Some apparent parameters, involving attitudes and behaviors, that affect urban libraries are discussed. (PF)

Discusses the prevailing myth that education is not and should not be influenced by politics. Reviews the political histories of (1) a Wisconsin bill merging the State's two university systems, and (2) California's Proposition 13, as examples of political struggles over educational issues. (GC)

American influence in the world may be declining and Americans must become aware of their power and how to utilize it in order to maintain their influence. (RK)

Amos Kendall's place in journalism history rests largely on his service as a journalist turned government official in the two administrations of President Andrew Jackson. Historians have claimed that Kendall was an influential journalist of the "partisan press" era, but they have provided little documentation. That documentation has been…

Reports on a study which indicates that certain political candidates are better perceived on radio and others on television and suggests that it is possible to determine the most effective medium for creating favorable candidate images. (MH)

This article suggests that black visibility does not constitute black political power. (Author/AM)

Reports that the World Congress of Psychiatry voted to condemn the Soviet Union for the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. (SL)

Discusses the relation between educational and political components of contemporary student rebellion, and indicates how curriculum workers are to respond to the potentially revolutionary situation in our schools. (DE)

The politicizing of public schools has good and bad results. In Philadelphia two politicians, Sheed and Dilworth, used politics to reform the educational system. The reforms were generally beneficial. (MF)

The Chinese Communist Party has invoked the Faure report as part of a large-scale learning initiative involving 61 cities and numerous streets, neighbourhoods and villages. By embracing western ideas and infusing them with Chinese characteristics, the Central School of the Communist Party has embarked on what looks increasingly like the 5th…

European Union (EU) enlargement has seen 10 new member states (NMS) adopt the full range of EU policies. Within this, the rural development arm of the Common Agricultural Policy offers particular points of interest. Member states chose from an extensive list of policy measures developed within the EU15 and intended, in particular, to…

The more critical the decision, the less useful a cost-benefit analysis is to library decision makers. (Author)

The expansion of Egyptian radio and television, with underlying political motivation dating from the 1952 revolution, is due to extensive resources committed to the establishment and programming of radio and television systems. Television, introduced almost ten years after the revolution, remains a limited and urban medium, while Egyptian radio…

Right-wing parties in Israel consider the Arab-populated West Bank and Gaza an integral part of Israel. Moderate Israelis and Jewish-Americans view the occupied territories as Arab Palestinian lands that must be returned to Arab control if there is to be a solution to the Palestinian problem. A reasonable compromise is presented. (RM)

Special issue dedicated to discussion of the European Common Market. (DS)