The Sagan report, which predicts that long-term atmospheric effects on a scale greater than heretofore conceived will result from a nuclear weapons exchange, is a scare tactic, a way to destroy national resolve by suggesting that our enemy is nuclear weapons, not the Soviet Union. (RM)

Describes the efforts of the FBI to combat terrorism. Contingency plans have been established in each FBI field office, and agents are receiving special training in hostage rescue. Psycholinguistics is being used to deduce information about unknown terrorists. In 1982 the FBI arrested 95 terrorist suspects and obtained 84 convictions. (CS)

We are confronted by the threat of universal annihilation. It is the judgment of all intellectual leaders--scientists, educators, philosophers, and theologians--that the next logical step in the history of society's attempt to settle conflict in nonviolent ways is to create a federation of governments or a world government. (SR)

Examines the current causes of future petroleum-related energy crises and their impact on the United States. The internal political problems of the Middle Eastern oil-producing countries and the influence of Russia on world energy conflicts are discussed. Two alternatives for avoiding energy catastrophes in the United States are considered. (AM)

No human problem is older than starvation. Authorities agree that poverty and unequal distribution of resources are the basic causes of hunger. The hungry are ignored by the world because they have no political power and even less economic strength. How to build a world without hunger is discussed. (RM)

Nationalistic behavior represents the core of current world problems. We need to cultivate an alternative value system--one that reflects the implications of living on a planet where the means of existence are finite and where those means have to be carefully tended in order for our species to survive. (RM)

The effects of the Iran-Iraq war are to strengthen and lengthen the current oil glut. (RM)

Three questions are discussed: Is the world heading toward a new depression? Is there an alternative set of policies which could significantly minimize such risks and promise a return to stable growth? Can the United States restore acceptable economic growth at home without worldwide recovery? (RM)

Presents the Israeli plan for establishing an autonomous region in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District for Palestinian Arabs. The author describes problems which have obstructed efforts to solve the Palestinian issue. (AM)

In the June, 1977 issue of "Intellect," Jacqueline Kasun promised the reader "a look at the facts" about the world population situation. Her conclusion overall was a soothing one. This article is a critical examination of Kasun's report, with a conclusion of a gloomy nature. (Author/RK)

Garrett Hardin, a trained biologist, made a plea for coercive population control in a prestigious scientific journal (Science, 1968). His theory on how to control population is examined, the net effects of a situational vs an absolute ethics is weighed, and the limits to science and its methodology are evaluated. (Author/RK)

From the Soviet perspective arms control agreements merely hold the United States in check while the Soviets, who don't feel bound by such agreements, obtain military advantages. The United States must move quickly to redress the strategic military balance that now favors the Soviets. We must emphasize areas like space. (RM)

If the United States can lower its expectations just enough, it can put together a series of agreements which will constitute an arms control breakthrough that will serve our interests for decades to come. (Author/RM)

Unemployment in the United States can only be made worse by continued high levels of legal immigration. Especially serious is the threat from Latin America. We must help developing countries halt their population growth and impose a ceiling of 100,000 a year for total immigration to the United States. (RM)

Rather than just becoming a source of intense frustration and a symbol of America's supposed weakness of will, the Iranian hostage crisis could have led to greater interest in a culture different than students' own, American foreign policy and how it is achieved, world religions, and media coverage of crises. (Author/RM)