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ONE CANNOT FULLY UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION WITHOUT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE YUGOSLAV CONNECTION. THIS ARTICLE ILLUMINATES THE BEHAVIOR OF TITO AND HIS SUBORDINATES IN THE 1956 EVENTS, DRAWING ON NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS FROM FOUR OF MOSCOW'S MAJOR ARCHIVES, INCLUDING THE SECRET NOTES OF KEY CPSU PRESIDIUM MEETINGS. IT ALSO EXPLAINS THE HITHERTO MURKY CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING TITO'S DECISION TO GRANT IMRE NAGY POLITICAL REFUGE IN HIS BUDAPEST EMBASSY ON THE DAY ON THE INVASION. IT IS ARGUED THAT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE OF THE EARLY 1960S, THE EVENTS OF 1956 MIGHT HAVE LED TO ANOTHER COMPLETE BREAK BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE BLOC COUNTRIES CLOSEST TO THE USSR.

Comments on Mark Schneider et al's & Kenneth Godwin et al's articles (both, 1998). Both studies illuminate the value choices & conflicts involved in school choice. However, it is maintained that Schneider et al failed to distinguish between differing parental understandings of school attributes, eg, "values of the school," casting doubt on whether parental choices are compatible with the authors' rationale. Godwin et al's analysis presumes that the benefits of social diversity & political rights gained by school choice outweigh the cost of some racial/economic segregation. It is argued that the risks of school choice are considerably greater than either article suggests, & the value prisms through which potential outcomes are evaluated impact assessments of relative risk. 1 Reference. J. Lindroth

THE AUTHOR ASSESSES THE IMPACT OF THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1996 ON LABOR MARKETS, ESPECIALLY ON THE LOW-WAGE LABOR MARKET. FIRST, SHE DISCUSSES THE PREMISE THAT THE AVAILABILITY OF WELFARE DISTORTS THE INDIVIDUAL'S CHOICE TO WORK OR NOT TO WORK. THEN SHE TURNS TO THE LARGER QUESTION OF THE SYSTEMIC EFFECTS OF WELARE POLICY ON LABOR MARKETS, PARTICULARLY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS THAT CHARACTERIZE THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET IN THE 1990'S. FINALLY, SHE TRIES TO UNRAVEL SOME OF THE TANGLED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LABOR MARKETS AND FAMILY STABILITY. SHE CONCLUDES THAT, IRONICALLY, WHEN LABOR MARKET EFFECTS ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, WELFARE REFORM IS FAR MORE LIKELY TO WEAKEN FAMILIES THAN RESTORE THEM.

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate whether Spain's accession to the European Union in 1986 caused a structural break in the allocation of total supplies of manufactures over domestic and foreign supplies. To that end we use the homogeneity-constrained Almost Ideal Demand System to specify the long-run equilibrium relationships between the shares in total supplies and total real demand and relative prices and a first-order error correction mechanism in order to describe the adjustment process to equilibrium. Using a formal statistical test, it turns out that a structural break actually occurred and led to a rather sharp decrease in the share of Spain and an increase in the shares of the other members of the European Union.

The 'Group of Seven' has a significant, though not totally uncontroversial, place in Canadian art. Robert McMichael's 'obsession' with the group led to the establishment of the McMichael Collection and then to an agreement between Mr. McMichael and his wife and the government of Ontario concerning the collection. The subsequent litigation as to whether the government had failed to comply with provisions in the agreement on the administration of the collection and on the policy to be followed in adding works to it did not entirely resolve these issues but highlighted a matter of importance to donors of works of art and the bodies to which donations are made: how far may donors ensure compliance with the terms on which they make donations?

This paper presents econometric evidence on the determinants of the demand for a number of rouble and US$ monetary aggregates in Russia and on the stability of these demand functions and of the estimated parameters. The aggregates considered are rouble banknotes, rouble M2, US$ banknotes and US$ deposits held at Russian banks. The data used is monthly and the sample period is May 1993 to January 1997. The econometric model used is the error correction model (EC-model) which distinguishes between the long run (cointegrating) relationship among the variables and the short run dynamics. Particular attention is devoted to measuring the effect of exchange rate changes or expectations thereof and of political risk on rouble and dollar asset demands.

African Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Government in Ghana
This paper examines the relationship between traditional leadership and rural local government in Ghana in terms of the concepts of «control and legitimacy». It is argued that the oscillating nature of this relationship from the time of the imposition and creation of the successor states to the pre-colonial states and political entities until the present time has been partially due to the varying access to the resources of control and legitimacy by the successor state structures and traditional leadership. This dynamic has in turn interacted with varying needs for, and definition of, improved development and management within the realm of rural local government. The case study materials are drawn from Ghana.