NEWS AND NOTES RESEARCH INFORMATION Mr. William M. Franklin, Director, Historical the researchers who want to consult the records of https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400127273 . Office, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of the Foreign Office at Bonn should so indicate by State, has called to the Association's attention letter at least four months in advance of arrival. the fact that the American Embassy at Bonn re- The letter may be addressed to the ports that the Foreign Office of the German Leiter des Politischen Archive, Federal Republic has been experiencing difficulty in handling the increasing number of foreign Auswartiges amt, Bonn scholars who have come to Bonn to use the or to archives of the Foreign Office. Some of these The Cultural Attache" scholars have arrived in Bonn to do research with- American Embassy, Bonn out any prior notification whatever. He asks that https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES The annual meeting of the New York State At its annual meeting in March, 1965, the Political Science Association will be held March Pacific Northwest Political Science Association 25-26, 1966, at Albany, New York. Officers of the elected the following officers: president, George Association elected for the year 1965-66 are: Wolfe, College of Idaho; vice-president, Edwin James A. Riedel, president (State University of Stillings, Willamette University; Donald Farmer, New York); Maynard Smith, vice-president Pacific Lutheran University and John Kessel, (Hobart College); John Gunnell, secretary- University of Washington, members of the execu- treasurer (State University of New York); Jewel tive council. George A. Condon, Washington Bellush (Hunter College), Robert Elder (Colgate State University, was named secretary-treasurer, University) and Donald McWherter (State Uni- succeeding Donald G. Balmer, Lewis and Clark versity of New York), members of the executive College, who had held the post for nine years. The council. University of Victoria at Victoria, British Colum- bia, was host to the conference. , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at OTHER ACTIVITIES A Political Science Section of the Law and For the nineteenth consecutive year, the Sur- Society Association was organized in Washington vey Research Center of the University of Mich- 28 Sep 2021 at 05:32:31 on September 10, 1965. The purpose of the Law igan will hold a Summer Institute in Survey Re- and Society Association is to encourage inter- search Techniques. The Institute is designed to , on disciplinary contacts and work among political meet some of the educational and training needs scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and lawyers of men and women engaged in business and gov- who are interested in research into legal processes. ernmental research and other statistical work, The LSA will publish a new journal and sponsor and graduate students and university instructors 170.106.33.22 panels at national and regional meetings of the interested in quantitative research in the social member disciplines. At the Washington meeting, sciences. The 1966 Institute will be presented in the following were elected to an organizing com- two four-week sessions, the first from June 27 to . IP address: mittee of the Political Science Section: July 21 and the second from July 25 to August 18. David Danelski, Yale University, Eastern Rep- These two sessions may be taken independently resentative; Herbert Jacob, University of Wis- or successively. For further information write: consin, Madison, National Board Member; Survey Research Center, The University of Martin Shapiro, University of California, Irvine, Michigan, P.O. 1248, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Western Representative; Joseph Tanenhaus, University of Iowa, Midwestern Representative; The Carnegie Endowment for International Kenneth N. Vines, Tulane University, Southern Peace has granted the sum of $30,000 to the In- Representative. ternational Studies Association to support the https://www.cambridge.org/core 188 Downloaded from NEWS AND NOTES 189 organization's development over the next two Thomas Greene, Bucknell University; Carroll years. The International Studies Association was Hurd, University of Utah; Fred Krinsky, Uni- founded in 1959 as a professional association of versity of Southern California; Samuel Krislov, scholars, teachers and practitioners interested in University of Minnesota; Benjamin Nimer, The world affairs. Through regular national and re- George Washington University; Leo Pfeffer, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400127273 gional meetings, through its journal Background, Long Island University; Robert Puckett; Uni- . and through other activities, it seeks to assist in versity of Virginia; Pierre Secher, Western the orderly growth of knowledge and in the co- Reserve University; Richard Sterling, Dart- operation of the many fields of scholarship which mouth College; and Ralph Straetz, New York contribute to an understanding of the organized University, were among fifteen American social relations, official and unofficial among nations. scientists who participated as members of a Social Science Institute at the Hebrew University A six-week seminar in comparative public ad- of Jerusalem from July 7 to August 3. The Insti- ministration was held at the University of Cali- tute was sponsored by the American Association fornia at Berkeley. The sessions, under the direc- for Middle East Studies, with the assistance of tion of Dwight Waldo, were devoted to a con- the Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs of sideration of "Administration and Development: the Department of State. The participants https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms The Temporal Dimension." The seminar received carried on independent research, in addition to support from the Comparative Administration meeting in discussions about Israeli society and Group of the ASPA. foreign relations with various members of the Kaplan School of Social Science and government A Center for Comparative Political Analysis officials and visiting various places in the country. has been formed in connection with the depart- ment of political science at the University of Minnesota. John E. Turner and Robert T. Holt The East African Studies Center at Syracuse are director and assistant director respectively. University recently played host to two Tanzanian The Center will undertake appropriate research labor leaders: Mr. David B. S. Zimbihile, Director projects and will publish the results. It is at pres- of International Affairs, National Union of Tan- ent a sub-contractor for part of a study of zanian Workers (NUTA); and Mr. Emulongose A.I.D.-supported overseas projects of American B. S. Mohamed, Assistant General Secretary, Universities. It is considering the establishment National Union of Tanzanian Workers. Their of a data archive of materials on comparative visit to the United States was sponsored by the politics. Bureau of International Labor Affairs of the De- partment of Labor. , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at The department of government at Indiana University, in cooperation with Purdue and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute will be host to a U. S. Civil Service Commission, sponsored the third conference on "Mathematical Applications University-Federal Agency Conference on Sci- in Political Science." The conference is scheduled ence, Technology and Public Policy in November. for June 19 to July 9, 1966. It is designed to serve The conference discussion focused on continuing political science faculties active in teaching and career development in fields related to science and research. Stipends up to $300 plus travel allow- 28 Sep 2021 at 05:32:31 technology. ances of 4 cents a mile will be available for thirty , on participants. Applications will be accepted The Michigan Center for Education in Politics through May 1. Inquiries should be directed to: is now permanently headquartered at Western Joseph L. Bernd, Director, Conference on Mathe- Michigan University under the directorship of matical Applications in Political Science, Depart- 170.106.33.22 Robert W. Kaufman. ment of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has established the Louis Harris Political HBNKT J. ABKAHAM, University of Pennsyl- . IP address: Data Center. The Center will serve as the official vania, conducted a ten-day seminar in American repository of the survey data collected by Louis government and politics for 45 high school teach- Harris and Associates. The data will be open to ers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway the academic community. James W. Prothro has and Sweden in Mora, Sweden in August, 1965. been appointed director, William Keech, asso- ciate director and Alden Lind, technical director. SAMIE N. ANABTAWI, Vanderbilt University, is serving as visiting research associate, Center of Lincoln University has established an Institute International Studies, Princeton University. of African Government. Harold F. Alderfer is director of the institute and John Marcum, co- DAVID APTEE, University of California at Ber- https://www.cambridge.org/core director. keley, is on leave of absence for the 1965-66 aca- Downloaded from 190 THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW dernic year and is conducting research in Latin a resident director of the California State Interna- America. tional program there. MORLEY AYEAEST, New York University, DOROTHY I. CLINE, University of New Mexico, visited Egypt and Lebanon in February as a