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Recommends reforms of the automobile insurance industry by allowing the U.S. government to assume management and distribution of automobile insurance to the general public. Excerpts from an inquiry into the automobile insurance industry's practice at U.S. Senator Philip Hart's anti-trust committee; Refutation of the decision of insurance companies to narrow their market; Factors that helped insurance companies to convince state insurance commissions for the approval higher rates; Suggestion that insurance companies have transformed themselves into hybrid conglomerates.

Describes a riot incident involving police and demonstrators that occurred during the U.S. Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in September 1968. Approach taken by the demonstrators to confront the Chicago police; Security measures taken by the police force prior to the convention; Objective of the protests.

Criticizes the board of trustees of Columbia University for initiating real estate acquisitions and development projects in consortia with private developers. Claim that the acquisitions and projects are detrimental to the neighborhood and residents within the university's land properties; Land area occupied by Columbia University and other educational and medical institutions; Land speculation initiated by the trustees; Approach used in reconciling property interests of the institutions; Role of Ronald Golden in evicting residents from buildings owned by Columbia; Business transactions and relationships of Columbia trustees with Uris Buildings Corp. and its chairman Percy Uris.

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.

Assesses the impact of mergers involving electronic companies and publishing houses on the education business in the U.S. in 1966. Support of the government for such mergers; Initiatives being implemented in the education sector as a result of such mergers; Rise in the interest in teaching due to the use of computers.

Examines the racial problem in Washington, D.C. as of 1966. Privileges given to the white minority; Problem associated with the representation of African Americans in different sectors and groupings; Formation of the social movement Free D.C. Movement; Information on African American civil rights movements in the city.

Provides information on Washington, D. C. as a lost colony still surviving on the American continent. Discussion on the population of the state and its apartheid residential pattern; Percentage of middle-class African Americans residing in abject poverty and total deprivation in the state, according to a report released by the National Capital Planning Commission in April 1966; Failure of the United Planning Organization, a local anti-poverty agency, to find more jobs and better housing for poor people; Benefits and advantages of foreign politicians, entrepreneur and governors-in-residence in the state, such as low taxes, services for themselves, franchises, and contracts; Contribution and influence of Congressman John L. McMillan, chairman of the House Committee in the District of Columbia, on the economic and political system of the state.

Discusses a clinical research conducted by Doctor R. O. Nulsen, an obstetrician of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1959 to determine whether thalimode, a drug manufactured by Wm. S. Merrell Co. for the treatment of nervous tensions, affected pregnant women and unborn child. Reference to an article by Nulsen published in the June 1961 issue of the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecolology" which stated that thalimode had no effect on babies delivered by mothers who had been receiving the drug late in pregnancy; Details of damage suits brought by two women who claimed that Nulsen gave them thalidomide in early pregnancy; Account of an interview with Nulsen on conducting the clinical research.

Part II. Describes the social and economic conditions of the Sioux Indians settled in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Commercial and public edifices seen by the author, including the Bureau of Indian affairs and headquarters of the Oglala Sioux tribe; U.S. government approaches to Indian tribes through the years; Image of the Oglala Sioux as the great masters of passive resistance; Policy of improving education and at the same time developing the economic base of the reservations; Elementary day school accessibility; Indian Bureau economic development policies which have not yet produced much enterprise; Conditions in the lost communities beyond the settlements.

Provides information on the Menominees, an Indian tribe in Wisconsin. Historical background of the Indian tribe located in Neopit, Wisconsin; Refusal of the tribe's head chiefs, Oshkosh and Keshena, to sign a treaty that proposed the removal of the Menominees from the state; Victory of the Menominees from a court claim where they had accused the U.S. government of squandering their timber assets by not clearing out thousands of trees that were blown down in a storm in 1905; Discussion on the tribe's distribution of the claims settlement termination of the Menominee Indian Reservation; Efforts of Menominee Enterprises to broaden the tax base by developing plots along the Wolf River and through wide scale development along the shores of lakes back in the wilderness.

