE-FOUR
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RENDER AID!
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as FED. BUDGET
The Mallan morning new 89 Universal Press Syndiste 8/5
S&L
SGT. CONGRESS
DON'T FORGET
THE GOLD
NECKCHAINS
@1989
THIS LITTLE CHUMP-ER- CHUM IS GOING MY BAIL, SERGEANT - CAN I HAVE MY BELT,
NECK-TIE AND SHOE LACES BACK NOW ?
HANDELSMAN
TELL YOU WHAT,
GEORGE-WE'LL GEORGE - WE'LL
TRADE YOU
CAPITAL GAINS
FOR
TRIBUNG MEDA SERVICES
HESOPANION TIMES
CAPITOL GAINS
PAY FOR RAISE
CONGREST
me
TAX BREAK
FOR
RICH
the Bilk Stops Here?
BIRMINGHANNEWSESA
WHITE
CORLEY NEWS SERVICE
YOU NEED TO
LEARNSOME
SELF-CONTROL!
CONGRESS
8
PACS
III!
W.MARINGPPED
Will the administrations proposed
YEAH
!!!
DRUG WAR BONDS' work? ?
UNITED
DOLLARS
WM.
BENNETT
"ALL RIGHT, MEN! FOLLOW ME!"
BENNETT
DANZIGER
The Christian Science Monitor
Got a problem? Here's the answer:
HANDGUN!
Love affair gone sour? Blow him/her away!
Dog barking? Shoot that neighbor!
Drug deal gone bad? Off 'em!
Feeling cranky? Try a drive by shooting!
MR. HANDGUN. IS THE PERFECT
Carason
SOLUTION TO ANY PROBLEM. IT'S
3
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE AND
so EASY TO USE!
PICK ONE UP TODAY!
A PUBLIC DISSERVICE OF THE HANDGUN LOBBY.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE
MANY OFTHOSE
FLEEING WAR TORN
SEEKING TO EMIGRATE
LEBANON
TO THE UNITED STATES
WHEN ASKED
WITH 30, 000 KILLED BY
"WHY COME COME TO AMERICA?"
GUNS ANNUALLY,
THEY SAID THAT.
THEY 'D FEEL
RIGHT AT HOME HERE
YESSIR, MR. LUCAS, THANKS TO THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT, A BLACK PERSON
LIKE YO'SELF CAN ESCAPE INNER-CITY
POVERTY, PUT HIMSELF THROUGH LAW
SCHOOL GET ELECTED COUNTY EXECUTIVE,
AND EVEN BE CONFIRMED ASSISTANT
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
THE UNITED STATES
-
PROVIDING, OF COURSE,
THE
THAT HE'S NOT A
LIBERAL
KENNEDY
CONSERVATIVE.
PLANTATION WASHINGTON,DC.
CRRR
WILLIAM
Henry Payne
Scripps Howard Newspaper Group
United Feature Syndicate
1989 THE PTTSBURGH PRESS
ROHX
UNITED FEATURE SYNDKATE
NOT eveRYoNe THINKS
YOU PICKED A GUY
TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED
FOR SUCH A HIGH
POSITION, SIR.
LUCAS DENIED
CIVIL RIGHTS
POST
Gee THANKS,
DAN
DillDay
Detroit Free Press
Trimes pedia Services
I USED MY
CONNECTIONS
AT HUD!
MikeKeefe
THE DENVER POST
1 FeeL so
INADeQUATe
I'M THE ONLY
REPUBLICAN
I KNOW WHO
HASN'T MADE
A BUNDLe ON
A HUD DeAL!
BillDay
Detrort Free Press
THE LEGACY OF THE AYATOLLAH
I've had it with
We've been pushed
these terrorists!
around way too
long!
DEATH TO
Wake up, America!
KHOMEINI!!!
C'mon, Bush-let's
kick some tush!
