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Presents information on several socio-political issues in the U.S. Failure to find the solution of housing problems after the World War II at a conference. Information on the renewal notice from the Curtis Publishing Co.; Objectives of the Fourth Filipino Inter-Community convention that took place in New City Hall; Existence of English-speaking, adaptable and intelligent workers in the small towns of Georgia; Concern shown by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association on the shortage of paper during wartime.

Highlights the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in the U.S. Total number of members of the Eastern Division; Duration of the meeting; Discussion of papers on various philosophical subjects at the morning sessions; Description of the discussions; Devotion of the afternoon session to the memory of professor James E. Creighton; Abhorrence of professor Creighton to cheap originality; Significance of the passing of Creighton to the association.

Presents the text of the paper presented by philosopher and militant deconstructionist P.J. O'Rourke during the 1987 Second Thoughts Conference sponsored by the National Forum Foundation in the U.S. which deals on the 1960 Western civilization. Narration of the incident that led the author to have second thoughts; Belief of the author on things that can be proven by reason and by experiment.

Focuses on author's paper on American writers, which he presented before that Connecticut Writers' conference. View that if there is anything obvious it is that the American writers today are redramatizing the American tradition on all sides; Promotion of the study of science by President John Quincy Adams; Examples of books on the patriotism of the American Revolution; View that in order to have the collectivism, writers have to change the minds of people, and this is bound to be a long, slow process; Basis of the League of American Writers; Need for the unification of writers and artists; View that the League is the heir of the Old Progressive movement that won so many writers in years gone by; Example of the Communist writers; Appeal to writers to wake Americans.

Focuses on the public control of the coal industry in the U.S. Report that today it happens to be labor relations that arouse the cry, but it might equally well be high royalties, profits and prices in the anthracite industry, or waste of coal underground, antique methods of exploitation and loss of manpower in the bituminous industry; View that the conversion of coal into electricity will knit people together more inextricably than before in reliance on a single kind of energy, and will so organize the production of this energy that it will come nearer than ever under unitary human control; Need for the employment of a political agency; Ruling of the court that the actual production of coal or of power is not subject to federal jurisdiction under the commerce clause of the Constitution; Report that the success of local control in distribution is largely dependent upon the influence of the local interest over the preceding processes; Reference to the paper by professor Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School; Report that a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State laws has markedly promoted uniformity in such matters as warehouse receipts, bills of lading, sales, partnerships, etc.; Report that the interstate compacts embody the joint interests of the several states making them, and may be safeguarded in the national interestingly the veto power of Congress; Dangers as well as conveniences of the compact; View that there should be a series of regional interstate conferences authorized by the respective legislatures and Congress for the purpose of studying the problem, recommending desirable federal and state legislation, and negotiating compacts.

Presents information on the lack of leadership qualities in scientists in the U.S. Reference of an incident that occurred at the international conference of agricultural economists at Cornell university, New York; Paper read by an English delegate, with Oxford behind him, which contained no figures and no practical details; View of the delegate that agricultural economists have not devoted to questions of policy the same keen and critical attention which they have devoted to questions of fact and theory; Claim that the scientific specialists by and large, do not know literature, philosophy, painting, music or poetry; Lack of English writing skills of the scientists; Lack of knowledge of the related sciences;.

Presents news briefs, related to political developments of several nations. Comments of President Calvin Coolidge on the Conference of Allied nations in London, England, for the reconstruction of Europe, after the World War I; Features of the Dawes Plan, formulated by U.S. politician Charles Dawes, discussed at the Conference; Benefits of the Conference to France; Agreement of the U.S. to cooperate in the control to be exercised over Germany; Achievements of the Conference; Features of the political campaigns of presidential candidate John W. Davis and President Calvin Coolidge; Use of humble origin and homely personality by Coolidge to promote his campaign; Attack of Davis on the Republican corruption and inefficiency in his campaign; Attitude of many politicians towards the candidacy of Senator Robert La Follette, forming his own Progressive Party; Description of the menace of "syndicate journalism," when a chain of newspapers is owned by a single individual; and uses his power for improper private ends; Steps taken by Attorney-General Harlan P. Stone, to get rid of William J. Burns by abolishing the system of espionage; Trial of several persons convicted of the murder of Lieutenant Warren Grimm of the American Legion in an attack on the I.W.W. hall during a parade on Armistice Day, 1919; Eye witnesses to the murder.

