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RUSSIAN READINESS TO PURSUE JOINT VENTURES WITH THE USA IN THE AREA OF MISSILE DEFENSE HAS BEEN EXPRESSED ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. THIS DISCUSSION IDENTIFIES SOME OF THE SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS FOR EARLY CONSIDERATION IN A RENEWED FORUM--A FORUM THAT INITIALLY COULD BE DEDICATED TO THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF FACILITATING ACCOMMODATION ON MISSILE DEFENSE, THE ABM TREATY, AND RELATED ISSUES, BUT LATER COULD BE BROADENED. PROGRESS ON THESE AGENDA ITEMS WOULD HELP ESTABLISH THE APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS FOR MUTUAL ACCOMMODATION ON MISSILE DEFENSE AND POSSIBLY EVEN SUBSEQUENT BROADER STRATEGIC COOPERATION.

Similarities between Israel & Pakistan, both of which emerged to protect the interests of religious minorities -- Jews & Muslims, respectively -- are noted. These two countries had similar problems as emerging nations in the areas of boundaries, migration, languages, identity, & the legal system. In both cases, the nationalist demands for a religious state were initially opposed by religious leaders, who then later sought to take control & gained disproportionate power. At present, the governments fall between theocracy & secularism. It is concluded that nation building in both countries is far from complete. M. Pflum

By the late 1970s most of China's rural population had access to basic health services at a reasonable cost. Since then the transition to a market economy has affected the rural health services in a number of ways. This article outlines how changes in the system of health finance and a radical decentralisation of public administration have led to cost increases and deterioration of some health services. It argues that policy makers need to redefine government's role in the health sector in the context of the emerging market economy. (IDS/DÜI)

Compares 1983-1989 monetary returns to interstate mobility by sex & marital status via panel data analysis of the Surveys of Income & Program Participation (N = 74,653). Returns exhibit high variance, with a negative mean for couples & single men, while single women & single college graduates receive positive returns from moving. Married women experience a large reduction in personal income because of their reduced employment rates, which reflects their status as "tied" movers. The finding of lower returns to migration, compared with studies using data from the 1960s & the 1970s, reflects fundamental changes in economic motivations for migrating. 4 Tables, 21 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractIntermediary bodies liaise between the voluntary and statutory sectors. Frequently, they have also functioned as local development bodies. This article examines changes in the position of intermediary bodies following the growth of welfare pluralistic policies in the late 1980s, as viewed from the framework of a case study of the Council for Voluntary Service in northwest England. The author concludes that while the voluntary and statutory sectors may now be more willing to accept an intermediary role for such bodies, it remain difficult for them also to undertake development work.

The article presents a conceptualisation of 'citizenship regime' created out of a neo-institutionalist approach to political economy and then uses the concept to examine changes in the Canadian citizenship regime over time. The basic proposition is that if the postwar years were marked by regimelike discursive and practical coherence in a wide range of institutional connections between state and citizens, states' and citizens' responses to the economic and political conditions of the late 20th century are dismantling and reconstituting citizenship, so that the postwar regime exists no more.

This study examines the nature and distribution of job satisfaction in a national sample of 641 wardens of state prisons for adults. The results indicate that these corrections executives are a highly satisfied occupational group, but there is evidence that job satisfaction among wardens has declined since the late 1980s. Measures of social support in the workplace, including effective communication with staff and support and confidence in subordinates, are important determinants of wardens' job satisfaction. The implications of these findings in the context of corrections' increasing politicization and punitiveness are discussed.

An organizational development (OD) survey was administered to members of a military organization, supervisory groups received feedback, and a follow-up survey was conducted one year later. We hypothesized that initial levels would predict which supervisors would use the feedback, and that use of the feedback would lead to subsequent improvements. Results indicated that workgroup (N = 142) perceptions of management-supervision, supervisory communications, and work-unit climate changed significantly, but differentially, consistent with our hypotheses. Results are discussed in terms of previous meta-analytic reviews of OD interventions and practice in organizations.

Although nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries in Siam tried to debunk local spirit beliefs and witchcraft accounts, they and their actions were perceived in terms of local supernaturalist frameworks. Late twentieth-century Thai Christians, supernaturalists themselves, have reclassified local spirit activity through their own Christian frameworks, using local vocabularies of spirit phenomena but retaining master categories of interpretation and practice drawn from North American evangelicalism. This practice puts Thai Protestant churches in a direct dialogue with their cultural contexts and leaves them positioned to benefit from Thailand's increasing religious pluralism.

This paper attempts to problematise the founding of 'Tropical Medicine' in the late 19th century as a classificatory act by posing a question: why was the discipline founded when it was and not earlier? In the process, it offers an alternate genealogy of its advent by arguing for a mid-19th century episteme, in terms of fevers, the constitution of the body, and the weather-in originating fevers and in predisposing the body towards disease—both in the temperates and the tropics, as being crucial to an understanding of the discourse on the tropics.

THE DISPUTE BETWEEN IRAN AND THE BRITISH-OWNED ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL COMPANY IN THE LATE 1940S HAS RECEIVED A GREAT DEAL OF SCHOLARLY ATTENTION. THE DISPUTE HAD FATEFUL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ENTIRE REGION. BECAUSE OF THEIR SIGNIFICANCE, THE RESULTING EVENTS OVERSHADOWED THE IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT AND THE BRITISH-MANAGED AND LARGELY BRITISH-OWNED IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY FOR SUCCESSIVE REVISIONS OF THE COMPANY'S CONCESSION. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARICLE IS TO SHED LIGHT ON THESE MAJOR EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE OLD REGIME IN IRAQ.