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PERUVIAN REVOLUTION, 1968-75 INSTITUTED BY GENERAL JUAN VELASCO ALVARADO, IS EXAMINED IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER THE REASONS FOR ITS FAILURE. IT IS ARGUED THAT IT REPLICATED THE LATIN AMERICAN POPULIST REGIMES OF THE 1940'S & '50S, AND FAILED FOR SIMILAR REASONS. THESE STEM FROM THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY SELECTED WHICH FAVORED PRIVILEGED URBAN CLASSES OVER POOR URBAN AND RURAL GROUPS.

Critical of US practice of selecting ambassadors from outside the career foreign service based on their political campaign contributions or fund raising. Focuses on opposition to Clinton administration's choice of M. Larry Lawrence, a San Diego real estate developer and Democratic party contributor, as ambassador to Switzerland.

Assesses changes in the values and attitudes of guards and prisoners at Attica prison since the 1971 riot. Suggests that prisoners are less socially conscious and get more angry; prisoner unity has suffered and the old inmate code proscribing informing and predation is weak. Violence has also increased. (RSM)

ABSTRACTPublic sector aid to K‐12 parochial schools is often justified on the basis that providing assistance is cheaper than having to absorb all those students into public school systems. But is it? The cost of transferring students from parochial to public K‐12 schools has never been satisfactorily calculated. This article points to the weaknesses in previous efforts and outlines the elements that must be present in a comprehensive estimate of transfer costs.