Reviews the problems that have confronted science and government in the past and present. Includes organizational responses, the role of science in industrialization, and the problems of science in a small country. (AL)

An editorial is presented on the effect of computer technology on informatics policies in developing countries. (BB)

Criticizes a Canadian Senate proposal to create a central planning authority, under government direction, to direct the nature of scientific research. It is not within the competence of science administrators to predict the utility of basic research. (AL)

Outlines the history of direct and indirect government support for science in Australia, the formulation of science policy, and the role of scientific advisors to the federal government. (AL)

All societies have known what it means and cost to go hungry. Among the approaches existing to resolve the problem are many ways of benefiting all of society, but especially mothers and infants. A coherent scheme is described. (Author/RH)

Steps must be taken to enhance diets in order to ensure proper nutrition and total health as well as to avert periodic famine brought on by natural and man-made cataclysms. Some concrete technical, educational, economic and legislative proposals are advanced. (Author/RH)

Some of the causes of malnutrition are man-inspired, whether because of cultural or social inclinations or out of ignorance. This often results in food adequate in quantity but not in quality. Other reasons are economic, ecological, demographic, or concern public health. Several solutions are proposed. (Author/RH)

Outlines the history of scientific support in the Philippines and suggests that scientists have an important part to play in social and political change by providing empirical and analytic studies in the social and natural sciences. (AL)