Presents an introduction to academic papers on electric vehicles presented at the Fifth International Electric Vehicle Symposium held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October 1978, hosted by the Edison Electric Institute. Issues and technological developments affecting the United States' electricity needs, usage, and delivery systems; Some 30,000 electric cars manufactured by 20 companies by 1912; Electric golf cart and fork lift truck as notable examples of mass application of electric propulsion.

Focuses on the American Youth Congress' Citizenship Institute, held in Washington. Report that including its participants members of student, peace, civic, labor, farmer and fraternal organizations as well as the youth representatives of the Democratic, Socialist and Communist Parties, the Institute seemed at first sight a triumph of unity and militant action; Report that it did not achieve either of its two main purposes--effective publicity for the needs of youth, and the exchange of ideas and experience among young people from different parts of the country; Statement of the Youth Congress leaders that it is a glorified discussion group composed of any young people who cared to attend; Report that while the constitutional status of the Citizenship Institute in relation to the Youth Congress allowed the leadership to squelch controversial resolutions, it at the same time resulted in a lopsidedness in the political composition of the Institute which played into the hands of the Red-baiters; View that it was more a mass rally than a conference.

Focuses on the Forty-first Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor (AFL); Description of motives of the AFL; Explanation of the concept of industrial democracy; Expression of traditional policy by AFL's Committee on Resolutions; Information about the Resolution 59 which limits the policy of government ownership strictly to the railroads; Information about recommendations of Committee on Resolutions.

Focuses on political developments in the United States. Study of the U.S. administration's gold purchase plan; Interference of monetary uncertainty with government credit; Attention to the convention of the Conference for Progressive Political Action at Pittsburgh; Emphasis upon the necessity of winning support among the African Americans; Emphasis on the growing breach between conventional pacifism and radicalism; Influence in behalf of larger circulation of money and increased business activity.

Focuses on some of the socio-political updates related to the U.S. Information on a Conference of progressive Governors, members of the House of Representatives and economists to formulate a sound legislative program for the next session of the U.S. Congress that has great significance; Opposition on the entry of government into business; Report on the general disarmament conference of 1932 under the auspices of the League of Nations; Removal of federal judges from the office as they refused to endorse dictator Rafael Trujillo's acts; Distinction between the action of the U.S. and the Soviet union on the selling of wheat on world markets; Failure of housing to provide modern standards within the reach of the lower income classes.

Presents a conversation between two persons regarding convention of Republican Party in Cleveland, Ohio. Pessimism shown by them on the success of the Republican convention; Views of them on several candidates of the Republican Party; Role of the Republican platform in electing U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Failure of Coolidge in getting a candidate for the post of vice-president; Comment made by them on the nomination of the political candidates of Democratic Party.

Reports on the unpopularity of U.S. President Herbert Hoover, with reference to stock market depression and an explosion in an extra session of the U.S. Congress. Apprehension on the effect of crash in stock prices on industries and trade; Efforts that Hoover could have taken on the tax cut; Expectations from the London, England naval disarmament conference; Political trouble with Hoover that he does not know how to make his popular strength in the country count; Statements made by Hoover, which made his prestige lower; Views of Republicans and Democrats toward Hoover.

The article reports on the political career of U.S. presidential candidate John McCain's speechwriter and aide, Mark Salter. The co-author of five John McCain books, Salter is McCain's alter ego, selling the McCain philosophy to the U.S. public. Salter, who is disappointed that the U.S. Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama has proved to be the better orator, is working to create a powerful acceptance speech for McCain to deliver at the U.S. Republican Party Convention.

Focuses on the political convention of the Republican Party held in Miami Beach, Florida. Purpose behind the convention held by the Republican Party; Relevance of the convention for U.S. President Richard Nixon; Views that the Republicans have been so opulent this year that money runs out of their ears; Opinion that the 1972 Republican convention has deep interest for the students; Description of social conditions in the country; Involvement of African Americans in the criminal acts in the country; Attitude of the U.S. President towards young people.

