and large, scenic vistas-rocky outcrops, steep slopes, alpine meadows-rarely include rich timber country. Moreover, soil erosion caused tree-felling, hauling logs, and road- building is more likely in these areas; there is far less damage where the terrain is flatter-and lumbering is most profitable.
Hyde concedes that environmentalists object to some of the foresting methods he endorses~clearcutting (the most efficient form of tree-harvesting) and shorter intervals between harvests (30 to 50 years...
"The Color Film Crisis" Paul C. Spehr,
in American Film (Nov. 1979), Subscrip-
tion Service, P.O. Box 966, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
During the 1950s, Hollywood switched from Technicolor to Eastman Color (still in use today). The result has been new films that fade within a few years to an ugly purple and negatives that will be worthless within a lifetime.
Many of the films-e.g., The Wizard ofOz (1939),An American in Paris (1951)-printed by the old Technicolor method retain their...
contrast, are durable but as yet can only be shown on television screens. One preservation technique under study involves the use of laser-beam holograms (re- cordings of the patterns of light waves).
Many great films of the last 25 years will likely fade into oblivion before the means to save them are perfected, Spehr concludes-all because movie makers failed to reckon on the future profits to be made from the public's abiding interest in their creations.
Monet's "Method and Meaning in...
Peter Alexis Gourevitch, in Compara-
tive Studies in Society and History (July
1979), Cambridge University Press, 32
East 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Ethnic consciousness has been on the rise in the West-for example, among France's Bretons and Canada's Quebeqois. But separatist movements have not always cropped up as a result. Gourevitch, a McGill University political scientist, surveyed eight countries to find out why.
When both political leadership and key industries are centralized in...
Joseuh L. Nosee and John W. Sloan. in
The Russians? of ~nteramerican Studies Ad
JOU~~Z
World Affairs (Aug. 1979), Sage Publica-
tions, 275 South Beverly Dr., Beverly
Hills, Calif. 90212.
Seeing the Soviet Union's massive economic support for Castro's Cuba, Salvador Allende, head of Chile's short-lived Marxist government, ex- pected Moscow to underwrite his socialist program. He was disap- pointed; the Russians did not provide the needed cash. The Kremlin's desire to preserve detente with...
1972, for example, 33 percent of all state-owned buses were out of service due to parts shortages.) Anticipated revenue from the nationalized copper industry was down $500 million in 1971-72 because the worldwide price of copper dropped from 64c a pound in 1970 to 48c a pound in 1972. Yet assistance from the presum- ably sympathetic Soviets amounted to no more than $340 million from 1971 to 1973.
Why did Moscow fail to bail out Allende? The Soviets do not have unlimited means, say the authors;...
Dankwart A. Rus-tow, in Foreign Afairs (Fall 1979), P.0. Box 2615, Boulder, Colo. 80322.
Since becoming a parliamentary democracy in 1945, Turkey has suf- fered from frequent political deadlocks, military coups, and a severe economic decline. Yet there is very little chance of this Muslim country becoming "anotherIran," says Rustow, a political scientist at the City University of New York.
A large foreign debt is Turkey's most pressing problem. Aided US. technology, the country's agricultural...
Howard Crouch, in World in Indonesia Politics (July 1979), Princeton University
Press, Princeton, N.J. 08540.
In precolonial Java (now Indonesia), sultans protected their rule
parceling out favors among competing factions. Since 1959, Indonesia's
Presidents have tried the same "patrimonial" tactic, without the sul-
tans success.
President Sukarno, whose
"Guided Democracy" replaced In-
donesia's fledgling parliamentary
system in 1959, maintained control
by balancing...
Richard L. Lucier, in Public ~dminishation Review (July-Aug. 1979), 1225 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The much-publicized citizens' "tax revolt" of 1978 didn't really hap- pen.
Proposition 13, the property tax relief measure passed Califor- nians in June 1978, was widely heralded by economists and politicians as the opening shot of a middle-class antigovernment, antitax move- ment. Indeed, proposals to limit taxes and/or government spending appeared on ballots in 13...
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property taxes were approved in Alabama, Massachusetts, and Mis- souri.
In several states, Lucier says, voters were more interested in control- ling the growth of state spending than in rolling back county or city taxes. Constitutional amendments approved in Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan, and Texas tied state spending increases to expansion of the state's economy or personal income.
Lucier's conclusion: Voters are concerned about rising state spending and taxes. H...