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Reports on the declaration made by the Soviet Union to end the cold war. Possibility of the end of the cold war in Western terms; Transformation of the political system of the country; Prediction that as the cold war draws to an end, the world will evolve into a multipolar system with five centers of power.

Focuses on Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Report that arms control is reassuring because Western publics believe that nuclear treaties reduce chances of nuclear war and thus make the world safer; Information that the U.S. will be forced under START to overhaul, reconfigure, and redesign drastically its strategic nuclear arsenal in order to make it a survivable and reliable retaliatory force; Role of START in decreasing the nuclear expenditure; Comment that arms control reduces the risk of nuclear war.

Focuses on the lawsuit filed by Joyce Brown, a homeless mentally ill person, on her forcible hospitalization in New York City. Effort of the state government to save the homeless mentally ill; Assertion that the standard for the involuntary commitment of the homeless mentally ill is wrong; Assertion that rebuilding an asylum system is one problem one can and should throw money at.

Focuses on the performance of President Mikhail Gorbachev in Soviet Union. Interpretation of his administration as the beginning of a fundamental turn in Soviet history and thus a fundamental change in East-West relations, which in turn warrants a fundamental change in American foreign policy; Argument that the economic liberalization must inevitably lead to political liberalization; Influence of Gorbachev's flexibility on arms control over the end-of-the-cold-war school.

The article focuses on issues concerning the U.S. withdrawal of its membership from the United Nations (UN). It is viewed that the reason behind U.S. withdrawal of its membership from the United Nations and withhold of contributions for other UN activities is the Anti-Western and anti-American actions in the UN system. It is argued by Elliot Richardson, chairman of the United Nations Association of the U.S. that international law is violated by withholding U.N. dues.

Discusses various moral issues raised by the Catholic concerning the utilization of embryonic technology for medical purposes. Proposal for a more mature source of transplantable organs; Discussion on reports issued in the West on the ethics of the new reproductive technologies; Opposition of the Church to any role for a third party in donating gametes or in gestating the child; Concern of the Church in protecting the sanctity of the conjugal act.

Presents information on a summit regarding nuclear missiles and international security, held in Reykjavik, Iceland. Information on U.S. President Ronald Reagan's stand on nuclear missiles; Importance of nuclear disarmament; Comment on the relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union; Comment on the unilateralism of the U.S.; Description of the Strategic Defense Initiative of the U.S.

Discusses the U.S. Reagan Doctrine of active, military support for guerrilla wars in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua, initiated by President Ronald Reagan and supported by the Congress. Moral aspects of the doctrine; Objection to the doctrine on the basis of interventionism and insurgency; Problem concerning the way in which the guerilla wars is fought; Development of the doctrine to respond to the needs of a containment policy and to a change in the correlation of forces in the world in the 1970s.

Examines the revival of realism in U.S. politics. Information on the book "Politics Among Nations," by Hans Morgenthau; View that the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the World Court are not particularly effective instruments of American foreign policy; Report that the conflict between neo-isolationism and neo-internationalism has, since Vietnam, dominated the foreign policy debate in the U.S.; Information that Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois has urged that the U.S. submit to compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court for reasons of not just idealism but also realism; Comments on the foreign policy of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Comments that in the last half-decade, American attempts to marshal multilateral action at critical times have produced a long and dismaying list of failures. Humiliation suffered by the U.S. in the wake of the TWA Flight hijacking incident; Significance of the relations with Grenada to highlight how the multilateral fallacy skews foreign policy debate; Discussion on the relations of the U.S. with Central America; Reasons why the U.S. has accepted so passively the yoke of multilateralism.

Discusses various viewpoints in the U.S. on the issue of weighing life against death for a child in the wake of experiments on infants with life-threatening deformities. Controversy surrounding an experiment on children born with spina bifida by a group of doctors in Oklahoma; Discussion on whether there is a life worse than death; Declaration made by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine; Suggestion made by the newspapers "The New York Times" and "The Wall Street Journal" for federal intrusion into the nurseries of the country to try to prevent non-treatment of handicapped newborns; Views of philosopher Richard McCormick on the issue; Information on amendments made by the Congress to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act that expanded the definition of medical neglect.

Comments on the alternative approaches to isolationism in the United States by the political left and right. Paradox in the internationalist basis of the left isolationism; Difficulties of justifying alliances forged by right and left isolationists; Report that today's left isolationists consider the international status quo unjust and do not want American power used to preserve it.

Focuses on U.S. President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan aimed at making nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Vulnerability of the American people to nuclear retaliation by cruise missile or bomber; Calls for arms control based on revision of offensive weaponry; Threat to Soviet Union of a certain kind of strategic defense of the U.S.; Efforts to stop the arms race in space; Development of anti-ballistic missiles.

Explores the debate on church and state generated by the dialogue between Mario Cuomo, the governor of New York and a Catholic, and John G. O'Connor, the archbishop of New York. Criticism against the church's aggressive involvement in politics; Reaction of Cuomo to O'Connor's view on how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion; Cuomo's personal opposition to abortion and his belief that a public official should not impose his views on others; Argument that the implied dichotomy between personal morality and public policy is not logically tenable; Proper role of church in the democratic political arena and the proper role of the believer in that arena.

Contends that United States president Ronald Reagan saved the nuclear debate from imminent demise by launching it into outer space. Introduction of positive vocabulary about the subject; Abolition of deterrence through the ability to intercept and destroy Soviet ballistic missiles; Question of whether strategic defense will work; Variety of schemes advanced for Star Wars defense, including those by General Daniel Graham, Edward Teller and George Keyworth.

