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AS BRITAIN SEEKS TO KEEP ITSELF FROM GETTING TOO DEEPLY ENTANGLED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU), THE AUTHOR SPECULATES ABOUT LOOKING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND POSSIBLY INTEGRATING GREAT BRITAIN MORE CLOSELY WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. IF BRITAIN CHOOSES TO AVOID THE ECONOMIC TIES OFFERED BY THE EU, IT STILL HAS SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE ALLIANCES, THE MOST PROMISING OF WHICH IS NAFTA. BRITAIN ALREADY HAS STRONG HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TIES TO BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND MANY NORTH AMERICAN LEGISLATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS BELIEVE THAT THE SAFEST INTEGRATION COMES WHEN POLITICAL TIES PRECEDE ECONOMIC ONES. WHILE THE U.S. HAS TRADITIONALLY ENCOURAGED A MORE UNIFIED EUROPE, SOME AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE STARTING TO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF A CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY IN EUROPE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO SECURITY ISSUES. CONCERN OVER EUROPE'S SHABBY TREATMENT OF TURKEY, THE MIDDLE EAST'S MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRY, IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE TROUBLING SENIOR OFFICIALS.

TO THE INCREDULITY OF THE WORLD, PROSPEROUS CANADA STANDS YET AGAIN AT THE BRINK OF CONSTITUTIONAL COLLAPSE. TO RESOLVE THIS CRISIS ONCE AND FOR ALL, CANADA MUST DECIDE WHAT IT STANDS FOR. TRADITIONALLY, THE COUNTRY DISTINGUISHED ITSELF FROM ITS AMERICAN NEIGHBOR BY ITS KINDER, GENTLER SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS, NOW DISMAL FAILURES, AND BY ITS BILINGUAL NATIONAL CHARACTER, NOW THREATENED BY QUEBEC'S NEW SEPARATIST GOVERNMENT. BICULTURALISM SHOULD BE CANADA'S RAISON D'ETRE. IF QUEBEC SECEDES, ENGLISH CANADA SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING THE UNITED STATES. EITHER WAY, CANADA WILL BECOME A MORE PERFECT UNION.

THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RE-EVALUATION OF SOVIET HISTORY IN THE 1920'S BY EXAMINING THE EPISODE OF THE LENINGRAD OPPOSITION AND THE XIV CONGRESS AS IT AFFECTED THE KRASNYI PUTILOVETS FACTORY AND ITS PARTY ORGANIZATION. MICRO-LEVEL STUDIES OF SUCH EVENTS SUGGEST THAT THE DEBATES OVER THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POLICIES SHOULD NOT BE SEEN MERELY AS JOCKEYING FOR POWER WITH THE MANIPULATION OF MARXIST AND LENINIST IDEAS. RATHER, THOSE DEBATES REFLECTED THE STRAINS AFFECTING ALL LEVELS OF SOVIET SOCIETY IN THE 1920'S AS WELL AS GROWING DOUBTS ABOUT THE VIABILITY OF THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE FUTURE OF THE USSR'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

DISCERNING OVERSEAS VISITORS TO CANADA HAVE LONG INQUIRED INTO THE RATIONALE OF CANADA AS AN ENTITY INDEPENDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SO HAVE MANY CANADIANS. CONRAD BLACK REVIEWS HISTORICAL DIFFERENCES AND THE RADICALIZATION OF QUEBEC. "MEECH LAKE AND AFTER" IS THEN EXAMINED AND THE "SOUTHERN OPINION" EVALUATED. HE CONCLUDES THAT WHETHER DELIBERATELY OR BY MISADVENTURE, JOINING THE UNITED STATES OR NOT IS THE CHOICE CANADA WILL MAKE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

My camp -- The camp of the talngai-gawarima -- Feeling the Djang : the camp of senior law man Neidjie -- The spider or the web? : the camp of senior law man Mowaljarlai -- Health and land : the camp of Wandjuk Marika -- The journeys : moving between camps -- The camp of 'caring for country' : the world of plains of promise -- The camp from Turtle Island : Thunderheart -- The camp from the sparkling waters of the Pacific -- The end of the journey : a camp of contemporary concerns.

The relationship between economics and politics is a complex one. Economics no doubt has important areas of theory where politics does not play a significant role, yet politics enters into the picture whenever the question is raised of mobilizing human and physical resources for economic ends. What is true of economic activity in general is particularly true of economic growth, where changes in attitudes and methods of work lend great importance to organizational problems. In discussing this question much depends, of course, on what one means by "politics." The term may be used in a very narrow and partisan sense or, much more broadly, be applied to policy-making in regard to strategic choices among alternate courses of action. It is in this broader sense that politics is inherent in all economic action, and policy-making in this realm may be handled by a variety of agencies. When it comes to studying different systems of economic growth, policy decisions must be taken into consideration as much as rates and levels of achievement.

It is doubtless a truism to state that Europe is on the wane, at least as a center of political power. Few would deny that a change of major proportions has taken place since the turn of the century in Europe's role in world affairs. But once this is stated, agreement ceases. The causes and mechanism of Europe's decline have received the most varied interpretations, and the bearing of this change on the future is so profound that each school of thought tends to evaluate the destiny of Europe in terms of its own political philosophy. The widest assortment of scholars and prophets have been drawn to this problem by the fascination of its perplexities, and their treatises already comprise a formidable library. Yet the solutions proposed can scarcely be said to have resulted in a clarification of the problem of Europe, and even the most distinguished and influential of these writers have found relatively few areas of agreement.