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Sees US military spending as an unstated industrial policy that is eroding the manufacturing sector.

THE INCREASING SUPPORT FOR THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY, FOR CHRISTIAN BASE COMMUNITIES, FOR UNIONS AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS IS EVIDENT, AND IT CONCERNS BOTH THE FILIPINO ELITE AND U.S. POLICYMAKERS. THE ALIENATION FROM THE MARCOS REGIME IS COMPLETE. IF THE OPPOSITION CAME TO POWER, A WAIT-AND-SEE ATTITUDE WOULD LIKELY EMERGE. BUT IF CHANGES ARE NOT FORTHCOMING, THE RADICALIZATION PROCESS WILL INTENSIFY. THERE IS LITTLE REASON TO BELIEVE THE ELITE OPPOSITION WILL WILLINGLY ALTER THE EXISTING ECONOMIC STRUCTURE. TO MAINTAIN ITS CONTROL IT TOO MAY BE FORCED TO RESORT TO AUTHORITARIAN METHODS. HOSTILITY TO U.S. INTERVENTION IN THE PHILIPPINES HISTORICALLY HAS COME FROM STUDENTS, WORKERS, AND OTHER GROUPS OF THE LEFT. TODAY IT IS BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD, AND IT IS UNLIKELY THAT FILIPINOS WILL TOLERATE FUTURE INTERFERENCE WILLINGLY. ON THE OTHER HAND, U.S. BASES IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE CONSIDERED OF STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE TO WASHINGTON. EVEN THOSE IN CONGRESS WHO HAVE BEEN MOST CRITICAL OF MARCOS AND U.S. INTERVENTION ELSEWHERE, EXPRESS CONCERN OVER POTENTIAL LOSS OF U.S. INFLUENCE IN MANILA.14 AS THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTED MARCOS, NO DOUBT IT WILL SUPPORT THE SUCCESSOR THAT IS MOST WILLING TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS. THE STAGE IS SET FOR ANOTHER IMPERIALIST VENTURE.

AUTHOR, A U.S. SENATOR, ARGUES THAT THE SPREAD OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - AND ITS NECESSARY CORRELATE OF QUOTA-IMPOSITION - IS IN BREACH OF THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. THE ARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THIS KIND OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, OFFERING AN ARGUMENT FOR NATURAL MARKET EROSION OF DISCRIMINATION AND REPORT ING A STUDY ON THE INCREMENTAL COSTS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.