a national data bank? If it is, the Soviet authors contend, the American "bourgeois state" will be able to plug into the telephone conversations, credit ratings, and political affiliations of all Americans. The result would be an "authoritarian state" that would repress "bourgeois law and order," constitutional rights, and liberal elements.
Apparently, say the authors, the only political force "consistently and on principle" opposing Big Brother in America...
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Food Stamps: "The Case Against In-Kind Transfers: The
Food Stamo Proeram" bv Judith A. Bar-
mack, in policy Analysis a all 1977), Uni-Not a Bargain versity of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.
Basic changes in the American welfare system over the past decade have led some analysts to conclude that widespread, de facto welfare reform is underway. The food stamp program and Medicaid, for exam- ple, which provide help "in kind" rather than i...
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Food Stamps: "The Case Against In-Kind Transfers: The
Food Stamo Proeram" bv Judith A. Bar-
mack, in policy Analysis a all 1977), Uni-Not a Bargain versity of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.
Basic changes in the American welfare system over the past decade have led some analysts to conclude that widespread, de facto welfare reform is underway. The food stamp program and Medicaid, for exam- ple, which provide help "in kind" rather than i...
Richard H. Solomon, in Foreign Affairs (Jan. 1978), 428 E. Preston St., Baltimore, Md.21202.
U.S. concern for the security of Taiwan is the chief obstacle to normali- zation of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. The Chinese demand the cutting of U.S. ties with Taiwan, abrogation of the 1954 US.-Taiwan mutual defense pact, and withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the island. Solomon, director of the Rand Corporation's research program in International...
Dewey F. Bartlett and James on NATO Arms H. Polk, in AEI Defense Review (no. 6, 1977), American Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Standardization of military hardware, long an operational goal of the 13-nation Atlantic alliance, is the "key" to NATO's survival as an effec- tive deterrent, according to Senator Bartlett (R.-Okla.). But General Polk, former commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe and the Seventh Army, believes that standardization...
Dewey F. Bartlett and James on NATO Arms H. Polk, in AEI Defense Review (no. 6, 1977), American Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Standardization of military hardware, long an operational goal of the 13-nation Atlantic alliance, is the "key" to NATO's survival as an effec- tive deterrent, according to Senator Bartlett (R.-Okla.). But General Polk, former commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe and the Seventh Army, believes that standardization...
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The major problem with any broad new treaty, says Westervelt, is that, given the primitive state of electronic inspection devices, the Soviet Union could easily circumvent the terms of a "comprehensive" ban without detection. The closed nature of Soviet society adds to the problems of verification. Small underground tests, Westervelt believes, would pass without notice, enabling the Soviets to test and modernize their weapons systems.
In the United S...
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of Japan's potential nuclear capacity.
The new findings also call into question the arguments of historians who contend that dropping a second bomb on Nagasaki in August 1945 was unnecessary. In their view, the earlier Hiroshima bomb had broken the Japanese will to fight. But, according to Shapley, after the Hiroshima bomb was exploded, physicist Nishina was summoned to Tokyo and asked first whether the bomb had been atomic, then "whether Japan could h...
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of Japan's potential nuclear capacity.
The new findings also call into question the arguments of historians who contend that dropping a second bomb on Nagasaki in August 1945 was unnecessary. In their view, the earlier Hiroshima bomb had broken the Japanese will to fight. But, according to Shapley, after the Hiroshima bomb was exploded, physicist Nishina was summoned to Tokyo and asked first whether the bomb had been atomic, then "whether Japan could h...
Robert Pringle, in Foreign Policy (Win-Foggy Bottom ter 1977-78), 155 Allen Blvd., Far-mingdale, N.Y. 11735.
A recent British commission concluded that Her Majesty's diplomatic service was irrelevant and should be disbanded. The U.S. State De- partment has also had its share of problems, including chronic bad relations with Congress and insecurity dating back to the McCarthy era. These traditional ills, writes Pringle, a foreign service officer, are now being aggravated numerous others, including...