Industry faults the logic and the methodology of a recent government study which attempts to estimate future cancer deaths from present and past worksite exposures. (Author/BB)

Discusses the failure of Gerald Ford's speech pardoning Richard Nixon and the relationship between moral and legal themes. The speech failed because Ford did not effectively combine these themes into a single compatible perspective from which his pardon became the appropriate response to the situation. (JMF)

The year 1978 saw the passage of the nation's energy bill, but this is offset by stalemates in other areas. (BB)

Reports the experiences of college students in an advanced reporting course in interviewing politicians during a political campaign. (GW)

Detailing events leading up to the acquittal of Richard Mohawk and Paul Skyhorse, American Indian Movement (AIM) representatives involved in a murder trial, this article asserts that the Ventura County legal establishment was not only biased against the defendants but was openly virulent in its attack on the two men. (JC)

The dramaturgical dimensions of the "theater of fact" as found in two anti-war plays, "Discourse on Viet Nam" by Peter Weiss and "Xa: A Vietnam Primer" by the ProVisional Theatre are examined. In these plays the author finds that Vietnamese history becomes rhetorical testament in arguments against United States…

A number of recent statements, occurrences, and reflections are presented to indicate a resurgence of Nazism. The author states that the facts of the Holocaust should be taught and suggests some curriculum activities to teach them and also to distinguish and expose similar acts today and in the future. (MF)

Reviews the tone and actions of the 1977 National Education Association convention. (IRT)

Recounts a seeming "prophecy" made during George Washington's youth by the Reverend Samuel Davies, the prominent Presbyterian proponent of the Great Awakening. Investigates how American eulogists drew upon this "prophecy" to give validity and vitality to George Washington's legend. (MH)

Concludes that whether research solves problems or not, it helps those involved in the making of policy to decide what the problems are. (Author/AM)

Notes that blacks are destined to remain strangers in the land of opportunity and in the system of justice, except as persons suspected, accused, arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, executed--all in disproportionate numbers. (Author/AM)

Describes Albert Camus's writings regarding semantic abuses in public rhetoric. (DD)

Analyzes the evils of political and commercial doublespeak and contends that they can be alleviated by the truth of good literature. (DD)

Presents a lesson plan using "Decision at Richmond," a play dramatizing the debate over United States Constitutional ratification, to demonstrate to students the importance of the unique process used to make political decisions in the United States. (Author/AEM)

Both the Holmes Group and the Carnegie Task Force harbor a deep distrust of teachers, it is argued. Their recommendations are authoritarian and seek, through top-down controls of teacher education and credentialing institutions, the voluntary and enthusiastic acquiescence to the given structure by educators. (MT)