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Gathers the results of a number of public opinion surveys on human rights, including the salience of human rights in foreign policy and the situation in the Soviet Union and Korea. Also reports on the coverage of human rights in newspapers. (CP)

Discusses the interaction between public opinion and social welfare policy in the United States with special reference to medical care. Overall data from the polls suggest that changes in health care thus far have not had substantial effect on the public's general satisfaction with health care and medical insurance. (AM)

Finds that confidence in the future of the social security system has declined since the 1970s, although increasing somewhat from the 1980s to the 1990s. With respect to its financial shape in particular, the public sees some improvement over the past decade, although the plurality opinion is that the system is somewhere in between good and bad financial shape.

Reviews data from polls investigating attitudes to medical care in the U.S. The data show the public's dissatisfaction with the nation's health care system and its readiness for government activism.