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Outlines the development of Soviet Middle East policy and discusses Soviet priorities in the region. Soviet posture since the Yom Kippur War has been low-keyed in the face of sharp reverses. Some options available: (1) precipitating a formal break...
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Explores uncertainties facing Southeast Asia in the aftermath of Hanoi's victories. One source of uncertainty is Hanoi's intentions. Another is interplay between the region and the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan. All these major ...
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A discussion of Public Law 93-50 forbidding expenditure of U.S. funds for combat in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam after 15 August 1973, and the War Powers Resolution limiting the President's power to engage U.S. troops, and how...
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A preliminary study affirming that the VRB is an effective policy tool for increasing first-term reenlistment rates.
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Science and Technology in Japan--A Brief Analytic Survey.
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A design for analyzing economic and institutional influences on demographic behavior, developed as part of a project to identify factors within the domain of public policy influence which affect birth spacing and family size in Malaysia.
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Since 1966 Indonesia has pursued--and to some extent accomplished--a rational policy of economic stabilization and development. Today these achievements are threatened by the growing gap between rich and poor and the leaders' conflicting goals of fu...
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Some Predicted Climatic Effects of a Simulated Sahara Lake.
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Survey of the Japanese educational R&D system: education agencies, research institutes, and universities and colleges. The keystone of the Japanese system is the Ministry of Education, from which most authority and funds derive. Its activities inc...
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The Sino-Soviet conflict allowed the Japanese Communist Party to eliminate the controlling influences of Moscow and Peking over its policies. Soviet and Chinese attempts to coerce the party into their respective camps have failed. Its relations with...
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Although Hanoi views American troop withdrawal as a
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Text of an article published in the 1973 Outlook section of the [Pasadena] [Star-News] discussing the vast changes in Indonesia's position during the past eight years.
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Over the last three decades the Soviet Union has made undeniable progress in establishing itself as a great power with which the countries of Southeast Asia will want to have diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations. It has also succeeded in over...
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The basic self-sufficiency of the USSR in energy resources will provide Soviet leaders with far greater freedom of maneuver than their oil-deficient competitors. Whether they are likely to promote disruption or stability with respect to the flow of ...
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An examination of the interactions of the United States and the USSR in the Middle East from the heating up of the War of Attrition to the explosion of the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War.
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Estimates are obtained in this report of the relationships between several constraints on the environment within which households function in Thailand and three related forms of "family" behavior.
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Analyzes the Laotian revolutionary movement commonly known as the Pathet Lao — its leaders, commanding party (People's Party of Laos), the Lao Patriotic Front, the political and administrative organization, and military forces.
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The author sums up the results of earlier research on the defection of VC/NVA personnel and describes the organization and operation of the Chieu Hoi Program, which became one of the most cost-effective programs in the pacification effort.
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Some factors explaining why the North Vietnamese will probably not abandon the war.
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The ultimate outcome of events in Laos will be greatly affected by the policies of Moscow and Peking.
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