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A KEY FINDING IN A 1996 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REPORT ON THE NATION'S PRISON POPULATION IS ATTRACTING CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION: NEARLY 7 PERCENT OF BLACK MALES WERE IN PRISON IN 1994 COMPARED WITH LESS THAN 1 PERCENT OF WHITE MALES. THESE FACTS - WHICH SEEM TO CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT A CRIME-PRONE AFRICAN AMERICAN UNDERCLASS IS TERRIFYING AMERICAN SOCIETY AND OVERWHELMING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM - ARE MISLEADING. THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THEY PERPETUATE RACIAL STEREOTYPES THAT DON'T HELP AMERICANS ADDRESS THE REALITIES OF CRIME. IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR GIVES A CLOSER LOOK AT WHY BLACK MALES ARE MORE LIKELY THAN THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS TO END UP IN PRISON, AND PRESENTS FOUR FACTORS WHICH EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES.

Although the Danish Presidency in the second half of 1987 did not stint its efforts, the budgetary procedure began in earnest in February 1988 and then ran over the 4-month period which it needs, and which normally covers September to December. The traditional budgetary argument between the Council and the Parliament was sublimated by Parliament's demands for a new budgetary procedure, secured by a joint declaration and replacing the straight Treaty model of Article 203. (SJK)

THE PASSAGE OF THE 1987 BUDGET ILLUSTRATES THE SENERITY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S BUDGETARY PROBLEM AND POINTS TO VARIOUS AREAS IN WHICH IMPROVEMENT AND REVISION ARE NEEDED AND ARE UNDER DISCUSSION. THE COMMISSION HAS PROPOSED A REINFORCED DISCIPLINE TO MANAGE BOTH COMPULSORY AND NON-COMPULSORY EXPENDITURE. THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBE CORRECTIVE MECHANISMS PUT IN PLACE TO RESTORE BUDGETARY BALANCE AND INCREASE BUDGETARY RESOURCES FOR THE COMMUNITY.

Disputes relating primarily to the budget's bias towards agriculture. Illustrated by the process of passing the 1987 budget.

The Council and the Parliament share power unequally. Describes the distribution of power and manoeuvres in budgetary decisions in 1985. (PAS)

Über Vor- und Nachteile sowie die gegenwärtige Anwendung des Luxemburger Kompromisses vom 29.1.66, der vorsieht, daß die in bestimmten Fragen vertraglich festgelegten Mehrheitsentscheidungen im EG-Ministerrat durch die Einrede des "vitalen Interesses" eines Mitglieds der Einstimmigkeit dieses Gremiums bedürfen