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As a senator from Tennessee, Albert Gore Sr. became one of the leading congressional critics of American involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s. Weary of many aspects of American containment policy, Gore voiced concern over military assistance to dictators, secrecy in foreign aid programs, and the viability of sending American troops to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. He privately opposed sending U.S. soldiers to relieve the French garrison at Dienbienphu in 1954, and his anxiety mounted during the widening U.S. role in Vietnam during the Kennedy years, although Gore did not express any public reservations. After supporting the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Gore quickly broke with the Johnson administration and began advocating as early as December 1964 a negotiated settlement of the war. In October 1967, he called for the "neutralization" of Southeast Asia. Gore's often‐ignored role as a high‐level congressional critic of the Vietnam War deserves further exploration in examining the reasons for and impact of congressional opposition to the conflict.

Der Autor befaßt sich mit den zukünftigen Herausforderungen der Informationstechnik in den Vereinigten Staaten. Dabei steht der effiziente Umgang mit bisher schon verfügbaren, aber ungenutzen Informationen im Vordergrund. Besondere Bedeutung wird der Entwicklung und Anwendung von Fiberglaskabeln zugeschrieben. (IAB)

According to a portrait of elections widely held in academic political science, election outcomes depend on the 'fundamentals', especially peace and prosperity. Al Gore's election showing in 2000 runs counter to the preceding interpretation of elections. Objective conditions pointed to a comfortable victory, if not a landslide, but Gore's narrow popular vote margin fell well below the expectations held by many political scientists. This article attempts to account for Gore's under-performance via detailed analyses of National Election Studies surveys. We find that Gore's often criticized personality was not a cause of his under-performance. Rather, the major cause was his failure to receive a historically normal amount of credit for the performance of the Clinton administration. Secondary contributors were the drag of Clinton's personal affairs and Gore's decision to run to the left of where Clinton had positioned the Democratic party. Quite possibly these three factors are logically related: failure to get normal credit reflected Gore's peculiar campaign, which in turn reflected fear of association with Clinton's behaviour. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)

The potential for workable cartels presently exists in several commodities, and host-countries and multinationals have already initiated or attempted cartel activities in minerals and agricultural goods. The recent success of the OPEC cartel was a significant factor influencing the formation of the uranium cartel by easing corporate and governmental inhibitions against cartel activities. Given the increasing exploitative attitude among developed countries and what has been termed the "irrational solidarity" among developing countries, it is not unreasonable to expect more imitations of OPEC success wherever market conditions would allow a group of producers to extract monopoly rents from consuming nations. Such activity poses a threat to the nation's ability to regulate the economy and forces priorities in the national budget to be determined in response to inflationary pressures in large part generated by political and economic activity which is presently immune from the sanctions of United States antitrust laws. Perhaps an even greater threat is posed by the danger that a resurgence of cartel activity in the mainstream of international commerce could threaten a return to the exploitative mentality that triggered the world-wide depression of the interwar period. While the chances of such a recurrence may at this time seem remote, its potential consequences in a world suffering from overpopulation and scarcity of resources must not be risked. Even without such a catastrophe, the social cost of worldwide cartelization would heavily burden efforts aimed at maximizing economic welfare and redressing inequities in this country and abroad. United States antitrust jurisdiction and regulatory powers are presently too limited in their extraterritorial application to deal effectively with the international cartel problem. The Cartel Restriction Act, now pending in Congress, seeks to correct this problem by minimizing the adverse impact of international cartels on domestic and international commerce, by limiting ...

Remarks of Senator Mansfield in Honor of Senator Albert Gore at Democratic Rally

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition probes the sermonic material in Albert Cleage Jr.'s groundbreaking book, The Black Messiah (1969) and explores how and what the book has contributed to the broader scope of Black Liberation Theology and Black religious rhetoric in the past and present.