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AMERICAN RAILROADS TEND TO PROVIDE FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION FOR A RELATIVELY FEW LARGE SHIPPERS, THEREBY BENEFITING FROM MUCH LONGER AVERAGE HAULS, AUTOMATED FREIGHT HANDELING SYSTEMS, AND LOWER MAINTENANCE COSTS. POLITICAL PRESSURE WILL PROBABLY LIMIT U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY OPTIONS TO THE FIRST TWO, RESULTING IN SPENDING MORE PUBLIC MONEY FOR LESS RAIL SERVICE.

This book examines some of the important linguistic changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe since 1991. Most of the papers deal with Russia, which has undergone a particularly complex process of re-adjustment. Though it is early to draw definitive conclusions, the contributions provide a preliminary understanding of the new language situation of post-Soviet Russia. Of the remaining papers one compares Russian, Ukrainian, one examines Komi-Permiak, while one looks more generally at language and society

Studies the sources and the potential consequences of political crises. Concentrates on the more external and objective features of the contemporary situation of nation states.

Explores the fiscal, organizational, and political ways the U.S. system of motor fuel taxation differs from what might be considered its polar opposite, the French system. Focuses on taxes, the flow of money, and the politics of who controls how the money is spent.

'Regime' is often used to describe behaviour in international political economy. Focuses on a new definition of the auto trade regime based on 4 fundamental rules that have persisted since the 1950s. Concludes that the auto industry case illustrates the tendency of analysts to underestimate protectionist elements in industry trade regimes and to overestimate the amount of changes that take place in their fundamental rules. (Abstract amended)

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON AMERICAN POWS IN PREVIOUS WARS; MUCH REMAINS TO BE WRITTEN ON THE VIETNAM POWS. A VAST AMOUNT OF INFORMATION REMAINS UNTAPPED. DESPITE THE DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE NOW OR IN THE FUTURE, THE POW MEMOIRS WILL REMAIN A BASIC SOURCE. ALTHOUGH CONSIDERABLE TIME HAS NOW ELAPSED SINCE THEIR RETURN, SOME FORMER POWS MAY YET ADD THEIR MEMOIRS TO THE POOL. EVERY ADDITION WILL BE A WELCOME CONTRIBUTION. THE EXTANT BIBLIOGRAPHY IS A VALUABLE BODY OF LITERATURE THAT PROVIDES A FASCINATING STORY AND HELPS THE STUDENT OF THE VIETNAM WAR COME TO GRIPS WITH AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THAT EXPERIENCE.