Provides an insight into the issue of poverty and segregation in Chicago, Illinois under the administration of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Policies of Mayor Daley which reflect the prejudices of the old ethnic communities, particularly the Irish and the Poles; Construction of a public housing project to cope with the bulging Afro-American population; Existence of poverty programs and their significance to the Afro-American community.

Examines the poverty program proposed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to be administered by the non-profit group, United Planning Organization (UPO). Amount of federal poverty funds given to UPO to ameliorate the conditions of the poor; Details of the failure of the Welfare Department to serve the poor; Problems with the lack of low-income housing; Plans of the UPO for finding jobs for the unemployed or underemployed.

Criticizes the methods used by the U.S. Civil Service Commission in conducting security interviews for nonsensitive jobs in public service. Problems with the kinds of questions asked by interviewers; Claims regarding the reason behind the efforts of the government to avoid hiring gay employees; Implications of differences in the policies of various agencies regarding the presence of third parties at security interviews; Actions taken by the American Civil Liberties Union in dealing with problems encountered by civil service applicants.

Presents developments related to medical care in the U.S. as of November 9, 1963. Overview of history of legislative bills on medical care in the U.S. Congress; Arguments against the Hospital Insurance Act proposed in the year 1963; Appraisal of methods to raise money for medical research; Usage of krebiozen, an antineoplastic agent for the treatment of cancer.

Criticizes the U.S. Federal Power Commission for its failure to protect the public interest and asserts that it represents the outstanding example in the federal government of the breakdown of the administrative process. Discussion on how Joseph Swidler, the former counsel for TVA, demonstrated how the Commission had reorganized its staff and streamlined procedures; Overview of a meeting at The White House over the Pacific Power & Light Co.'s request for permission to issue stocks and bonds whose proceeds would be used for construction of a line between the federal Bonneville dam system in Oregon and the power scarce markets of California; Major accomplishment of the FPC on the electric power side.

Focuses on the reform of the state abortion laws in the U.S. Legality of abortion in the case of saving a mother's life; Number of illegal abortions in the U.S.; Decline in medical justification for abortion; Permission for abortions for psychiatric reasons; Ease for a woman with money to receive an abortion in a private hospital than a woman without money to have one in a public hospital.

Discusses the emergence of West Virginia-based reform organization Miners for Democracy and the considerable support being drawn by its reform candidates from large working mines. Threat posed by Miners for Democracy against Tony Boyle's United Mine Workers machine; Foundation of the organization after the 1969 murder of Joseph Yablonski, a union leader who campaigned against Boyle; Chance of the Miners for Democracy candidates to win the court-ordered election; Aspects of the insurgent campaign; Court decision that set aside the 1969 election of Boyle; Extraordinary acts of Boyle's union career.

Focuses on the impact of federal government control on offshore oil-drilling operations in states in the U.S. Reasons behind the demand for separate handling of exploration and production of oil in New Jersey; Estimations for costs to Texas state and local government associated with federal offshore drilling; Benefits of changes in federal leasing system to oil-drilling operations in the U.S. states.

Focuses on the practice of the U.S. government to protect the information about various public utilities from the people of the U.S. Drawbacks of annual reports filed by the government containing information on public utilities; Features of a weekly news digest of articles on the U.S. energy industry prepared by the U.S. Federal Power Commission; Reason for the non-availability of copies of Nominee List prepared by the federal government to the public; Efforts of governmental agencies and congressional committees to determine the extent of natural gas reserves in the U.S.

Argues that sign language is the best method for teaching deaf children in the United States how to communicate. Amount authorized by the Congress to help states set up programs for deaf children in the country; Reasons why lip reading has an especially strong appeal to parents of deaf children and to philanthropists who work with deaf children; Reasons why the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf lobbies endlessly against the use of sign language; Organizations that are campaigning for the use of sign language as the primary mode of educating deaf children.