BENSON
TRIB. MEDIA
HAPNELL Chicago Tribure
WE LOOK FORWARD
TO DISCUSSIONS
WHICH WE HOPE
WILL BE FRANK
AND OPEN
NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS.
CEED SCEATEN TIMES
TRIBUNE MEDA SERVICES
HANDELSMAN
" DEATH SQUADS, SUICIDE TRUCK BOMBS, HOSTAGE
EXECUTIONS HEY- SHITE HAPPENS..."
OPTIONS?
IGNORE HIM
OR LeT
Me CALL IN
AN AIR
STRIKE!
0:
TERRORISM
Mike Keefe
THE DENVER POST
89
HOSTAGE TAKING AND
TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
WILL NO LONGER
BE TOLERATED "
HEY-HE'S
TALKING TO YOU!
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OPTIMISTIC I AM
CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC
I AM CAUTIOUS
ConsiDallas Times Hould
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"I FORGET- - DID WE TAKE A HOSTAGE IN RESPONSE TO AN EXECUTION IN RETALIATION FOR
KIDNAPPING A TERRORIST ?... OR DID WE KIDNAP A TERRORIST IN RETALIATION FOR TAKING
A HOSTAGE IN RESPONSE TO AN EXECUTION ? "
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Follies Fo
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DEATH TO THE
the sign!...
GREAT SATAN!
Mike Ludavich
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
- a look at politics through the eyes of the political cartoonist -
***
"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles. My constituents
don't know how to read. But they can't help seeing them damned pictures."
(William Marcy Tweed speaking of Thomas Nast, 1871)
WHITE HOUSE NEWS SUMMARY SPECIAL EDITION
VOLUME I ISSUE 5 -- June 9, 1989
DAY ONE
1989 (OPLE COURANT
THIS ISNT HEAVEN!
NO...AND
I'M NOT AN
AMERICAN!
The Datton Marring near '89 Universe Press Syndicate 6/6
WHOEVER'S
NEXT,
&
1 HOPE THEY
CHANGE
THE POSE.
SHAH
AVATOLAH
of
RUHOLLAH
IRAN
KHOMEINI
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193780STON HERALD
IT WAS ALWAYS
HABCOT
SAiD THAT THE
Now HE
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HAS EVEN
HAD MUCH IN COMMON
MORE.
WiTH HiS PEOPLE.
WASSERMAN
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RED STAR OVER CHINA
DIST. BY L.A.TIMES SYND
FIRE!
the Dallar morning news '89 UniversalPress Syndicate 6/7
When metal and might meet their match
19898PSION RECRT
TiANANMEN
SQUARE
DENG
XiAOPiNG
LiPENG
COMMUNIST BEIJING GOV'T
iN
"PARTY' INTHE PARK
WE'VE CRUSHED
THE STUDENTS.
THE FUTURE
IS OURS, DENG.
DENG?
'THE STUDENTS HUNGER FOR DEMOCRACY ?
LET THEM EAT LEAD. - MARIE ANTOINETTE UPDATED
©
DENG
WELCOME
TO HARD
LINES
"WE, THE PEOPLE :, OR PERHAPS I SHOULD SAY, LI, THE PEOPLE
LET A MILLION
FLOWERS WILT.
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AUTH
or PHILADELPHIA WANIFER
01987 THE DETRAT MENS
WRIGHT
PUT IT
BACK IN THE
BOTTLE.
THE BOSTUNGLOBEN
656
Egg foo Deng
MikeLuckovich
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Tell Chairman Deng it
wont wash off...
mocrace
ME LIBERTY
GIVE OR ME DEATH
(01989 UNIVERSAL PRESS SADKATE
REMEMBER TIANANMEN SQUARE
whight
CHANGE
RAMiR
YOUR WISH IS
MY COMMAND...
MR. YELTSIN.
HELLDIM
Boris
E
HOSPITAL
USSR
NYeT II
WHAT I
SAID WAS,
YOU CAN
Become
A LITTLEBIT
PREGNANT!!
