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Opposes the elitist and totalitarian tendency that could emerge from the misuse of the future-planning paradigm to build an ideal society in the U.S. Influence of future planners in government, academe and international agencies; Claim that a body of economic indicators, goals and models can show the state of the nation's economy and make policy objectives; Areas in which national social accounting can be applied; Criticism against the notion of building democratic socialism through future-planning; Problems with the concept of model-building of future societies.

Examines the actions being taken by the New York City Board of Education to improve the quality of education received by slum children. Overview of the standard of education in Harlem as compared with the city-wide average in reading achievement; Reorganization of the education system to include intermediate schools of grades five through eight; Opposition of parents in East Harlem regarding the site, design, zoning and proposed curriculum.

Praises the efforts of U.S. political leader Arthur Goldberg in doing his responsibilities as the appointed ambassador of the country to the United Nations in 1966. Career background; Challenges faced by the political leader; Advantages of Goldberg over former ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Comments on the distinct characteristics of the ambassador upheld by European diplomats.

Applauds the development of African American political power in Lowndes County, Alabama by establishing the Lowndes County Freedom Organization political party through grassroots organizing and mobilization. Social conditions of African Americans; Role of the Black Panther in organizing the party; Obstacles to integrating Democrats with African Americans in Lowndes.

Analyzes the impact of the Vietnam War on the political campaigns of pacifist candidates in the states of Oregon and California in November 1966. Impact of the war on the campaign of Howard Morgan for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Oregon; Background of the campaign to take the Democratic congressional nomination from Representative Jeffrey Cohelan in the 7th District of California.

Examines the upcoming presidential election in the Dominican Republic and assesses the chances of Juan Bosch winning the election. Status of politics in the country after the U.S. military intervention; Implications of the presence of U.S. soldiers in the Dominican Republic for its people; Approaches proposed by political parties to solve the social and political problems of the nation; Information on how Bosch will deal with the left-wing and right-wing groups.

Provides an account of the Americans for Democratic Action's (ADA) 19th annual convention held in Washington in 1966, with emphasis on the participation of U.S. Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Role of Humphrey in the organization of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota in 1948; Recollection of Humphrey's attack on Harry Byrd and the Senate conservatives' ideas about government spending and federal bureaucracy during the 1948 Democratic National Convention; Claim that the reason for Humphrey's presence in the ADA convention was to reaffirm his association with ADA people.

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 the political career of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy as of April 1966. Examination of his political motives; Appearance in the strike involving grape-pickers in central California; Opinion on the U.S. government's role in the Vietnam war; Information on his urban crisis program, contained in three speeches he delivered in late January 1966.

Focuses on several Republican leaders across the U.S. who in dealing with state and local problems, are developing an approach to politics which differs from traditional Republicans and Democrats. Information on how John Lindsay challenged the Democratic Party in his campaign in New York City in November 1965; Advantages of Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington over his Democratic rivals; Efforts of modern Republicans to duplicate the organizations of the Democratic Party that provide programs for Democratic platforms and harness volunteers for political teams; Contradictions between modern and traditional Republicans in how they confront the issues related to the Vietnamese conflict.

Focuses on the move by the U.S. Peace Corps to redesign its recruitment, selection, training and field programs in 1966. Expectations on the community development programs in Latin America; Effects of U.S. foreign policy on the Peace Corps; Impact of the Peace Corps on the U.S. when volunteers return.

Provides information on the strike by grape-pickers in California in 1965 and 1966. Personal background of Cesar Chavez, a Mexican American who is building the strike into a kind of labor war; Mechanics of picketing; Minimum wage and incentive rate demanded by Chavez and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee leaders; Comparison between Chavez and Bob Moses of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Describes the state of the U.S. Congress in January 1966. Position of senators and representatives on various political issues; Rhetoric congressional leaders like to use in their legislative sessions; Efforts of the administration of President Lyndon Johnson to repeal the Taft-Harley Act; Overview of the Great Society goals of the administration.