Focuses on the selection of delegates to the national convention in Michigan. Observation that in Wayne County districts elected 24 delegates to go to the national convention; Information on the memorandum sent by the central committee asking all convention delegates to stay free and uncommitted; Influence of the labor movement on the politics of the party; Demand by the African American caucus within the Michigan for at least half seats in the 24 man-at-large delegation be given to them.

Argues that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to be blame for the major air accidents in the nation in the 1960s. Events that led to the crashing of a Delta DC8 while landing at New Orleans in late March; Revelation that FAA had no safety regulations governing evacuation of airplanes before September 1963 when it issued a directive on the subject; Argument against the inadequacy of the grant-in-aid made available by the government for airport construction; Reasons cited by the U.S. government for not spending more on airplane safety and airports, including the Vietnam war.

Reports on the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's approval of the acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company by International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), the largest merger in broadcast history as of 1967. Economic and political problems brought about by the merger; Case developed by the Justice Department's chief lawyer, Lionel Kestenbaum, against the merger; Manifestation of the international diplomacy of ITT.

Focuses on the community mental health program being administered by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Lincoln Hospital in South Bronx slums in New York City which suggests that one way to treat mental illness is to create political change. Number of people who came into the mental health clinic in the hospital and neighborhood service centers in 1966; Employees of each of the centers; Action being taken by the mental health aides since political protest is regarded as therapeutic by Einstein psychiatrists; Overview of the referral arrangement that was implemented since fall of 1967 when physician Israel Zwerling took over as the director of Bronx.

Focuses on the struggle by the poor people living in eastern Kentucky to prevent strip miners from operating in the area during the 1960s. Resistance shown by the residents to the plan of getting them out of area in order to further strip mining activity; Effort of the Southern Conference Educational Fund Inc. to organize people in a grass-roots movement against strip mining; Outcome of the government programs aimed at reviving the depressed region of Appalachia; Drawbacks to the proposed scheme wherein the authorities will raise money by selling tax-exempt bonds and with the proceeds get the land back from the absentee landowners in the area.

Explores the technology used by Abt Associates Inc. in its attempt to solve social and economic problems. History of Abt Associates; Implication of the development of Agile-Coin, one of the counterinsurgency games made by Abt for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, for solving revolutionary conflict; Information on Agile-Coin; Importance of games to Abt's business; Unanswered questions raised by the use of technologies in solving social problems.

Criticizes the failure of the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee to offer protection for the public against huge corporations. Trends in mergers and consolidations in U.S. industries; Achievements of the subcommittee under the leadership of Senator Philip Hart of Michigan; Reason for the decision of Hart to move away from antitrust issues; Response of the subcommittee on information that large finance companies own the insurance firms.

Discusses the lawsuit filed by Ralph Nader against General Motors (GM) and its detective Vincent Gillen, accusing them of invasion of privacy and a separate lawsuit against Gillen, accusing him of defamation, resulting from their investigation of Nader, for criticizing the safety of the GM Corvair automobile, as of February 1967. Statement given by James Roche, president of GM, regarding the reason behind the Nader investigation; Principals in the case who never talked to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation about the case; Documents which Nader asked Senator Abraham Ribicoff's subcommittee to see; Claims made by Jerome Sonosky, the subcommittee counsel, regarding documents of the case.

Illustrates how mental hospitals can be used as prisons through the case of Charles C. Rouse, a 22-year-old suffering from a personality disorder called antisocial reaction who was arrested by the Washington police for carrying a suitcase containing deadly weapons in September 1962. Criminal history of Rouse; Instances cited by Dr. Straty H. Economon, the hospital doctor in charge of Rouse, where Rouse acted peculiarly; Outcome of the second hearing of his trial; Reason for extending his stay at the hospital.

Criticizes the attacks made by FIGHT, a militant African American organization set up by Saul Alinsky, against Eastman Kodak Co. Highlights of the dispute between Kodak and FIGHT; Terms of the agreement between Kodak and FIGHT on the establishment of a special employment program; Reason why Kodak reneged on the agreement; Efforts of FIGHT to elevate its dispute with Kodak into a national issue.