Dwayne Powell
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
©FFITE PITSOUREN PRESS
ROHD
UNITED FEATURE SYNDKATE
MI
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ANY CUTS YOU CAN MAKe
I
I CAN MAKe BeTTeR
I CAN MAKE ANY CUTS
All
BETTER THAN You!
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No, You CAN'T!
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GAMBLE KING The FLORIDATIMES WAHON
FEATURES systicure
I THINK WE BETTER START
WITH THE PART ABOUT
GORBACHEV TRYING TO
DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN us!
well
I
/
NATO
U.S.
VIEJ
011875AM
MAKISCO
PROTECTING FREEDOM IN EUROP
JUST STICK To
THE ORIGINAL
DESIGN, HELMUT!
W,
GERMAN
GIGN PAINTING
Stealing The Show!
CONVENTIONAL
ARMS
TROOP LEVEL
REDUCTION
FIRST!
RE FIRST! DUCTION
GORBY'S
SHORT RANGE
Now
NUKE
WHO'S
CUTS
UPSTAGIN 6
WHO ,
PL
DO
DillDay
Debroit Free Press
Trimme
Please
Sanias
ALLWE ARE SAYING, IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE...
LOVE
HEYWOW! DID You SEE THAT?
RETURNED HIS SERVE!
IHITIT RIGHT BACK!
HERO
OR WHAT?
OR WHAT
UNTIL WE
SEE HIS
RETURN
Dran
HERALD
UUV
RBERI
NATO
BALL
POOF!
THE
DRUGS
???
DEFICIT
INFLATION
EDUCATION
2/2
BACK HOME
LATS
C
OK He's
POWELL
CLeAN - I
GOT HIS
IMPORTED
ASSAULT
RIFLE!
GEORGE
CRIME
02
0
MADEMUS.
GRRR
GRRR
GRRR
Dr.
HOW LONG DO 1 HAVE, DOC?
WILL 1 WALK AGAIN? WILL 1
PLAY THE VIOLIN AGAIN? WITH
WILL GINGRICH? 1 GET EVEN
TAKETWO
HONORARIA
AND
ANDCALL
us IN THE
MORNING
FOLEY
M.D.
©1989 ALBANT UNNEREAL 7965 SYNDICATE
STAYSKAL
as
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89 TAMPA
HOUSE
TRIBUNE
RJ
CHAMBERS
1007
"I'M NOT AFRAID OF AN ETHICS INVESTIGATION MY LIFE'S AN OPEN
BOOK. HOW MANY COPIES CAN I PUT YOU FELLOWS DOWN FOR?"
OHHANTHE OREGONIAN OCEVEY TRIQUNE
IXIII
НЕЦО, YOU HAVE REACHED THE
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
NO ONE IS HERE RIGHT NOW,
BUT IF YOU LEAVE YOUR
NAME AND NUMBER.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
"MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL.
WHO'S THE MOST ETHICAL OF US ALL?"
and
CONGRESS
WELLS
THE AGUSTACHOOLLES
THE
HOUSE
Blood in the Water.
LET ME GUESS--
YOU HAD AN
UNHAPPY
THATS RIGHT.
CHILDHOOD.
SOCIETY DID IT!
BalmBeahPost
01989
(802
Fr. LANDERDALE
d
A
NEWS/ SUN SENTINA
© TRIBUNE
MEDIA
TRUMP
AMERICA
IT WAS
EASIER THAN
CHANGING ALL THE
NAMES OF THE
INDIVIDUAL
FIRMS.
D1989UNIVERSIC PRESS AIRMT NDI CATE
CLAUDE CAN
HANDLE THAT!
I'M SURE YOU'LL FIND EVERYTHING TO YOUR SATISFACTION, MR. PEPPER. IF NOT, PLEASE
FEEL FREE TO RAISE HELL.'