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Articles in August 1, 1994 issue of Insight on the News

• Complexities cloud marital rape case; William Hetherington has spent nine years in a Michigan prison, but proclaims his innocence - controversial case that pits one person's word against another in accusations of spousal rape - Cover Story
  by Cathy Young
• Foreign policy drift creates power vacuum - dangerous consequences of reduction in US military strength and lack of commitment to important alliances - Symposium - Column
  by Kim R. Holmes
• Free trade can't flourish under bureaucracies - Pres Clinton's proposal to subject US economic and trade decisions to World Trade Organization regulations - Column
  by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
• Disney may popularize history, but is a park worth the price? - controversy over proposed Disney America amusement park near Prince William County, VA Civil War battlefield sites - The Last Word - Column
  by Woody West
• Americans flunk Clinton 101; if business conditions and job growth are as robust as the White House says they are, why do nearly half of all Americans disapprove of President Clinton's handling of the economy?
  by Donald Lambro
• Preservation. - book reviews
  by Witold Rybczynski
• Supreme Court sermonizes on schools - US Supreme Court decision to negate special school district status for handicapped Hasidic school children - Column
  by Bruce Fein
• Can Russia capitalize on its rich commodities? - impact of exporting vast reserves of uranium, oils, natural gas, oil, aluminum on world trade
  by Kenneth Silber
• U.S. shouldn't police new world disorder - new opportunities for US foreign policy in aftermath of Cold War's end - Symposium - Column
  by Jonathan Clarke
• GATT could raise revenues and boost economy by billions - Congress' inability to see the advantages gained by US economy from reduction in global trade barriers - Column
  by Stephen Lamar
• States take the tenth - and the feds - to court; a growing grassroots campaign is breathing life back into the 10th amendment as civic leaders across the country protest the ballooning power of the federal government - includes related article on New York
  by Nancy E. Roman
• The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. - book reviews
  by Mark Miller
• Those who pass the buck lose their bet - failure of Clinton administration's economic policies - Column
  by Thomas V. DiBacco
• Testing the learning curve in California's schools - controversy over California Learning Assessment System that emphasizes essays to measure critical thinking rather than testing of subject matter
  by Gayle M.B. Hanson
• Bone-marrow transplants are new therapy for breast cancer - struggle to get insurance companies to provide coverage
  by Joyce Price
• Middle-class black youths are caught in two worlds - conflicting social values found in street culture and affluent society - Column
  by Edward C. Smith