Sidney Ulmer, in
The Supreme Court? The Journal of Politics (Aug. 1985), The University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32611.
For at least 25 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been accused of playing favoritesin civil liberties cases (involving issues of free speech, religion, privacy). Many legal scholars have claimed that in those cases posing a governmental litigant against an "underdog," the government side usually wins.
Are those who wage civil liberties battles against the U.S....
greed and self-interest, and his own national community, "a family where we care for each other."
"Progressive Liberalism and American
'Community'" William A. Schambra,
in The public ~nierest (Summer 1985). 10
mail Republics East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
When Walter Mondale went down to defeat in the 1984 election, many political pundits (and Democrats) portrayed the voters' rejection of his campaign themeÃ?â??1'Le us be a community . . .knit together...
Kirsten Amundsen, in The
In Scandinavia Washington Quarterly (Summer 1985), 1800 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
On October 27, 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground near a Swedish naval base in the Karlskrona archipelago. The incident provided undeni- able evidence of Soviet underwater incursions in the Baltic Sea-unau- thorized "visits" that the Swedes had observed since the late 1960s.
Amundsen, a Norwegian journalist and Visiting Fellow at the Atlan- tic Council, sees a complex...
Western journalists), Stockholm has reported some 300 incursions "foreign" submarines.
working. The Swedes now treat such probes as "routine" and no longer openly protest to Moscow.
Norway and Sweden-with their long coastlines-are difficult to de- fend against invasion. Many Western strategists, Amundsen observes, regard the "Norwegian-Soviet border [as] . . . perhaps the weakest link in [the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's] defense lines in Europe." In case...
Shiite Moslems in other Arab states, as so many pundits have predicted. Rather, Iran will probably continue its current "open door" policy with the West, step- ping up trade with Canada, West Germany, and Japan. (In 1983-84, those nations accounted for more than 50 percent of Iran's exports and 70 percent of its imports.)
Relations between the United States and Iran are not beyond repair; Khomeini "is now determined to terminate Iran's pariah status in world affairs." Recently,...
1964, the stockpile had grown so large that President Lyndon B. Johnson decided that no more newly enriched uranium was needed. Since then, new warheads have been fashioned only from recy- cled materials.
Between 1956 and 1969, the United States repeatedly asked Moscow to agree on limits to the production of weapons-grade material. Those proposals went nowhere. The USSR then lagged way behind the United States in nuclear weaponry. Not until 1982, when the Soviets had caught up, did Foreign Minister...
huge trade and federal budget deficits. 1986 or '87, the red ink is likely to encourage higher interest rates, thus undermining U.S. economic growth. That would spell trouble for strug- gling Latin American countries.
Meanwhile, Brainard argues, bankers and politicians are deriving false comfort from the strong role that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played in the crisis. While the IMF has helped to ar- range "stretched out" loan payments and is policing austerity mea- sures...
April 1983, only half of the jobless had found work; their median annual earnings were only $6,726. Yet, Sehgal says, "the foreign-born do not seem more likely than the U.S.-born to be recipients of government benefits." Only 13 percent of the immigrants reported receiving unemployment checks, food stamps, or other forms of federal assistance; among native Ameri- cans, the figure was 14 percent.
That recent arrivals should suffer economic hardship at first is not surprising. But Sehgal...
Wallace Peterson and Paul S.Es-tenson, in The Journal of Post Keynesian Recovery? Economics (Summer 1985), Rutgers Uni- versity, Winants Hall, New Brunswick,
N.J. 08903.
That the U.S. economy enjoyed a substantial recovery in 1983 is not in doubt. But how and why the economy rebounded have become hotly debated subjects among "supply-side" and Keynesian economists.
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PERIODICALS
ECONOMICS, LABOR, & BUSINESS
The Reagan administration cites the...
the Reagan White House in 198 1 advocated cutbacks in social programs, reduced govern- ment regulation, and tax cuts for individuals and Big Business. Rea- gan's goal: to put more people to work and increase productivity, business investment, and personal savings. Yet, despite a 1981 tax cut that reduced the marginal tax rate on median-income families from
27.7 to 25 percent (and on upper-income families from 42.5 to 38 per- cent), participation in the labor force increased only 0.6 percent. The...