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It is generally believed that licensure benefits the social work profession. In this article, the author argues that licensure both positively and negatively affects the employment of women in the social work profession and that the issue of licensure should be closely studied.

THIS ARTICLE IS A STATUS REPORT ON GAMBIA'S DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC CONDITIONS. THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES THAT THE WORLD BANK'S RECOMMENDED ECONOMIC AUSTERITY PROGRAM FOR GAMBIA IS BEGINNING TO SHOW SOME POSITIVE BENEFITS, ALBEIT MAINLY IN THE BANJUL REGION.

Der chilenische Wohnungs- und Grundstücksmarkt wurde unter Pinochet dem freien Spiel der Kräfte überlassen, was zu verschärfter Segregation der städtischen Bevölkerung und 1984/85 zu Massendemonstrationen führte. Die Regierung wurde zu Konzessionen gezwungen. Der Autor meint, daß die im Kampf gegen die Wohnungsnot entstandenen Basisorganisationen eine eigenständige und wichtige Rolle in der zukünftigen politischen Entwicklung Chiles spielen werden

THE AUTHOR ANALYZES THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC AND DEFENSE ISSUES IN THE 1988 AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. HE CONCLUDES THAT VOTERS WANT A CHANGE IN DIRECTION. AS THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY AND REAGAN HIMSELF GROW MORE PASSIVE, VOTERS ARE LOOKING FOR REINVIGORATED NATIONAL LEADERSHIP.

The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants of the supply of manufactured exports from India. Export subsidies are included in the determinants. The author assumes a traditional trade model in the framework of analysis with no differentiation. (DÜI-Sen)

The author examines the elections and their results and the impact of modern Islamic revivalism on politics. The article starts with some background information on the role played by tradition, ethnicity, ideology and economic interests in modern Sudanese politics. (DÜI-Ott)

THE AUTHOR ANALYZES THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DESIRE AMONG AMERICANS FOR OPENNESS IN THE OPERATION OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS AND THE NEED FOR SECRECY IN THE HANDLING OF FOREIGN POLICY MATTERS. HE MAINTAINS THAT SECRECY IS NECESSARY FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SOUND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

An account of the partnership between drug treatment agencies and criminal justice authorities in Holland. The author concludes that although the 'success' rate figures are modest, the quality of care and concern is encouraging, and could offer inspiration to other penal systems.

Social work practitioners often make decisions in children's best interests in regard to access to divorcing parents. In this article, the author reviews legal directives and available research on access arrangements. Practice principles relating to access, separation distress, and parental conflict are suggested.

Political situation prior to the Mar. 1986 legislative elections. Likelihood of constitutional stalemate following the elections.

THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO DETERMINE THE IRRATIONAL SENTIMENT BEHIND ANTI-AMERICANISM, BY SEEING IT AS A TYPE OF XENOPHOBIA. THE AUTHOR THEN EXAMINES HOW THIS PHOBIA OPERATES IN WORLD POLITICS IN GENERAL, AND AS A LATENT INFLUENCE ON EUROPEAN US POLICY SPECIFICALLY.

THIS ARTICLE RESPONDS TO THEORETICIANS OF THE NEW COLD WAR, ARGUING THAT THEY SHARE AN INTEREST IN ISSUES USUALLY DEEMED THE MONOPOLY OF THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND HAVE CERTAIN METHODOLOGICAL FEATURES IN COMMON. THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT THE INCONSISTENCIES IN NEW COLD WAR THEORY.

It is argued that Karl Marx invented an original concept of class that differed sharply from the major pre-Marxian concepts, which held class to be a matter of property &/or power. The relevance of Marx's work is shown to be its determination to displace these two long-existing concepts of class by an insistent emphasis on class understood as a matter of production & distribution of surplus labor. Surplus labor's very existence implies a complex process that defines groupings of people along a new axis of differentiation; ie, persons can be classified according to whether they perform surplus labor, appropriate someone's surplus labor (or its fruits), or obtain a distribution of surplus labor (or its fruits) from an appropriator. The analysis is applied to the current crisis in French socialism under President Mitterrand. Modified AA

THE AUTHOR RESPONDS TO MAYER'S EXTENSIONS OF HIS MODEL OF ARMS RACES AND WAR INITIATION. THE VARIATIONS WHICH MAYER SUGGESTS IN FACT SUPPORT THE GENERAL POINT OF THE AUTHOR'S ARGUMENT, NAMELY THE AVOIDANCE OF WAR IS JUST AS LIKELY AS WAR, ACCORDING TO SUCH MODELS.