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The author proposes that teachers familiarize themselves with the practical advantages of single subject methodology in attempting to meet the various learning needs of students in their classroom. Two examples are provided to illustrate how these designs can act as tools for deciding which of several teaching methods are most beneficial to particular students.

THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE WAVE OF POPULAR DISSENT THAT SWEPT THROUGH CHILE IN 1985, AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PINOCHET REGIME. CHILE TODAY IS SEEN TO LACK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, AND IS SUFFERING FROM A STRUCTURAL CRISIS. DEMOCRACY MUST REPLACE THE DICTATORSHIP TO RELIEVE THE CRISIS AND THE AUTHOR MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR ECONOMIC REFORM.

Der Autor untersucht Verhältnis bzw. Kongruenz von offizieller politischer Struktur und dominanter politischer Kultur der DDR, das Verhältnis zwischen sozio-politischer Stabilität des Regimes und der sich wandelnden politischen Kultur und die Interaktion von traditioneller deutscher politischer Kultur vor 1945 sowie offizieller und alternativer Kultur der DDR. (BIOst-Klk)

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE HISTORICAL ISSUES OF ADAM SMITH'S WEALTH OF NATIONS, BY ATTEMPTING TO PLACE SMITH'S IDEAS IN ITS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTEXT AS WELL AS TO RECORD SUBSEQUENT CRITICISM OF SMITH'S VIEWS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON THE DIVISION OF LABOR PROBLEM AS EXPRESSED IN SMITH'S EXAMPLE OF THE PIN MAKING.

BERNIE SAUNDERS, THE SOCIALIST MAJOR OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT, IS A CENTRALIST INTERESTED IN ACCUMULATING POWER IN HIS OFFICE, AND HAS NOTIONS OF CLASS ANALYSIS THAT WOULD EMBARRASS LENIN AND MARX. THE AUTHOR TRIES TO PLACE HIS VIEWS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A CITY IN FRENZIED TRANSITION, AND WITH A MIX OF OLD VERMONTER AND YUPPIE POPULATIONS.

THE AUTHOR EXAMINES SOME QUESTIONS IN ELECTION PROBABILITY IN MULTI-PARTY SYSTEMS, INCLUDING, WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY THAT THE PARTY WITH LESS VOTERS WILL HAVE MORE SEATS, THAT A SMALLER PARTY WILL GET FEWER SEATS AND BECOME EXTINCT, AND THAT THE LARGEST PARTY WILL WIN THE HOUSE MAJORITY. A PROBABILISTIC MODEL IS INTRODUCED AND SOME EXAMPLES ARE PROVIDED.

THE AUTHOR REVIEWS EVIDENCE OF EUROPE-BASHING IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY OVER THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, DISCUSSES THE VISION OF AN AMERICA FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF ALLIANCE, THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THIS VISION AND THE EUROPEAN DREAM OF NATIONALIST NEUTRALISM, AND ARGUES THAT ANY SUCH NEUTRALITY, OR ABANDONMENT OF EUROPE, WOULD HAVE GRAVE COSTS.

To study the impact of devaluation, the author focusses on three main factors: the structure of the trade sector in terms of the response of trade flows to changes in relative prices; the relative intensity of domestic value added with respect to imported in production across export and import competing industries; the degree of wage indexation

The author briefly looks at the third congress of the Cuban Communist Party and outlines the main political economic and social problems of the country. He points out the central role that military mobilization of the populace has played in the revolution's survival and the influence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces on the Party

The article analyses the general regularities which formed the revolutionary situation in Cuba in the 1950s and discusses the specifics of the emergence of the subjective factor of the Cuban revolution which overthrew the Batista military dictatorship and launched socialist development. The author pays particular attention to the methodology of study of the subjective factor

Some of the main factors that underlie Israel's foreign policies in Central America are scrutinized. The author points out the connections between Israel's domestical political situation, its policies in the Middle East and its Central American envolvement. He emphasizes the significant congruence between the outcome of Israel's activities in Central America und US-interests in that region

After briefly overviewing British imperial strategy between 1945-51, Moslem militancy and the stability of colonial Malaya between 1945-48, the author describes the background of Maria Hertogh or Nadra riots and their aftermath. Repercussions of the crisis upon Britain's relations with Moslems inside Malaya and with key Islamic states. (DÜI-Sen)