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Précis. This volume of 16 essays originated in a conference held in conjunction with the 1988 World AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) Day. The book explores the impact of AIDS on "hospital administrators, health care professionals, and persons with AIDS." It is written with health policy in mind. Editor Gostin warns in his introduction that "[f]ailure to implement strong policies will cost the country its most vital resource—the health and well-being of a predominantly young and vigorous population" (p. 12). The author of each essay makes policy recommendations that, when taken together, amount to a set of policy goals and objectives covering the important facets of AIDS as a chronic illness.

While much of the literature on trade union democracy considers the ability of members to influence union policy or gain union office, not enough attention has been paid to internal systems of jurisprudence. In this article, the author presents evidence of the effects of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implements Workers of America's (UAW) highly formalized system of jurisprudence on democracy in that union. Following a brief section on public policy and union regulation, key decisions of the UAW's Public Review Board are presented. Finally, the attractiveness of the public review model, in light of the current state of government deference and union acceptance, is discussed.

This paper reports the results of a study of sixty selected British and Australian academic texts on social policy and the welfare state. The purpose of the study was to investigate changes over the last fifteen years in the ways in which the position of women and gender‐related issues are dealt with by feminist and non‐feminist writers in the social policy field. Differences in the levels of feminist awareness in the various texts are found to be associated with the sex of the author, the type of book, the date of publication, the country of publication, and the socio‐political and intellectual context in which the various texts were produced.

This Note responds to "Integration of the Individual and Corporate Tax Systems: Taxing Business Income Once," a study the United States Department of the Treasury released on January 6, 1992. This Note explores some of the issues and concerns of integration and considers arguments in support of and against the United States system of taxation. The latter portion of this Note addresses the relationship between international economics and integration, focusing on the potential for international competitive disadvantage under the classical tax system. The author concludes that Congress should read the Treasury's study as a legislative proposal and act upon it to bolster the United States economic competitiveness.

Two completely different societies confronted each other on the military frontier of the Bío Bío River: Hispanic colonial society and that of the Mapuches and other Indian societies. An analysis of the documents on the widespread small pocks epidemic of the frontier region in 1791 allows the author to study those two societies in contact. ; En la frontera de guerra del río Bío Bío se enfrentaron dos sociedades totalmente diferentes: la sociedad colonial hispánica contra los mapuches y otras sociedades indígenas. El análisis de los documentos sobre la peste general de viruelas que se desató en la región de frontera en 1791, permite al autor adentrarse en el conocimiento de aquellas sociedades.

SommaireThe legal framework under the NPT safeguards system did not allow the IAEA to discover any infringement of Iraq's obligations pertaining to non-proliferation and non-acquisition of nuclear lueapons. Security Council Resolution 687 goes beyond NPT's narrow limits and therefore permits the IAEA and the United Nations to look into a wide range of Iraqi industrial activities and thus find what are considered by experts to be military-oriented undertakings that violate international law and obligations under NPT. The author explores the capacity and work of IAEA within both the NPT safeguards system and Security Council Resolution 687, as well as related legal implications.

In the aftermath of World War II, Malaya saw the emergence of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and its attempt to mobilize labour support against the returning British colonial government. The Pan Malayan General Labour Union (PMGLU) was established as a front organization to harness multiracial labour support. The MCP turned to armed revolution in June 1948, following which a state of emergency was declared and all PMGLU-controlled trade unions were suppressed. The author explores the process of rebuilding the trade union movement during the emergency and ascertains the circumstances and conditions that surrounded the process and the impact of the Cold War on trade unionism in Malaya. (DÜI-Sen)

THIS ARTICLE RECOUNTS SOME OF THE INFORMATION FOUND IN NEWLY-AVAILABLE RECORDS AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. WHITE HOUSE GATE LOGS CORROBORATE THE PREVIOUS ALLEGED VISITATIONS OF JUDITH CAMPBELL, MARY PINCHOT MEYER, PAT NEWCOMB AND OTHERS TO THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE. THE LOGS ALSO CORROBORATE 34 VISITS OF DR. MAX JACOBSON BETWEEN APRIL 1961 AND MAY 1962; JACOBSON LATER LOST HIS MEDICAL LICENSE FOR "UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT." RECENTLY RELEASED MEDICAL FILES REVEAL THE EXISTENCE OF A NUMBER OF SERIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEMS WHICH KENNEDY OVERCAME THROUGH "REMARKABLE WILL AND FORTITUDE." THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES BY CALLING FOR FULL DISCLOSURE OF ALL INFORMATION IN THE KENNEDY LIBRARY.

THIS ARTICLE IS ONE OF A COLLECTION WHICH APPEARED AT THE END OF 1992 AND IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF 1993, BUT HAVE LOST NONE OF THEIR POLITICAL IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE. THE ARTICLE IS A RESPONSE TO THE "REFOUNDING" OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY. IT ILLUMINATES THE ENORMOUSLY COMPLEX ISSUES FACING THE REBORN RUSSIAN CP BUT MORE PARTICULARLY SHEDS LIGHT ON THE PROBLEMS OF TACTICS AND STRATEGY WITH WHICH OTHER RECENTLY FOUNDED LEFT PARTIES HAVE TO DEAL IN DEFINING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CPRF. THE AUTHOR CAUTIONS THAT DESPITE DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY IN WHICH THE POLICIES OF THE CPRF ARE BEING DETERMINED, THEY DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE THE DOOR ON COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNISTS.

THE AUTHOR SUBJECTS THE CONCEPT OF "INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY" TO A CRITICAL SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS. HE ARGUES THAT TO DESCRIBE THE CONSENSUAL TENDENCIES WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY IS TO ENGAGE IN A FALSE ABSTRACTION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FROM SOCIAL RELATIONS IN GENERAL. TENDENCIES TOWARDS NORMATIVE INTEGRATION IN INTER-STATE RELATIONS SHOULD BE SEEN AS COMPONENTS OF THE GENERAL TREND TOWARDS GLOBALIZATION. THE CONCEPT OF GLOBAL SOCIETY RATHER THAN INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY SHOULD BE AT THE CENTER OF THEORETICAL ENDEAVORS. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY APPROACH ARE DEMONSTRATED IN THE GULF AND YUGOSLAV CRISES, WHICH IT FAILS TO UNDERSTAND ADEQUATELY, THEREBY LIMITING WESTERN RESPONSES.

Die Zugehörigkeit zu einer bestimmten sozialen Schicht ist allein nicht ausschlaggebend für politisches Bewußtsein und Verhalten. Anhand von Datensätzen - u.a. zum Wahlverhalten, Bildungsniveau, Familiensituation - aus drei verschiedenen "working-class-neighbourhoods" in Sheffield, England, werden verschiedene theoretische Erklärungsansätze, Sozialisationseinflüsse sowie ökologische und sektorale Einflußfaktoren zur Herausbildung von bestimmten politischen Verhaltensweisen überprüft und erörtert. (AuD-Pls)