Thomas E. Cronin, in Public Opinion
Expectations (Feb.-March 1980), Circulation Depart-
ment. c/o AEI. 1150 17th St. N.W.. Wash- ington, D.C. 20036.
In a recent Gallup Poll, 73 percent of Americans surveyed said that "the public expects more of a President today than in the past." Another survey late last year showed that Americans believe "strong leader- ship" to be the single most important quality in a President.
In 1787, the Founding Fathers designed the Presidency as...
detente.
mid-1975, Tucker contends, Kissinger recognized that his detente policy had failed. Since then, he has backed higher military spending and tougher anti-Soviet policies. But, ironically, his Democratic suc- cessors accepted and extended Kissinger's original approach.
According to Tucker, Carter took office convinced that new condi- tions-chiefly, the nuclear stalemate and the West's economic depend- ence on the Third World-made the superpowers' military strength largely irrelevant. The...
Clarence
Y. H. Lo, in Journal of Political and Mili- tary Sociology (Fall 1979), Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 111.601 15.
Was General Douglas MacArthur "stretching" his orders in late November 1950, when he attempted to drive north to Korea's border with China on the Yalu River? His critics so contend. But according to UCLA sociologist Lo, recently declassified U.S. documents show that the Truman administration explicitly supported MacArthur's ill-fated...
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...
IODICALS
ECONOMICS, LABOR & BUSINESS
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...