Reports on farmer-labor unity as a theme of many conferences held and scheduled to be held in the United States since the election in November 1949. Information on the seventh annual convention of the rural-electrification cooperatives held in New York City; Announcement that the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative will buy and distribute to 900 rural-electrification cooperatives throughout the United States enough aluminum conductor to string high-line wire to almost half of the nation's un-electrified farms; Invitation given to farm organizations by the Ohio State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Council to join in setting up farmer-labor councils on a county level; Report that labor education is expanding in a political direction; Announcement by John Connors, director of the Worker's Education Bureau, American Federation of Labor (AFL), on the opening of regional offices to increase educational work in collaboration with Labor's League for Political Education; Report that Tom Tippett, who created quite a stir several years ago with his books on Southern labor, is heading the educational department of the International Association of Machinists; Report that both AFL and CIO are centering their 1949 attack on municipal and state legislatures; Statement that the United World Federalists is probably the most rapidly expanding voluntary-membership organization in the country; Report that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has engaged Senator Burton K. Wheeler to represent the union at hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission to force tighter regulation of the trucking industry.

Presents information on starting days of Harry S. Truman as President of the United States. Information on newspapers who are engaged in writing about his starting works; Report on speeches made by President Truman before going for San Francisco conference; Focus on rise of stock market; Expectations of people of the U.S. of the country returning to normality after election of Truman as President; Importance of decision of Truman to removal of foreign minister of the Soviet Union M.V. Molotov for another ambassador; Information on lots of last-minute cancellations to. the San Francisco conference by correspondents; Report on high price of meat; Focus on bills for upliftment of schools in the U.S.

The article presents a schedule of television programs in the U.S. in 1936. The "American Education Forum" will be shown on November 23. The symposium "Music and the Listener" will air on America's Town Meeting of the Air program on November 26. The speech of U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the opening of the Pan American Peace Conference will be aired on December 1.

The article discusses the political scenario in the U.S. In a press conference, one of the reporters asked President Dwight D. Eisenhower whether he would use the marines in the Middle East without asking the approval of the Congress first. The President's answer was, in effect, a stronger reaffirmation of his self-imposed limitation against sending troops into battle without specific Congressional approval. Reporters sometimes get the frustrated feeling at the President's press conference that he does not keep track of what is going on. U.S. Republicans aren't in a good position to push their "do-nothing" charge against Congress. Often they are the ones who have opposed the Eisenhower program.

Presents information on Connally resolution and Pepper amendment for formation of Post War International Organization. Information on the U.S. Senate's post-war collaboration discussion over the Connally resolution; Efforts of internationalists to bring the Connally resolution in to effect; Information on forthcoming United Nations' conference on relief at Atlantic City; Report on relations between press and miners of the U.S.; Information on the forthcoming elections of the U.S.; Opinion of an author on inflation favoring big business.

Presents information on the economic summit to be hosted at Colonial Willliamsburg, a historical theme park in the United States. Information that each visiting dignitary will be housed in a restored seventeenth-century home; Discussion on the economic summits held at Venice, Italy and Versailles, France; Comment of the capacity of Williamsburg; Statement that the presummit bargaining has produced a superficial consensus on the divisive issue of economic growth; Description of the world's pressing economic woes.

Focuses on Colonel Moammar Qaddafi, the murderer, the maniac and The Soviet's man. View that he did not seem to care whether the terrorism was Black or Red, ultra right or ultra left, though his preference might shift as time went by; Report that his Tunisian venture in January 1980, ended in the first public trial of Qaddafiism ever held, revealing its deep roots in Mediterranean and global terrorism; Information on his famous foreign legion designed to destabilize Africa south of the Sahara and create a vast Libyan Empire; View that Qaddafi was motivated by more than a single-minded concern for Palestinian liberation; Information on his conference in Benghazi, Libya, for a unified plan of struggle against fascism and imperialism in the U.S.; Report that he co-sponsored an international gathering for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Portugal with the World Peace Council.

Comments on the insignificance of a militant Islamist group's size in the U.S. to its ability to cause terror. Strategy used by militant Islamist groups to avoid raising suspicion and to take advantage of civil liberties protections; Evidence of group collaboration; Influence of Islamist conventions on group collaboration; Purposes of the conferences by the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA).

Describes the U.S. Republican Party convention in Houston, Texas. Strategy of President George Bush for the reinstallation of Senator Dan Quayle; Information on the speech given by Senator Alan K. Simpson from Wyoming, at the conference; Discussion on the speech of Republican Pat Buchanan, who possessed a good deal of subtext at the convention.

