Though Legal Services differed from Legal Aid, neither the organization as a whole, its reformist elements, nor its local administrators were dominated by a "new breed" of activist lawyer with elite credentials. Rather, Legal Services was characterized in 1967 and 1972 by a remarkable homogeneity of staff. (Author)

Presents an overall assessment of 1977 federal policies pertaining to child advocacy, a description of the effect of these policies on family life, and general guidelines for the concerned layman. (CM)

Today very few Americans are left untouched, and none are safe, from the threat of terrorism. The Hispanic community now also finds itself in the midst of the worldwide wave of fear, destruction, and death that leftist journalist Paul Johnson has called "the age of terror". (Author/NQ)

This study of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) extends and elaborates on the characteristics of redemptive organizations. SNCC is of interest because it attempted to do two things: to be political and to offer its members the satisfaction of a redemptive ethos. (Author/AM)

This poet notes that Third World poetry must transcend the pure aesthetic and deal with concrete social and political issues. (Author/AM)

Suggests that as a result of the new wave of ethnicism, for the first time in their history in the United States, the Jews are showing signs of becoming a pressure group. (Author/AM)

This paper summarizes the views of Cuban and black American leaders on Cuba's first war for independence. It is noted that what blacks can learn from Cuba is that the elimination of racism requires not only laws but a revolutionary process. (Author/AM)

Notes that the nature of youth, its cross-cultural variation, and its emergence as a pan-human reality are imminently appropriate subjects for anthropological inquiry. (Author)

Raises several questions as to whether or not we are at a turning point with respect to violence in schools, whether or not school people have arrived at a series of adjustments based on containment, and what implications may be in the answers to those questions. (Author/RK)

Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)

A new wave of progressive thought and action can be identified in groups such as the Montana Alliance for Progressive Policy (MAPP). Old political dichotomies are shunned to form new ideologies stressing: (1) public policies to ensure a better future; (2) security from disasters; (3) stewardship to promote balance and harmony; and (4) expanded…

Arguing that peace education is constrained by adherence to technical reason, the author underscores the need for peace educators and their students to cultivate "moral imagination." Her view of moral imagination is grounded in an understanding of human intersubjectivity and in the ways in which the poor "read" the world.…

Societal turbulence in the next decade may adversely affect the delivery of services to intellectually disabled persons. The implementation of ideological and cost saving strategies will return increasing numbers to the community. Those who fear these vulnerable people might be abandoned in this least restrictive of alternatives should speak out.…

Explores several factors that led students in Peru's highland region to see revolt, as opposed to educational expansion, as the most desirable solution to their nation's problems. Examines Marxist functionalism, rational-action theory, and Weberian perspectives to illuminate the reasons behind the Sendero Luminoso ("shining path")…