Presents a commentary on the SANE anti-war march during Thanksgiving weekend in Washington, D.C., described by the author as an informal first Party Congress of the "New Left." Coincidence with the next escalation of the Vietnam conflict into a major war in Asia; Broad encampment of the left in various places across Washington; Tension between radicals and liberals; Mixture of students, middle aged ideologues and ghetto community organizers; Mood of frustration and pessimism; Carl Oglesby's speech which spoke eloquently for the new radical politics; His accusations against the liberals.

Focuses on the political aspirations of Alabama's Governor George Wallace and Attorney General Richmond Flowers. Opinion of Wallace that he ought to become a U.S. President; Opposition to the constitutional amendment proposed by Wallace in the state senate which will allow governors to succeed themselves; Relationship of Wallace and Flowers; Voters being wooed by Flowers in his bid for the governorship of Alabama; Prediction that Flowers will loose his bid for governor; Chance of Wallace to be elected senator.

Presents information related to the developments in politics and government in Texas. Assessment of the power and popularity of John Connally, Governor of Texas; Condition of the Republican Party in the state; Political career of Connally; Appraisal of political reforms in the state; Effect of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy over Connally's career.

Discusses issues related to politics and government in California in 1965. Challenges to the administration of Governor Edmund G. Brown; Background and commentary of the political process in the state; Assessment of the political leadership of former Governor Ronald Reagan; Evaluation of the political leadership of Brown.

Presents the views of U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright on the issue of a U.S. intervention anywhere in Latin America in the event of subversive domination or the threat of it. Opinion on the decision of President Lyndon B. Johnson to send U.S. troops to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Role of U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett in the deployment of troops; Analysis of the nature of the Dominican Republic.

Commends the poor African Americans for managing preschool programs and attendant adult action programs in communities throughout Mississippi through the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) under the Project Head Start grant from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Components of the CDGM that could help in developing the communities; Harassment experienced by sharecroppers who registered their children for a Head Start center; Role of U.S. Representative John Bell Williams (D-Miss.) in attacking the Head Start program and CDGM; Resistance put up by CDGM staff against the demand of OEO to move its headquarter from Mount Beulah to West Point.

Provides information on the efforts of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the U.S. during the 1960s. History of the student movement; Major problems facing the people of the Near West Side of Cleveland, the subject of the group's first Economic Research and Action Project that focused on poor communities; Political orientation of SDS; Uses of power questioned by SDS president Paul Potter during the April 17, 1965 March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam.

Offers a look on the alleged participation of Communists in the activities of the civil rights movement in the U.S. Criticism regarding the evolution of civil rights to radicalism; Overview of the efforts of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace to discredit the civil rights movement; Participation of African Americans in radical activities.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "New Radicals in Dixie," which focused on the dangers of leftist organizations; "The Anarchists," which dealt with anarchism; "A Door Best Kept Closed," which focused on chemical weapons.

As revolutions go, the street fighting that took place around Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village on the night of June 27, 1969, lacked the splendor of the Bastille or the [...]

How many "acts of genocide" does it take before systematic ethnic murder is called genocide? That's the absurd, immoral question the hand-washers and wafflers of the Clinton foreign policy team [...]

The article presents some political updates as of February 4, 1991. One of the updates discusses the military policy of the U.S. after dropping the first bomb on Iraq. The deep split between the national security crisis managers and the foreign policy elite strategists over the advisability of war marked it. U.S. President George W. Bush's small coterie of military and political fixers assumed a war-making posture. Another update reports that on January 12-13, a delegation of the Federation Council, the new highest executive organ of Russia, was sent to the Lithuanian capital to negotiate. But Russian troops simultaneously stormed the television tower, killing fifteen people and wounding more than a hundred.

The article focuses on the murder of Carol Stuart in Boston, Massachusetts. The murdered is now attributed to her husband, Chuck Stuart. When Charles Stuart described a black man as the murderer, the white authorities in Boston sent a small army of occupation into the black neighborhoods. Police invaded the housing projects of Mission Hill, knocking down doors, bursting into apartments, slamming and insulting residents. Young black men were stopped, searched and detrousered on the street for no cause more reasonable than their skin color.