Highlights the discussion and program of the Symposium on Communications organized by the Northwestern University in the U.S. in 1967. Panels on the first night of the Symposium; Topic of the symposium; Observation of the editor of "The Daily Northwerstern" on professor Daniel Boorstin and psychologist Richard Alpert; Overview of the satori given by Alpert.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of August 22, 1964. Relationships between the U.S. and various other countries during that year are discussed. The details of a summit of U.S. Republicans, led by former Arizona Senator and former U.S. Presidential Nominee, Barry Goldwater, are discussed. Tensions between residents in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency, over sonic booms, are discussed.

Focuses on the preparation of political parties for the 1962 national elections in the U.S. Efforts to gain control of the House of Representatives; Information about the awarding of the seniority system to the Democrats; Establishment of White House consultantship; Comment on the Minneapolis convention of the Young Republican National Federation. Information about middle-income voters.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of July 22, 1972. A number of items are covered including the political strategies of the Democratic Party following the 1972 presidential nominating convention, likely changes in the membership of the United States Congress and changes to the system for classifying secret government documents.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues related to U.S. and world politics. An article comments on the reluctancy of the U.S. Congress to pass broader foreign trade legislation. Another article discusses the Young Democratic Clubs of America biennial convention that is set to take place in Miami, Florida, from November 15-18, 1967. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has reportedly estimated that there are between 18,000 and 20,000 tax-exempt foundations in the country.

Presents an article about the reflections of a journalist from a conference with Vietnamese revolutionaries in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1967. Role of the delegates in discussing the domestic issues related to the Vietnamese conflict; Assumptions of the representatives concerning the possible defeat of the U.S. in the war; Doubts of the revolutionaries about the military capabilities of the western nation.

Highlights the controversies and issues discussed at the New Politics Convention held at the Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Objective of the formation of a caucus by African Americans even before the convention began; Members of the caucus replacing Chicago separatist theoreticians; Reason behind the failure of the nationalists to get all African Americans to leave the convention; Argument of the white radical caucus formed by members of the Vietnam Summer, against people who line up for a third ticket in the convention; Overview of the list of certain demands sent by the African American caucus.

The article presents world news briefs as of January 24, 1944. The Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) held a conference in New York City. Issues of taxation are being discussed by the U.S. government. The art and literature periodical "View" was banned, probably due to its showing of nudes.

Presents news briefs, related to political and social developments of various nations. Doubts whether Germany will accept the Dawes Plan, made by U.S. politician Charles Dawes, during the Conference of Allies at London, England, for the reconstruction of Europe; Possibility that France will prove that the Plan is not workable; Endorsement to the candidacy of Senator Robert La Follette by Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor; Statement that Governor of Nebraska, Charles Bryan would have made his protest against National Defense Day at first, and more properly, known as Mobilization Day, if Bryan were not a candidate for Vice-President; Significance of the Mobilization Day; Announcement of Science Service about a new yeast which may have enormous effects upon humanity's food supply; Views of the people on benefits of the World War I, as published in the "American Legion Weekly"; Comments of Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, that people are convinced that the balance-of-power theory is an unstable basis for world peace; Possibility of a war between Greece and Bulgaria; Features of the Treaty of Neuilly, under which Bulgaria is allowed an army of only 20,000 volunteers; Attacks on music organizations performing composer Richard Wagner's music, that performance. would give aid and comfort to the enemy; Increase in the political participation of women in the U.S.; Plans of Republican Campaign Committee to send over the U.S., tons of "literature," describing and exalting President Calvin Coolidge as a "real dirt farmer"; Comparison of the political campaigns of Senator Robert La Follette and British Prime Minister James MacDonald.

Presents information on several political developments in the U.S. and other parts of the world. Comments on the republican National Convention; Role of Mellon tax on some sort of tax reform; Report on the disarmament agreement put forward by France; Information on the status of Republic and Democratic political parties in the forthcoming election; Impact of kidnap of Giacomo Matteotti, a millionaire socialist and member of the Chamber on Italian Benito Mussolini's government.