Focuses on the sectarian and secular views regarding the historical role of religion in American public life. Reference to sectarian tendency which involves Christianizing the nation, that is, making public life and public policy conform as closely as possible to the Gospels; Views of secularists that there should be the secularization of American public life; Statement that there is a secular tendency, and it's vanguard is the American Civil Liberties Union.

Comments on the end of the Grenadian revolution in the 1980s and the parody evident from its remaining document legacies. Background information on the revolution; Analysis of pertinent topics and relevant issues; Implications on world politics and international relations.

Comments on the rise in the number of Bible preachers talking about Armageddon and the millions who believe it. Televangelist Jerry Falwell's belief that when Jesus Christ talked about the end of days, he was referring to this generation; Signs that the end is near according to varying religious sects; Emergence of an entire new publishing industry featuring books and magazines about the end of the world;Commitment of the millennial subculture supporting the publications; Appeal of nuclear eschatology to people; Forms of the genre including the economic angle of catastrophe by mismanagement.

Focuses on the debate on whether the imminent collapse of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is good or bad for the U.S. economy. Economic problems caused by past oil shocks and the corresponding benefits that everyone agrees would flow from a partial reversal; Case for the negative effects of an oil price increase; Effect of an oil price collapse on taxation; Implications for developing countries that have weak economies to start with and lack the technologie to reduce the non-essential use of fuel; Transformation of the OPEC from a net saver into an organization that runs a deficit; Case for moderation that hinges on the delicate position of four oil exporters with big populations, big debts, and almost total dependence on oil revenues, namely, Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria and Indonesia.

Focuses on various trends in the world politics. Assessment of the policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan during his presidential campaigns; Concern over the transformation of politics into theater, with politicians as actors, and citizens as spectators; Effort of the terrorists to grab the political stage by drawing the attention of the media; Assessment of the civil rights movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. in the U.S.; Impact of disarmament movement on the world politics.

Focuses on U.S. President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. Criticism that the government's foreign policies center on rhetoric, indiscriminate arms sales and talk about nuclear war and big business; Comparison with the Democratic Administration's foreign policy; Absence of a global strategy; Developments in the country's relations with its allies, the Soviet Union and the third world countries; Conditions that should help the U.S. lend economic and development aid; Relations with Africa, the Far East and Southeast Asia, China and Latin America.

Focuses on the role of U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist in determining the course of American political life. Information about the career of Rehnquist; Opposition of Phoenix ordinance designed to prevent discrimination in public accommodation by Rehnquist; Opposition of a proposal put forward by the Phoenix superintendent of schools for a voluntary exchange of students to reduce segregation; Establishment of doctrine that the Bill of Rights limited only the national government, not states; Criticism of the incorporation of the Bill of Rights by Rehnquist.

Focuses on the ethics of medical experimentation on human beings. Concern about research ethics with the growing technological sophistication of medicine; Publication of anecdotes about terminally ill patients; Success rate of the experimental chemotherapy; Citation that in therapeutic research, ethical quandaries arise when the patient's prognosis is unknown.

Focuses on the controversies surrounding the U.S. support for solidarity movement in Poland, in its struggle for political freedom, economic decentralization and worker self-management. Concern of some about the dramatic decline in Poland's gross national product and productivity since last year's democratic revolution; Information that Western banks have lent Poland about $12 billion; Bankruptcy faced by the banks in Poland; Demand of the banks from the International Monetary Fund to readmit Poland; Information that today Gulf almost singlehandedly props up the economy of Angola's Marxist regime.

Focuses on the need and meaning of humanism. View that humanism is something cultural, an accomplishment and not a doctrine; Reference to the book "The Battle of the Mind"; Discussion on the antihumanist campaign; Revealment that in 1976 Representative John Conlan of Arizona introduced an amendment to withhold federal funds for any educational activity involving the religion of humanism; Reference to "Humanist," the American Humanist Association's magazine.

Presents information on abortion and scientific evidences which suggests that actual human life exists from conception. Deliberations on the notion that human life exists from conception; Use of science to support political views; View that scientific credential-flashing is only the crudest means by which science comes to influence public policy; Problems of using natural science metaphors to prop up political ideology; Views of James Coleman, a sociologist, that school quality affects student achievement.

Presents an analysis on how the indiscriminate transfer of the most sophisticated weapons to the Persian Gulf does anything to enhance strategic interests of U.S. Citation of overriding strategic interests of the U.S. in the Persian Gulf; Reason associated with the creation of a rapid deployment force and the sight of military bases in the area by the U.S.; Comment on the opposition by Saudi Arabia regarding the deployment of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.

Presents a comparison between rich nations and poor nations. Claim that helping developing nations is fundamentally in Western self-interest; Information about an international tax to finance third world exports; Views on colonialism and neocolonialism; Report that population growth has almost completely wiped out the substantial economic gains of developing nations.

Focuses on deviancy in the United States social landscape. Increase in crime, welfare dependency and poverty and the attempt of social workers, intellectuals and the media to redefine the social phenomena; Moral deconstruction of middle-class normality; Psychological aspects of deviancy; Increase in mental illness; Complementary social phenomenon that goes with defining deviancy; Moral deconstruction of middle-class normality.

Discusses the position of the United States as the world's top superpower. Manifestations of the world's unipolarity; Ways in which the end of the cold war changed the structure of the world; Role of the Persian Gulf War as an example of pseudo-multilateralism; Speculation on the kind of world order to be created by the U.S.; Geopolitical challenges of the era, including the breakup of multinational states and the possible emergence of virulent nationalism.