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THE CURRENT NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS' EXECUTIVE IS DOMINATED BY THE LEFT ALLIANCE (A COALITION OF COMMUNIST, LABOUR AND LIBERAL PARTY AND UNALIGNED RADICALS), BUT THE STUDENT BODY AS A WHOLE APPEARS TO HAVE DRIFTED TO A MORE MODERATE POSITION ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. MILLENARISM IS OUT; PRAGMATISM IS ASCENDANT. THE AUTHORS TRACE THE TREND TOWARDS MODERATION AND INVESTIGATE EXPLANATIONS.

Argues that the Code has made a contribution to removing some of the labour abuses existing in the mid-1970s. The overall effect has been marginal and has not eroded segregation but has rather reduced the number of black workers covered by its provisions. It has succeeded in protecting business interests and delaying anti-apartheid pressure for disinvestment. (AFH)

Examines the process of European Political Cooperation (EPC) from the perspective of national diversity. Uses 3 approaches to examine the changing shape of the Community's common foreign policy towards South Africa. There are 'domestic politics', 'symbolic and pseudo politics' and 'agenda management'. Each approach offers an alternative explanation to accommodate the Community's policy dynamic and illustrates the constraints internal to the process of EPC. (PAS)

Since 1985. Some emphasis on South Africa.

This study explores the impacts of alternative emission control interventions for international shipping on the European Seas on relevant air pollutant emissions, examines their consequence on ambient air quality in Europe and the neighbouring regions, and explores the resulting improvements of human health. It estimates the costs of the various policy interventions, and compares them with monetized benefits on human health and other impacts. It is found that further controls of SO₂ emissions, e.g., through SO₂ emission control areas, could deliver rather fast benefits, and avoid by 2030 up to 4000 cases of premature deaths annually, and 8000 in 2050. In the longer run, by 2050, application of Tier III NOx standards could double the health benefits. Even when using the lower (most conservative) health valuation, all reduction measures examined in this report emerged as cost-effective, with monetized benefits exceeding emission control costs typically by a factor of 6 in 2030 and by a factor of 12 in 2050. Designation of the Mediterranean Sea as an Emission Control Area could by 2030 cut emissions of SO2 and NOx from international shipping by 80 and 20 percent, respectively, compared to current legislation. These additional emission reductions could avoid 4,100 cases of premature deaths in 2030 and more than 10,000 annual premature deaths in 2050. Even with the most conservative assumptions for health valuation, monetized benefits are on average 4.4 times higher than the costs in 2030 and 7.5 times higher in 2050.