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Reconsiders the arguments of those who opposed the Vietnam War. Argument that the victory of the Viet Cong is desirable because only a left-authoritarian government could cope with the problems of the third world; Argument that the war was morally wrong because the U.S. is imposing its imperial will on the Vietnamese; Argument that the costs of winning the war had become so enormous; Argument that the war in Vietnam was partly an inherited colonial war, partly a civil war between two Vietnamese camps, and partly a battleground in the worldwide conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Recounts a hunger strike among the Refuseniks advocating for a legal permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Citations of the scientists and doctors involved in the hunger strike; Motives behind the refusal of the Soviet government to give a legal exit to the Jews; Impetus to the tension between the Refuseniks and other immigrants in the region; Organization of a demonstration by a former senior scientist in a research institute in Refusenik.

Focuses on the book "The State and Revolution," by Valdimir IIyich Lenin, a revolutionist of the Soviet Union. Views of the author on Marxian tradition; Opinion of the author on Lenin's greatness which according to him lies in his resolutions; Efforts on Lenin to resolve tensions and dilemmas in his own life and rise his social struggle; Information on the book "The State and Revolution"; Report on breaking of strength of Russian workers and peasants after 1905 revolution; Discussion of anti-war rally by Lenin; Information on the book "Imperialism," by Lenin; Effect on Lenin by betrayal of the Marxist tradition; Focus on several books related to economic theory; Report on a set of notebooks that Lenin called "Marxism and the State; Efforts of Lenin to collect materials on revolution for his book after the outbreak of war; Reaction of Lenin on March revolution in Russia; Description of Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station, in the biography by Ralph Fox; Delay by one year in the publishing of the book "The State and Revolution," due to press busy with more important work; Views of Lenin on his book; Information on the contents of the book; Report that the book was amply creative in its elements of synthesis, reinterpretation, and Marxian theory; Negligence of theory of the class struggle in the book; Emphasis by Lenin on the inevitability of the capture and destruction of the bourgeois state power by the proletariat; Views of Lenin on the commune as a political form that replaced parliamentary bureaucracy; Consideration of two principal features in his book by Lenin; Focus on the two considerations being dictatorship and democracy; Emphasis on national traditions; Discussion of reasoning of Lenin on the fulfillment of the promise of a democratic republic; Focus on analysis of the administrative machinery under socialism by Lenin; Importance of Lenin in the success of Russian Revolution.

Provides some insights into the views and strategies of Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev relevant to the emergence and political actions of nationalist movements in the Baltic States. Possibilities of a civil conflict and mass street clashes; Views of the U.S. government on the issue; Aspects of Soviet liberalization; Process of constructive engagement; Indications of domestic politics and foreign relations.

Focuses on the emergence of the brotherhood of enlightened workers in Russia. Suggestion that the enlightened worker is an early immigrant from backward villages who has adopted the manners and speech of a cultured man; Lack of practical experience in the conduct of official business; Role of the officers' training camps in giving workmen and peasants military knowledge, general education and sometimes working knowledge on engineering, chemistry, railroads and business administration.

Reports that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., and the Central Trade Union Council issued a decree stiffening penalties for chronic shirking. Campaign in the country to improve labor discipline; Efforts of Soviet Union to create socioeconomic and political conditions for surmounting the social inequality of the sexes and ensuring the equality of women in society and the family; Information about life of married women in Moscow.

Focuses on developments related to politics and government in Poland. Speculations regarding the role of the Soviet Union in internal affairs of Poland; Overview of relations between the U.S. and Poland; Information on military forces in Poland; Comments on the doctrine of the Soviet bloc; Discussion of several similar social and political movements that have taken place in the world.

Focuses on the concern of the U.S. over the Soviet Union political strategies towards Africa. Information on the U.S. foreign relation with the Soviet Union; Report that the Soviet miscalculation would be a decision to intervene military, along Cuba, in the Rhodesian crisis; Support of the Soviets and Cubans to African causes like the anti-imperialist fraction in Angola; Opinion of the Russians on Carter's foreign policy; Comment that U.S. President Jimmy Carter's decision on producing the neutron bomb would depend on Soviet cooperation in Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Tribulations of Carter over the Panama Canal treaties.

Focuses on the fusion of Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, and its subsequent separation. Comment on attitude of Egyptian and Syrian public towards this change; Report that Egyptian statesman Gamal Abdel Nasser depends on the Soviet Union for arms and equipment but remain anti-Communist; Comment on the popularity of Nasser in Egypt; Information that three rulers of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait are beginning to initiate social change.

The article focuses on several issues related to international relations. As one see it, the chances of immediate war are receding. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's Pravda interview may be the warning before the storm, but U.S. President Harry S. Truman wouldn't be going off to Florida for 23 days if he thought so. The U.S. State Department thinks that Stalin was trying to reassure communist leader Mao Tse-tung in China. Truman's view came extemporaneously in a talk to the Masonic Grand Masters last week: "We are gradually approaching a position in the world where a third world war can be prevented." War is the final calamity. The trouble is that revolutions never stop at their immediate objective. For example, the continuation of inflation in the United States could provide a channel of reckless bitterness that would be a demagogue's delight.