the other. But he warns that there are broad gray areas between high energy laser systems designed only to track satellites and the lethal laser weapon systems. This blurring is likely to increase as high energy laser technology ad- vances, producing severe problems for arms control negotiators. On the other hand, Smernoff suggests, perhaps the primary task of long-term arms control should be to seek a smooth transition from the instability of nuclear deterrence based on offensive weapons to reliance...
the Russell tribunal, are "grotesque" and "absurd," says Lewy. The Vietnamese population increased during the war; American aid substantially improved medical care and (temporarily) raised the Vietnamese standard of living. The proportion of civilians killed-45 percent of all war deaths-was no higher than in other conflicts of this century and less than some, including Korea (70 percent of all war deaths).
These "cobwebs of mythology" that contribute to the sense of...
Richard Burt, in The Wash-ington Review (Jan. 1978), Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers Univer- sity, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Western hopes for the success of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union have vastly declined over the past five years. Three trends in Soviet behavior have been especially disconcerting, says Burt, defense analyst for the New York Times. These trends are: the continuing momentum of Soviet weapons procurement; Moscow's em- phasis on air defense...
Richard Burt, in The Wash-ington Review (Jan. 1978), Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers Univer- sity, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Western hopes for the success of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union have vastly declined over the past five years. Three trends in Soviet behavior have been especially disconcerting, says Burt, defense analyst for the New York Times. These trends are: the continuing momentum of Soviet weapons procurement; Moscow's em- phasis on air defense...
Robert
S. Pindyck; "Limits of Arab Oil Power"
Realities of Oil S. Fred Singer; in Foreign Policy (Spring 1978), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
Gloomy predictions that world energy demand will exceed supply by the early 1980s, leading to another jump in oil prices and worldwide recession, are unrealistic. They fail to account for the fact that oil de- mand and production capacity are highly sensitive to changes in price. They also ignore the contrary objectives of the OPEC "spenders"...
Robert
S. Pindyck; "Limits of Arab Oil Power"
Realities of Oil S. Fred Singer; in Foreign Policy (Spring 1978), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
Gloomy predictions that world energy demand will exceed supply by the early 1980s, leading to another jump in oil prices and worldwide recession, are unrealistic. They fail to account for the fact that oil de- mand and production capacity are highly sensitive to changes in price. They also ignore the contrary objectives of the OPEC "spenders"...
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focused almost exclusively on the stock market, where foreigners held an estimated $45 billion worth of securities at the end of 1977. This is now rivaled a great spurt of direct investment, says Samuelson, including the purchase of U.S. companies (e.g., Miles Laboratories by West Germany's Bayer AG), real estate (e.g., the purchase of farms and small real-estate developments by German and Italian investors), and in a few cases the construction of...
these and other barbarians were pastoralism and a nomadic way of life. Lifestyle, not race, says Jones, defined barbarian man.
The Central Asian nomads eventually found themselves in hostile climates and environments and were forced to adopt more "civilized" forms of economic and social organization. the early Middle Ages, the distinctions between "civilized" and "barbarian" cultures had be- come artificial. Yet cultural prejudice continued to cause civilized men to...
Charles 0. Jackson, in The Journal of American Studies (Dec. 1977), Cambridge University Press, 32 E. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Twentieth-century custom enjoins Americans to repress grief and to
deny any thought of death. But it has not always been so. Jackson, a
University of Tennessee historian, reviews the scant literature and finds
three distinct phases in the history of American attitudes and responses
to dying.
In colonial times, when as many as one in four childen died before...
urbanization, rapid advances in medicine, and by an increasingly temporal outlook. Americans are less and less willing to involve them- selves in death and dying. People are allowed to die in institutions and to be buried under unadorned, uninscribed tombstones. There is often no sense of community loss. Our secular society no longer believes in the certainty of afterlife, so natural death and physical decomposition have become too horrible to contemplate or discuss.
Jackson sees hints in recent...