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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.

The author presents an essay on the images of Africa that are presented to the Japanese through the press, television and films as well as the reports of Japanese businessmen in Africa. These images inevitably have an influence on foreign policy decisions. (DÜI-Ott)

THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE MOST IMPORTANT RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE, WHICH IS THE FACT THAT DESPITE A WORLD DEPRESSION WITH MILLIONS UNEMPLOYED, WORLD TRADE CONTINUED ON ITS UPWARD PATH. THE AUTHOR REVIEWS HOW ECONOMISTS ARE EXPLAINING THIS REMARKABLE RESILIENCE TO RECESSION.

In a combative review of recent conciliation literature, the author argues that the concept has been 'stolen' by court welfare practitioners to serve their professional biases. This distortion of conciliation both undermines its potential and can be damaging to consumers' interests.

THE AUTHOR QUESTIONS ARGUMENTS THAT THE POLICIES OF THE FED ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFLATION OF THE, LAST TWENTY YEARS, AND ARGUES THAT THE UNPRECEDENTED EXPANSION OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DEBT IS THE REAL CAUSE OF THE BOOM AND THE INFLATION.

The need for research-based assessment and curriculum for early intervention with visually impaired infants is discussed. The author presents relevant research findings from various disciplines relating to brain damage, intervention, drug therapy, visual assessment, neurodevelopmental facilitation techniques, and sensory development.

The author examines the influence of ILO standards in legislation governing trade union rights, discrimination in employment, forced labour, employment policy and human resources development, hours of work, weekly rest and paid leave, wages, occupational safety and health, labour inspection and social security

In a series of two articles, the author presents a socio-environmental model which provides a framework for assessing the needs of abusing families. In the 2nd article (to be published in the Spring Issue) she looks at the application of the model in practice.

In the quest for equal justice for black people in the criminal process, the author identifies how black defendants suffer cumulative racial disadvantage, significantly because of the white values, subtle racism and unintended consequences of court reports, and provides illuminating and mortifying examples.

The author reviews the concept of mainstreaming and relates her personal experience with integrating visually impaired and sighted students in a special day class setting. Some academic and social benefits to both groups are presented, and issues related to success are discussed.