"Insults, lies, and whale blood" should be the title for the latest international dispute involving the icy waters of Antarctica. Although this placid and remote area of the world seems to be the last place one might expect to encounter an intense debate between opposing cultures, the dispute is creating a worldwide legal stir that…

Student movements in Japan are described as moving during the 1970s from cooperation between various radical sects to bloody conflict among them, from participation by students generally to involvement by only a limited core of committed activists, and from struggle against the university and society to one against society alone. (Author/MLW)

Reports on the views of 73 secondary school Japanese students toward the United Nations. Finds that most tend to think of the UN as relevant to conflicts. Describes how the hunger issue was used in an English-as-a-Second-Language class to teach about the United Nations. (CFR)