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'The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives' by Anne-Marie Ambert is reviewed.

The relationship between political sophistication & newspaper/TV media use is compared across paradigms that measure effects due to medium & content type & the mediation of one medium by the employment of the other. The notion of political sophistication is differentiated into four components: political interest, political knowledge, cognitive ability, & processing of political information. Telephone interviews in Madison, WI, measured 233 respondents' TV/newspaper use, demographics, political sophistication, & social ideology. Several findings are presented: (1) TV use augmented political interest & improved processing of political information. (2) Local & national newspaper use increased all aspects of political sophistication to a greater degree than local & national TV news programs. (3) National TV news & newspaper use positively affected political interest. (4) Local TV news & newspaper use augmented political knowledge. It is concluded that the notion & function of political sophistication require reassessment, & political sophistication is multifaceted; recommendations for future research are discussed. 5 Tables, 1 Appendix, 89 References. Adapted from the source document.

Examines how arguments against expansion tend to be contradictory, while those favoring expansion stress deterrence, rather than reassurance for NATO members, Russia, and the other countries in Eastern Europe.

Argues that expansion will undermine European security, economic stability, and nuclear non-proliferation, unless the West cooperates fully with Russia. Also outlines US and Russian relations.

Discusses significance of these US National Security Council (NSC) directives, which promoted covert action as a routine instrument of Cold War foreign policy, re-examined strategic objectives, and portrayed the Cold War as an apocalyptic struggle between freedom and communism; 1948-50.

Evaluates significance of the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act and whether its provisions will help to curb abuses by the US intelligence community; focuses on the history of congressional oversight since World War II through the Iran-Contra affair.

A report about indigenous Australian children taken from their families recommended that the government apologize. Three polls (total N = 3,787 respondents) on the question of whether the government should apologize produced three quite different results: one definitively yes, one definitively no, & one that was more evenly divided. After showing why this happened, the results are related to three quite different understandings of what opinion polls should model: opinion expressed through plebiscites; "real" opinion; & opinion based on some sort of deliberation. Also explored is the relationship between what a poll-following Prime Minister might have done & scholarly judgments about quality in public opinion polls. 33 References. Adapted from the source document.