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Theo Lippman, Jr. Spiro Agnew's America : The Vice President and the Politics of Suburbia. Pp. 256. New York : W. W. Norton, 1972.

corporate liberalism which is now so evident. And by &dquo;corporate liberalism,&dquo; Levin refers to that favored by today’s government, big business, and big labor power elite. These controlling forces maintain a relatively open civil libertarian stance, except when the special powers and privileges of the elite are threatened. Indeed, says Levin, agreeing with Gabriel Kolko, in the United States-speaking historically as well as currently-meaningful civil liberties are granted only to the politically impotent. Whenever dissenters have threatened to become effective, their civil liberties have been abbrogated, usually under cover of a manufactured political hysteria, of which the Red Scare is the prototype. However, Levin asserts-contrary to the book’s jacket blurb-that such hysteria is largely outmoded. Its last gasp may have been the Joe McCarthy era. We have far more subtle methods of controlling the

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The major problems of financing both multi lateral and bilateral technical co-operation derive from the precarious year-to-year underwriting of the programs and from the organizational and administrative separation of technical and economic co-operation, including investment. Congres sional attitudes toward continuing commitment to the United Nations Expanded Program, plus annual reauthorization of the bilateral program, create uncertainties which prevent technical co-operation staff from going forward with the re cipient countries in the formulation of long-term national eco nomic and social development programs. The lack of such long-term programs, moreover, prevents the development of bench marks and priorities for the proper planning and budg eting of both technical and economic assistance. Technical co-operation is in consqquence largely occupied with a string of accidental, ad hoc, opportunistically undertaken projects, few of which relate themselves effectively to major ongoing influences in general economic and social change. This situa tion is exacerbated by the complete separation of technical and economic co-operation in the United Nations system and the substantial separation of technical and economic co-opera tion in a large part of the Mutual Security Program. The financing problems of technical co-operation will not be solved apart from the solution of the larger problem of financing economic development and until it is properly reintegrated into multilateral and bilateral programs of economic assistance.