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Explores the impact of TNCs on the Third World, from a Marxist perspective.

A critical review of theories that form the framework for studies of past & present wars. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's statement that "politics is condensed economics" (no reference given) is generally accepted to be true, although two limits are detailed: (1) the proposition can only be applied in the capitalist epoch; (2) an analysis of such an economic-political relationship necessitates correct theory regarding the economic base in question. Based on these limitations, Lenin's statement is analyzed & illustrated with case examples. The bourgeois school's approach to conflict focuses on the foundations of potential conflicts & holds that states perpetually exist in potentially competitive situations with the goal of domination. This school of thought is shown to be tenuous & simplistic. Here, it is suggested that postcapitalist societies are organized around a conflicting & dynamic compromise between socialist, capitalist, & "nationalist-etatist" social tendencies. National-popular societies in the Middle East & South Africa are analyzed, especially with respect to the conflict between national-popular aspirations & Western imperialism. 3 References. C. Grindle

In the justice system -- based on military courts & tribunals -- of the Israeli-occupied West Bank & Gaza Strip, there is no court of appeal & suspects are regularly convicted on the basis of uncorroborated confessions written in Hebrew, a language with which few Palestinians are familiar. The role of the military courts during the intifada, the popular revolt which began in Dec 1987, is explored with attention to efforts by defense lawyers, through a boycott of the courts, to highlight the erosion of prisoners' rights since the beginning of the intifada. The lawyers now boycotting the courts describe the judicial system as designed to pressure individuals to confess & plead guilty, not to achieve justice. F. S. J. Ledgister

Die Entwicklung des Großhandels mit Produktionsmitteln unter den Bedingungen der vollen wirtschaftlichen Rechnungsführung schafft Voraussetzungen für die Interessiertheit der Produktionsbetriebe an der Erhöhung der Qualität ihrer Erzeugnissse, um dem Bedarf und Ansprüchen der Kunden gerecht zu werden. Der Autor erörtert die Grundprobleme der Entwicklung und Qualitätssicherung innovativer Technik und befaßt sich mit Fragen der Verbesserung der Organisationsstruktur der für den Maschinenbau relevanten Produktion. (BIOst-Ldg)

El acuerdo de Sapoa es el paso mas importante que se ha dado en el contexto regional centroamericano desde la firma de Esquipulas II

The United States post-war foreign policy towards the East has been dominated by a strategic-military orientation. This Perspective will examine East-West relations from a new perspective, one in which an improved climate of economic relations, based upon mutually beneficial trade and investment contacts between the United States and the major communist nations, provides a complement for diplomatic efforts to reduce global military tensions. The threshold analytical premise of this study is that United States foreign policy must be addressed as a comprehensive whole, and that foreign economic, human rights, political and geostrategic policies are not only interdependent, but indivisible. Decisions about United States foreign economic policy therefore must of necessity flow from an initial assessment of the geopolitical milieu in which strategic issues arise. A gradual shift from a strategic-military orientation to a strategic-economic orientation in United States foreign policy may now be possible because of contemporary changes in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (China). These two communist nations will provide the principal case studies for analysis herein of recent reforms in communist countries and their implications for East-West relations.