By Serge Lang (auth.)

I am very grateful to Springer-Verlag for publishing a set of a few of my non-mathematical works-I name them political works. within the vast experience of the be aware political. 3 of those have seemed in print: - My article at the Ladd-Lipset sUIvey. which seemed within the big apple evaluation of Books. 18 might 1978; and in addition within the dossier (Springer-Verlag. 1981). - My article at the Baltimore case. which seemed within the Jour­ nal of Ethics and behaviour. February 1993. - My articles on HIV and AIDS. which seemed within the Yale Sci­ entific (Fall 1994 and iciness 1995). reprinted up-to-date within the ebook AIDS: Virus-or drug precipitated? Kluwer educational Pub­ lishers. 1996. pp. 271-307. the 1st merchandise. "Academia. Journalism. and Politics." is itself a ebook in response to my Huntington dossier. The "Background and Motiva­ tion" portion of this sub-book can be utilized as a foreword for all my "political" works. and likewise comprises an evidence of ways i take advantage of the note "political." In that part. readers will discover a normal dialogue of how I procedure info and a few standards i take advantage of in discourse.

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It is a political decision. The history of South Africa until 1966 and 1968. when the Feierabend analysis and Huntlngton's book were published. provides prima facie evidence of professional incompetence and defective scholarship on the part of Huntington and Feierabend; as well as evidence that their political opinions are passed off as science. Disturbances in South Africa were reported throughout the previous decade in the New York TImes. for instance. After the Vol. 3. September 1966. pp. 249-271.

I suggest that the WHC ought to provide Lang with a forum during the next academic year for one or several lectures, so that his ideas and ''file'' can be shared with the Yale community. HU. J C ... GO· r tI. 55 Yale Station New Haven, CT 06520 Dear Professor Lanq: Our office has received letters of recommendation on your behalf, however, we have not received the necessary application requirements from you. If you are still interested in the University of Chicaqo, please submit a vita and a statement of your research interests.

Hence it is highly probable that he will die in office ... (p. 138) These two factors-previous instability and social organization-virtually insure substantial instability following Marcos's death ... (p. 138) Hence the greater the probability that Marcos's departure from office will be followed by major revolutiona:ry or quaSi revolutiona:ry upheaval. Ghoulish as it may appear. Marcos's ill health is now one of the few factors favoring less instability in the Philippines. (p. 138) On p. 143. the authors write: With respect to the other two Variables.

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