Reports on several socio-political events from the world. Speculation on the policies of the new U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Report that the French reply to Great Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's note virtually ignores the main proposal of the British and does so in terms which from one ally to another constitute an extraordinary rebuff; Issues related to the French occupation of Ruhr, Germany; Information on the Irish developments, the struggle over the Turkish-American treaty, and the Russian progress; Information on the conference on U.S. farmers and laborers conditions at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Speculation on Coolidge's policy on the American participation in the World Court; Offer made by the owners of bituminous coal mines to give their entire industry to the government in case the anthracite miners go on strike; Information on dispatch of the newspaper "The Chicago Tribune," about an agreement signed between France and England; View that nothing can swerve France from her determination never to let go her hand on Germany until that nation has totally collapsed; View that monarchists are much more likely to contribute to the separatist tendencies, which will be in evidence after the French set up their Rhineland Republic, Germany; Speculation on the automobile manufacturer Henry Ford's chance of securing the Democratic nomination for U.S. President; Information on the present political conditions of Ireland; Statement of Judge Elbert H. Gary on plans for abolition of the twelve-hour-day in the U.S. steel industry; Statement of the U.S. manufacturers that the change to the shorter day will require about 60,000 more laborers, and these will not be available unless the restrictions on immigration are relaxed; Report that the additional ballots during the past week have produced no change in the standing of the various candidates in the journal's Straw Vote; Information on the resignation of Philip Littell from the editorial board of the journal.

Presents information regarding political developments taking place in the world with emphasis on the U.S. Comment on the purge of the liberals from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the U.S.; Information regarding the demands of army and navy of the U.S. from the Congress; Analysis of the resurrection of a statute in Oklahoma to suppress protests by victims of inadequate relief; Information that Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler has retired to Berchtesgaden in the solitude of the Bavarian Alps to reflect on the attitude to be taken by the Reich toward the coming Anglo-French Aerial Convention.

Focuses on the issue of internationalism that was raised in by Great Britain in the World Economic Conference. Attempt of Great Britain to persuade the U.S. in adopting a program in the pattern of pre-war internationalism; Discussion of war debts and currency stabilization; Acceptance of the British debt proposals by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Policy of natural conservatism adopted by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's government; Discussion of the development of modern economic internationalism; Development of industrialism in Great Britain; Infiltration of communism in modern economy.

Focuses on political issues in the U.S. Information on the Democratic convention held in Los Angeles; Consequences of the collapse of the 10-nation disarmament talks at Geneva; Discussion on the Latin American policy.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic news from the world. Information on the Hessian Day Rally; Profiles Justice Louis D. Brandeis; Announcements by Spanish Premier Juan Negrin and General Jose Miaja that the Spanish republic will fight on; Announcement of a national Crusade for God in Government by the Right Reverend Joseph Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University of America; Controversy over the audit reports of Price Waterhouse and Co.; Criticism of Herbert Hoover, the Republican Party headline speaker for election campaign of 1940 and ex-President of the U.S.; Information on the Japanese attacks on the Soviet Union; Speculation on the supply of Russian oil to Italy and Germany; Controversy on the appointment of the federal court judges in the U.S.; Information on the session of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor; Results of the 1936 survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that the consumers cooperation has increased; Message of U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the need for initiating at once an extra Works Progress Administration appropriation for $150,000,000; Report that last week 4,000 women lined up to apply for just twelve jobs in the laboratories of the New York Health Department; Information on the exhibition of the paintings of painter Robert Hallowell at the Paul Reinhardt Galleries in the New York City, beginning February 20, 1939; Worry of Switzerland of German dictator Adolf Hitler's conception of neutrality; Permission given to German Jews to earn a living in Germany; Introduction of a legislation to permit the entry of 20,000 German refugees children fourteen years old or younger into the U.S. during this year and 1940 by Senator Robert F. Wagner; Information on the first showings of the semi-official documentary film "Spain Fights On," in the New York City; Charges of the Dean of Columbia Teachers' College that the Communists paid young people $3 a day to pose as students at Columbia and agitate.

