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Focuses on developments related to economics and politics. Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks; Ratio of stock prices to yields; New York Stock Market paper values; Urgency of unemployment and unused plant capacity; Reasons for stock market decline; Attention given to Canadian elections; Clamor from labor leaders and advice from academic economists; Importance of stock market correction.

Presents letters to the editors concerning politics and socioeconomics in the U.S. Support for replacing the paper dollar with a coin for silver mining interests; Failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Need for national referendum on the dollar coin; Need for appropriate laws to prevent child abuse; Similarities and differences between post-modernism and pragmatism; Texas Governor Ann Richards comments on President George Bush; Emphasis of the American culture on youth.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics in the U.S. Misinformation acquired by the Central Intelligence Agency with regards to Cuba; Malaise of American liberalism according to Gerald Johnson; Underlying problems of the trade issue as it affects the continued free world leadership of the United States and as it affects our domestic economy; Critical judgments of Frank Getlein and who are less than enthusiastic about Abstract-Expressionism.

Argues that President George W. Bush's distrust of expert staffers in various departments has brought disastrous results. Conservative hostility towards social-scientific methods that protect analysts from political pressure; Prohibition of Defense Department officials from participating in interagency planning for the reconstruction of Iraq; Methodology which led the administration to overrule the CIA's doubts over whether Iraqi agents had tried to buy Nigerian yellowcake.

Focuses on developments related to economics and world politics. Japanese Association of Tokyo's meeting to commemorate the outbreak of the China Incident; Pack between Russia and the United States to prevent war; Progress of the Dominican Republic.

Comments on issues relevant to politics in the United States compiled for the week of October 17, 1928. Significance of the back-door policy of President Edgar Hoover on Muscle Shoals; Suggestion by Cuban President Machado to repeal the Platt Amendment which gives the United States the right to control the country's foreign relations.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics in the United States. Description of large corporations; Economics of small business; Management of socialized corporations; Capital gains from stock ownership; Acquittal of eight national guardsmen on charges of violating civil rights of Kent State University students; Food price problems; Rise and decline of protest movements; Benefits from protest movements.

Examines the condition of the political influence of Mexican Americans in the Southwest of the U.S. Revelation of the lack of the Mexican's political participation in government despite having the second to the largest minority community;Observation of the absence of elected Chicano government officials in any U.S. city; Efforts of the federal government in 1967 and 1969 to correct the neglect of the Mexican American affairs; Formation of an independent political party "La Raza Unida" by Jose Angel Gutierrez to introduce Mexican nationalism into practical politics.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics. Tax relief from the Energy Tax and Individual Relief Act of 1974; Bad publicity on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorism; Jewish population of Palestine; Key to war and peace in the Middle East; Diversion of relief funds to arms buying by the IRA.

Focuses on the first three weeks of the Seventieth Congress in the U.S. Voting out of two Senators-elect; Constitutionality of the Senate action; Reasons for losing the seat in the Senate.

Focuses on the United States Senate's adoption of a system of cloture rule. Exercise of the privilege of unlimited debate; Opinion of the public on unlimited debate; Occurrence of filibustering in spite of the restrictions; Delay of the passage of the padded Public Buildings bill; Introduction of thousands of bills covering minor administrative matters; Plans for the implementation of the cloture rule; Pressure of militant public opinion.

Reports on developments related to politics and socioeconomic issues. Yasir Arafat's appointment of a Jew to his Cabinet; Tolerance and reconciliation in the Palestinian government; Reasons for Arafat's appointment of a Jew in his cabinet; Refusal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a home HIV test kit; Economic implication of the availability of the HIV home testing kit; Position of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on the HIV home test kit.