Report Card

...19.95...

...In addition, it details U.S...

...How does Pretoria pull off such aggression...

...NUCLEAR FORCES AND CAPABILITIES by Thomas B. Cochran, William M. Arkin, and Milton M. Hoenig National Resources Defense Council, 1725 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20006...

...The book contains little analysis but does provide clear descriptions of the evolution, cost, characteristics, and applications of the twenty-four types of nuclear warheads currently in the U.S...

...2.50...

...If power follows money, then the trustees of pension funds are powerful people...

...But last year, according to the Databook, the Pentagon posted the sharpest increase in atomic warhead production since 1964...

...Second, is it wise to shift pension fund investments away from corporations that do business with South Africa, build nuclear power plants, pollute the environment, bust unions, or export jobs...

...For those who doubt Ronald Reagan's claim that "we have far fewer nuclear weapons than we did twenty years ago," there is now an authoritative source to check up on the President...

...Officials in the Departments of Defense and Energy told the authors of the Data-book that its publication would not be "in the national interest...

...Military Exports to South Africa shows that the Reagan Administration contemptuously disregards the international arms embargo...

...Those officials were wrong...

...The National Resources Defense Council has compiled the Nuclear Weapons Databook to serve as a handy reference guide for such information...

...25.00...

...The authors' goal is to foster "informed public decisions on nuclear weapons questions," and there is no higher patriotic duty...

...The arms embargo was intended to punish and isolate Pretoria's apartheid government...

...No comparison of American and Soviet nuclear capabilities is included, though the Defense Council plans to analyze Soviet strength in a future report...

...Gray also examines attempts to reform the pension system, including union efforts to place representatives on pension boards, funds that have targeted the local economy for investment, and strategies for exclusionary investment programs...

...The Investor Responsibility Research Center, a nonprofit corporation that studies public policy issues, reviews the debate and assesses recent developments in New Directions in the Investment and Control of Pension Funds...

...arsenal...

...Wresting Power NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE INVESTMENT AND CONTROL OF PENSION FUNDS by Hillel Gray Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1319 F Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20004...

...In 1977, the United States, voting with the majority of the United Nations Security Council, condemned all sales of "arms or related materials" to South Africa...

...It shows that the United States did, indeed, possess 3,000 fewer nuclear warheads in 1983 than it did in 1963, though today's weapons are far more accurate and sophisticated...

...strategic and tactical nuclear delivery systems, catalogs the manufacturers of atomic weapons, and explores the role nuclear arms play in U.S...

...sanction...

...The wares ranged from 2,500 shock batons to a sophisticated computer system identical to the one U.S...

...Though such pools have traditionally been managed by professional investors whose only goal is to maximize return, the last five years have seen a growing debate over alternative structures of control...

...Sparked by the 1978 publication of Jeremy Rifkin and Randy Barber's book, The North Will Rise Again: Pension, Politics, and Power in the 1980s, the debate has focused on two issues: First, to what extent should pension plan participants have a voice in controlling their money...

...Pressure for reform is likely to continue, and this report is a worthwhile introduction to the complex subject...

...Customs blocked when it was to be shipped to the Soviet Union last November...

...Using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, NARMIC has documented $28.3 million in military sales to South Africa in the last three years...

...and NATO forces...

...In the words of NARMIC, "Pretoria is willing to pay handsomely...

...Seal of Approval MILITARY EXPORTS TO SOUTH AFRICA: A RESEARCH REPORT ON THE ARMS EMBARGO by the staff of National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex NARMIC/AFSC, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...

...Today, the pension funds of corporations and state and local governments are worth more than $ 1 trillion...

...Other studies in this series will focus on command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and related topics...

...Pretoria hopes the friendship will continue because the South African military badly needs helicopters as well as reconnaissance and combat aircraft...

...The U.S...

...The information in this report was culled from such public documents as technical journals and the transcripts of Congressional hearings...

...The volume of sales under the Reagan Administration is particularly alarming when placed in its historical context: Private weapons sales in the previous thirty years amounted to less than $19 million...

...However, seven years later, the South African regime not only continues to repress that nation's black majority, it also occupies Namibia and regularly invades Angola...

...The only thing secret about this information," the authors write, "is that it has not been pulled together in a manner that makes it readily available and understandable to the American public...

...In the past six years, there have been "incremental changes in the attitudes and practices of pension fund management," Gray says...

...With a little help from its friends in the United States, according to this report from NARMIC, a project of the American Friends Service Committee...

...Written by Hillel Gray, a research analyst for the Center, the 120-page report is a concise and well-balanced (if somewhat dry) presentation of all sides of the debate...

...State Department continues to authorize private exports despite the U.N...