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In Essence | Summer 1978
The Proxy War

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In Essence | Summer 1978
Rx for Japan: Social Innovation

nine of the more radical OAU members (including Angola, Mozambique and Togo).
Meanwhile, neither Moscow nor Washington has encouraged its tra- ditional ally (Algeria and Morocco, respectively); Algeria has tried in vain to curry favor with the Russians condemning the peace initia- tives of Egypt's Anwar Sadat and seeking to reintroduce the Soviet Union into the Middle East peace negotiations. Mortimer argues that Washington should encourage "self-determination" for West Sahara for the...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Merge and Purge: Reforming the CIA

Dom Bonafede, in
National Journal (Dec. 17, 1977), 1730 MReforming the CIA St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Amid dissension within and public antagonism without, the Central Intelligence Agency embarks on its fourth decade uncertain of its "vanguard" role in the American intelligence community. Admiral Stansfield Turner, its sixth director in as many years, has the unenvi- able task of leading the beleaguered agency through an era of reform. His duty: to balance the demands for openness...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Carter and the South in 1980

Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg, in Pub-South in 1980 lie Opinion (Mar.-Apr. 1978), 1150 17th
St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
In 1960, many Americans voted for John F. Kennedy to disprove the notion that a Catholic couldn't be elected President. A similar feeling about Southerners may have helped Jimmy Carter in the 1976 elec- tions. But according to political analysts Scammon and Wattenberg, such issues as region and religion, once resolved in an election, tend to disappear. As a result,...

In Essence | Spring 1978
What Money Can't Buy

Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg, in Pub-South in 1980 lie Opinion (Mar.-Apr. 1978), 1150 17th
St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
In 1960, many Americans voted for John F. Kennedy to disprove the notion that a Catholic couldn't be elected President. A similar feeling about Southerners may have helped Jimmy Carter in the 1976 elec- tions. But according to political analysts Scammon and Wattenberg, such issues as region and religion, once resolved in an election, tend to disappear. As a result,...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Banki Dannykh

Charles Longstreet Welt- Can't BUY ner, in Policy Review (Fall 1977), 513 C St.
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
President Carter signed a $14.7 billion housing measure last October, calling it a "giant step forward" for the nation's cities. But the evidence is growing, says Weltner, a federal judge and former congressman, that "throwing federal dollars" at urban problems may be next to useless. As a case in point, he cites his hometown of Atlanta, Ga. (pop. 1.7 million).
Weltner...

In Essence | Spring 1978
John Smith's Tall Tales

a national data bank? If it is, the Soviet authors contend, the American "bourgeois state" will be able to plug into the telephone conversations, credit ratings, and political affiliations of all Americans. The result would be an "authoritarian state" that would repress "bourgeois law and order," constitutional rights, and liberal elements.
Apparently, say the authors, the only political force "consistently and on principle" opposing Big Brother in America...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Food Stamps: Not a Bargain

IODICALS

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Food Stamps: "The Case Against In-Kind Transfers: The
Food Stamo Proeram" bv Judith A. Bar-
mack, in policy Analysis a all 1977), Uni-Not a Bargain versity of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.
Basic changes in the American welfare system over the past decade have led some analysts to conclude that widespread, de facto welfare reform is underway. The food stamp program and Medicaid, for exam- ple, which provide help "in kind" rather than i...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Individuals and the State

IODICALS

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Food Stamps: "The Case Against In-Kind Transfers: The
Food Stamo Proeram" bv Judith A. Bar-
mack, in policy Analysis a all 1977), Uni-Not a Bargain versity of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.
Basic changes in the American welfare system over the past decade have led some analysts to conclude that widespread, de facto welfare reform is underway. The food stamp program and Medicaid, for exam- ple, which provide help "in kind" rather than i...

In Essence | Spring 1978
Taiwan's Future

Richard H. Solomon, in Foreign Affairs (Jan. 1978), 428 E. Preston St., Baltimore, Md.21202.
U.S. concern for the security of Taiwan is the chief obstacle to normali- zation of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. The Chinese demand the cutting of U.S. ties with Taiwan, abrogation of the 1954 US.-Taiwan mutual defense pact, and withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the island. Solomon, director of the Rand Corporation's research program in International...

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