Israel, a cooling of the partnership with South Africa that has blossomed since 1973 (Prime Minister Menachem Begin heads the Israel-South Africa Friendship League), or progress in the Camp David talks that draws more Arab nations into the Mideast peace process.
'China's Islamic Connection" Lillian Craig Harris, in Asian Affairs (MayIJune 19811, Heldref Publications, Suite 500, 4000 Albemarle St., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20016.
Seeking Third World allies against Soviet expansionism, especially...
non-Islamic states to use Islam as a political tool have never had a happy ending," Harris notes. "Islam is a two-edged sword."
Greek fie "Dateline Athens: Greece for the Greeks" F. Stephen Larrabee, in Foreign Policy (Winter 1982), P.O. Box 984, Farm-ingdale,N.Y. 11737.
Last October, Greece alarmed its Western allies by electing a socialist Prime Minister who had harshly criticized Greek membership in NATO and in the European Economic Community. But Andreas Papandreou's...
Sheldon Needed: Politics S. Wolin, in democracy (Oct. 1981), 43
West 61st St., New York, N.Y. 10023,
When Ronald Reagan ran for President, he pledged his commitment not only to traditional morality and patriotism but also to a particular set of economic theories. Since World War 11, economic viewpoints have increasingly prevailed in public policy-among liberals, influ- enced the likes of Lester Thurow's Zero Sum Society, and conserva- tives, versed in the Laffer curve and supply-side economics....
cutting back the percentage of cases personally handled judges.
Americans have always believed that justice must be safeguarded by individuals of unusual learning, wisdom, and integrity. Yet from 1940 to 1980, the number of appeals filed in federal courts jumped by 573 percent, from 3,446 to 23,200. Meanwhile, the number of judges grew by only 131 percent (from 57 to 132). The average judge's caseload has soared from 60 to 175 (or 525, counting the cases that members of the three-judge appeals...
Otis L. Graham, Jr., in
as Floundered The Center Magazine (Mar.-Apr. 1981),
P.O. Box 4068, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103.
An automobile jerrybuilt with unmatched parts will break down sooner or later. Similar incongruities largely explain the decline of American liberalism, argues Graham, a University of North Carolina historian.
Nineteenth-century "liberals" were predominantly small business- men. Opposed to the encumbrances of mercantilism and resentful of the state's role, they talked...
key planning agencies (e.g., a national development bank, a national service program). And they must acknowledge the need for "social cohesion." Americans' physical and "genetic" health, selective curbs on immigration, and an emphasis on community and cultural bonds, Gra- ham insists, can be promoted individuals with a "progressive" outlook and not left to "ethnocentric conservatives."
A Political Voice "Business and the Media" by Kevin Phil-
lips,...
John A. Ham-
,. -"u,'aÃ? Not to Link
~1,7Ã?Â¥ ilton, in Foreign Policy (Fall 1981), P. 0. Box 984, Farmingdale, N.Y. 11737.
"Linkagew-giving a little here to get a little there-has appealed to President Reagan and his three immediate predecessors as a way to deal with the Soviets. Unfortunately, one chip they have put on the bar- gaining table-the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)-is unlinkable, writes Hamilton, a U.S. Foreign Service officer.
Successful...
Richard A. Harrison, in Diplomatic History (Summer
c h' 1981), Department of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is generally portrayed scholars as a watchdog who couldn't bark much during the 1930s-an international-ist by inclination who was constrained by staunch isolationism at home. But Harrison, a Pomona College (Calif.) historian, writes that FDR once tried to organize a world peace conference where the democ- racies would unite...
William A. Flanagan, in Air University
Review (May-June 1981), Superintendentto Dogfight of Documents, Government Printing Of-
fice, Washington, D.C. 20402.
America's new jet fighters-the F-15, F-16, and A-10-have a lot in com-
mon: great speed, dazzling maneuverability, and a single-seat cockpit.
Flanagan, an Air Force major, argues that such heavy reliance on one-
man fighters is a big mistake.
In the first fighter planes of World War I, one man flew, and his part-
ner fired a machine...
a backseat partner.
fi"+,,...-the "The New England Soldier" John Fer- .^&. Jje ling, in American Quarterly (Spring 1981), c, ~~ Gf 76 303 College Hall, University of Pennsyl-z3pz7pli vania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104; "Why Did
Colonial New Englanders Make Bad Sol- diers?" by F. W. Anderson, in The William and Mar\' Quarterly (July 1981), P.O. Box 220, Williamsburg, Va. 23185.
By the 1770s, many New England colonists were spoiling for a revolt that would rid Americans...