Presents news from the world. View of U.S. President Herbert Hoover on the new bonus legislation; Information on the Herndon-Pangborn case of spying in the ongoing Japanese war in Manchuria; Report that the famous drop a crop cotton plan of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana has received its death blow at the hands of Governor of Texas and his supporters in the Texas state legislature; Report that the collapse of the Long plan has been a useful corrective to many people carried away by the success with which Governors of Oklahoma and Texas, have reduced oil production in those states and increased the price by more than 100 percent; Controversy on the letter of Hoover to the newspaper "The New York Times," on its eightieth birthday; Campaign of the people of Westchester County, New York, to compel reduction of their electric light rates; Repudiation of the inhabitants of Coalton, Ohio, on the issue of high fuel gas rates; Information on the Chicago, Illinois organization--The Federation of American Business Men; Information on a convention in Rethel, in the French Ardennes, at which several hundred delegates from the intellectuals of France and Germany, met on their own initiative to discuss ways of effecting a Franco-German entente.

Focuses on communism in the U.S. Formation and growth of Communist Party in the country; Organization of the Trade Union Educational League to offer a neutral basis of cooperation between Communists and progressives; Information on the Needle Workers' Industrial Union convention; Reference to the strike of textile workers in Passaic; Reduction in the number of workers in the Independent Shoe Workers' Union; Split in the Amalgamated Food Workers' Union, an independent and radical organization.

The article offers several news briefs related to politics around the world. The delegates of Japanese government to the Naval Conference has arrived in the U.S. and has clarified their government's position. The cut on income taxes was made effective by the U.S. Congress. The Minister of Justice raided the native compounds of Africans arresting 600 people in Durban, South Africa.

Focuses on the political and social developments in the U.S. Issues discussed at the conference of French statesman Aristide Briand with German statesman Gustav Stresemann; Concerns of the U.S. on the purchase of German railway shares; Reference to John Maynard Keynes's article on the difficulty of collecting reparations, which will cause long hesitation in approving any project for selling German securities in the U.S. without a corresponding increase in Germany's productive facilities; Political conditions of China; Relations of China with the U.S. and Great Britain; Incidents of crime reported by the newspapers; Expectations from the American Legion to Paris in 1927; Confirmation of its new emigration policy by Japanese government at the South Pacific Trade Conference held in Tokyo, Japan; Details of the case of Mary King, a Quaker, who came to the U.S. from Ireland, and applied for citizenship; Objectives of establishing a company union of its employees to take the place of their existing trade union affiliations by "Manchester Guardian," a liberal newspaper of England; Suggestion of a scheme whereby paintings could be rented to the public at low prices and for brief periods of time.

Focuses on the educational policy of U.S. President George W. Bush. Appointment of Rod Paige as secretary of education; Decentralization of the school system in Houston by Paige; Information on Paige's outsourced services for the system's most troubled kids to a for-profit company called Community Education Partners (CEP); Report that Paige signed up CEP to educate the district's problem kids; Information on Bush's conference titled "Educational Leader."

Criticizes the American Bar Association's (ABA) opposition to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that allows lawyers to advertise their services. Perception of lawyers about free speech ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court; Discussion on the merit of the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court; Attitude of lawyers; Reports from the American Bar Association's recent annual convention in Chicago which indicate that the legal establishment is scrambling to work its way around the decision.

Reports that a few thousand scientists from around the world gathered in Atlanta to discuss the latest research on AIDS. Comment that the discoveries in molecular biology allowed scientists to understand the disease; Statement by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Margaret Heckler that the administration was eager to solve the AIDS problem before it spread into the general populations; Information that the discovery of the virus that cause AIDS by destroying certain white blood cells and crippling the body's immune system; Report that most of the estimated infected million in the U.S. are homosexual men.

Presents a first-person account of media coverage of the presidential campaign in the U.S. from October 1, 1996 to October 6, 1996. Warnings received from the campaign staff of Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole for attempt to film on board his plane; Plans unveiled by Dole and Titan Inc. CEO Morry Taylor at a conference in Palm Springs, California.

Reports on the first annual Conservative Leadership Conference, a weekend strategy session for would-be movers and shakers in the U.S. conservative movement. Some conservative activist groups represented in the event; Conservatives' view that they are disorganized against a disciplined liberal juggernaut; Diverse issues addressed by event speakers; Concerns about Soviet threat; Lasting impression generated by the conference.

Reports on the evolution of the political convention of presidential election in the U.S. Information that nominating a presidential candidate by a party is a vestige of an earlier era; Suggestion that a highly organized, highly articulated state-based party system needed a mechanism for picking national candidates whose selection would be considered legitimate back home; information that the American political system has evolved from one that picks its presidential candidates by national party convention to one that selects them via primary elections.