PERIODICALS
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
with civil and political liberties, argues Adelman. Some 90 percent of the African countries have one-party governments or military dictator- ships. Few have independent judiciaries or protect free speech. How- ever, the Carter administration is apparently not prepared to make human rights the criterion for a consistent policy toward both black and white Africa. And rather than directly confront Soviet-sponsored arms build-ups, the United States has relied...
their Arab allies. Meanwhile, Handel notes, Israel com- mitted an intelligence error imputing its own strategic theory to the enemy. It assumed that Egypt and Syria would contest Israel's air superiority with jet fighters rather than negate it by effective use of new Soviet ground-to-air missiles. Paradox 3: A quiet international envi- ronment is an ideal cover for war preparations. And 4: The better the intelligence service, the greater the risk of relying on its detailed but faulty findings.
The...
agreeing to disagree on certain issues. Only such an injection of realism can sustain genuine, if modest, progress.
The Navy's "The Transition to V/STOL1' James L.
Holloway 111, in Proceedings of the United V/STOL Plan States Naval Institute (Sept. 1977), An-
napolis, Md. 21402.
Without fanfare, the U.S. Navy decided in 1976 to move from reliance on conventional jet fighters taking off from big flat-tops like the Forres-tal and the Nimitz to development of new "vertical or short...
agreeing to disagree on certain issues. Only such an injection of realism can sustain genuine, if modest, progress.
The Navy's "The Transition to V/STOL1' James L.
Holloway 111, in Proceedings of the United V/STOL Plan States Naval Institute (Sept. 1977), An-
napolis, Md. 21402.
Without fanfare, the U.S. Navy decided in 1976 to move from reliance on conventional jet fighters taking off from big flat-tops like the Forres-tal and the Nimitz to development of new "vertical or short...
Robert J. Sarnuelson, in for East-West Trade National Journal (Oct. 8, 1977), 1730 M
St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The experience of the past five years has changed U.S. thinking about East-West trade, writes Samuelson, a Journal staff writer. First, it is now clear that the Soviet Union and its allies see importing advanced Western technology not as a means of upgrading their armies, as was once feared, but as a way to solve chronic economic problems. Second, a long anticipated trade "bonanza"...
PERIODICALS
ECONOMICS, LABOR & BUSINESS
To sustain imports, the Soviets have allowed a rapid rise in their for-
eign debt, estimated at $14 billion in 1976, up from $1.9 billion in 1970.
Total Soviet bloc debt now stands at $40 billion.
All told, the Eastern and Western economies have drifted together to a degree unimagined a decade ago (Soviet grain imports from the West and proposed Western purchases of Yakutsk natural gas are often cited), but two big "ifs" hang over the...
unsuccessful job-hunting. Providing a job for everyone, says Ginzberg, is too ambitious; neither the public nor private sector can absorb these 17 million "overhangers" of the labor market. His conclusion: Manpower and training measures "should be focused on the groups that are currently least equipped to find and hold jobs."
"Before the Black Death" A. R. Brid-A Plague of Ills bury, in The Economic History Review
(Aug. 1977), 1 Mundells St., Welwyn
Garden City,...
unsuccessful job-hunting. Providing a job for everyone, says Ginzberg, is too ambitious; neither the public nor private sector can absorb these 17 million "overhangers" of the labor market. His conclusion: Manpower and training measures "should be focused on the groups that are currently least equipped to find and hold jobs."
"Before the Black Death" A. R. Brid-A Plague of Ills bury, in The Economic History Review
(Aug. 1977), 1 Mundells St., Welwyn
Garden City,...
unsuccessful job-hunting. Providing a job for everyone, says Ginzberg, is too ambitious; neither the public nor private sector can absorb these 17 million "overhangers" of the labor market. His conclusion: Manpower and training measures "should be focused on the groups that are currently least equipped to find and hold jobs."
"Before the Black Death" A. R. Brid-A Plague of Ills bury, in The Economic History Review
(Aug. 1977), 1 Mundells St., Welwyn
Garden City,...
David
R. Gergen, in Regulation (Sept.-Oct.on Regulation 19771, 1150 17th st., N.w., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
President Carter's early pledge to reduce "the burden of over-regulation" on business contrasts with his administration's early rec- ord of "almost studied ambiguity" toward regulatory reform, contends Gergen, a former aide to President Gerald Ford. This uncertain ap- proach, he believes, is incapable of dealing with federal regulatory growth that has developed a momentum...