the satellites would trigger transmit- tal of the codes required to fire selected Minuteman missiles. The code combinations-hidden in constantly changing cryptographic memory banks (similar to message-security systems already in use)-would render the odds against accidental launch or Soviet interference as- tronomically high. To further reduce the dangers of a mistaken launch, the satellites would activate Minuteman missiles with "inert" warheads, which could be armed in flight electronically...
Edward L. Feige, in Challen~e(Nov.-Dec. 1979)) 901 ~.-~roadwa~,
white Plains,
N.Y. 10603.
In Washington, bad economic data may result in bad policy. Feige, a University of Wisconsin economist, finds the federal government's statistics on the U.S. economy so incomplete as to be nearly worthless.
The main problem: the official data exclude "irregular" economic activity-from illegal drug trafficking and gambling profits to moonlighting and "off-the-books' bartering. Economist Peter...
Edward L. Feige, in Challen~e(Nov.-Dec. 1979)) 901 ~.-~roadwa~,
white Plains,
N.Y. 10603.
In Washington, bad economic data may result in bad policy. Feige, a University of Wisconsin economist, finds the federal government's statistics on the U.S. economy so incomplete as to be nearly worthless.
The main problem: the official data exclude "irregular" economic activity-from illegal drug trafficking and gambling profits to moonlighting and "off-the-books' bartering. Economist Peter...
2.3 percent annually, nearly double the rate of increase during the '60s. Unemployment hovered between 7 and 9 percent throughout the mid-'70s.
But during the '80s, says Weber, professor of economics and public administration at Carnegie-Mellon University, the labor force will grow only 1.1 percent annually. And the American work force as a group will age. The proportion of workers in the 16-to-24 age bracket will decline from the current 23.9 percent to 18.4 percent by 1990. And, although the...
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adequate food, shelter, health care, and education. Almost regardless of their economic growth, nations can launch successful antipoverty campaigns. Indeed, the few Third World governments that have made solid progress in raising living standards-including Burma, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Hong Kong, North Korea, South Korea, Panama, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Uruguay~constitute a very mixed bag.
Capitalist nations such as South Korea and T...
Sandra L. Hofferth and Kristin A. Moore in American Sociological Review (Oct. 1979), 1722 N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Teen-age mothers-are they destined for a life of poverty, dead-end jobs, and rocky marriages? A recent study Hofferth and Moore, re- searchers at the Urban Institute, indicates that early childbearing does limit future earnings and opportunity. But their findings also show that early births alone cannot explain the plight of many young mothers.
The authors studied the experiences...
Gambling Mark H. Haller, in Journal of Social Issues
(vol. 35. no. 3. 1979). P.O. Box 1248, Ann
Gambling-the word today conjures up images of the Las Vegas "strip," regulated racetrack betting operations, the numbers game, and the pervasive influence of ruthless mobsters. It wasn't always this way, writes Temple University historian Haller.
In 1900, Americans in a sporting mood had several choices. They could try their hands at cards or roulette at the usually illegal casinos found...
the early '50s.) Meanwhile West Indian blacks introduced the numbers game-another form of lottery-into New York City in the early '20s. 1930, West Indians such as Jose Enrique (Henry) Miro, "Big Joe" Ison, and Everett Watson had built powerful empires in the burgeoning ghettos of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit.
Nothing hastened the spread of gambling as much as the telephone. By 1914, bookies such as Arnold Rothstein and Frank Erickson of New York had learned to elude police...
the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare. But Petchesky asserts that many "health professionals" and family-planning advocates still encourage sterilization as a form of population control; their prime targets remain poor, uneducated women seeking protection from unwanted pregnancies.
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conflictsOf Interest? "Interlocking Directorates" Peter Dreier and Steven Weinberg, in Columbia Journalism Review (Nov.-Dec. 1979). 200 Alton PI., Marion, 0hi...
William Adams and Michael Joblove, in Was Bad News Policy Review (Winter 1980), 513 c st.
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
Between 1975 and 1979, after their "liberation" communist leader Pol Pot, an estimated 3 million Cambodians died from starvation, from disease, or by execution. This great human tragedy long went virtually unreported on evening network TV newscasts, say Adams, professor of public administration at George Washington University, and Joblove, a Duke University law student.
Cambodia's...