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Focuses on the need for the formation of world government. Migration of the power now vested in the nation-state to international institutions; Support of U.S. President Bill Clinton to a future World Trade Organization (WTO) whose member nations would meet global environmental and labor standards or else face sanction; Currency conversion in Europe and uncertainty about exchange rates; Fears of advocates of free trade on powers of WTO.

Focuses on the meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Australia. OPEC secretary general Chief Feyide's clarifications of misconceptions about the organization; OPEC nations' concern about the emerging estrangement between them and fourth World nations; Weakening of the moral position of the organization; Decision of OPEC on the percentage rise on the price of petroleum; Use of monetary depreciation by OPEC.

Presents information on the working of international organizations. Reports on the resignation given by the League of Nations' high commissioner for refugees James McDonald in 1935. Justification given by McDonald for his resignation; Governmental crimes against humanity; Wrath attracted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's for her action against Israel; Ridicule of the United Nations, which is suppose to maintain peace in the world, being a puppet of powerful nations; Failure of the United Nations to live up to public expectations.

Calls for the U.S. withdrawal of membership and support to the United Nations. Highlights on the impotence of the United Nations in preventing wars and deliver collective security; History of the creation of the United Nations; Emergence of the United Nations as a forum of anti-American and anti-Western campaign of client states of the Soviet Union during the Cold War; Discussion on the arguments of the globalists and the realists among the foreign policy making elites in the U.S.; Idea of former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on post-World War II great powers arrangement.

Comments on the leadership United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Federalist dream of a supranational technocracy run by statement who stand outside of national loyalties; Boutros-Ghali's status in Egypt as an insider by class and an outsider by ethnicity; Views suggesting that Boutros-Ghali's status as an ethnic outsider made him a useful instrument for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in pursuing peace with Israel; Opposition of the administration of former U.S. President George Bush to Boutros-Gali.

Discusses hostages' views regarding their captors. Reference to the Stockholm incident in which hostages during the captivity period developed identification with captors and they became hostile towards those, who had been trying to set them free; Information on the American hostages in Iran; Visitation of representatives of neutral international organizations like the Red Cross to hostages on missions of ostensible spiritual healing and goodwill; Details of the visit of Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, overseer of the Meichite church, to the embassy two months after it was seized; Comments on the conditions of the hostages.

Focuses on the arena for the settlement of political conflicts in the United Nations (UN). Conviction regarding the real progress in international affairs, by Henry Kissinger, secretary of State; View that the U.S. cannot continue to neglect the UN without risking the alienation of the small countries that now dominate the world organization; Meagerness of the accomplishments of the UN in recent years; Overdue of the United States in its contribution to the International Development Association, the World Bank's soft-loan outlet; Control of the UN by Asian and African states that refuse to serve as American tools; Assertion made by C. Fred Bergsten, a former Kissinger aide that the leverage of the Third World countries on the US is growing, especially in the economic field.

Criticizes the United Nations (U.N.) for its failure to prevent wars. Claim that the U.N. is a place and a forum that can be manipulated by member governments; Illustration on how the U.N. was used by the British, French and Soviet governments to escape from the responsibility of preventing war posed by the Suez crisis of 1956 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; Manipulation of the U.N. by the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1956 and 1982.

Focuses on the escalation and militarization of the U.S. policy toward Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution. Information that Reagan originally had proposed 14 million dollars in military aid, to be used for humanitarian purposes for 60 days; Report that Congress was preparing to vote on a Republican bill to distribute the money through the Agency for International Development and a Democratic bill to distribute the money through the International red Cross; Statement that the U.S. will supports the efforts of the Nicaraguan people to establish a free and independent government; Opinion that the U.S. need not go to war to obtain the removal of all foreign advisers from Nicaragua.

Reports on the plan of the United States to withdraw its involvement in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Reasons behind the country's plan; Redundancy of the organization's programs; History of UNESCO; Factors contributing to the decline of the effectiveness of the organization; U.S. State Department's view that the concerns of the Western bloc at UNESCO are "minority interests"; UNESCO's promotion of intergovernmental projects on science, education and culture.

The article presents information related to the affairs of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and North Africa. When the NATO Foreign Ministers meet in Copenhagen, they can no longer ignore the fact that the North African crisis has brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. For this, there are two main reasons, one military, the other diplomatic. France, one of the central pillars of the NATO structure, has, de facto if not de jure, already withdrawn from the alliance. A reason for NATO's disarray is the growing rift in the foreign policies of the United States.