The article presents information on political developments around the world. The 1987 real average hourly wage of $8.98 and the real average weekly wage of $312.50 are at the lowest levels in twenty-five years. Since the last peak in the business cycle, in 1979, employment in manufacturing, with relatively high average weekly wages of $398, has declined by 1.9 million jobs. When a tyrant fails, the world's shadows lighten and only hypocrites grieve and Mohammad Zia ul-Haq was one of the cruelest of modern tyrants, whatever his great friend U.S. President George Bush and his staunch supporter Margaret Thatcher would have people think.

The article reports on the issue that created misunderstanding between Jesse Jackson and white social democrats. The New York Times' reporter Michael Oreskes wrote a story that asserted that Jackson had asked the Democratic Socialists of America (D.S.A.) to withhold its expected endorsement of his candidacy on the eve of D.S.A.'s national convention. Appended to the endorsement story was Oreskes's short list of Jackson's betrayals of the left, which include, Jackson recently refused to repeat a remark he had made at the United Nations last year comparing the movement against the U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico with the black struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

The article presents information about three movies "Out of Africa," "Sugarbaby," and "A Chorus Line: The Movie." The movie "Out of Africa purports to be about Dinesen, her husband, Baron Bror Blixen and her lover Denys Finch Hatton in Kenya during and after World War I. The movie "Sugarbaby," is immediately recognizable as one of the those new Euromovies with the look of a perfume commercial and the erotic tension of peep-show porn. The movie "A Chorus Line: The Movie," destroys the participatory element of the play and brings back to the dead language of the musical.

The article reviews the film "Rambo: First Blood Part II," starring Sly Stallone and "Birdy," starring Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine.

The article focuses on Godkin Lectures, an occasion endowed in 1903 by friends of E.L. Godkin, a founder and first editor of this journal, that was held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a multi-modular Lego set of a building, where the rich and famous of the political establishment sometimes spend their holidays studying the lifestyles of the poor and powerless. At the lecture the U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, revived the thesis about poverty that propounded in "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," a report he prepared for former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson twenty years ago. That document was a nodal point in social policy-making in postwar United States. It identified the poverty class as a black Lumpenproletariat, created by the strictures of slavery and perpetuated by a "domineering" matriarchy. The locus of poverty was not the economic system, the political hierarchy or institutional racism, as various scholars and activists had claimed, but the "pathological" fatherless black family.

An ideological gulf is about to be crossed from the privatist eighties to the activist nineties, from Reagan-Bush laissez-faire to Clinton-Gore industrial policy, from the past decades of decline to a future of growth. In a term that George Bush must wish he had never heard, a "new paradigm" for the American political economy is being born. Robert Reich's name comes up time and again as the "change agent" who will lead the brain trusters of Clinton's New Covenant. Reagan and Bush exacerbated the problems, both by omissions (failure to improve education, train the work force, modernize transportation, rebuild cities, improve the environment) and by radical actions.

Focuses on views of Derek Bok, president of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on nuclear disarmament. Impact of political demonstrations on decisions regarding nuclear weapons; Features of a book written by Bok on nuclear policy; Members of the U.S.-based Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for International Affairs, who presented their views in Bok's book on nuclear policy.

Discusses the motion picture 'The Killing Fields,' directed by Roland Joffe. Theme of the motion picture; Plot synopsis; Positive aspects of the motion picture; Negative aspects of the motion picture.

Features several motion pictures in the U.S. in 1984. "Places in the Heart;" "Country;" "Paris, Texas".

Focuses on the de-alignment of Western Europe from the United States. Impact of the de-alignment on the West; Reason behind this de-alignment; Characterization of the de-alignment as a reference for the struggles and efforts made to expand East-West trade and as a reference for arguments within the alliance over economic policy, foreign interventions and negotiations for disarmament and peace; Overview of the origin of the de-alignment; Factors responsible for making de-alignment a problem.

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The back of the bus was a breeding ground for much of the theory and strategy of Jesse Jackson's campaign for the presidency, and riding there one day toward the [...]