Discusses the decision of U.S. insurance companies to cancel or refuse to renew policies for automobile owners who are not in the preferred risk category, as of January 1967. Examples of cases of difficulties in buying automobile insurance; Impact of narrowing the automobile insurance market on rates; Ways of dealing with the cancellation policies of the insurance industry.

Cites the motives of the nationalists efforts of the Blackman's Volunteer Army of Liberation, an African American mercenary army in fight for the independence of central and southern Africa, headed by self-style Colonel Hassan Jeru-Ahmed. Overview of the message sent by the group to African embassies and United Nations missions; Means by which African Americans could win citizenship in Africa; Difference of the intention of Jeru-Ahmed with other black nationalists who have culturally and emotionally linked themselves with Africa; Plans of Jeru-Ahmed in the U.S. on his return from Africa.

Focuses on the automobile insurance industry of Virginia. Types of drivers insured and not insured by automobile insurance companies;Proposal of U.S. Senator Thomas Dodd on how to protect people from insolvent automobile insurance companies; Costs that contribute to increased automobile insurance rates; Results of the audit made by accountant T. Grayson Maddrea on the accounting books of automobile insurance companies in Virginia; Assertion that the American Trial Lawyers Association must play a role in reforming the automobile insurance industry.

Criticizes the perceived liberal facade, gimmickry and political machination used by candidate George P. Mahoney to win the Democratic nomination for the gubernatorial election in Maryland on November 8, 1966. Comparison between Mahoney's and Republican candidate Spiro T. Agnew's position on open housing; Attitude of Mahoney towards debating with his political opponents; Public image that the campaign managers of Mahoney are creating for him; Influence of Mahoney's supporters in the Democratic political convention.

Offers a look at the involvement of independent developers and big industrial corporations in the business of building communities in the U.S. in 1966. Key reason for the decision of General Electric Company to build new cities; Companies directly involved in building residential communities; Financial support provided by insurance companies to individual builders; Role of the government in corporate-led city building; Proposal from Senator Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.) regarding city planning and development that consider slums of existing cities.

Offers a look at the major regulatory action of the air pollution division of the U.S. Public Health Service to determine how much of the smoke and fumes the New Jersey industries put into the west wind which is carried and dumped down in New York City. Complaints about the stench from the New Jersey marshes; Reason why New Jersey has always been slow to come around on pollution; Effects of sulphur dioxide on the health of humans; Example of how to turn control of sulphur dioxide to an economic advantage.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Simulating Poverty: Input and Output," which discussed the migratory labor program of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; "Politics in California," which focused on the election of lieutenant governor in California; "The University," which discussed the centrality of universities.

Describes the investigations conducted on Ralph Nader, an attorney and author of the book "Unsafe At Any Speed." Telephone calls received by Nader prior to his testimony on Senator Abraham Ribicoff's subcommittee on traffic safety on February 10, 1966; Inquiries made to character and capabilities of Nader; Highlights of the conversation held by Hughes Condon, a friend of Nader, with a detective investigating Nader; Private detective firms involved in investigating Nader; Comment from Vincent Gillen, a detective who investigated Nader.

Presents information on Career Academy Inc., a medical and dental assisting school system established in the U.S. in 1971. Details of the medical and dental assisting courses it offers; Information on the operations of the Academy; Financial performance of the Academy; Accreditation received by the Academy.

Criticizes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its decision not to seize and ban all mislabeled and defective intravenous solutions manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. Reason for informing the public about the FDA investigation of Abbott; Results of an FDA investigation on the mislabeling of the solutions from Abbott; Actions taken by the company to remedy the mislabeling problem; Response of the FDA to a request by Abbott to stop the agency's investigation of the recalls.

