Report Card
Solomon, Siddharth Dube and Jeremy
REPORT CARD Siddharth Dube and Jeremy Solomon Mapping Death MISSILES OF AMERICA Nukewatch, 315 West Gorham Street, Madison, WI 53703. $3.00 per map. Like all good maps, these from Nukewatch...
...Electricity is one such industry, this Worldwatch Institute report shows...
...267 pp...
...Free...
...Third World attitudes toward Western-style development are in a state of flux, as developing nations increasingly seek control over their basic industries...
...Power Hungry ELECTRICITY FOR A DEVELOPING WORLD: New Dimensions by Christopher Flavin WorldWatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036...
...Issued by the International Center for Law in Development, a Third World public-interest organization based in New York, these fourteen articles analyze the role of multinational corporations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in the impoverishment of the Third World...
...Like all good maps, these from Nukewatch marking Minuteman missile bases are both functional and beautiful...
...It also focuses on such emerging issues as "low-tar" cigarettes, the serious health effects of "passive" (secondhand) smoking, and the ominous growth of tobacco consumption in the Third World...
...A unique reference document, it provides consumption and profit trends, presents international comparisons, and defines the continuing debates on tobacco-related diseases and on Federal subsidies to tobacco farmers...
...552 pp...
...Three of the six have been completed—the range in Missouri, the range in eastern North Dakota, and the one stretching across Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming—and the rest are scheduled to be finished by next spring...
...Flavin argues for a vastly different approach to Third World electrical needs: Existing capacity should be used more efficiently, and small-scale power generators, private-sector involvement, and electric cooperatives should expand to correct the worst features of government monopoly...
...Their purpose, as the Missouri map explains, is to "raise public awareness of the missiles...
...Strongly recommended are the articles on "privatization" of biotechnology and grassroots organizing in the Third World...
...16.00...
...One fourth of the Third World's public capital investment is in power projects, and utility debts account for about one fifth of the foreign debt...
...But even urban and industrial areas are subject to power shortfalls, and rural areas typically have no access to electricity...
...They are also striking to look at...
...The bibliography is usefully indexed by subject, author, and organization...
...The costs of the large-scale, urban-centered electricity policies supported by Western countries have taken their toll, says Christopher Flavin, a senior researcher at the Institute...
...Lifting the Smoke Screen BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SMOKING AND HEALTH: 1985 by the Office on Smoking and Health U.S...
...66 pp...
...Missourians and other Americans are encouraged to find and visit the missile silos and launch control centers, to hold vigils there, and, while doing so, to contemplate the danger they pose to humanity...
...The authors, many of whom are from Third World countries, provide an unusually penetrating perspective on these issues, and on how such imbalances can be redressed...
...The Federal Office on Smoking and Health's annual bibliography contains 2,000 abstracts culled from sources that range from the New England Journal of Medicine to the industry-funded Tobacco Institute...
...With the help of local volunteers in each area, the Madison-based peace group is in the process of mapping all six Minuteman ranges...
...The Poor Get Poorer THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF RURAL POVERTY IN THE THIRD WORLD: Issues for Research and Action by Grassroots Organizations and Legal Activists by the International Center for Law in Development, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017...
...Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20857...
...4.00...
...One of the major causes of rural poverty in the Third World is rural development that ostensibly seeks to alleviate such poverty but, in fact, serves other purposes and interests," note the editors of this report...
...The maps are easy to read, and they contain specific directions on how to get to each silo...
Vol. 50 • October 1986 • No. 10
