Uhlaner's own report of a dramatic in- crease in registration (from 39 to 59 per- cent) and voter turnout (from 28 to 59 per- cent) among Mexican-Americans. Uhlaner credits aggressive registration drives. these measures, Mexican-Americans now participate in politics more actively than blacks do. More than ever, blacks seem a constituency in search of a party.
Keeping Secrets "The Fight to Know" by Peter Montgomery and Peter Overby, in Common Cause Magazine (July-Aug. 1991), 2030 M St....
Uhlaner's own report of a dramatic in- crease in registration (from 39 to 59 per- cent) and voter turnout (from 28 to 59 per- cent) among Mexican-Americans. Uhlaner credits aggressive registration drives. these measures, Mexican-Americans now participate in politics more actively than blacks do. More than ever, blacks seem a constituency in search of a party.
Keeping Secrets "The Fight to Know" by Peter Montgomery and Peter Overby, in Common Cause Magazine (July-Aug. 1991), 2030 M St....
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ing off now in search of President George Bush's New World Order, he argues, the United States should abandon internation- alism and start thinking in terms of "purely national interests."
U.S. foreign policy since World War 11, in Tonelson's view, has had the utopian purpose of transforming the world "into a nlace where the forces that drive nations to clash in the first place no longer exist." Internationalism, he says, has encouraged Americans "to think...
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good reason, the historian notes: "They were . . . provocative, vulnerable, and practically useless." The original decision to deploy the missiles had been made in 1957, after the launching of the Soviet Sputnik aroused Europe's fears about the depth of US. commitment to its defense. But the Jupiters were not actually de- ployed until after Kennedy took office in
1961. While he was inclined to cancel de- ployment, his advisers feared that after the tense June summit meetin...
Sid- ney L. Carroll, in Challenge (May-June 1991), 80 Business Park The Wealth Dr., Arrnonk, N.Y. 10504.
A mere one percent of all Americans own nearly one-third of the nation's wealth- $3.7 trillion in 1986. Roughly one-half of their considerable fortunes were inherited. And much of that inherited wealth is not put to imaginative use. On the contrary, asserts Carroll, an economist at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, massive inherited fortunes are typically locked away in estate trusts,...
Sid- ney L. Carroll, in Challenge (May-June 1991), 80 Business Park The Wealth Dr., Arrnonk, N.Y. 10504.
A mere one percent of all Americans own nearly one-third of the nation's wealth- $3.7 trillion in 1986. Roughly one-half of their considerable fortunes were inherited. And much of that inherited wealth is not put to imaginative use. On the contrary, asserts Carroll, an economist at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, massive inherited fortunes are typically locked away in estate trusts,...
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derer. Much of what's wrong, he says, is rooted in the courts' adversarial nature, which necessitates "a bristling array of constitutional safeguards and procedural rules" to protect the accused. Maechling argues for radical reform: taking a leaf from the so-called inquisitorial criminal- justice process used everywhere in Europe except Great Britain and Ireland.
The European approach relies on "ob- jective methods of inquiry rather than . . . pit-bull confrontations," s...
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to answer questions, although the jury, un- like a U.S. panel, may draw a negative in- ference. The defense counsel may cross- examine witnesses and make legal arguments, but "cannot disrupt the pro- ceedings with delaying tactics and frivo- lous objections on points of procedure."
Drawing on the European approach, Maechling recommends reversing the Su- preme Court rulings that make evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amend- ment's prohibition against unreasonable...
this question: If soar. The number of Americans under 65 the cost of health care can be controlled without any medical insurance at all stands through centralized purchasing of a stand- at 37 million. The two problems, notes the ard product, why not lower the costs of Brookings Institution's Henry J. Aaron in other necessities, such as food and housing, the Brookings Review (Summer 1991), are in the same way?" Canada's system is not related, and any effort to solve just one is without problems:...
their se- niors that while they will encounter 'plenty of bumps on the road," as a black general put it, they must surmount them, for the benefit of those who follow.
"Media Goes Wilding in Palm Beach" Katha Pollitt, in TheNaming the Victim Nation (June 24, 1991), 72 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
After Senator Edward M. Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was ac- cused of raping a Palm Beach woman last March, the news media's longstanding practice of preserving t...