This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the meaning of "Cold War" in two York, Pennsylvania, daily newspapers; (2) Tom Paine and the disclosure of secret French aid to the United States; (3) "Schenck V. United States"; (4) an editorial analysis of the evacuation and encampment of the Japanese Americans during World War II; (5) radical currents in twentieth-century American press criticism; (6) neighborhood newspapers, citizen groups, and knowledge gaps on public affairs issues; (7) the news content of the prestigious dailies of India; (8) college president-newspaper adviser relationships and their effects on freedom of college sponsored newspapers; (9) newspaper reporters' attitudes regarding confidence in public education; (10) newspaper coverage of Congress and its utilization by Congressmen; (11) Martin Luther King, Jr., and the news magazines; (12) mass media in revolutionary societies; (13) West African newspapers as mirrors of concern about education; (14) stress on government and Mexican newspapers' commentary on government officials; (15) the concept of freedom and the free press; (16) state intervention in press economics in advanced Western democratic nations; (17) fair use as a copyright doctrine; and (18) the Baltimore, Maryland, "Afro-American" from 1892 to 1950. (HOD)