Part of an eight article review of "Student Involvement .

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Describes the activities and roles of women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, both historically and at present. (GC)

This article addresses the relationship between insurgent political action and state-supported social services, with particular emphasis on the relationship between urban riots and welfare. Findings from analysis of activism and welfare since the Second World War indicate that urban riots played an important role nationally in short-term expansion…

Offers three strategies for dismantling collective bargaining in the public schools, including pressuring state legislatures to oppose bargaining statutes when they are not yet enacted, lobbying to rescind or reform existing state collective bargaining statutes for public school employees, and opposing a federal collective bargaining statute for…

Contains a translation of the second volume of a two-volume world history textbook for senior secondary students published in China in 1978. This volume covers the period from 1848 to World War II. Particular attention is given to uprisings, rebellions, revolutions, and the development of the Communist movement. (AM)

Describes the effects of the court decision against the Arkansas equal-time creation law. Although some state legislatures have postponed action on current legislation, creationist groups are campaigning for new laws and filing lawsuits. The American Civil Liberties Union's response to these renewed efforts is discussed. (AM)

Examines support for militant action among the employees of a public assistance agency in which negotiations were occurring over a first contract. A questionnaire survey obtained information on whether employees were willing to strike over various issues during negotiations and whether they would participate in certain work actions, such as…

The role of violence or threat of violence in the development of conflict intervention strategies and the relationship between collective violence and social reform are discussed in this paper. The effects of industrial, racial, and urban mass violence on institutional policies and the concept of social justice are examined. (JCD)

This article chronicles events surrounding the pro-ERA/anti-Mormon civil involvement demonstration by 21 feminists in Bellevue, Washington, on the occasion of the dedication of the Bellevue Mormon Temple. (DB)

Data from a sample of Black soldiers are utilized to examine extent to which "eclecticism" (low interrelatedness between goal and means) rather than "coherence" (high interrelatedness between goal and means) characterizes the ideological profiles of members of this minority group. (GC)

French women filled many positions in the development of the clandestine French Resistance Press. The press expanded from a handful of papers in 1940 to over 100 national papers by 1944. Papers directed specifically to women urged their support of the Resistance Movement. (PMJ)

The "lost letter" method was used to measure White and Black attitudes toward Black revolutionary and integration organizations. Whites were found to be less likely than Blacks to send on "lost" letters when the letters were addressed to radical-sounding organizations than when addressed to a randomly named individual. (GC)

Relevant literature on student activism was reviewed so as to discover leads for predictions about differences between activists and non-activists in the way they might be expected to rank the terminal and instrumental values from Rokeach's Value Survey. (Editor)