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Modified, British versions of the Californian Fascism & Ethnocentrism scales were admin'ed to writers of letters to the press, expressing support of opposition to Enoch Powell (extreme right wing Member of Parliament in British Parliament) after his first speech on race relations in May 1968. 60 Pro-Powellites & 23 anti-Powellites completed the scales. The ethnocentrism scale consisted of 5 ingroup items & 7 items expressing rejection of colored immigrants. The same scales were also completed by 96 'naive' S's, students at a Coll of educ, where the issue of Powell's views on race relations had never been a public one. It was found that there were large & signif diff's in both E- & F-scale scores between the 3 groups. The pro-Powellite S's had high scores on both scales, while the anti-Powell S's had low scores on both of them. The naive S's occupied intermediate positions. AA.

Entgegen den allgemeinen Erwartungen haben die wirtschaftlichen Sanktionen gegen Rhodesien nach der UDI zu einer strukturellen Veränderung der Wirtschaft mit langfristigen Entwicklungsmöglichkeitengeführt. In Anlehnung an Andre Gunder Frank stellen die Autoren fest, daß Isolation vom System des Weltkapitalismus Vorbedingung für das ökonomische Wachstum eines unterentwickelten Landes ist. (DÜI-Ker)

'The events of recent years have brought out the conflicts that can arise between the continuing pressures for political independence and the inescapable truths of economic interdependence in the modern world'. – Recent words from the horse's mouth, to wit the British– North American Committee, consisting of some 100 leading industrialists of the western world who view with alarm the strong desire on the part of the emerging nations to exercise ever-greater control over their own mineral resources. In a concise report, they sternly remind the governments of developing countries of the dire consequences of the hostile attitude to foreign investors as expressed in demands for higher taxes, more local participation, and – Heaven forbid – nationalisation.1