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Underlying the complexity of the EEC's instit'al pattern there is a new principle, tried out in ECSC & modified & extended in EEC-the dialogue between an independent pol'al body whose assigned task is to work for & defend the interests of the Community as a whole, & a body in which nat'l interests are formally represented & defended before a decision is taken. The Commission-Council dialogue is the only entirely original aspect of the Community system. As the volume of work before the Council grows it is possible that 2 important pol'al constitutional issues may be raised-the delegation of powers & the greater use of majority voting. In any future extension of the Community system into the fields of foreign policy or defense, other problems about the working of the Commission-Council dialogue will arise; experience so far would suggest that solutions will not prove impossible to find. IPSA.

Perseverative response patterns are first described in the discrimination learning of retarde children. Results of three experiments show that strategies based on stimulus and position are independent ; dominant error factors observed in a subject during a discrimination task are present on initial trials ; response latencies of learners are significantly higher than those of non-learners, i.e., subjects who exhibit perseverative patterns. In the second part of the study, the effects of three methods of elimination are compared : prolonged exposure on the task, use of a time-out from positive reinforcement and errorless procedures. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms that could explain the development of perserative error patterns in retarded children.