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Veteran beltway players discuss the politics of P2P technology and Privacy. How far can or should Congress go? Can the United States export its values or its laws in this area? Are content owners in a losing Luddite struggle? What is the role of litigators, lobbyists and legislators in this war?

Discusses the poor state of the economy, uneasy relations with neighboring states, and continuing tension between political parties; in light of elections scheduled for Apr. 27, 1997. President Saleh's General People's Congress, allied with the Moslem fundamentalist Al-Islah, in northern Yemen, and the Yemeni Socialist Party, in the south.

John Gilmour.Reconcilable diferences? Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit.Allen Schick,The Capacity to Budget.Richard Fenno,The Emergence of a Senate Leader: Pete Domenici and the Reagan Budget.Dennis Ippolito,Uncertain Legacies: Federal Budget Policy from Roosevelt through Rragan.Stanly Collender,The Guide to the Federal Budget, Fiscal 1992.

The retired General Fidel Ramos was proclaimed as the president of the republic on 11 May 1992 by the Philippine congress. After a look at the Aquino legacy, the author explores the 1992 elections and the political and economic situation in the Philippines under President Ramos. (DÜI-Sen)

The authors look at the economic reform measures introduced by president Fernando Collor de Mello, administrative reform, gubernatorial elections and elections for the Congress held in October 1990, Brazil's debt and foreign relations, and the Collor administration's serious efforts to address the environmental problems of the country

The author examines Hong Kong's legal and administrative relationship with the Central People's Government after Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997. In doing so, he scrutinizes the Basic Law of the Hongkong Special Administrative Region (SAR), enacted by the National People's Congress in Beijing on 4 April 1990. (DÜI-Sen)

Using fragmentary evidence, attempts to identify whether and when Congress is able to let go of its parochial concerns to target federal funds to the neediest. Indicates that despite a strong rationale for providing a safety net, congressional distributive politics works to undermine this objective. (SJK)

SOUTH AFRICA IS ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES WHERE TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP AND MILITANCY HAVE INCREASED DURING THE CURRENT RECESSION. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS ARE DISCUSSED, INCLUDING ITS PRINCIPLE OF NON-RACIALISM. UNIONS THAT EMPHASIZE MORE PARTICIPATION BY MEMBERS ARE ALSO GROWING.