Highlights flaws in various consumer legislation under the administration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson as of October 1965. Stand of the administration on the proposal of the Federal Trade Commission to regulate cigarette and tobacco advertising; Factors which contributed to the increase in automobile prices in the U.S.; Failure of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the sale of cyclizine and meclizine.

Comments on the public affairs-oriented documentary films produced by the non-profit corporation National Educational Television (NET) for local TV networks in the U.S. Statement from NET president John F. White about the audience it wants to attract; Costs of producing the film "Population Problems"; Problems with the plot and flow of the program "The European Experience"; Issues on automobile safety that are discussed in the film "Death on the Highway"; Reason for the National Educational Television's difficulties in making documentaries.

Presents information on the increase of pleasure boats in waterways of the U.S. Estimate that there are now eight million pleasure boats and nearly thirty-eight million people are using them; Lack of control over the manufacture or operation of the pleasure boats; Increase in accidents due to high speed of boats; Loss of lives in boating accidents; Pressure on Coast Guards to patrol the waterways and prevent people from killing themselves with their speed boats.

Highlights the benefits of the establishment of an African American community organization, Fight by Saul D. Alinsky of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Rochester, New York in efforts to encourage constructive protests by blacks against whites. Comparison with other poverty programs; Prevalence of demonstrations against police brutality; Characteristics of the negro community in the area citing the absence of a political leadership and lack of a civil rights movement; Indications of discrimination, social conditions and political activities of African Americans.

Focuses on the Atlanta-Foulton County Economic Opportunity Authority (EOA) and its efforts to combat poverty in Atlanta, Georgia as of May 1965. Number of EOA officials; Unemployment rate in Atlanta; Task and operations of the EOA; Experience of Community Council in running a neighborhood service center at the west end of Atlanta; Number of African Americans helped by the EOA since March 1965; Observation that none of the poverty programs in Atlanta are actually run by African Americans.

Comments on the decision of John Gronouski, the Postmaster General in the U.S., to destroy Post Office lists of people who receive so-called Communist political propaganda mailed them from abroad. Stance of Gronouski about the practice; Provisions of the censorship law concerning the material coming from Communist countries; History of the propaganda seizure program; Expected consequence of the abolition of the lists; Analysis of the move of Gronouski.

Assesses the effectiveness of psychological tests as an employment-screening device in the public and private sectors. Implementation of the Human Reliability Program of the U.S. Defense Department in the Air Force; Contention of Washington lawyer Byron Scott that the government cannot force an employee to undergo such tests; Case of an applicant illustrating how an interview with a psychiatrist can affect the hiring process; Unreliability of some psychological tests.

Looks at the surgical methods of controlling child birth in the U.S. called vasectomy in men and tubal ligation in women. Positions of medical, religious and social organizations on the method; Efforts taken by the Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization Inc. to make doctors more conversant with the operation; Funding given by Jesse Hartman, a New York real-estate man to finance the Human Betterment sterilization program; View of people from around the world on sterilization.

Focuses on issues of road safety taken up by the federal government of the United States. Views that the U.S. Department of Commerce is required to set standards for road safety but it doesn't have any enforcement authority; General Services Administration of the U.S. along with the representatives of other government agencies and experts, has set out to lay out safety standards for passenger vehicles; Likelihood of stronger federal action in the tire field; Comments that earlier efforts to set minimum safety standards have been upset by the auto and rubber manufacturing industries; Emphasis on tire specifications which must be met by suppliers of tires for the motor vehicles; Proposals for tires to be rated according to government standards of safety, endurance, general quality and construction.

Focuses on the increasing crime rate in the U.S. Information that crimes against property alone, namely robbery, burglary, auto theft and larceny, account for 90 percent of all crime and these are the crimes which have risen most sharply; Struggle to advance civil and human rights; View of Senator Barry Goldwater contrary to common law and to constitutional law; Question on the clarity of the connection between crime and coddling of criminals. Suggestion that there is little relationship between a city's crime rate and the size of its African American population.