The article presents information about United Nations (UN). It is the assumption that the UN is now a form of limited world government, or can easily be transformed into one. Ironically, this illusion is shared by: both opponents and advocates of the UN. The tragedy is, that the UN is as much in danger of being loved to death by its misguided supporters as it is in danger of being hated to death by its irresponsible antagonists. A vigilant woman reported that the root of all uneasiness about the UN is the well-founded suspicion that the American people will have little or nothing to say about the U.S. participation in the UN, but that they, powerless and unwilling, may be drawn into some sort of world government.

Presents an update on various socio-political developments. Comment on the efforts of Professor Edward Said who has been on a tour of Palestinian-ruled territories, spreading his message of rejectionism towards U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace process; Opinion on the cutback of 1.7 million barrels-per-day in states' production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Citation of cases in which citizens of the U.S. have sued law enforcement officers for allowing various media organizations to tag along on search-and-arrest operations.

Focuses on various issues associated with the European Economic Community (EEC). Role of Brussels, Belgium in the continental affairs of Europe during the early 1960s; Information on the Commission of the European Communities, the chief administrative body of EEC; Treatment of the Commission by the member countries; Information on basic salaries and benefits for the members of the Commission of the European Communities; Controversy associated with the jobs offered by the Commission of the European Communities.

Discusses the international law of the right to travel under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Freedom of an individual to move and reside within the borders of each state; Ability of an individual to leave any country and to return to his country; Consideration to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum.

Supports the decision of the U.S. government to withhold its contributions to the United Nations in 1996. Dues owed by the U.S. to the organization; Factors which contributed to the financial problem of the organization; Position of President Bill Clinton on the payment of U.S. arrears; Way to bolster the legitimacy of the organization.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Out Bodies, Our Souls," which explored the reform movement within feminism; "Springtime," which examined the participation of Germany in North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Nuclear Planning Group; "Some Like It Hot," which discussed the Republicans' opposition to environmental measures.

Examines issues related to the financial problem being faced by the United Nations. Influence of the contributions made by the U.S. on the organization's political decisions; Effects of the financial problem on the peace-keeping operations in the Middle East; Development of a compromise between the U.S. and the developing countries; Information that the U.S. is particularly anxious to find a way of keeping the UN going.

Discusses the proposal of Republican Senator Bob Dole to hold U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) until President Bill Clinton gives up his aspirations on health care reform. Sovereignty issue raised against membership to the WTO; Reason behind the need for tribunals at the WTO; Plan of Dole on how to deal protectionism.

Comments about the need to reform the United Nations (UN) before it engages in more elaborate foreign adventures. Structure and agencies; Function of each UN organ; Encounter with the organization's tangled bureaucracy; Arrangement of the Secretariat in interlocking departments and committees.

Offers insights concerning the plan of U.S. President Bill Clinton to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to include Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Main objective of the alliance; Concerns over the possible consequences of NATO expansion; Background on the Partnership for Peace, in which Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are current members as of February 1997.

Discusses the issue of the alleged politicization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Plan of the U.S. to withdraw from UNESCO; Importance of the organization's science programs for the international community; International Conference of Scientific Unions as the only viable organization that can take over the scientific activities of UNESCO; Arguments of the U.S. State Department for the U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO.

Presents letters to the editor. Comments on efforts of the U.S. Peace Corps, an agency established to provide volunteers skilled in teaching and construction to assist people of underdeveloped areas abroad; Disadvantages of paying high salaries to executives; Criticism of the film "Triumph" directed by Warren Beatty.

Focuses on plans to erect a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington D.C. Factors leading to the delay in the erection of the monument; Historical significance of erecting the monument; Argument that the monument should also highlight the failures; Appreciation of the role of Roosevelt in establishing United Nations as a world organization.

Reports on the Soviet attack against Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Dag Hammarskjold and the demand for reform at his office. Need to change the UN Charter to fulfill the Soviet demand; Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's attitude towards the world organization; Proposal to replace the Secretary General; Plans to reorganize the principles and aims of the UN; Hammarskjold's plan to use preventive diplomacy to reduce the areas of conflict between the two opposing power blocs.

Focuses on the U.S. policy towards China. Attempt of the U.S. to isolate China in the world politics; Observation that there is a sign of incipient change in China which may be favorable to the U.S.; Argument that the Communist regime of China has settled and is here to stay; Apprehension regarding minimizing of the danger of Chinese Communism to the U.S.

This article focuses on world politics. The Democratic Party imposed on Adlai Stevenson an impossible task. For three long years, the Southern Democratic contingent in Congress co-operated with the conservative Republicans and muted criticism of David Eisenhower. Then the party passed the banner to Stevenson and told him to go in and beat Eisenhower. The Hungarian revolution is magnificent. It seems a tragic thing that at this time of Christmas-giving the U.S. has been so chary with its admissions to refugees. But the Hungarian blood bath frightens the diplomats of the free world as well as inspires them. Poland could explode like Hungary, then East Germany and then there, would probably be global war.